tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27092902552887557612011-11-14T05:47:24.589-08:00Our online Journal of the Service Project we were led to do when we moved to Sikeston, Missouri. My wife and I are members of Evangel Temple Assembly of God in Kansas City. We are living Mission of the Church which is to Love God, Love Others, and Serve the World. In particular, we are determined to "Serve the World" by doing at least one act of service a day. Try it for yourself - it might change your life!Mark and Kim Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04626076199309076094noreply@blogger.comBlogger1161100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2709290255288755761.post-6800804549202649002010-01-30T14:07:00.001-08:002010-01-30T14:07:39.452-08:00

I am currently working on a new blog with a renewed emphasis on serving others. Check it out at:http://actinginlove.blogspot.com

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What started out as offering to help a particular senior complete his graduation credits has turned into several weekends of my life working with 10 to 20 seniors in danger of not graduating. Now, this weekend was unique because I had a teacher who offered to come and spend his afternoon with them so I wouldn't have to. How cool is that! I didn't ask - he just offered. It's been a real unique

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I have a administrative assistant, who goes above and beyond to help me get my job done and help with my children when needed. She takes David to baseball practice after school, when I am still knee deep in work. She picks up lunch for me, when I can't take a break to go and get it myself. She is also going through a lot of personal trauma with a messy divorce that had her leaving her children

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Yesterday, I left off at verse eight of Proverbs. I have not made much progress, but that is okay. I have a bad habit of reading the bible for quanitity, rather than quality. You know, you feel real spiritual when you have read 2 chapters in the bible right. My goal is to not get in a hurry with the Word right now. As I read today, my spirit stops at verse eleven. Wise choices will watch

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First, happy Easter and He is risen indeed. The world is actually okay with the cross, it’s the resurrection that haunts them. See if the cross was the end, then the world succeeded in discrediting him, they could finally shut him up. But that resurrection thing just want go away. From the moment it happened the world has circulated stories about how the story is not true. But the testimony of

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My child listen to what I say and treasure my commands. I am not sure I can get past this first verse tonight. First our father calls us his child, or more correctly in Hebrew my son. So the maker of the universe wants an intimate relationship with us. Did that sink in or did you just read it and move on. God almighty, the maker of the universe, who brought Egypt the greatest civilization on

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Wisdom shouts in the streets. God is calling out and His ways are higher than our ways. We live in an age of knowledge and information. The Gospel is more readily available than at any time in the history of the world. Christian television, the internet, Christian Radio, books and the list goes on makes the knowledge of Christ, the Truth available to anyone who wants to hear it. How

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There comes a time in any student's life when the world around them is so enticing that they lose sight of reality and get caught up in what could be. We have several seniors that have basically lost their way and may not be able to finish their credits before the deadline of May 2nd. I've listened to their sad stories of how they got a job and didn't have time to do their school work. Others

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Writing this for you on National Atheist Day, also known of course as April Fools Day. We have been exploring the book of Proverbs, perfect timing considering the state of the world we live in. Tonight I am reading verses 8 -19 and timely is right word for these verses. Up to this point in Proverbs the Father had addressed the need for wisdom and the benefits of wisdom. In verse 8 he shifts

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Let me start by saying that if you have not read my blog entry Proverbs One start there before reading this entry. We need to understand the times we are living in. The Bible tells us that in the last days peoples hearts will fail them for fear. There will be no worldly answers. If you have been watching the news lately, you are saying to yourself, that sounds familiar. As a Christian I hope

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Moving to a new place is always hard on people because it involves change and change is never easy. When we moved to Sikeston, we brought not only our trepidations, but our children's as well. The first day of school , when I watched my son, David, sit with his friends from football, who happened to be African-Americans. What he didn't understand is that we came to back to a community that

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Okay, God has been trying to tell me something lately. Like most guys, I can be thick headed at times. I sense God moving in a certain direction but I am slow to respond. The other thing that I am good at, is making excuses why I can't do something. Lately, God has been placing some things in my spirit, giving me direction in a some things. I do not understand or know the whole, picture, and

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I found this on YouVersion.com and thought I would share it.Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up.(NIV) This verse reminds me of a book I read some years ago by Brother Lawrence called The Practice of the Presence of God. A short book but well worth the read. Brother Lawrence was a monk who lived in France during the 17th century.

