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Quarterly

Winter 2014 Volume 14, Issue 1 www.vef.cc

Virginia Evangelizing Fellowship “Pursuing Kingdom Growth” since 1938

2014 Church Planting Edition

Dave HilemanExecutive Director

dave@vef.cc - 757-220-6736

Tim ColeDirector of Church Plantingtim@vef.cc - 804-690-7919

Harry GillDirector of Church Resourcesharry@vef.cc - 804-402-6107

Rachel WoolardDirector of Media

rachel@vef.cc - 919-830-8806

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C h u r c h P l a n t G r o w t h C o n t i n u e s . . .

Lake Christian Church Hosts the 1st VEF Church Planter Assessment: PalMyra, VALake is hosting the first Virginia Assessment Center March 11th to the 13th, providing food and lodging for church planter candidates and the assessment staff. We are grateful for this generous use of their facilities and volunteers.

Church Planter Assessment is an intensive 3-day journey of discovery. Through online testing, conversations, group sessions, interviews, and private consultations, four couples will be guided by experienced church plant-ing leaders and counselors in assessing their abilities measured against the demands of an effective church planting ministry. This experience has proven to be an excellent preparation for effective future ministry in any setting.

Please pray for God’s peace and wisdom for the candidates and assessors who will travel from across the United States to discover the role God has prepared for them in the unique challenge of church planting.

Baptism Percentages and Evangelism Ratios: More than just numbersNumbers like church attendance and last week’s of-fering are typical markers by which churches judge effectiveness. While these are helpful, they do not adequately represent the overall health of a church. When we seek to understand how VEF church plants are growing, we ask a different set of questions.

One of those questions is the evangelism ratio because baptisms are an essential part of understand-ing how churches are doing in the area of reaching the lost. Baptisms represent a real life change: these are decisions to stop walking away from God and start walking alongside Him. That’s why we track these numbers, and why they are so important to under-stand Kingdom growth.

The “Effective Evangelism Ratio” is a simple measure-ment any church can use to calculate how well they are reaching new people regardless of the size of the congregation. To calculate your church’s ratio, you simply divide your average attendance last year by the number of baptisms you celebrated during the same

time frame. For example, a church of 160 with 4 baptisms has a ratio of 40:1. If they had 8 baptisms instead, the ratio drops to 20:1. The lower the ratio the better. In other words, for every 20 people who attended that church last year, one of them was baptized. That’s pretty good!

Church growth guru, Dr. Thom Rainer, set the bar for ‘effective’ evangelism at the 20:1 mark or lower. Only 4% of churches in America fall into this range.

About 10 years ago, we began using this simple met-ric each year to measure how our VEF church plants were doing. We have been extremely pleased to see new churches this year, as a group, fall in area of 12:1. When the churches were mostly young the ratio was sometimes even lower. But collectively in a group that has churches from ranging from 6 months to 23 years, this ratio was a goal we worked toward each year. A ratio of 12:1 means that for every 12 people attending one of the VEF’s new churches last year, one person was baptized. That’s excellent! There really is no

better way to reach new people and see the Kingdom grow than through the impact of new churches.

So how is your church doing? Rainer’s research shows that the average ratio for an American church is, sadly, around 85:1. Hope-fully, your church is able to dive well below that mark - set your goal on an ‘effective’ ratio of 20:1 then work to improve it each year. (See back for an infograhic on Evangelism Ratios).

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Stafford County Christian Church: Stafford, VAA significant music discipleship program for high school students has developed at Stafford County Christian Church. Our youth bands are now leading worship on three Sundays a month. We currently have 20 musicians and 4 technical arts specialists – three bands in all – with 5 adult mentors and 20 alumni. The major emphasis of the program is spiritual development. This important outreach tool attracts other youth and their families to the church.

In 2014, we plan to take the program to an impoverished community in south Stafford to raise up new musicians and band members.

Common Ground Christian Church: Fredericksburg, VAAn amazing young couple at Common Ground took two brothers (ages 5 and 3) into their care the first week of December. They are working hard with the foster care system, providing a home that is safe and full of grace.

