CenterFest plans are already underway. Please don't delay about volunteering to help with our booth this year. Contact Rita Calhoun, 540-297-5271, to let her know if you will be working the booth, participating in a ministry event, or sharing in the streets.

Teams are traveling to Nicaragua throughout this year, but there is always room for another. Yes, it is a tiring week and usually pretty hot and sometimes dusty or rainy, but imagine walking with Jesus and His disciples as they walked the hot dusty trails of Galilee and Judea. Come be a missionary for a week, and let God change and bless you for the rest of your life!

On May 7 we will offer a training session on "Sharing Jesus Without Fear." This simple but effective evangelism tool will teach you how to share your faith by allowing the listener to read several key Gospel passages and then telling you what he understands it to say. It is a very effective method for those of us who are not strong evangelists, and it really does work! We begin at 9:30 a.m., in the fellowship hall at Bedford Baptist, and will be finished before noon.

We covet your earnest prayer regarding the urgency of these several items. It is easy to think that someone else will take care of the work, but unless YOU become actively involved in these efforts it is very possible that they will remain undone.