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Irondale Church News

Newsletter Date

July, 2016

These Are The Birth Pains

Pray Always

Pastor David &

Colleen

Community
Soup

Irondale Bible
Institute

Our outreach
and witness to our
community

Busy Hands

People struggling with illness

Young families
and single parent
families

Those struggling
with addictions

Schools: students, staff, administrators

Missionaries

Homeless, helpless, hopeless and

hungry

On June 12, 2016, we

were shocked to hear that a
gunman killed 49 people and
injured 53 others inside
Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. As is with
most things that roll across
the news feed we quickly
heard a million takes on the
one truth of what happened.
One statement I pondered quite a bit. The statement that The Pulse Nightclub shooting is the worst
mass murder in American
history. Now I must confess
when I first heard that I
thought, We are doing
better than I thought, if
49 is the worst ever.
But deep inside I knew
better. So I decided to
dig in and do a little
research. This is not an
exhaustive list, far from
it, it is just a list that
intrigued me.
In 1857 the IMountain Meadows Massacre
was a series of attacks on the
BakerFancher emigrant
wagon train in southern
Utah. The attacks began on
September 7 and culminated
on September 11, resulting
in the mass slaughter of the
emigrant party by members
of the Utah Territorial Militia. Intending to leave no
witnesses and thus prevent
reprisals, the perpetrators
killed all the adults and older
childrenabout 120 men,

women, and children in total. Seventeen children, all

younger than seven, were
spared. The wagon train,
mostly families from Arkansas, was bound for California
on a route that passed
through the Utah Territory.
The militia, officially called
the Nauvoo Legion, was
composed of southern
Utah's Mormon settlers.
In 1864 the Sand Creek
Massacre was a part of the
American Indian Wars that
occurred on November 29,

1864, when a 700-man force

of Colorado Territory militia
attacked and destroyed a
village of Cheyenne and
Arapaho in southeastern
Colorado Territory, killing
and mutilating an estimated
70163 Native Americans,
about two-thirds of whom
were women and children.
In 1887 the Thibodaux
Massacre was a violent labor dispute and racial attack
by whites against black
workers in Thibodaux, Loui-

siana in November 1887.

Although the number of casualties is unknown, at least
35 and as many as 300 workers were killed. All of the
victims were African American.
Then in 1890 on the
morning of December 29,
troops from the 7th Cavalry
went to disarm the Lakota
Indians. One version of the
Wounded Knee Massacre
claims that during the process of disarming them, a
deaf tribesman named Black
Coyote was reluctant to give up his
rifle. A scuffle escalated a shot was
fired which resulted
in the Calvary indiscriminately firing
from all sides, killing
men, women, and
children, as well as
some of their fellow
soldiers. The Lakota
who still had weapons began
shooting back at the attacking soldiers. The soldiers
quickly suppressed the Lakota fire. The surviving Lakota
fled, but cavalrymen pursued and killed many who
were unarmed. By the time
it was over, more than 150
men, women, and children
of the Lakota had been killed
and 51 were wounded; some
estimates placed the number of dead at 300. Twentyfive soldiers also died, and
39 were wounded. At least

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Relay for Life is a major fund
raising event for the American Cancer Society held annually in cities and towns
across the U. S. Kelly Drennan, who passed away in
April was the co-chair of the
North Kitsap Relay for life
this year. She began volunteering for Relay 5 years ago
when her mother passed
away from cancer. Kellys
Crusaders is the Relay for
Life team walking in honor
Kelly who was part of our
church family, and who was
also a cookie baker for Community Soup. They have extended an invitation to IronTo catch the reader's attention, place an
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or quote from the story
dale Church
to participate
in
here.
the North Kitsap Relay for
Life July 8-9 from 6 pm till
noon at North Kitsap High
School. If you would like to
donate in honor of Kelly, and
learn more about North
Kitsaps Relay, you can go
online to at:
relayforlifeofnorthkitsap.com

Julia Fulton also has a Relay

for Life Team, Team Griffin,
named after a cancer survivor. The Jefferson County
Relay for Life will be held
July 16-17 from noon-noon
at HJ Carroll park. If you
would like to make a donation, you can go online at
relayforlifeofjeffersoncounty
and donate to Team Griffin in
Parkers name.