Christmas Eve was the first time these boys had ever been in church. The foster parents were concerned that they would have to get up and leave, or worse that the boys would burn the place down with their candles. But instead, two boys who have known nothing but chaos were transported to a kingdom of tranquility they have never known where, "all is calm and all is bright."

As the family was driving home that night, the oldest declared, "I sure hope you guys are our mom and dad next Christmas so we can go back to church." God's grace shines not just at Christ-mas but every day. Every Sunday since, this boy finds me for a hug and a kiss on the top of his head. He’s found a home in the house of God.

This story, and many like it, happen with the hard work of love that each person at CG does week af-ter week committing to the vision of our church as a place for the last, least, and lost to become the first, most, and found.

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New Venture Christian Church: Midlothian, VAThe ministry of the New Venture community found a home with the purchase of 5.9 acres on Lucks Lane with access to Rt. 288, the busiest highway on the south side of Richmond. The purchase followed a capital campaign with $250,000 pledged over twenty- four months.

A 3,000 square foot house on the property is now a center for all phases of ministry except Sunday worship, which is held at the Seventh Day building, 530 Courthouse Road, about five miles from the ministry center.

New Life Christian Church: Centreville & Linton Hall, VA CampusesNew Life continues to experience God’s blessing through the nZone, our sports complex, and the ministry opportunities it provides. We’ve continued to grow our after school program, providing a safe place for kids to hang out after school and on weekends. Over 300,000 people came through the nZone in 2013, and many have become regular attenders taking next steps closer to Christ.

Most recently, we’ve enjoyed the success of a soccer team we sponsored made up of under-resourced children. These kids, living in a nearby community we’ve adopted, were provided jerseys and equipment enabling them to participate equally with other teams. They are 2-0 against some pretty tough competition. This program gives our church the ability to reach many families.

The VEF started New Life to be a church planting church. Dale Spaulding, a recent retiree from Boeing, joined the staff to run our Passion for Planting ministry. The Exponential church planting convention, led by NL staff, added its first conference on the West Coast. Over 1,500 attended in person, and over 20,000 participated online.

Common Ground celebrates 10 years

New Venture’s ministry center Stafford County teens lead worship

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Journey Christian Church: Midlothian, VAWe're grateful for all that God has done at Journey Christian Church over the last year. In 2013, we had the awesome privilege of baptizing 148 people into life in Christ! We're humbled by the role God al-lowed us to play in bringing about this life change and we can't wait to see all that God will do through them in the coming years.

God gave us incredible opportunities to serve the greater community as well. During the past year, Journey funded more than 100,000 meals through local food banks. We also packed more than 16,000 meals for Generosity Feeds, a program providing meals to children through the local school system. What an incredible year it's been!

Celebration Christian Church: Suffolk, VAIn 2013, a spiritual growth program at Celebration called “Start” accomplished these goals: to build up the church, to reach out to the community, and to take up a one-time offering to pay down the debt on our land. A Duck Dynasty party for the church, a pig roast for the volunteer fire department and a coat drive for the local shelter, and a special offering of $27,000 resulted from “Start.” God truly blessed.

Velocity Christian Church: Glen Allen, VAIn 2013 Velocity added a new Children's Minister, Donna Allen, and a full-time resident intern, Rob Yancey, to the staff. We sent our first missionaries, the Espositos, to Ni-caragua. (Check out www.reapgranada.com) The Esposi-tos were members of our launch team 8 years ago, and they have served in nearly every area of ministry within our church.

Velocity also completed the buildout construction on an 11,000 square foot facility and occupied the facility in December. The building, a former CVS drug store, now includes a 240 seat worship space, 6 kids classrooms, large lobby, cafe and offices.

Crossings Christian Church: Roanoke, VAWe have completed one year as a church in downtown Roanoke, Virginia. We meet in a space that is actually a food court throughout the week. Crossings is in a great location to connect with various people in the city!

