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MDO Xtreme teaches “stranger danger”.
The students were taught if a stranger approaches them,
they should say “NO” just “GO.”
The police officer asked questions:
What if a person says your mommy is sick and they have
come to pick you up?
Say “NO” just GO.”
What if the person has candy?
Say “NO” just GO.”
What if the person has a puppy?
Say “NO “ just “GO.”
The MDO Xtreme children know the word “NO.”
We all know there are times when a parent cannot pick up a child.
The Jacksboro Police Officer taught the children that they should have a
“password” only the child and the parent knows.
If a stranger knows your “password,” they were sent by mommy.
The Jacksboro Parish
Jacksboro Parish
A combined ministry of the Memorial Christian Church and the First Presbyterian Church.
115 North Knox, Jacksboro, Texas 76458
Telephone: 940-567-3735
www.jacksboroparish.com
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
Peanut
Help
Butter
Backpack
Month
Buddies
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YG @6:00PM
CR @7:00PM
2 3
Football
Breakfast
See Jon
4
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YG @6:00PM
CR @7:00PM
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BB @ Noon
YG @6:00PM
CR @7:00PM
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PC @6:30PM
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MDO Bake
Sale in the
church Foyer
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YG @6:00PM
CR @7:00PM
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YG @6:00PM
CR @7:00PM
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MDO
Costume
Parade
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October 2014
CR-Celebrate Recovery YG-Youth Group BB-Bible Babes PC-Parish Council
The new school year is off to a good start. We are implementing some
changes this year which we think will be beneficial to everyone. Because we
have a few classes with only one or two children, we have been in discussion
with the Methodist church about combining some of our classes. They are also
excited about the possibilities.
Beginning next week, the preschool (age 3-kindergarten will meet at MCC
in the room beside the nursery. The 1st and 2nd graders will meet in the new
wing of the Methodist church with Tim Miller leading that class and the 3rd-5th
will also meet in that wing with Marcia Jackson leading that group. The Jr. High
and High School students will be meeting in the Student Center with Cindy
Hackley coordinating those lessons and teachers. The young adults will also be
meeting at the Student Center with Brian Davenport leading those lessons. Liz
Spears will continue to lead another adult study at the MCC building. We will be
working with the teachers from the Methodist church to provide teachers and
assistance where needed.
Sunday School times will include gathering and visiting from 9:30-9:45 and
classes running from 9:45-10:25. We hope you will support the Sunday School
program by attending and bringing your children. Because we need to give
people time to pick up children and get to church on time, it is helpful if classes
are able to start no later than 9:45.
Recently, in a Sunday School class I had a child who had never heard of
God and had no idea what wondrous things God has done for us. That tells me
that our work is not done. There are still people who need to hear the message
of his love. If we let our Sunday Schools fail by not supporting them, how will
these little children ever have the opportunity to know God’s love! We hope you
will take advantage of the opportunity to fellowship and study God’s word.
Karen Davenport,
Christian Education
How Great Thou Art 1885
For thus says the Lord, Who created the heavens, Who is God, Who formed the earth and
made it, Who has established it, Who did not create it in vain, Who formed it to be inhabited:
“I am the Lord, and there is no other.”
Isaiah 45:18
arl Boberg, a 26-year-old Swedish minister, wrote a poem in 1885 which he called “O
Store Gud”—”O Mighty God.” The words, literally translated to English, Said:
When I the world consider |Which Thou has made by Thine almighty Word
And how the webb of life thou wisdom guideth | and all creation feedeth at Thy board.
Then doth my soul burst forth in song of praise | O, great God, Oh, great God!
His poem was published and “forgotten”—or so he thought. Several years later, Carl
was surprised to hear it being sung to the tune of an old Swedish melody; but the poem and
hymn did not achieve widespread fame.
Hearing this hymn in Russia, English missionary, Stuart Hine, was so moved he modi-
fied and expanded the words an made his own arrangement of the Swedish melody. He later
said his first three verses were inspired, line upon line, by Russia’s rugged Carpathian
Mountains. The first verse was composed when he was caught in a thunderstorm in a
Carpathian village, the second as he heard the birds sing near the Romanian border, and the
third as he witnessed many of the Carpathian mountain-dwellers coming to Christ. The final
verse was written after Dr. Hine returned to Great Britain.
Some time later, Dr. J. Edwin Orr* heard “How Great Thou Art” being sung by Naga
Tribespeople in Assam, in India, and decided to bring it back to America for use in his own
meetings. When he introduced it at a conference in California, it came to the attention of
music publisher, Tim Spencer, who contacted Mr. Hine and had the song copyrighted. It was
published and recorded.
During the 1954 Billy Graham Crusade in Harringay Arena, George Beverly Shea was
given a leaflet containing this hymn. He sang it to himself and shared it with other members
of the Graham team. Though not used in London, it was introduced the following year to
audiences in Toronto.
In the New York Crusade of 1957, it was sung by Bev Shea ninety-nine times, with the
choir joining the majestic refrain:
Then sings my soul, my Savior God to Thee,
How great Thou art! How great Thou art!
