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Pastor's Easter email

I greet you this Wednesday of Holy Week.

Of all the dates for Christians,

this is THE most special of all weeks.

Blessings to all EASTER PEOPLE!!!

 

Now that I am twittering, actually I guess technically,  I  “tweet”,

[And by the way you can sign up to receive my tweets on our web page]

I am learning the new abbreviations to conserve the number of spaces you use.

Quite a list I have discovered—a whole dictionary.

I have a 37 page document downloaded from the internet

which is a single spaced abbreviation list!!

 

Perhaps the simplest and even most used abbreviation is the letter “U” for the word you.

 

Here is an interesting adaptation on that concept…..

 

U are in JesUs……

 

Before U were thought of—or time had begun,

God stuck U in the name of His Son.

And each time U pray, the point is made true,

U can’t talk of JesUs and not include U.

 

U are a big part of His Son’s name,

For U he was born—U are why He came.

And His great love for U is the reason He died,

U are essential to spell crUcified.

 

And isn’t it thrilling and splendidly grand—

He rose from the dead, with U in His plan.

The tomb was empty, He was gone, it was true!

And even resUrrection is spelled with U.

 

When JesUs left earth –what we call the ascension,

He first called His friends and said, “I should mention—

Your job is to go to all the world through,

And tell them I love them—with the same love as U.”

 

In heaven’s gold book, each name has a U,

Each soul is from JesUs, and not just a few.

For people to know,  depends on what U will do,

God’s word is fulfilled, now it’s up to U.

 

We can do this—U and me…..

I love being Ur pastor,

J

AAron

 

  

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Aaron grew up in Western Pa. in a United Methodist parsonage. Both his parents are alive and retired in Coconut Creek, Fl./files/Images/iof pictures/General/aaron and jamie back shirt crop.jpg

 

 

 

 

He attended a United Methodist college, Mount Union, on a track scholarship, receiving a BA degree in Physical Education and becoming an All-American athlete. Immediately after graduation from college he married/files/Images/iof pictures/Aaron's First Sunday/35.JPG Peggy Fyock. [Peggy is a Kindergarten teacher and is looking for a job in Jacksonville!!!] Peggy’s mother died of cancer and her father lives in western Pa. Aaron and Peggy have three sons, all grown and married, and two grandsons (so far). This move will be their first true experience being separated from all immediate family.

 

Ten years after college Aaron was called into the ministry and attended Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (to earn his Master of Divinity degree) while serving as pastor to a small rural church south of Pittsburgh. He was ordained a Deacon in the Western Pa. conference of the UM church and upon graduation from seminary in 1988, transferred to the Florida conference—by an act of God. J. He received his Elders orders here from Bishop Hughes Jr.

 

Aaron has served churches in Boca Raton, Ft. Lauderdale, Tallahassee and Orlando before coming to Jacksonville.

 

Aaron has visited Saddleback church and sat under Rick Warren’s teaching about preaching with a purpose, and for the last two and a half years has been part of the ReFocus pilot program in the Florida conference.

 

An avid racquetball player, Aaron (and Peggy) enjoy, and are grateful for, good health. He holds no strong loyalty to any one collegiate football program so sorry, L, and Peggy is not a particularly avid sports fan.