Happy New Year To All

May God Bless you in 2009. The New year is just around
the corner and with it comes new challenges and great
opportunity for God to continue to show Himself in our lives.
May you have a prosperous and blessed new year.


God Bless
Pastor Donnie

New Years Eve Party

Spice crew are you ready to roll in the New Year with
fun... We have a great evening planned for you. We are
going to start the night off with games and fun in the "Attic"
and then follow that up with a trip to the movies. And if
that was not enough we will round out the old year with a
couple games of bowling..... Bring a friend and let's have some
fun....

Merry Christmas to All

We just wanted to wish all a very safe and Merry
Christmas this year. May God give you peace, hope
and guidance during this season. May we all take time
to truly remember what the season is about and may
we walk in the Love that motivated God and His Son
Jesus.....


Merry Christmas

Christmas Eve Service

We would like to invite everybody to this year's special
Christmas Eve Service. Come and join us as we take time
to honor and worship the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ. This year's service will include song and a very special
skit...


Thanks..


Updated...



Jo Robarts mimes to a song at the Christmas Eve Service
held on December 31st..





Jason and Cheryl Robinson play the part of Joesph and Mary..


Great job to all who helped out..

Toy Drive

Haley, Faith, Hope, Kayla and Colton get their picture taken
in front of the toys for this year's toy drive. Special thanks to
all who gave, we raised a lot of toys for the Toy Drive which was
sponsored by KOAM TV and the Salvation Army...

Thanks....

Toybox Drive

Starting in December we are joining with KOAM Tv to raise toys for the
children of our community. All you have to do is buy a new toy and drop it off
at the church.

All toys will then be delivered to the KOAM Tv station in time for Christmas.

Thanksevening Service

Thanksevening is what we call the Wednesday
evening service before Thanksgiving. This year's
sermon was out of Luke 17: 12 -19. It is a very
familiar section of scripture covering the ten lepers
and how they were healed by Jesus, but only 1 came
back to give thanks to Jesus for all He had done. Below is
the 7 points from the scriptures...

1st - Jesus is Full of compassion and mercy.

2nd - His Word and our Faith can make us whole.

3rd - An attitude of Thanks can cause us to change our direction.

4th - An attitude of Thanks is a way to draw closer to God.

5th - Let our Thanks be loud.

6th - Our thanks causes us to Focus.

7th - An attitude of thanks has a great way of causing us to "Rise" out of situations in our lives.

Thanksgiving Hunt - Winners

WOW,

What a great time we had as we had our thanksgiving hunt. We put
the guy's vs. the gal's and raised some supplies for the church. The
gal's beat the guy's ... barely. Special thanks to all who gave and may God
Bless You in your giving..




Samuel, Cody, Gary and Alan stop to take count
of the supplies the guy's raised..




Richard, Pastor Donnie, Alan & Alan serve breakfast
on Saturday November the 29th. The guy's had to
serve and make breakfast due to the loss on the
Thanksgiving hunt.. The guy's even cleaned up...

Thanksgiving Hunt

At our recent deacons meeting we came up with
a great idea of how to give thanks along with meeting
some of the church supplies needs. We are having what
we call a "Thanksgiving Hunt". This is a type of scavenger
hunt, that will be the guy's versus the gal's.

Starting on Sunday November 9th we will have a list for
each group. The list will include supplies for the church and a
few other odd things. The first group to fill the list and bring it
to church wins.

Wins what?

A free , home cooked breakfast. That the losing team has to cook...


Good luck to all....

Take - n - Bake Fundraiser

Our very own chef Josh Robarts has come up with
a great idea for our Fall Fundraiser. It is what we
call Take - n - Bake Pumpkin Pie. We are currently taking
orders for the event.

Here's the idea, we will have a homemade pie crust
and the pumpkin pie fixin's all ready for you, so all you
have to do is get up on Thanksgiving morning, pour the
ingredients into the pie crust and place in the oven.
Bam, a homemade pumpkin pie ready to go..

Last day of orders is Sunday November 23rd, with
pick up date of Wednesday Evening November 26th.

Fall Festival 2008

This year's fall festival was great fun and totally rocked. We had
a lot of activities for all the kids. We had a tricycle race, face painting,
ring pop toss and many other games. We also had a lot of give a ways
and did we mention the candy. We gave out a tremendous amount of
candy for all the kids....




Our pumpkin head winner was Kayla Garner with the clown
pumpkin.. Great job Kayla.




Photo of our Spice Kids packing the candy bags for the
Fall Festival. Great job.... Did you eat any of that candy?




Pastor Donnie talks to Trinity about how things are not
what they always appear to be. Trinity had to choose between
the big box or the little bag. She chose wisely.....
1 Sameul 16:7 says that man looks at the outside, but
God looks at the inside or the heart of man....." Remember
appearances are not sometimes what they seem...





