This last month our church theme has been, “Sowing the Seed of Faithfulness”.  We challenged our people to memorize 1 Corinthians 4:2 and to be faithful even in the summer months.  Like all churches, this month was speckled with many of our members taking their vacations.  Attendance was down some, but we still had visitors in our services.  At the beginning of the month, our church family stepped up to the plate to ministry to a lady in our church whose husband passed away.  We were privileged to be able to host the AIBF meeting on the 13^th and had a great attendance for being so far away from most AIBF ministry pastors.  Pastor Frank Camp from Maranatha Baptist Church in Shelby, NC (our sending church) came and preached to our people this month on the subject of the New Testament Church.  Many of the people attending our church were challenged to become members.

We have been asking our people to past out seven invitation cards per week in the month of July.  We call it “Seven for Heaven”.  We are trying to train our people to be soul conscience on every day that ends in “Y”.  This month we are trying to touch at least 2000 doors in our community.  We have a backpack outreached planned for the middle of the month and a financial class beginning at the end of the month.  We are purchasing 30 road signs to place in different parts of the community and a local radio station will let us record a 60 second spot that they will play at different times of the week.  Also, a local restaurant is letting us be the church of the month for September and will allow us to display our information on their bulletin board in their lobby.  Everywhere people turn, look, or eat in Winchester, we want them to see Heritage Baptist Church.