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3/5/2010

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Featured Event

BLACK HISTORY MONTH CELEBRATED IN WORSHIP SERVICE

Chris Carter Tom Thomas

Dinner Served after Church George Wilson and Jim and Lyn Fulcher

Black History Celebration

If you were looking for good music, good fellowship and good food you found it this past Sunday during our Black History Celebration Service. The morning started with some great congregational singing and a special guest speaker; Mr. George Wilson. As a 6’8 high school basketball state champion, a college basketball national champion and Olympic basketball world champion, Wilson's name could easily be preceded by a string of impressive titles. Instead, he'd prefer people just call him "Big George”.

The choir held the congregation’s attention in a rousing rendition of ‘Shut de Do’ led by Will Underwood and the house was a rockin!! The morning continued with several congregational members speaking including Chris Carter whose knowledge of the rich history of our Cincinnati area was so impactful. His visualization of the Underground Railroad, the effort that it must have taken to make that journey and the symbol of what the Ohio River represented had us all experiencing it as it may have occurred; very moving and emotional.

Maria Neuhaus and Tom Thompson also shared their history, their past, & their experiences and as they each finished speaking you could look around and see the tears in the eyes of each member as they reflected on their own stories and their own history.

To close out the service, Elder Jim Fulcher gave the final closing thoughts and reminded us all that we are ALL a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation and most importantly a people belonging to God.

As the service dismissed, and the doors began to open as people filed out, you could begin to smell the delicious aroma of some good home cookin’ coming from the Cafeteria. As you walked down the stairs, your mouth began to water and you just knew that the food was going to be awesome!! You were not disappointed. Rows and rows of food, in fact so much food that we had to eat in different rooms! We had greens, jambalaya, and 4 different types of chicken; fried, grilled, baked, and barbecued. The desserts, the breads and the pasta that filled the tables were a glorious site and a true celebration, Cincinnati style, was happening.

As the afternoon progressed and you walked around room to room, you could see young, old, black, white, Asian, Hispanic and such a wide variety of life stories all mixed together that you couldn’t help but think back to the truth of Maria’s statement from the service; “God is so diverse, we cannot possibly experience all of his goodness in just one culture”.

The Celebration Service came to an end around 2:00pm on Sunday, but the love, the fellowship and the sense of family and belonging will long continue to resonate in our hearts and our actions. Many thanks to all of you, who cooked, served, set up/cleaned up and for everyone who participated in the service.

John Cleghorn Appointed Evangelist.

Interview with John Cleghorn:

What does it mean to you to be appointed an evangelist?

I am humbled, honored, and grateful. I have served God and his churches full time in the ministry for over 13 years and from about 3 months old as a Christian I knew God was calling me to be an evangelist. My hearts desire was to be a man of God that could effectively minister and preach the gospel not through mere words but through a life lived in sacrifice and service to God. To be appointed as an evangelist here where I became a Christian surrounded by the men and women who trained me, loved me, and discipled me meant a great deal to me. I, in many respects, am an evangelist today because of the great men and women in my life here in the Cincinnati Church. I was also very grateful to be appointed an evangelist by Jim Fulcher. Jim has been a constant friend, leader, trainer, discipler, and example to me in his short time here. He is an exceptional church builder and to walk alongside him has been one of the greatest gifts God has given me in helping me to become an evangelist.

Does it change your day to day schedule?

Yes and no. In many respects I began leading and living as an evangelist before I was appointed. During the last 2 years I have been given more and more responsibility in training and preparing me to be an evangelist. Those responsibilities were given to me a little at a time to allow me to grow without overwhelming me. So over the last 2 years my schedule has changed dramatically as I continued to do all my youth ministry responsibilities and have added all the evangelist responsibilities entrusted to me by the elders.

What is your charge to the congregation as a new evangelist?

To Love God with all our hearts, souls, minds, and strengths. And to Love our neighbors as ourselves.

Share some of your personal dreams and goals.

My first two are listed above! I really want to do those two things to the best of my ability. I want to lead my family in a way that pleases God and help each of them to love God. I want to be a good disciple and I believe this is one of the greatest roles for me as an evangelist!!! I want to become more effective at preaching God’s word and ministering to God’s family. I want to continue to learn how to raise up those around me to help them be more effective at using the gifts God has given them. I also really want to help some of my neighbors to become Christians. I want to become an evangelist who raises up other men to be evangelists who then in turn can be sent out to build up God’s kingdom.

Resume: I was converted on July 28, 1993 on UC campus. I served as a campus intern here in Cincinnati for 3 summers under Tomm and Laurie Wilson. On March 22, 1997 I was married to Shannon and after returning home for one week we moved to serve in the youth ministry in Chicago with Tomm and Laurie. We served in the West Region of the Chicago Church of Christ for 4 years. During our 4^th year in Chicago I contracted cancer and fought a hard battle for several months. After surviving cancer we moved to serve in the North Region youth ministry for 2 years under AT and Marci Arneson. After serving there for 2 years we decided to step out of the ministry and move back home. We were then hired here to serve as the youth ministers in the fall of 2004.

HOPE worldwide Cincinnati Blood Drive 2010 with more donations this year than last! Totally successful! 88 registered to give, and 79 pints collected. A number of people tried to give, but low iron counts and other reasons prohibited them. They still got to eat the cookies :)