Thanks to all who made the Fall Festival a great time
that was safe and fun for our kids......

God-Tober

It's official. Yes, we are changing the month of
October to God-tober. We are so excited about
what God has done and is doing here at Victory
Life Church that we just cannot contain the
excitement of our Awesome God.

Join us every Sunday morning in the month
of God-tober for a series on God..

Fall Festival - God -tober 31st

Be sure and join Victory Life Church years Fall
Festival on Friday God-tober 31st. We will have plenty
of games, food and fun.




Be sure to get involved in this year's candy drive as we
have a contest of who can raise the most candy. We are having
a contest between Guy's and Gal's... Let's fill those buckets..

Blitz Kings

Samuel and Cody stop to get their photo taken after
they played the Blitz final. Cody beat Samuel in the
final minutes of a wild and exciting game. With a little
over 30 seconds to go, Cody threw a Hail Mary and beat
Samuel by 2 points. Great job guy's ....

PSU Concession Day

What a great day to be out and serve. On Saturday September 27th
Victory Life Church worked a couple of concession stands at the
PSU Hall of Fame game at Carney Smith Stadium.


This photo was taken as some of the girls stop to watch the
game. Thanks to all who helped out.

Paint The Town Red

Victory Life Church got into the act this week with the annual
"Paint the Town Red". This event is held in the community for
our Pitt State Football team. Local businesses paint on their windows
or buildings to support the football team and university. Below is a couple
of photos of Hannah with her very own painting of "Gus" the Gorilla
and our statement of Praying For Pitt...

Great Job Hannah.... Go Pitt.



Hannah and Jo painting out "Gus"



Hannah and "Gus" painting.

Speaking to Kids

Pastor Donnie stops to get a photo taken with kids from
the Restorative Justice Authority. What a great bunch of kids.



This class talked about making right decisions and
have to have and be a good influence. Thanks
to Kristin for the invite....

It's A Baby Boy

We are so excited for Jessica Morton and her new baby boy Zayden.
Zayden was born on Friday August 22nd at Mt.Carmel. Both mom and
baby are doing great.



Jessica takes a moment to show off Zayden.
Congradulations, you did great Jessica.

Fall Outreach

It is getting to be that time. Gorilla football time. We are going
to do the concession again this year. Starting on September 13th and
lasting till November 8th, we will have all of PSU's 5 home games to
work. Get signed up now to help out and be sure and get your t-shirt
for the games... This years theme is "Saturdays are for Football,
Sunday's are for Church." See our shirt design below...

Little Ladies Late Night

On Friday August 22nd, Victory Life Church held it's very
first little ladies late night. With over 15 girls in attendance and
about 7-9 moms helping out. The night was a huge success. With
food, crafts, movie and even a scavenger hunt for the ladies. All
went well. Be sure to get ready for more little ladies late nights in
the coming months, as we want to continue to minister to this
generation of ladies....




Kayla gets caught eating a chocolate ice cream
bar at the little ladies late night....

Back 2 School Success

Victory Life Church teamed up with Kalidaskope salon
to provide "Free" Back 2 School haircuts for kids 12 and
under on Monday August 11th and it was a huge success.
With over 50 kids showing up to get their free cuts. The
event last for about 3 hours and we even had the TV station
show up and do a report on the event. Awesome. Special
thanks to Brandi and Kalidaskope for giving of their time
and thanks to all the ladies at Victory Life Church who worked
together to put this community event together. We pray that all
the people involved were blessed ......

See some photos below of the event...



This little one shows off her locks and her certificate,
this was her very first haircut...



This next set of photos is amazing, as we have a before and after
photo...



Before Haircut:



After Haircut:




Awesome stuff.....

Be sure to check out our video of the event on our video page
at www.vlifechurch.org

Back 2 School - Joyfull Critters

On Sunday August 10th, Victory Life Church invited Joyfull Critters to
minister to the Children's Crew. Joyfull Critters brought elephants for
every kid and brought their stuffing machine. See Photo Below.

Joyfull Critters ministered that God loves each and everyone of us, no
matter what we do. They showed the kids what life was like without Christ
in our lives, by showing them an empty elephant. How it look, well, not alive.
They then talked about filling the elephant up with God's goodness and His
Son Jesus Christ....




Faith Talent steps on the stuffing machine to fill her
elephant up with stuffing.




Keyton and April stops to show off their stuffed
elephants that were provided by Joyfull Critters...


Special thanks for Joyfull Critters for coming and ministering
at Victory Life Church, may God bless you both...