We rejoiced in our first year of ministry downtown with a celebration gathering on November 10th with 116 peo-ple in worship. Then almost 90 people (many of whom we just met) walked six blocks to the YMCA to share in the baptisms of three people.

Area 10 Faith Community: Richmond, VAIn 2013 Area 10 had a strong, exciting year with 42 people baptized into Christ. The VEF Management Team helped Area 10 install its first five elders on the church's 5th anniversary, Sept. 20, 2013. Area 10 also expanded staff to four full-time people with increased hours for Laura Shibut, Administrator and Nicole Farr, Director of Assimilation and City Engagement.

A c r o s s t h e C o m m o n w e a lt h . . .

Celebration’s Pig Roast for volunteer fire fighters

Crossings celebrates 1 year in their new downtown location

Velocity moved into their new building in December

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Varsity Christian Church: Chapel Hill, NCVarsity Church recently celebrated their 3rd birth-day in January. In three years, Varsity has grown by 55%. Offerings have increased 95%, and over 200 new people came to worship in 2013.

Varsity continues to bring the community together to “take a bite out of child hunger.” They partner with a local non-profit to help give food-filled weekend back-packs to over 200 local students. In the summer, they partnered with the school district to feed 50 students lunch every day while these food-insecure kids were on summer break. In December, they brought togeth-er 320 community volunteers to package 11,000 meals for 15 different schools.

Discovery Christian Church: Bristol, VA/TNDiscovery Church in Bristol TN/VA purchased 92 acres of land and a 2,100 sq ft house adjacent to Bristol Motor Speedway. They moved their offices into the house in January and plan to break ground on a 600 seat multi-purpose worship center in May. The property is in the center of the tri-cities region and will give Discovery an incredible ministry space.

Restore Christian Church: Silver Spring, MDAt Restore Church, we celebrated our one year an-niversary on October 6, 2013. In the past year, we have baptized 17 people, including 12 in one Sunday. We have also launched our second and third Missional Communities and now have 75% of our people en-gaged. We are reaching and befriending people who would not go to church on a Sunday morning, includ-ing atheists who attend and give regularly. Their com-mitment to the mission of Restore Church is leading them toward belief in God. Our people are truly living as missionaries to their city.

WestsiDe Christian Church: Lewisville, NCIn the four months that Westside has been meet-ing, our greatest accomplishment is changed lives: a gang member, formerly homeless, 19 year-old drug addict accepted Christ on the Sunday of our preview service and a former Marine, Iraq and Afghanistan war vet, single dad with PTSD was baptized on our launch Sunday. Both are in awe of what God is doing in their lives. Others who struggled to find faith have realized the truth of the gospel and been baptized. A former alcoholic baptized his wife and step- daughter; they have found a church where they fit in.

We are overjoyed at what God is doing at Westside, a campus of Jefferson Church of Christ, Rural Hall, NC.

Mosaic Christian Church: Baltimore, MDMosaic Christian Church took a big leap forward in 2013. Located in Elkridge, MD, Mosaic grew by 90 percent and averaged more than 800 people each week by the end of the year. In addition, Mosaic baptized 62 people and saw 1,265 first-time guests walk through its doors, all while staying true to its vision of being a church for people who don’t go to church. However, the best part of this is what each number indicates. Every baptism is a broken person becoming whole. Every group member is a person pursuing real relationships, and every dollar given is a sacrifice to reveal Christ-centered priorities.

Mosaic also had more people in Growth Groups and sent more people on mission trips than ever before. 2013 may have seemed like a big leap, but if you asked one of their volunteers, they’d say they’re just getting started.

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Mosaic’s versatile lobby

Westside launched October 2013 and has celebrated 17 baptisms

Restore’s worship band

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Forefront Christian Church: Va Beach, VAChris Conley was hired as our Associate Pastor. He brings a counseling background to the church with years of experience leading worship and impacting teens. We also completed a capital campaign raising $120,000 to date. We made an offer on a multi-acre site with an existing building. God continues to pro-vide.