twenty soldiers were

awarded the Medal of Honor for the massacre.
In 1906 a mass civil disturbance in Atlanta, Georgia, began the evening of
September 22 and lasted
until September 24. The
Atlanta Race Riot was characterized at the time as a
"racial massacre of negroes". The death toll of
the conflict is disputed, but
"officially" at least 25 African Americans along with
two confirmed European
Americans; unofficial reports ranged from 10 -100
African Americans killed
during the riots. Some African Americans were hanged
from lampposts during the
actual riot. The main cause
of the race riot was newspaper-publicized rapes of
four white women in separate incidents, allegedly by
African American men.
1919 was a dangerous
time history referred to as
The Red Summer. It refers
to the summer and early
autumn which was marked
by hundreds of deaths and
higher casualties across the
United States, as a result of
race riots that occurred in
more than three dozen
cities and one rural county.
Following are two of them.
The Chicago Race Riot of
1919 was a major racial
conflict that began on July
27, and ended on August 3.
During the riot, 38 people
died (23 African American
and 15 white) and over five

hundred were injured. The

combination of prolonged
arson, looting, and murder
was the worst race rioting
in the history of Illinois.
The Elaine Race Riot,
also called the Elaine Massacre, took place on September 30-October 1, 1919
in the vicinity of Elaine Arkansas. With a total of five
whites and estimates of at
least 100 and possibly hundreds of blacks killed in rioting in the county, it was
the deadliest racial conflict
in United States history.
Descendants of slaves
worked as sharecroppers.
Landowners controlled the
economic power, selling
cotton on their own schedule, running high-priced
stores where farmers had
to buy seed and supplies.
The Progressive Farmers and Household Union of
America had organized
chapters in the Elaine area.
On September 29, representatives met with about
100 black farmers at a
church near Elaine to discuss how to obtain more
fair settlements. Others resisted any union organizing
in the Delta and often disrupted such meetings; in a
confrontation at the church,
two whites were shot, one
fatally. More violence broke
out, with the sheriff calling
a posse to put down a rumored "black insurrection."
Other whites entered Phillips County, making a mob
of 500 to 1000 whites, who
roamed in groups attacking

blacks on sight. The governor called in 500 federal

troops, who arrested nearly
260 blacks and were accused of killing some. The
events have been subject to
debate, especially the total
of black fatalities, as residents were killed through a
wide area. Over a three-day
period, five white men were
killed and an estimated 100
-240 blacks, with some estimates of more than 800
blacks killed.
1921 brought The Tulsa
Race Riot another largescale, racially motivated
conflict. On May 31 a group
of whites attacked the black
community of Tulsa, Oklahoma. The Greenwood District, the wealthiest black
community in the United
States, was burned to the
ground. Over the course of
16 hours, more than 800
people were admitted to
local white hospitals with
injuries, the two black hospitals were burned down,
and police arrested and detained more than 6,000
black Greenwood residents
at three local facilities. An
estimated 10,000 blacks
were left homeless, and 35
city blocks composed of
1,256 residences were destroyed by fire, resulting in
over $26 million in damages. The official count of the
dead by the Oklahoma Department of Vital Statistics
was 39, but other estimates
of black fatalities vary from
55 to about 300.
Entering into more re-

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cent history the 1967 Newark Riots were a major civil
disturbance that occurred in
the city of Newark, New
Jersey. Six days of rioting,
looting, and destruction left
26 dead and hundreds injured. In the period leading
up to the riots, police racial
profiling, redlining, and lack
of opportunity in education,
training, and jobs led local
African-American residents
to feel powerless and disenfranchised. In particular,
many felt they had been
largely excluded from
meaningful political representation and often
suffered police brutality.
The 1980 Miami Riots
were race riots that occurred in Miami, Florida,
starting after the acquittal
of four Miami-Dade Police
officers in the death of Arthur McDuffie. McDuffie,
an African-American salesman and former marine,
died from injuries sustained
at the hands of four white
officers trying to arrest him
after a high-speed chase.
18 men and women died,
350 people, some of them
children, were hurt, and six
hundred people were arrested. Property destruction
exceeded $100 million.
The 1992 Los Angeles
Riots, also known as
the Rodney King riots, started after a trial jury acquitted four police officers
of the Los Angeles Police
Department of the use of
excessive force in the vide-

otaped arrest and beating

of Rodney King, following a
high-speed police chase.
Thousands of people rioted
over the six days following
the announcement of the
verdict. Widespread
looting, assault, arson, and
killings occurred during the
riots, estimates of property
damage were over $1 billion. The rioting ended after
members of the California
Army National Guard,
the 7th Infantry Division,
and the 1st Marine Division were called in to stop
the rioting when the local
police could not control the
situation. In total, 55 people
were killed during the riots
and over 2,000 people were
injured.
Khalil Gibran Muhammad, the Director of the
Harlem-based Schomburg
Center for Research in Black
Culture has identified over
100 instances of mass racial
violence in the United States
since 1935 and has noted
that almost every instance
was precipitated by a police
incident.
In 1993 the Waco Siege
was a siege of a compound
belonging to the religious
group Branch Davidians by
Federal and Texas state law
enforcement as well as US
military between February
28 and April 19, 1993. The
Branch Davidians, a sect
that separated in 1955 from
the Seventh-day Adventist
Church, was led by David
Koresh and lived at Mount

