Friends, Over the past eleven months, the world has experienced many things. Because of COVID-19, civil unrest, financial hardships and personal health crises, much of what we have experienced would be considered bad. However, this last eleven months combined has helped us see God’s hand in all things, even some of the worst of circumstances.… Read More »

Every person I know is glad to put the year 2020 in our rearview mirror. We learned a new kind of flexibility which we didn’t even know existed before. We learned to be fluid, not just flexible. I hope sometime soon I can leave my masks behind. I hope I can leave some social distancing… Read More »

Maybe you, like me, remember lessons at school in days gone by when they taught us the United States of America is a “melting pot”. I am sure that was an answer on one of my tests back in grade school. It is true. People of different races, colors, languages, religions and backgrounds move here… Read More »

I cannot remember if it was a line in a movie or a title of a movie because I never saw the movie. The line is catchy though and not for all the right reasons. “What happened in Vegas stays in Vegas” is a good line, but not for the right reasons. We do not… Read More »

Well, we pulled it off! Our plans for 2020 were big. God’s plans for 2020 were bigger. His plans thinned our crowd. Maybe you remember, we were hoping to have a big event in the football stadium at Montgomery Central on September 26th and then have our Homecoming the next day too. Those were big… Read More »

Can you believe it? The Lord has blessed us! That I can believe. What was hard to believe is it took us until the end of August to do VBS. Thank You, Lord! We did get VBS in! We were able to share the Gospel with lots of children. I’m so happy! At this historical… Read More »

PVBC family, Most of you will read this after Sunday, July 26th. By then, we will have been back to “in-person worship” for twelve weeks. Yet, many of you have not been back. I am sure some feel left out in spite of many efforts to keep all connected. Our staff, some of our deacons… Read More »

This has been the most unconventional year many of us have seen. Church attendance was steady most of our lives. There may have been an occasional snow or ice storm which caused us to postpone services for a week or so, but we never saw anything like the Coronavirus until this year. On March 15th,… Read More »

Pleasant View Baptist family, When I attended Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1998-2000, there was no class offered to us entitled “The Phased Re-entry”. Back then, I doubt any professor would have seen this coming. Did any theological professor in any seminary even a year ago see this coming? I doubt it. Rest assured, God… Read More »

Pleasant View Baptist Church, if you’re anything like me, you must be feeling like this is the strangest year ever. Who would have thought by this time of the year we would be apart (unable to worship in person) for 7 weeks straight? Even in wartime, this has never happened in the United States of… Read More »