Three years ago we started a non-profit called Aidnow designed to meet community needs in places the church isn't able to go. This year, through Aidnow, 585 homeless students received new clothes, new shoes, book bags, school supplies, food, and more heading into the school year. Our partners included Payless Shoes, Food Lion, Walgreen's, local Social Services, the school board, and more. This phenomenal event impacts more people every year.

Restore COMMUNITY Church: Sterling, VARestore is engaging thousands of people into Jesus' mission before they know it is Jesus' mission. In 2013, Restore worked with local businesses and schools to mobilize over 2,000 people to create 60,000 meals for children in their area who struggle with hunger. Children are being fed for less than the price of a pack of gum. This provides Restore extensive opportunities to develop new discipling relationships with non-Christians beyond the walls of the church. Restore has also launched a team mentoring initiative to help the families of children they serve break the cycle of poverty. Restore’s sister organization, Generosity Feeds, is now working with churches around America to expand Jesus’ mission into their local communities.

LifePointe Christian Church: Toano, VALifePointe Christian Church marked several mile-stones in 2013. In January, Phillip Murdock officially transitioned from associate to lead minster. In June, we hosted a VBS for more than 100 children. In July, 20 adults traveled to Mexico to build a home for a family with nine children. A record amount of money, food and clothing was given to local and international organizations. We hired Derek Nicksich as our youth minister and in November added a second service to accommodate growth in attendance which was up 30% in 2013.

We are most thankful for the 20 individuals who made decisions to leave their old lives behind and embrace a new beginning. We are excited about the life change, home change, community change and world change taking place because of the hope found in Jesus through LifePointe.

Chris Conley hired at Forefront Restore husband baptizes wife

Honoring the Legacy of Roy and Viola MillerRoy B. Miller, and his wife, Viola, both passed away recently. A Memorial Service for them was held on February 22nd at the Salem Church of Christ where they served for nearly 25 years. After retirement, they continued to work with the Salem church in many volunteer capacities.

Roy was the Director of Evangelism for the VEF for nine years between 1977 and 1987. He helped to start fourteen churches, and he facilitated construction of the buildings in which they met based on a “mobile chapel” program developed by a group in Decatur, Georgia. The first of these was the New River Church of Christ in Radford in 1979. The Peaks View Christian Church near Bedford currently meets in one of the buildings put up by volunteers from several Virginia churches.

Roy was a familar sight during those years traveling across Virginia is his RV. His faithful service and dedica-tion to the Christian Churches and Churches of Christ in Virginia helped to develop a solid foundation and trust which have greatly benefitted the work of the VEF.