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Paul Speaking to the Corinthians regarding divisions among them, because some of them follow Paul, and some follow, Apollos, and some follow Cephas. I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and same judgement. In verse 13 he goes on to ask is "Christ divided".If there

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Jackson's recent service includes watching Racheal's dog Donatello who of course is one of the pups from our Italian Greyhounds. I must admit, I am enjoying that service. Yesterday, I got drinks for the history department on my off hour. We gave our friends the Henson's son Colby a basketball so he could come over to our house and play basketball on our goal. The bell just rung and I have

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Reflection ? Subconscious LeadershipBefore we can reach our full potential as leaders, we must first be leaders to ourselves. We must capitalize on our innate talents and strengths, challenge the habits that hinder our growth, and manage the fears and negative emotions that frequently keep us from realizing our goals.As you probably know, our minds function in two distinct spaces: conscious and

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25 Ways to Help a Fellow Human Being Today"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion." Dalai LamaToo often the trend in our society is for people to be separated from either other, to be cut off from the great mass of humanity, and in doing so to be dehumanized a little bit more with each step.Cars have taken us off the streets, where we used to greet each other and stop to chat.

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I was blessed with the opportunity to speak to my best friend Shawn Jackson's football team Obion County Central.  I spoke to the team about covenant relationships.  Using Abraham as my example I spoke about how God is a God of covenant.  Explaining that a covenant is a mutually beneficial relationship between too unequal sides.  Coaches and players should have a covenant relationship.  The two

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The call is to the city, not the pew!

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"But whoever would be great among you must be a servant. And whoever would be first among you must be a slave of all. For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."Enough SaidGod Bless and Have a Great Day Coach J

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The rest is coming, just at school and did not want to lose the thought.

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So often we slam the door of opportunity in our own face because we get mad because we did not get what we wanted, the way we wanted it! Deal with dissappoint in a Godly manner and continue to serve despite the dissapointment and while you are waiting our breakthrough.

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We are addicted to ease in America. Our "self" loves to be comfortable and taken care of. It wants to feel good. Human beings are at their best when there is adversity. We built by God to handle and overcome adversity. For example, look at humans when a natural disaster occurs. People stop thinking about themselves and begin to help others. They forget about race, religion, economic

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True maturity in Christ is realizing that you were not created just to entertain yourself. You were created for a greater purpose!

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I had a mentally tiring day. We are doing essays in my class. These poor 7th graders have never done an essay before. They are lost and no matter how simple I tried to make my explanation some of them are still lost. As they typed thier papers in the lab, I helped them on an individual basis. I answered what felt like 1000's of questions. I was reminded that my job in of itself is service.

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It has been a busy week. Last weekend I was able to attend the American Football Magazine Clinic in Kansas City. It was a great clinic and I picked up a lot of things that I can take back to make us better. I was able to stay with Ryan and Pam Potts for the weekend while I attended the clinic, it was a great blessing. They are very good people and have a heart for helping others. My service

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What is our gifting? I know several people who have the gift of helps. I personally feel like that my giftings lie more in the area of teaching, encouraging, and motivating and that the gift of helps does not come naturally for me. But whether we are natural at that gift or not, it does not take a lot of effort to do acts of kindness for others. To show love is the greatest of all the

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There is a line in the movie Chariots of Fire, when I run I feel God's pleasure. As for me, When I coach, I feel God's pleasure. Do we give God the glory for what we do? Or do we take credit? My service to my athletes right now is showing up on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday for off season. I make a point of shaking every players hand every day I see them at off season and thank them for

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This was on my heart and mind before the power went out and I feel the need to share it. It is based on a message given by Craig Groeshel of Life Church.tv. Psalm 97:12May all who are Godly be happy...The above scripture sounds correct, doesn't it. Surely God wants us to be happy.Proverbs 14:12There is a way that seems right to a man but leads to destruction.In America we often pursue the false

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It has been a crazy last week or so. A week ago yesterday Sikeston and the surrounding areas was hit by a major winter storm. About 2 and 1/2 inches of ice and a couple inches of snow fell on Sikeston. The combination created havoc all across the region. At one point the entire town was without electricity and even as I write this today, about half of the town does not have electricity.

