Your Cooperative Missions Offerings are being used to help support:

A summer camp on the Piankatank River, where 60 children accepted Christ last year

Camp Piankatank Retreat Center, where you can host your next church retreat

Camp Piankatank offers activities such as a climbing wall, high and low ropes courses, archery, canoeing/kayaking, sailing, and much more all in a Christ-centered environment.

Campers ages 6-17 can choose to be a part of the traditional summer camp track (Amazing Adventure), or they can choose one of our great specialty tracks (Sailing, True North, Fishing, Horse-back Riding, etc.). Counselor to camper ratio is kept low (max 1:8, often lower) so that children are well cared for. All staff go through extensive interview training processes, and are selected to be strong, Christian role models. All counselors and program staff are at least college-age, and have been out of high school for at least one year (age 18 and above). The environment and activities encourage physical, spiritual, social, and emotional growth in all campers.

Located on the beautiful Piankatank River in Middlesex County, VA , Camp Piankatank offers a number of activities and a place to “get away” for retreats and meetings. It houses over 180 beds in dormitory-style lodging and it offers a variety of food choices.

For more information, visit www.camppiankatank.com or call 804-776-9552.

Your Cooperative Missions Offerings are being used to help support:

A summer camp on the Piankatank River, where 60 children accepted Christ last year

Camp Piankatank Retreat Center, where you can host your next church retreat

Camp Piankatank offers activities such as a climbing wall, high and low ropes courses, archery, canoeing/kayaking, sailing, and much more all in a Christ-centered environment.

Campers ages 6-17 can choose to be a part of the traditional summer camp track (Amazing Adventure), or they can choose one of our great specialty tracks (Sailing, True North, Fishing, Horse-back Riding, etc.). Counselor to camper ratio is kept low (max 1:8, often lower) so that children are well cared for. All staff go through extensive interview training processes, and are selected to be strong, Christian role models. All counselors and program staff are at least college-age, and have been out of high school for at least one year (age 18 and above). The environment and activities encourage physical, spiritual, social, and emotional growth in all campers.

Located on the beautiful Piankatank River in Middlesex County, VA , Camp Piankatank offers a number of activities and a place to “get away” for retreats and meetings. It houses over 180 beds in dormitory-style lodging and it offers a variety of food choices.

For more information, visit www.camppiankatank.com or call 804-776-9552.

States with churches participating with BGAV as of January 2014. States with churches participating with BGAV as of January 2014.

Together, our churches are making a Kingdom

difference through Cooperative Missions!

Together, our churches are making a Kingdom

difference through Cooperative Missions!

MISSIONSVirginia Baptists...

• are working in over 35 different countries through Partnership Missions.

• provide ongoing disaster relief efforts in affected areas here in the U.S. and the world.

• assist local congregations as they find avenues to minister in their own communities.

• have a partnership with the Haiti Baptist Convention’s Source of Light orphanage, which currently houses 28 children.

• support Impact! Mission Camps which help over 800 youth and adults live out their faith and help ensure people in need are safe, warm, and dry.

EVANGELISM AND DISCIPLESHIPVirginia Baptists...

• support the church planting movement with 15 churches participating as church planting learning cohorts, with 10 new churches that have entered the church planting pipeline since the beginning of the year and 6 new churches who are in process to become a part of the BGAV.

• reach the unchurched through the Fresh Expressions movement, which has equipped people to start new communities of faith that are reaching over 50% of people beyond the reach of church as we know it, has trained over 100 leaders to start their own fresh expressions of church, and has envisioned over 3,000 leaders to consider new opportunities for the church in mission in our changing world.

LEADERSHIPVirginia Baptists...

• offer youth retreat weekends for faith formation and leadership development for middle school and high school students that have 900 students and adults in attendance.

• equip over 300 collegians and young adults as leaders each year through the Kairos Initiative.

• have equipped and deployed over 75 innovative leaders since 2008 through Uptick(SM), Spence Network’s leadership track that invests in pioneering young leaders.

CHURCH DEVELOPMENTVirginia Baptists...

• have 8 field strategists that travel over 320,000 miles a year to serve congregations.

• provide field strategists to meet with pastor search committees throughout the state.

• offer a leadership coach for every new pastor and staff member.

• engage Sunday School directors and leaders to improve the Bible teaching efforts across our state.

COMMUNITY LIFEVirginia Baptists...

• support the well-being of ministers and their spouses through the Pastor in Residence office.

• help Camp Piankatank Summer Camp And Retreat Center on the Piankatank River, where 60 children accepted Christ last year.

MISSIONSVirginia Baptists...

• are working in over 35 different countries through Partnership Missions.

• provide ongoing disaster relief efforts in affected areas here in the U.S. and the world.

• assist local congregations as they find avenues to minister in their own communities.

• have a partnership with the Haiti Baptist Convention’s Source of Light orphanage, which currently houses 28 children.

• support Impact! Mission Camps which help over 800 youth and adults live out their faith and help ensure people in need are safe, warm, and dry.

EVANGELISM AND DISCIPLESHIPVirginia Baptists...

• support the church planting movement with 15 churches participating as church planting learning cohorts, with 10 new churches that have entered the church planting pipeline since the beginning of the year and 6 new churches who are in process to become a part of the BGAV.

• reach the unchurched through the Fresh Expressions movement, which has equipped people to start new communities of faith that are reaching over 50% of people beyond the reach of church as we know it, has trained over 100 leaders to start their own fresh expressions of church, and has envisioned over 3,000 leaders to consider new opportunities for the church in mission in our changing world.

LEADERSHIPVirginia Baptists...

• offer youth retreat weekends for faith formation and leadership development for middle school and high school students that have 900 students and adults in attendance.

• equip over 300 collegians and young adults as leaders each year through the Kairos Initiative.

• have equipped and deployed over 75 innovative leaders since 2008 through Uptick(SM), Spence Network’s leadership track that invests in pioneering young leaders.

CHURCH DEVELOPMENTVirginia Baptists...

• have 8 field strategists that travel over 320,000 miles a year to serve congregations.

• provide field strategists to meet with pastor search committees throughout the state.

• offer a leadership coach for every new pastor and staff member.

• engage Sunday School directors and leaders to improve the Bible teaching efforts across our state.

COMMUNITY LIFEVirginia Baptists...

• support the well-being of ministers and their spouses through the Pastor in Residence office.

• help Camp Piankatank Summer Camp And Retreat Center on the Piankatank River, where 60 children accepted Christ last year.

Missions and Ministries Making a Kingdom Difference!

Missions and Ministries Making a Kingdom Difference!

The listing below is a sample of the many ministries supported by the churches of the Baptist General Association of Virginia through Cooperative Missions giving. Together, we are Advancing

the Kingdom through five key initiatives at the Virginia Baptist Mission Board:

The listing below is a sample of the many ministries supported by the churches of the Baptist General Association of Virginia through Cooperative Missions giving. Together, we are Advancing

the Kingdom through five key initiatives at the Virginia Baptist Mission Board:

VIRGINIA BAPTISTS

Advancing the Kingdom together

VIRGINIA BAPTISTS

Advancing the Kingdom together

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