Roy oversaw the construction of many new churches

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General Fund ReceiptsAbingdon, Woodland Hls C of C . . . . . . . . . . . $600.00 Abingdon, First CC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$78.00 Axton, County Line CC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $825.00 Barboursville, Union Grove CC. . . . . . . . . . . . . $200.00 Bedford, Peaks View CC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$600.00 Big Rock, Big Rock C of C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $375.00 Big Stone Gap, First CC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $100.00 Bland, Hollybrook C of C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$210.00 Bluefield, C of C at Maple View. . . . . . . . . . . . . $450.00 Bristol, Discovery Church. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$800.00 Charlottesville, Cherry Avenue CC . . . . . . $4,000.00 Charlottesville, Maple Grove CC. . . . . . . . . . . .$350.00 Chesapeake, Real Life CC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $600.00 Chester, Chester CC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $300.00 Christiansburg, Belmont CC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $750.00 Collinsville, Stone Memorial CC. . . . . . . . . . . .$250.00 Covington, Cliffdale CC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $150.00 Covington, Dunlap CC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$200.00 Danville, North Danville C of C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $90.00 Dry Fork, Whitmell CC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $150.00 Emporia, First CC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$300.00 Farmville, Farmville C of C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$400.00 Fishersville, Blue Ridge C of C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . $500.00 Galax, Fairlawn C of C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $500.00 Glen Allen, Calvary CC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$300.00 Glen Allen, Velocity CC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$508.25 Goochland, Mizpah CC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$200.00 Greenville, Raphine CC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $300.00 Gretna, West End C of C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $300.00 Grundy, Grundy C of C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$225.00 Grundy, New Hope CC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$150.00 Hampton, Northampton C of C. . . . . . . . . . . . . $450.00 Hopewell, Tri City C of C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$120.00 Keswick, First CC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $156.31 Keysville, Cool Springs CC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $100.00 Lynchburg, Lynchburg C of C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$250.00 Manassas, New Hope CC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$600.00 Martinsville, Rich Acres CC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$900.00 Martinsville, Chatham Heights CC. . . . . . . . . .$110.00 Mc Coy, Community CC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $400.00 Mechanicsville, Fairmount CC. . . . . . . . . . . .$2,100.00 Mechanicsville, Liberty CC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $250.00 Mechanicsville, Mechanicsville C of C. . . $1,300.00 Mechanicsville, Pastor’s Aid, Fairmount. . . . . $55.00 Midlothian, Journey CC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $300.00 Moneta, Mount Ivy CC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $300.00 Montpelier, Chapel C of C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$183.84 Newbern, Community CC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$200.00 Norfolk, Colonial Heights C of C. . . . . . . . . . . .$400.00 Patrick Springs, Patrick Springs CC. . . . . . . . . $458.85 Penhook, Forrest Hill CC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $210.00 Portsmouth, Christ`s Fellowship. . . . . . . . . . . .$300.00

Pounding Mill, Claypool Hill C of C. . . . . . . . . $626.19 Richmond, United CC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $222.87 Richmond, New Venture CC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $888.36 Richmond, Area 10 Faith Community. . . . . $1,204.02 Ridgeway, Horsepasture CC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$1,200.00 Roanoke, Penn Forest CC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$525.00 Salem, Living Water CC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $150.00 Seaford, Seaford C of C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $450.00 Smithfield, Smithfield CC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$690.00 South Hill, Oakland CC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$500.00 Spencer, Mayo CC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $487.00 Springfield, The Journey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $750.00 Stafford, Stafford County CC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,500.00 Staunton, Staunton C of C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$306.41 Sterling, Restore Community Church. . . . . . $375.06 Toano, LifePointe CC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $749.70 Vansant, Vansant C of C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $537.00 Virginia Beach, Avalon C of C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $300.00 Virginia Beach, Forefront CC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $300.00 Warsaw, Rappahannock C of C. . . . . . . . . . . . . $600.00 Waynesboro, W. Waynesboro C of C. . . . . . .$675.00 Waynesboro, Sunshine Class, W. Waynesboro. .$150.00 Williamsburg, Williamsburg CC. . . . . . . . . . . $450.00 Winchester, New Life CC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$1,272.44 Woodbridge, Woodbridge CC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . $225.00 Yorktown, Northside CC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,510.00 Donations by Individuals. . . . . . $7,095.00 Service Receipts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,400.00 Misc. Income. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $495.41 Seminar Revenues. . . . . . . . . . . . . .$2,315.00 Golf Revenues. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,164.27 Interest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2.22 Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$58,021.20

Disbursements Office. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,319.64 Newsletter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,177.84 Personnel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33,209.97 Presentations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8,689.83 Committees. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1,083.46 Golf & Seminar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,348.80 Church Resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .762.05 Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59,591.59 G F Balance 9/30/13. . . . . . . . . . . . .14,422.57 Total G F Receipts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58,021.20 Total G F Disbursements. . . . . . . 59,591.59 G F Balance 12/31/13. . . . . . . . . . . . .12,852.18 GF Balance 7/01/2013. . . . . . . . . . .19,649.54 Fiscal Year 2013-2014. . . . . . . . . . .(6,797.36)