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“Everybody can be great because everybody can serve.” ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

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The Sikeston Football Program is in the process of being more purposeful in what and how we do things. Coach Gibbs has asked me to put together an Offensive Curriculum that we can use ourselves but can also be used at the Jr. High and the Jaycees little league football. So my major service right now is putting together this for him and the program. God has placed Brian and Lucia Henson our

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Green tea does not taste good. I bet it would taste better with sugar. Trying to do better, lifestyle change is hard. Also trying to be real with God and the people on this blog. Green tea may be good for you, but much like other things that are good for you, it taste terrible. Have you ever noticed that when people say, you will acquire a taste for it, what they are really saying is we all

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Making an Impact in SikestonWhen we came to Sikeston the goal was to serve where we were planted and make an impact on Sikeston. As Kim recently posted we are half way through our commitment. In revisiting our recent acts of kindness and service I think we have made progress and an impact. Cape First of SikestonWe are now planted in a church. Cape First of Sikeston is a young church that is

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Each night before you go to bed complete the following statements: I am thankful for my wife. Today I accomplished a good day of teaching, helped with off season football, and took the boys to youth group. My addition to #23Today I served my boys by taking them to youth group.

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Kim emailed this to me today. It is great and I hope that it touches you like it touched me.Enjoy, MarkA GREAT RECIPE...1. Take a 10-30 minute walk every day. And while you walk, smile. It is the ultimate anti-depressant.2. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day. Talk to God about what is going on in your life. Buy a lock if you have to.3. When you wake up in the morning complete the

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The focus of this blog is service of others. It has expanded to a way for us to share what is on our heart. I heard about another blog with a the same spirit of serving others on a daily basis while listening to K-Love. A gentleman has committed to 365 acts of kindness in 2009 and is challenging others to do the same. Here is a link to his blog.http://melissasalomon.wordpress.com/2009/01/05/

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God,I believe you have called me to be things that I am not capable of being. But that is the beauty of you and your call. You always operate in what we can not do. Otherwise we would become our own little “g” gods and do things and then say look what I have done. No you choose to take us places that we are not capable of going. You choose to accomplish things through us that we are not

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When Mark and I started this blog, we never intended it to be more than an accountability piece for our commitment to service. However, it has become more than that. It is a way for us to share our thoughts about the Lord and our humbling experience with getting up everyday intending to serve someone else. Some days are easier than others, as it appears more and more certain in my mind that God

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This is a powerful message given at Cape First by John Bevere. Service and honor go hand in hand and honoring those God wants you to honor and of course honoring God himself pleases God.http://www.capefirst.org/popwin/audio/120708_pm.htmEnjoy the message, Merry Christmas, and God Bless,Mark Jackson

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Today we were out of school due to the weather. Ice, snow, and sleet slowed the pace of life in Sikeston. As I was out shopping for Christmas for KIm, I passed a gentlemen on the side of the road with a sign asking for help traveling home. At first I passed him up and then realized that as a Christian I don't have that choice. So I went back to help him. I offered him a place to warm up and

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Well today we are out of school for ice. The streets are covered and there is just a light dusting of snow on top. You would think it should be pretty, but to me, if the grass isn't covered with the stuff, then it's not pretty at all it's just a nuisance that makes it hard for us to get to work. Yes - I did say get to work. Most school districts require that when school is called off, that

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Gave Coach Flannigan's son a ride to the high school today since I had to go over the high school for off season anyway. Our off season is going well, kids are working hard. Excited about the possibilities.Good night and God Bless.Mark

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Been really stressed and need to finish the Semester and been easily angered over little things. Really want to make a difference in my job.I do know the answer and that it lies in the word and prayer. "Be still and know that I am God" says the Father. In my prayer time what God keeps bringing me back is to quieten my mind. I am too busy and I have a hard time of stopping my mind from running

