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The First Church of Jesus Christ

From the Bishop
Volume 2, Issue 7 July 2013

Inside this issue:

Youth Camp! Special Announcement News Editors Desk Who We Are

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Organizational Information

Praise the Lord to Everyone. I want to encourage each one of you to promote youth camp as much as possible. You may say, I do not have any young people in our church or family, but I am asking each of you to sponsor a child. Send your offering to Brother Moon for as many children as you can. Cost is $50.00 per camper. Send anything you can to help on food and other expenses. I want to share a little thought from a message I preached to our church recently. We are constantly trying to find

someone to come to always begins on the secchurch so we can seek to ond Tuesday of August. change them. MY message was let us change ourselves first and when we get changed we will inspire others to change. Preachers including myself are guilty of trying to change a congregation or a city, but we can accomplish this only by starting within ourselves. Preachers let us set the example You are the Light of the World for others to follow. Also Please start making plans I am looking forward to now to attend. There will seeing each one of you in be more in a later issue. Tullahoma at our NationWe l o ve y o u a l l al Convention /Camp Bishop Bogue meeting in August. This

Standing On the Shoulders of Giants

Remember them that have
the rule over you, men that spake unto you the word of God; and considering the issue of their life, imitate their faith Hebrews 13:7 Bishop H.E. Honea was a man of deep, abiding faith in God and love for people. He went home to be with the Lord on June 10, 2009 leaving behind an impressive legacy of life and ministry. Born Oct. 30, 1939. He was saved and called to preach in April 1953, filled with the Holy Ghost in 1955 and baptized in Name of Jesus Christ in 1958. He preached in 32 states, 3 foreign countries and pastored in 4 states. Ordained Bishop in 1965, Bishop Honea ordained 120 ministers and 32 surrendered to preach under his ministry. Bishop Honea pastored the Tullahoma Church for 46 years and founded the First Church of Jesus Christ Organization in 1965, and the Banner of Love in 1966. He will be remembered as a tenderhearted, loving and forgiving man of faith whose life passion was the Kingdom of God. We do well to follow his example.

Bishop H.E. Honea 1939-2009

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Youth Camp begins on Monday July 8th, 2013 and will continue thru Thursday July 11th. Cost is $50.00 per camper. This includes 3 meals a day and snack after each night service. We will have games and a lot of activities during the day. There will be a service every morning. For more information call Bishop Bogue at: 706-383-8271. The entire camp is air conditioned. It will be held at Camp Sycamore Creek just off 0f US 431 a little South of Springfield Tennessee. If anyone is interested I have a map and directions I will mail them. Bishop Bogue

Special Announcement
We are not so much interested in being great men and women of God as we are in revealing a great and mighty God who uses average human beings. They that know their God shall be mighty and do exploits.

Please allow me to invite you to checkout our new Website! The Web Address is simply:

fcjc.net.
You will find it loaded with features that wil make it truly beneficial to you as ministers as well as an excellent tool for promoting the organization. I would like to ask a huge favor of you all. As you peruse the site, be on the lookout for any mis-

takes I may have you are listed made. correctly. Please None of us are send me your perfect. If you details as shown note a mistake, on the site and I please bring it to will make sure my attention, so you are listed that I can fix it along with your contact inforpromptly. mation. If your name or Church does not ____________ appear correctly Dont forget we on the Ministers/ are also on the Churches Page Web with a Face please contact Book page. Find me so that can us by typing also be reme- First Church died. of Jesus For those of you Christ. that Pastor a Church, we want to be certain that

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Pastors and Ministers, please send me your Church or Ministry information. I need the name of the Church or Ministry, Minister or Pastors name and a brief (3 or 4 paragraphs) article or description of your history or activities.