*See the story behind the hymn “Search Me, O God.”
The above story was taken from “Then Sings My Soul” by Robert J. Morgan
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Unwavering Conformity—a yearlong study in stewardship
Invitation to Obedience—Matthew 19:16-28
This passage in Matthew is one of the ‘hard sayings’ of Jesus, sayings that are difficult
to understand on the basis of cultural, historical or theological difficulties. In this passage,
Jesus is calling a rich young man to discipleship, but the command is confusing, and how
does it apply to our present day? Author and speaker Margaret Feinberg wrestles with the
issue of obedience in her book The Organic God.
Despite God’s wildly infallible nature, I don’t always choose to obey him. The book of
Matthew tells of a rich young tycoon who approaches Jesus for his perspective. He asks
Jesus a simple but penetrating question, “Teacher, what good thing must I do to get eternal
life?’!
Only when the tycoon presses Jesus with deeper questions does he uncover his own
heart issue. He loves the goods—his material possessions—more than God.
The tycoon really wanted to know what Jesus thought. He wanted instruction from the
rabbi. He wanted his perspective, but he didn’t want it bad enough to actually do something
with it once he got it.
The Scripture abounds with God’s wildly infallible wisdom and insights, and like the
tycoon, God wants to answer our questions as we pursue him through study and prayer. Yet
it’s possible to ask God about an issue that could change us forever, and after receiving the
answer, still walk away from the transformation process. That’s why Romans 12:2 reminds
us not to be conformed to this world but rather be transformed by the renewing of our minds.
You can know God’s perspective and still not do anything with it. This kind of thinking leads
to the worst possible religious life—one that welcomes hypocrisy and self-righteousness.
I wonder how often I am like the tycoon. I pursue God through prayer, asking what’s
really going on in a situation, but once I uncover the core issue, I move on in a been-there,
done-that, non-transformational kind of way. Or worse, I wonder how often I’m like all those
who followed Jesus from a distance and never bothered to ask for his perspectives at all!
I’m slowly discovering that God’s wild infallibility is actually an invitation to obedience;
in fact, his infallibility makes me want to obey him all the more. His perfection exposes my
own imperfections, his wisdom uncovers my own foolishness, and his infallibility reminds me
of just how fallible I am.
He alone can be trusted. It’s the entryway into the best possible and most costly life—
the one he designed from the beginning of time. Like the tycoon, we are given insight into
what God thinks so that we will think like him. He invites us to action. God’s truth, if taken
seriously, will not just transform our minds and hearts but also our behavior. It will become
action points for obedience.
MDO Xtreme Fundraisers
Bake Sale
MDO will be hosting a Bake Sale after Church on
October 19th. All proceeds go directly to our
MDO Xtreme Scholarship Fund. Please
stop by the Fellowship Hall Sunday,
October 19th and
support MDO
Xtreme.
Go Tigers-Head Band Sales
Stop by the church office or MDO office and pick up your “GO TIGERS” Head Bands in time
for the cooler weather. They are $5.00 each. All proceeds go directly to MDO Xtreme
Scholarship Fund.
Who are we and what do we believe?
Christian Church
The Christian Church is organized to:
-help each member participate to the fullest
-help the church function effectively as a
whole.
THREE EXPRESSIONS OF THE
CHURCH
CONGREGATIONAL
Each local church has its own program of
worship, mission and service. Members
choose officers, send representatives to
regional, general assemblies.
REGIONAL
Regional bodies in the U.S. and Canada
help start churches, relocate ministers and
assist congregations.
GENERAL
General Assembly is made up of
congregational and regional
representatives and ministers.
General Board is a small deliberative body
that does spadework for the
Assembly.
Each level is:
INDEPENDENT-determines its own
programs, staff, finances.
COOPERATIVE-morally responsible to
each other, but without a “pyramid of
authority.”
Presbyterian Church
The Presbyterian church is a
REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY
governed by elders elected from and by the
congregation.
Authority resides with the duly elected
representatives of the congregation in the
appointed church governing bodies. The
local church governing body is the SESSION.
The overall church structure consists of 4
GOVERNING BODIES:
SESSION or local governing body. Ordained
ministers (ministers of the Word) and
elders—all elected by the congregation.
PRESBYTERY—Elders and ministers from
congregations who oversee the local churches.
SYNOD—Representatives elected from each
Presbytery to oversee several Presbyteries.
GENERAL ASSEMBLY—The national
governing body made up of equal numbers of
lay people and clergy chosen by the
presbyteries.
Local sessions oversee the day-to-day work of
the church and supervise:
DEACONS—elected to conduct the temporal
and charitable ministry of the church.
TRUSTEES—(in some churches) elected to
manage financial, legal and property affairs
of the church.
Both of the articles on this page were taken from the pamphlets in the foyer. The Pamphlets are
produced by the Channing Bete Company. You may pick up a Pamphlet from the foyer and read
more about the Christian Church and the Presbyterian church.