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The world says to that whoever desires to love life and see good days should acquire things, do what feels good, and find ways to entertain yourself. That is not what the word of God says about it. 1 Peter 3:10-12 says that whoever desires to love life and see good days should:1. Keep His Tongue from Evil2. Does Not Speak Deceit3. Turn Away from Evil and Do Good4. Seek Peace and Pursue

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For this reason I raised you up: so that I may display my power in you, and that my name may be proclaimed in the all the Earth.Romans 9:17Remember who you are in Christ and why you were raised up! My service today was to look up information on NAIA schools that one of our football players might be able to play at. We are in the process of sending out DVD's to colleges so that some of our

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I had an All Area Football Banquet and got home late. The word of the day is blessed, I just feel blessed. The service today was to stay after school and work with some of my students on the bubble between pass / fail and try to help them pass the semester. Need a good nights rest. God Bless,Mark

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Everyday you wake up to face another day. Everyday you make choices of how you are going to live that day. I hope you realize that today matters and there are no guarantees of tommorrow. So if God did not guarantee us tommorrow and the best laid plans of men pale in comparison to the plans that God has for us, then we need to live today to its fullest seeking to do the will of the father. If

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I have set out to rededicate myself to this blog and this service project. Today my service was to give the son of one of my fellow coaches a ride to the high school after school since there was no way for him to get away to pick him up from school. My word of the day is Faith. Faith in the abilities that God gave me to use them for his will and glory. My life goal of the day was to have no

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The Service Parable:To serve, the Samaritan was:1. Uncomfortable2. Inconvienced3. Out moneyLuke 10:29 The man wanted to justify his actions, so he asked Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?"Luk 10:30 Jesus replied with an illustration: "A Jewish man was traveling on a trip from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he was attacked by bandits. They stripped him of his clothes and money, beat him up, and left him

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Sitting in a Hotel in Saint Louis. Here this weekend to watch the State Championships at the TWA Dome. No dogs and the boys are with their dad. I am thankful for some quiet time and time to regroup and recharge the batteries. Much needed, I have been way too stressed lately. Need to slow down and not be in such a rush to complete our own agendas!

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Christian Men should be good men, but not necessarily "nice" men. If we follow the example of Christ, then we are required to be assertive and strong men. In our society, "nice" is a clever way of saying passive and weak. Jesus did not ask the money changers to leave "nicely", no he made a whip and drove them out and no one seem to be attempting to stop him. Calling a group of people a "

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One of the things that we do at the end of the year in our program is to do goal sheets with our players for the upcoming season. We divide the players as a coaching staff and talk with them about what their goals should be for the upcoming season. We do all the players in the program 10-12 but do not do all the Freshman. That group is a little more important to me personally, because I have a

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I plan to write down more of our service in an attempt to get back to the intent of this blog. Yesterday, I put together a lesson for the lady I teach with to make her life easier since she was out at a doctors appointment. Today, I took home one of David's team mates from basketball so that he did not have to walk home in the rain.Keep serving and do it with a God attitude.God Bless

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Remember the theme of the service project is serve where you are planted. Kim has done just that recently. At school right now morale is low and teachers are frustrated for a many reasons. Kim has started making it her goal to help teachers create an environment where they want to be at. Things like moving junk from the lounge to make it easier for teachers to do their jobs. Helping the

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Service is living life for Christ. How might you say is living a life for Christ service? If you are living a life for Christ then you will desire to be with Christ and in that desire you will find hope and peace. That is what this world is searching for. They will not find it in money, position, or entertainment; but at the same time they will reject any hypocracy. A genuine life in Christ

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Serving your employer is about being consistent, working with a proper attitude, and being low maintenance. It has nothing to do with how talented you are. We had Professional Development this morning after a late night last night for our final football game at Farmington. Got to bed at 1:00, would rather be a thousand other places, doing a thousand other things. My responsibility was to be

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Serving the World .... You want covince them with your finest, well versed, rehearsed arguments or speeches, you can only win them over with your lives.In the teachers lounge and hearing the teachers excitement over the new Harry Potter movie. They go on, many of them church goers, to make fun of Christians who "condemn" it is evil. They have heard enough of our words ...They are sick of our

