{"id":397,"date":"2016-07-11T14:31:22","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T19:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/ryanjessup\/?page_id=397"},"modified":"2020-08-25T08:15:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T13:15:09","slug":"community-and-church-service","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/rkj95n\/community-and-church-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Community and Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My wife and I are faithful members of the Hillcrest Church of Christ.\u00a0 In addition to regular attendance, I have served as an occasional teacher for our and other Sunday morning Bible classes, multiple Wednesday night classes, and our Sunday night small group.\u00a0 We also served as a host family for the Hillcrest University Ministry (2016-2019). Before they were discontinued, I wrote several <em>Feeding the Flock<\/em> articles for our Sunday morning bulletin. \u00a0I received the email shown in Figure 3.2 from John Barton (current elder at Hillcrest, father\/father-in-law of two ACU faculty members, and former professor of computer science at ACU) on the basis of one of these articles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Figure 3.3.<\/strong> <em>Email from John Barton regarding one of my Feeding the Flock articles.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/rkj95n\/files\/2016\/07\/john_barton.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-549\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-549\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/rkj95n\/files\/2016\/07\/john_barton.png\" alt=\"john_barton\" width=\"1362\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/rkj95n\/files\/2016\/07\/john_barton.png 1362w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/rkj95n\/files\/2016\/07\/john_barton-150x31.png 150w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/rkj95n\/files\/2016\/07\/john_barton-300x63.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/rkj95n\/files\/2016\/07\/john_barton-768x160.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/rkj95n\/files\/2016\/07\/john_barton-490x102.png 490w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1362px) 100vw, 1362px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In Fall 2014 I joined the Hillcrest Singers, an a Capella singing group that rehearses and then gives concerts at local elderly care facilities.\u00a0 In 2015, I was appointed a deacon and began serving on the Hillcrest Missions committee, a thoroughly rewarding committee. \u00a0In the greater community I have served as head or assistant coach for my son Asher\u2019s AYSO soccer team for the first 7 seasons that he played.\u00a0 I have also served as a data and analytical consultant for both Docket Navigator and the City of Abilene.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h6>&lt;\u00a0<a href=\"professional-service\/\">Discipline<\/a>\u00a0| Community and Church\u00a0| <a href=\"feeding-the-flock\/\">Feeding the Flock<\/a>\u00a0&gt;<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wife and I are faithful members of the Hillcrest Church of Christ.\u00a0 In addition to regular attendance, I have served as an occasional teacher for our and other Sunday morning Bible classes, multiple Wednesday night classes, and our Sunday night small group.\u00a0 We also served as a host family for the Hillcrest University Ministry &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/rkj95n\/community-and-church-service\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7493,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-397","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/rkj95n\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/rkj95n\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/rkj95n\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/rkj95n\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/rkj95n\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/rkj95n\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1571,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/rkj95n\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/397\/revisions\/1571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/rkj95n\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}