October 3, 2025
Hello Grace Vineyard Family and Friends,
Welcome to October! As we go into this first weekend of the month, we have quite a treat for you on Sunday. In a world full of bad news, there is still good news—and it has real power for our lives today. Eddie and Bethany Roach are going to be with us, bringing this Sunday’s message, “Confident in the Good News”, and will share stories from Cambodia that remind us why the gospel gives us hope and strength we can count on!” This is gonna be awesome!
Confident in the Good News
I look forward to seeing you on Sunday morning at 9:30. if you are not able to be with us, here’s the info you need for joining us online: you can join us online on Zoom with this link: Zoom Meeting ID 153 112 432, Passcode 684814. You can also find our livestream on Facebook Live at facebook.com/gracevcf.
Last week I was preaching at the church our our great friend Jobey McGinty, Life Mission Church, and while I was gone Chaplain Jason DiPinto brought us the 3rd message in a 3 part series on The Way of Jesus. If you’d like to hear that sermon you can watch it right here on our Youtube channel:
You can also listen here on our Gracetalks.org podcast channel:
Fall Women’s Retreat
Our 2025 Women’s Retreat is next month! It all takes place November 14-16 in Pine Valley, and our guest speaker is Blair Fabry. Our retreat’s theme this year is “When Trees Walk – Lessons in Spiritual Sight”, from Mark 8:22-26. There will be a sign up table in the lobby with all the info you need to get registered. Please stop by this Sunday, or contact Kim Ohst at text/call: 760-519-4558, email:kimohst@gmail.com. Private bath lodges are $270, shared bathroom lodges are $250 and dorm rooms are $215. There are a limited number of Private Bath Lodges available. You can pay online or place money/checks in the offering, or even pay at the Retreat Info table on Sunday morning. When paying online or in the offering, please note that the payment is for the retreat. In order to reserve the appropriate room, please email and let Kim know what kind of room you are reserving when you make a payment. I will confirm if that type of room is available. $50 deposit will hold the room. You can see more info about the retreat by clicking here.
C4C 3rd Annual Golf Tournament Fund Raiser
Also coming up very soon now, on October 25, is our Convicted For Christ’s 3rd annual Golf Tournament Fund Raiser.
Join us for C4C’s 3rd Annual fundraiser to change lives after incarceration. Your round funds housing, mentorship, and second chances.
Saturday, October 25, 2025
Dos Osos Golf Club
2492 Old Ranch Rd, Escondido, CA 92027
Go to https://www.convicted4christ.org/ to register and find out all the information. You can also talk with Michael or Snake on Sunday morning if you have any questions.
Benevolence Fund
I’d like to take a minute to remind you that we have a benevolence fund to help us serve the needs of many people both here in our own church and around the globe. You’ve probably heard the term “tithes and offerings”. It’s part of the practice of generosity, and I would encourage everyone to join me in tithing (giving 10% of my income to the church) and giving offerings (donating money beyond my tithes to any number of important needs — missions, helping the poor, supporting local charities and nonprofits like C4C, and more). If this is new to you, it’s probably going to require exercising some faith because just about everybody I know in California is already stretched thin financially. But I can tell you from the scriptures and from personal experience and from the stories of friends, that God seems to always provide when we step out in faith to give, and usually provides more than we gave. Here’s just one of many scriptures that speak to this principle:
2 Corinthians 9:6-10 (New Living Translation)
6 Remember this—a farmer who plants only a few seeds will get a small crop. But the one who plants generously will get a generous crop. 7 You must each decide in your heart how much to give. And don’t give reluctantly or in response to pressure. “For God loves a person who gives cheerfully.” 8 And God will generously provide all you need. Then you will always have everything you need and plenty left over to share with others. 9 As the Scriptures say,
“They share freely and give generously to the poor. Their good deeds will be remembered forever.”
10 For God is the one who provides seed for the farmer and then bread to eat. In the same way, he will provide and increase your resources and then produce a great harvest of generosity in you.
I’d recommend you enter into giving offerings with prayer, and give in response to God’s promptings (not out a sense of pressure or guilt, but joyfully in faith).
And that’s it for this week’s Weekly Update. Have a great weekend,and I’ll see on on Sunday morning!
with blessings and love,
Ron Ohst
Tithes and Offerings Online
THANKS for taking ownership in the life and ministry of Grace Vineyard! And thanks to all of you who are stepping into a lifestyle of generosity with your tithes and offerings. It really does take all of us doing our part with the income God has entrusted to us for His church. If you’d like to give your tithe or offering online, click the donate button below. If you’re giving to a specific fund (like benevolence or missions), just be sure to say that when you are given an option to say “what this donation is for”.