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These past three weeks I have been a slacker in terms of the blog. It is just a part of life to go through seasons when we get caught up in our own little world. This is especially true when you have responsibilities and people pulling you in different directions. It is football season, last week was the end of first quarter and grade where due, this week it is time to get ready for parent

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Sound waves impact people. You can feel them, you are moved by them, and they can change your attitude. Everyone makes a "sound" so to speak. Some sounds are pleasing, soothing, uplifting, or encouraging. Other sounds are harsh, critical, demeaning, or cruel. As coach or Kim as administrator, our words can carry a lot of weight. Saying a simple praise to a 7th grader of giving an encouraging word

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I worked on the office tonight and got it looking nice. We still have boxes to unpack and struggle to keep up with day to day housekeeping, however, we are beginning to get settled in our new home and new town. We went out to eat Sunday night and we saw about 5 people we recognized. I mentioned to Kim that we were beginning to bump into people when we went places and she joked that it was time

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Okay it is 9:00 at night and I just got in from watching David's 9th grade football game. I am tired, a little disappointed in the amount of playing time that David got, and a little frustrated by my inability to catch up. I sit down here at the computer to do my weekly blog with a thousand thoughts running through my head. Kim and I talked about what I was going to blog about as we drove home

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What if you only had a few days left to live? Would it change how you go about your day? Is there a way to use your time differently and have a greater more significant impact?These are some questions that I have been thinking about recently as I read a new book.How can your life have the most significant impact on the world around you? I remember Pastor Jason giving a Mother's Day sermon in

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So in our now crazy busy world - Mark in the midst of football and me finding my way in a new job. Service comes very easy now with opportunities to serve almost at every turn. Sometimes in small ways like John helping a lady in a wheelchair who had knocked items off a shelve at Wal-Mart. Other times, we have to make time for it like inviting our neighbors over for dinner. No matter what's

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I am going to try to blog once a week on Monday's. I am reposting this blog to remind me and those that are new to the blog, what exactly it is we are doing. May God help us! Stay focused.The Prayer: Father God, We praise you and glorify you because you are an awesome God who deserves the highest honor and praise. We come before you in the name of your wonderful Son, our Lord and Savior Jesus

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I am not quite sure where to start. I have been unable to be consistent with the blog as my life has been a whirlwind for the past couple of weeks. I will first start with an update. We are out of the RV and in our new house. Praise God for that. Football is under way and we start our season this Friday night at Fredericktown. May God bless our endeavors on the gridiron. School is going

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All right, somehow we have survived the past week and a half. Sometimes it is important to be honest with your self. Honestly we have bitten off more than we can chew. Between moving into a new house, working full time, football, and oh by the way being parents, the last two weeks have been very difficult and we obviously have not had the opportunity to blog regularly. What we plan to do now

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We have an unbelievably busy week ahead including starting football, starting school, closing on a house, moving into a house, getting John his books, getting our utilities hooked up, and of course finding time to do service. Simply put there is only one way to do, Philippians 4:13 style, for I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. So here we go, into this crazy week, but not

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Many times we go through life without a thought to the people we pass on a daily basis. Living at an RV park for the past two months, I have seen many people come and go. Many of them traveling through just on a vacation stopping here before they go somewhere else. Some are staying here - can you believe - because they want to! Some are retired and traveling around the country. Some are here

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Today was hectic. Life will get even more hectic next week. There is a good chance on Monday that we will finally be able to close on our house. So here is Monday's potential itinerary, district wide inservice for both me and Kim, first day of football practice, closing on the house, jaycee's youth football clinic after practice and if energy permits moving into the house. We should be

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How many times have we been somewhere and wondered - do they really live this way? Are they always this nice? Is their house always this clean? Are their kids always so well behaved?There is a TV show called "Keeping up Appearances" that makes fun of characters, whose whole existence is to have a certain appearance. Nothing in their world can be done without thinking of the appearance of it.

