The PVCA elementary students had an outstanding day at the elementary fine arts festival on Friday, March 2, at Hampton Park Christian School in Greenville.

What a blessing to be in the mid-week service last night at Pleasant View! Thank the Lord for an "old-fashioned" church that begins each service with men's and women's prayer rooms. Then some good heart-stirring music from the congregation and youth choir directed our hearts and minds toward our God and prepared us for His Word.

Bro. Bobby Nichols and his family were with us, and the church family enjoyed their music and his presentation of his burden for the country of Brazil. Following Brother Nichols, Pastor Shiflett preached a tremendous message from Colossians chapter 1 on the "Preeminence of Christ." Then, what a thrill to see a man in his 30s walk the aisle and trust Christ as his personal Saviour! 

We were blessed to have other visitors in the service and thank the Lord for a great Wednesday night service.  

Our hearts were blessed today as the 7-12 grade students at PVCA shared their messages and lessons prepared for the upcoming SCACS Bible Preaching and Teaching Conference next  week. The young men preached their messages and received evaluations from Pastor Shiflett, Bro. Randy Bryson from Open Door Baptist Church in Easley, SC, and Bro. John Turner from Calvary Baptist Church in Greer, SC.

From the opening message until we concluded at 2:30 P.M. this afternoon, we were blessed and thrilled at the diligent preparation of these young men! They expounded the Word of God carefully and with an obvious sincerity. The pastors' comments, both written and verbal, were very helpful and encouraging.

While the young men were preaching, our young ladies were having their Bible teaching presentations evaluated by Mrs. Grace Shiflett, our pastor's wife, and Mrs. Frankie Gazaway, the wife of our boy's home director. These ladies and the girls' Bible teacher, Miss Elizabeth Viers, were equally blessed and amazed at the excellent work done by these young ladies.

Pleasant View Christian Academy will host the Junior High Ladies Teaching next Monday. Then our senior high ladies and all of our young men will travel to Columbia on Wednesday for the remainder of the teaching/preaching conference. Then on Thursday and Friday the music and speech competition will be held in Columbia also.

Please keep these young people in your prayers. 

The Bobby Nichols family, missionaries to Brazil will be singing and presenting their work on Wednesday, Feb. 28th.  Bro. Bobby is a second-generation missionary and will be going to labor with his dad, Bro. Bob Nichols and his brother Bro. Charles Nichols.  This family is sure to bless your heart, so make sure you don't miss them this coming Wed. night.  We will be taking a love offering for them, so come prepared to give.  You will want to be a part of their ministry!  I have personally known this family for well over 20 years and look forward to having them in the service.

Pastor Shiflett