Virginia Vision Receipts Barboursville, Union Grove CC. . . . . . . . . . . . . .$200.00 Bristol, Discovery Church. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,200.00 Charlottesville, Cherry Avenue CC. . . . . . . $4,000.00 Charlottesville, Maple Grove CC. . . . . . . . . . .$1,250.00 Chesapeake, Great Bridge C of C. . . . . . . . . . . . $382.50 Chilhowie, Chilhowie CC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$150.00 Covington, Cliffdale CC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $150.00 Glen Allen, Calvary CC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $300.00 Glen Allen, Velocity CC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,033.02 Gloucester, Reedswood CC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$278.34 Hampton, Northampton C of C. . . . . . . . . . . . . .$600.00 Hampton, Crusader’s Class, Northampton. . . $75.00 Martinsville, Chatham Heights CC. . . . . . . . . . . $75.00 Mechanicsville, Fairmount CC. . . . . . . . . . . . $1,800.00 Mechanicsville, Bill Farmer Class, Fairmount. . .$150.00 Midlothian, Journey CC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $300.00 Richmond, New Venture CC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,000.00 Richmond , Area 10 Faith Community. . . . . .$4,816.07 Richmond, Christian Homemakers, Fairmount . . .$150.00 Ridgeway, Horsepasture CC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$600.00 Ridgeway, Class 7, Horsepasture. . . . . . . . . . . . . .$63.00 Ridgeway, Men’s Class, Horsepasture. . . . . . . . $63.00 Salem, Salem C of C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$600.00 Salem, Living Water CC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$150.00 Salem, Young At Heart, Edgewood. . . . . . . . . . $100.00 Silver Spring, Restore CC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,456.51 Stafford, Stafford County CC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$1,500.00 Sterling, Restore Community Church. . . . . . .$754.39 Suffolk, Celebration CC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$1,640.00 Toano, LifePointe CC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$2,998.85 Virgilina, Willow Oak CC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$300.00 Williamsburg, Williamsburg CC. . . . . . . . . . . .$510.00 Woodbridge, Woodbridge CC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$225.00 Yorktown, Northside CC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,800.00 Donations by Individuals. . . . . . .$1,005.00 Kingdom Equation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,721.00 Misc. VV Income. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$300.00 Transfer In from Savings. . . . .$29,000.00 Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$66,696.68 Disbursements Office. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$1,376.24 Personnel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$12,296.57 Presentations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $802.67 Committee Mtg & Coaching. . . . .$109.45 Church Plants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$20,706.33 Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $35,291.26

VV Balance 9/30/13. . . . . . . . . . . . $14,881.21 Total VV Receipts. . . . . . . . . . . . .$66,696.68 Total VV Disbursements. . . . . . $35,291.26 VV Balance 12/31/13. . . . . . . . . . .$46,286.63 VV Balance 7/01/2013. . . . . . . . . $19,053.78 Fiscal Year 2013-2014 w/ Sav. Transfer. . . .$27,232.85

VEF Treasurer’s Report - 4th Quarter 2013 - October, November, December

Venture Christian Church: Danville, VA Venture Christian Church swept the Showcase Magazine's Rave Awards. The local magazine's "Best of Danville" saw Venture win first place awards in the categories of Favorite Church, Favorite Pastor, AND Favorite Worship Leader! The #1 overall vote getter was Lead Planter, Eric Hash. Eric was featured on the cover of the magazine with a great story about the church. With an estimated 100,000 readers a month, an online edition is also available at http://www.showcasemagazine.com

Eric Hash on the cover of RAVELifePointe volunteers in Mexico

The VEF Quarterly is our financial report to those who share in evangelizing Virginia. Thank you for your part.Respectfully, David P. Faith, Treasurer

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Winter 2014 Volume 14, Issue 1 www.vef.cc

In this issue of the VEF Quarterly:We are so excited to bring you the latest news from church plants across Virginia and beyond. We hope that you are moved by these stories of life change, and that you will join us in praying for the continued growth and health of each of the Virginia Vision church plants we’ve started since 1989. We also honor the lives of Roy and Viola Miller, faithful servants of the Lord and supporters of the VEF.