Band Night - July 23rd

Victory Life Church Works the band competition
at the PSU Stadium on Wednesday July 23rd. With over 25 bands
in attendance from all over the country they had a great showing.

VLC had the great honor of working the stands for the event. Below are
the photos from the event.

Concession Number 1

Ben, Lovina, Janice, Stephanie, Jaycee, Mike and Alan stop
to take a photo before getting to work.


Concession Number 2

Jonathan, Josh, Rachel, Cody, Kelsey, Kelsey, Jo and
Ashely goof off for their photo shoot.

Special thanks to all who helped out in reaching and
serving the community....

Camp Standlee

What a great time we had this year at Camp Standlee. We took 10 wonderful kids for an
awesome week of fun and fellowship. (See Fun Below)

Our journey started on Monday July 14th as we left for camp and included a day at the Super
Splash, an evening at Power Play followed by wonderful service each and every morning and night by our speaker Pastor Garth Heckman. With over 130 kids in attendance all kids were truly blessed and ministered to .. Some kids are already ready for Camp Standlee 2009.. I am too, but I am going to need my rest first..




Ready for Battle

8 of the kids stop to get their picture taken before heading into
the laser tag room. Stop and notice that some of them are real posers...



Lil Rider

Stefanie stops and gets her picture taken as she gets ready to
ride the go carts at the power play...


Be sure to check out the video on the main page at www.vlifechuch.org

"Being" The Church - Pool Help

In the middle of June, Victory Life Church was given the wonderful opportunity to
step out and be the church. We had a lady and her three granddaughters have a terrible
thing happen to them, their above ground pool just gave one night. One night at 9 pm there
it was, water all over the place. She contacted a couple of pool company's and they wanted over $6,000 dollars to replace the pool and also put it up.

In stepped the church. We took the next three Wednesday evenings and helped put up the
brand new pool that she had ordered. We came together as a church and fulfilled a need.

We currently have a video of the pool construction on our video page on our website. Be
sure to visit www.vlifechurch.org and click under the videos banner....

Joyfull Back to School

We are so very excited to announce that on Sunday August the 10th, Victory Life Church
will be welcoming Joyfull Critters ministry to hold an back 2 school party for our Children's Church Crew. Joyfull Critters is a ministry based out of Joplin, Mo that is similiar to build a bear workshop except with the gospel message installed into the animal. All kids will receive a stuffed animal and be told the gospel story of how God loves them.

Spread the word and let's invite somebody to church...

4th of July - Serving the Community

Victory Life Church had the great opportunity of serving our community during the
recent 4th of July holiday. Victory Life Church worked the Jakes Fireworks store located
on broadway during the 4th of July. Our fun began on Saturday June 21st as we stocked
the store full of fireworks and shelves.

We then began running the store on June the 27th with a goal of raising funds for the kids
to go to Camp Standlee, which is the summer camp. We had a great turnout and a lot of help in
making sure everybody was taken care of.

Man did we see a lot of fireworks go through the store and meet a lot of nice people in which
we were able to serve. Thanks to all who helped out.. Awesome work and we made enough for
the kids to go to camp and maybe enough to finish out the "Attic". Be sure to watch the video on
our home page....


Rachel, Faith, Cody and Jaycee stop to get their photo taken while helping out
during the recent Jakes Fireworks store.

Fathers Day Service & Picnic

On Sunday June 15th Victory Life Church held it's Fathers Day service and picnic.
We welcomed special guest Dr. Robert Cornwall as he spoke during the morning service and we
held our fathers day picnic outside with plenty of activity for all. We held a bottle rocket shooting
contest, held a water balloon contest and also a golf contest. With hamburgers and hot dogs going on the grill all had a wonderful time. Be sure to see the video on the church web site at vlifechurch.org and look at some of the photos below..




Pastor Donnie and Dr. Robert Cornwall stop to get their picture
taken after morning service.




The kids try to climb up the waterslide and get cooled off during the
fathers day picnic.


Special thanks to all for their great work and thanks to Jakes fireworks for
the tent and L & R motors for the golf cart..



Thanks.......

"Attic" Gameroom Update

We have had a truly great week of blessing for our "Attic" game room. We have almost
completed our project, all that is left is to install the electric and lights and flooring. We then
will be ready to stock the room. We have had a lot of great blessing this past week.

1st : We got 2 42" flat screen tv's for only $990 dollars. That's it. AWESOME

2nd : We picked one arcade game for $350 dollars and had another arcade given to the church.

3rd : We had 5 computers given to the church from our friends at ECC Church and
Faith Tabernacle Church. Thanks guy's.




Rachel, Hope and Kelsey take a moment from playing
the recently donated arcade game to get their picture
taken.

Thanks be to God for all ......