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Kim's contract kicked in July 1st. I on the other hand have been working all summer for free. This is only a partial truth. I will get a small stipend for doing football camp, but like most coaches I put in a lot of hours for a small stipend and officially I did not start work till today. Now football is not work, if it ever becomes work I need to find a new profession, new teacher meetings

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Yesterday, Mark and I were enjoying our time away from the RV and doing a little shopping in Branson. While in the IZOD store we were asked to donate to an organization called "Save the Children." Save the Children is an organization that has been able to get into the country of Myanmar after the cyclone to help over 225,000 children. Mark and I did not hesitate to make a donation. We just

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How many times do we as parents try to shield our children from the pain of death?I have two requests for the members of ET today. One involves two precious little girls who have witnessed death in recent days and one involves a young teenage boy, who accidentally caused the death of a friend. They need your prayers and their families, and the families of those involved, need to be lifted

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We are in Branson, no dogs (with dog sitter), no kids (with Grandmother), and most importantly no RV! Before we drove to Branson tonight though we had a day full of service. I will use my teaching habits and bullet the day of service, so I can enjoy my time in Branson.Took the boys to spend time with Granny.Fixed her basketball goal so that the boys could play basketball.Took her trash to the

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I will be honest - I am sick and tired of looking at big brown boxes. Okay, they don't have to be big... they don't have to be brown... any shape, any size... I'm just sick and tired of boxes and living out of them. Now with that said. I have struggled to find ways to serve in which I feel useful to people lately. I want to make sure that what I do for people is meaningful and worthwhile.So I

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Today my service was to water "my" yard. Well it is not my yard yet. God willing, it will be soon. We are working with Wells Fargo and found out today that our file came back from underwriting and we had to send a few more documents. What that means is a few more days here in the RV. I am taking care of the Blackmon's yard in return for using the garage to store our furniture. We have had a

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Kim and I just drove back to the RV and the local bank thermometer read 102 degrees. And when you live in the Bootheel, you can add the Mississippi River Valley humidity to the equation. So today would have been a great day to do an indoor service. I was not that lucky, last week Coach Gibbs had asked for help from the coaching staff to put together a new piece of equipment called a "sled",

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I was listening to a message from lifechurch.tv this morning. The particular series that I was listening to was how to be rich. Now most of you reading this would not think of yourself as rich, but let me throw these numbers at you from this morning's message. If you make $37,000 a year, you are in the top 4% of wage earnings in the world. If you make $45,000 a year, you are in the top 2% of

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Today was about building relationships. Marvalene, our real estate agent, had invited us to visit Tanner Street Church of God. Church shopping is an anxiety filled event for Kim. She hates it with a passion as you know if you have been reading the blog. Kim and I had previously attended a Church of God in Cuba, Missouri. The difference is that this Church of God is out of Anderson, IN and the one

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Sikeston just hired a young first year math teacher and Jr. High football coach. I am sure he is probably scared to death. Once upon a time, I was a first teacher and coach. I was not only scared, but I didn't know half of what I thought I did. College can not prepare you to teach. College can tell you about teaching, give you advice of how to teach, and give you the credentials to teach.

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Many of you know that we finally have a signed lease on our house. Mark and I did our happy dance because now we can now move forward with the purchase of the house in Sikeston. We put into motion the things we need to do to get out of the RV! Here's where the unforeseen circumstances come into the picture. You know when you sell a house you usually have proceeds from that house to use on the

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I did not serve anyone today. Quite frankly, I survived today. We had football camp this morning, then I took care of the boys lunch, had our 2:00 appointment, and worked in my classroom for the first time. The closest thing to service I did today was to help Kim with the laundry. The stress of the move, particularly living in the RV is starting to get to me. I think I am beginning to battle

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The gentleman, who we are buying the house from, has taken growing grass to the excellence level. He has the thickest, mixture of grasses with very few, if any weeds. The service offered to take care of his lawn comes at a high price - the stress of keeping his lawn from dying in the 100 degree heat and the need to cut it back just enough so if it is mowed and it looks nice, but not cut back

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High school football coaches have a neat brotherhood. Most coaches are willing to share what they know or what has worked for them. Over my coaching career one of the things I have tried to do is learn from the coaches that I have come in contact with. As a result I have acquired a pretty extensive library of coaching materials. There are several young coaches on staff here at Sikeston. One of