Write as if you were and Ministries. I writing a promotion- can be reached at: al piece for your loDr. Larry L Yates cal newspaper. Id like to begin to in- 1819 S 8th Street corporate these in- Ironton, OH 45638 to the Banner and 740-237-4548 share your ministry with others. I or believe this will be larrylyates@hotmail.com an effective way to promote the organization as well as, your own Churches
the prosperity of a church be increased or even maintained. We know that healthy church growth does not occur without Gods blessing, yet how easy it is to talk about church growth ideas, methods, goals, and strategies, while missing this most significant component of church growth: prayer! Heres the reality: churches grow effectivelythat is, by reaching and discipling lost personsonly by Gods power. That power is available to us through prayer. Until we are willing to admit that our churches cannot make a dent in a lost world without Gods power, we will not pray enough. Most people do not enjoy prayer. Knowing the necessity and value of prayer isnt necessarily enough to make it a pleasant task. But you CAN experience more of Gods grace and love. Forget all of your religious traditions and formal prayers and just start talking to Jesus as if He were sitting right in front of you, because He is! It wont be long until you are lost in His presence. May I suggest something I have found valuable? Make a commitment to read through the four Gospels and the book of Acts three times in thirty days. As you read, concentrate on the words in red. Make it your intention to Read the Red and Pray for the Power. And when you read; read it slowly, read every word and read it as if you are seeing it for the first time. Then pray like you have never prayed before. Your life and your Church will never be the same.

Editors Desk
Seven Apostolic Principles for Growth Prayer
Prayer must be made a structured priority. Preservice prayer, Morning Prayer at the Church or home, monthly all night prayer, prayer chains, prayer teams, anything you can think of that fits the makeup of your Church or group, use it to the Glory of God. Quiet time and fellowship with God are the most important part of each day. Prayer is the beginning and the end of Gods intervention in the human experience. The famous English pastor Charles Spurgeon once wrote words that still demand our attention today: Do not restrain prayer. . . .For only through prayer cany

We desire not only to see believers live victoriously, but to help them become rooted and grounded enough in Gods Word to reach out and teach others these same principles

Continued next month!

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Healing
Most people want to wait until they "feel" anointed before they try to minister to someone. Some have even been taught that they MUST wait until they feel anointed to minister. NO WHERE are Christians told to wait to minister to anyone. As a matter of fact, we are told to preach the word in season and out. The original greek of that verse says, "when opportunity presents itself and when it doesn't". That means that it is always the right time to minister the Word. The Bible says that the Gospel IS the power of God unto salvation.... If the Good News is the power of God and we are to preach the Good News, then it must always be the right time to minister to anyone. Many try to feel something, that they assume would be the anointing. We are not told to wait for an anointing. The early disciples were told to wait until they had received power from on high or more specifically, they were told to wait for the promise of the Father, which happens to be the same thing. They had to wait until the Day of Pentecost for the Holy Spirit to be released. Nowhere after that day are they told to wait. As a matter of fact they began to minister immediately after receiving the Holy Spirit. You can too! What are you waiting for? Most people are waiting for a phone call from God, when Hes already sent them a letter!!
Bishop John Campbell Orange Hill District Darliston P.O. Westmoreland, Jamiaca, W.I. Evangelists Available Chris and Jessica Bogue 615-594-7445 Devin England 870-834-4369 Sara Lemonds Sanders 770-789-5945 Randall Guy 912-399-2318 Editors Dr. Larry and Shelia Yates 740-237-4548

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National Chairman Bishop Charles Bogue 175 Nemoe Road Plainville, GA 30733 706-383-8271 E-mail cib020539@aol.com Assistant Chairman Bishop James C. Taylor 1100 Lincoln Street Tullahoma, TN 37388 901-378-0171 Secretary and Treasurer Elder Harold Moon 274 Carter Blake Road Tullahoma, TN 37388 931-247-5559 Executive Board Bishop Charles Bogue Bishop Edward Burchett Bishop Donald Hash Bishop James C. Taylor Elder Harold Moon Elder Chris Bogue

Home and Foreign missions Director Elder Harold Moon National Youth Directors Chris and Jessica Bogue 615-594-7445 Foreign Ministers Bishop Clifford McIntosh Misty Gardens PO Box 9405 Nassau, Bahamas 242-361-7694