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Well, our mission is to serve others. If I'm still alive, my mission isn't finished. Too bad many Christians haven't even started. It is sad that so many non-christians have a negative opinion of Christians. I have just started reading UnChristian by David Kinnaman. I am sadden by his research, but it's eye opening and it explains why people react to christians the way they do. I don't want

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I once new a preacher who had a bumper sticker that read, "to blessed to be stressed". He must be at a different level of spiritual maturity. I have faith that everything is going to work out and as Jeremiah 29:11 points out, God's plans for us are good. I am still very stressed none the less. I have spent this weekend moving. I am physically tired, recovering from getting overheated a couple

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Now most people would say that I am truly blessed. My husband is in Belton taking care of moving our things out of the house and I am still in Sikeston. I don't have to worry about lifting the boxes or furniture. Truly blessed - they would say. But those would be people who don't know me. The people who do know me know that I can pack a U-haul with the best of them. That my mathematical,

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I was reading a book today by Squire Rushnell called "When God Winks at You - How God Speaks Directly to You Through the Power of Coincidence". It's an inspiring little book and I recommend it. One of the subsections was titled "Handing Out Hope" and it was about those little notes that you may have gotten over the years. You know, those that you saved because they meant something to you at the

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Today I researched my school district. What needs do the students have when they walk in the door? I want to know this before they come so I can be prepared to meet their needs. If kids have needs of food, shelters and clothing, there is no way they can concentrate on learning because their focus is on basic needs. So as a teacher and administrator, you can forget about teaching them anything

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Kim's new boss, Tom Williams and his wife LaVeta, left town to go to Iowa to take care of some family business. While they are gone they have asked Kim and I to water the plants and take care of the pool. That's right, they asked us to serve. One of our prayers has been that God would open doors for us to serve - ask and you shall receive. The best thing about the whole deal was watching Kim

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Kim and Rachael recently had the pleasure of hearing Bruce Wilkinson, founder of Walk Through the Bible, author of Prayer of Jabez, Dream Giver, and Beyond Jabez, speak at the Arbonne Convention. It is awesome to be part of a company that has such a powerful Christian speaker speak to their consultants at their business convention. After hearing him speak, Kim purchased Dream Giver and Beyond

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This morning I again got up before my family to head off to work. Not only is it hard to get ready in an RV, but it's hard to be quiet enough to not wake them up as I get ready in the morning. But at 5:30 a.m. I am up and preparing for another Math training in which I am going to sit in with my math teachers to be introduced to the new textbooks and materials that the district decided to adopt

Kimberly Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08525484297168264101noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2709290255288755761.post-3015869332197513542008-07-14T17:15:00.000-07:002008-07-14T20:03:45.289-07:00

Psalm 39 NLT - 4 "LORD, remind me how brief my time on earth will be. Remind me that my days are numbered— how fleeting my life is. 5 You have made my life no longer than the width of my hand. My entire lifetime is just a moment to you; at best, each of us is but a breath." Because our life so brief, the question that must be asked is where is your treasure? Is it here on earth with the

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If you are a member of ET, Kim just posted a must read blog. There is so much truth in you don't know what you got till it's gone. Kim took the dogs for their morning walk and discovered that over night somebody had painted curse words on the fence in the back of the RV park and thrown trash everywhere. While Kim had no way of getting the paint off the fence, she did pick up the trash. While we

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Sometimes you don't know just how good you have it until you don't have it anymore. I say this after our second attempt in Sikeston at finding a place that meets our needs as a place of worship. There is no way I could be in Sikeston without having a place to fill up each week and hear God's word. I know Mark and I are adults and we are responsible for our own study of the scripture. I can watch

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James 4:14-17 NLTJames 414 How do you know what your life will be like tomorrow? Your life is like the morning fog—it's here a little while, then it's gone.15 What you ought to say is, "If the Lord wants us to, we will live and do this or that."16 Otherwise you are boasting about your own plans, and all such boasting is evil. 17 Remember, it is sin to know what you ought to do and then not do

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