Carmel Center ranch near

Waco TX. The group was
suspected of weapons violations, causing a search and
arrest warrant to be served
by the ATF.
The incident began
when the ATF attempted to
raid the ranch. A gun battle
erupted, resulting in the
deaths of four government
agents and six Branch Davidians. Upon the ATF's
failure to raid the compound, a siege was initiated
by the FBI, the standoff
lasting 51 days. Eventually,
the FBI initiated a tear gas
attack to force the Branch
Davidians out of the ranch.
During the attack, a fire engulfed Mount Carmel Center. 76 people died.
April 19, 1995, Timothy
McVeigh detonated a truck
bomb in front of the Alfred
P. Murrah Federal Building
in Oklahoma City. Commonly referred to as the
Oklahoma City bombing,
the attack killed 168 people
and injured over 600.

The 1999 Columbine

High School massacre was a
school shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado. The perpetrators murdered 12 students and one
teacher. They injured 21
additional people, three
more were injured while
attempting to escape the
school.
On April 16, 2007, a
senior-level undergraduate
student at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State

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University in Blacksburg,
Virginia and killed 32 people
and wounded 17 others.
The shooting rampage
came to be known as the
Virginia Tech Shooting.
July 20, 2012, a mass
shooting occurred inside of
a Century 16 movie theater
in Aurora, Colorado. A gunman, dressed in tactical
clothing, set off tear gas
grenades and shot into the
audience with multiple firearms. Twelve people were
killed and seventy others
were injured.
December 14, 2012 the
Sandy Hook Elementary
School shooting occurred in
Newtown, Connecticut. 20
children aged between 6
and 7 years old, as well as
six adult staff members
were murdered.
The Charleston Church
Massacre was a mass
shooting that took place at
the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in
downtown Charleston,
South Carolina, on June 17,
2015. During a prayer service, nine people were
killed by a gunman, a tenth
victim survived.
I suppose my point in all
this is to quote Ecclesiastes
1:9, What has been is what
will be, and what has been
done is what will be done,
and there is nothing new
under the sun. That
doesnt mean we are supposed to just accept mass
murders, but it may mean

that things are not worse

now than they ever have
been before. God said in
Isaiah 46:8-10, Remember
this and stand firm, recall it
to mind, you transgressors,
remember the former
things of old; for I am God,
and there is no other; I am
God, and there is none like
me, declaring the end from
the beginning and from ancient times things not yet
done, saying, My counsel
shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose.
Evil people can only
ruin our future if we allow
them too. Isaiah 26:1-3
introduces the song of Judah: We have a strong city;
he sets up salvation as walls
and bulwarks. Open the
gates, that the righteous
nation that keeps faith may
enter in. You keep him in
perfect peace whose mind
is stayed on you, because
he trusts in you. That is
Gods message for 2016, He
still gives peace for those
who trust Him.
Remember the words
of our Lord Jesus while He
was here, Therefore I tell
you, do not be anxious
about your life, what you
will eat or what you will
drink, nor about your body,
what you will put on. Is not
life more than food and the
body more than clothing?
Look at the birds of the air:
they neither sow nor reap
nor gather into barns, and
yet your heavenly Father
feeds them. Are you not of
more value than they? And

which of you by being anxious can add a single hour

to his span of life? And why
are you anxious about
clothing? Consider the lilies
of the field, how they grow:
They neither toil nor spin,
yet I tell you, even Solomon
in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But
if God so clothes the grass
of the field, which today is
alive and tomorrow is
thrown into the oven, will
he not much more clothe
you, O you of little faith?
Therefore do not be anxious, saying, What shall we
eat? or What shall we
drink? or What shall we
wear? For the Gentiles
seek after all these things
and your heavenly Father
knows that you need them
all. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these
things will be added to
you (Matthew 6:25-33
ESV). That is the solution,
the kingdom of God, so
we pray, come Lord Jesus,
come.
-Pastor David

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Addictions-are they
worth it? Is being addicted
to exercise, addicted to
reading, addicted to chocolate, and addicted to sleep?
Or even addicted to the
word of God? How about
addicted to too much social
life or too little depending
on, if you are and introvert
or an extrovert? My favorite
addiction is really yummy
food.**and fishing**
The Lord tells us to be
transformed by the renewing of our mind.
Romans 12:2 ESV Do not
be conformed to this world
but be transformed by the
renewal of your mind, that
by testing you may discern
what is the will of God,
what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Maybe your addiction is
anger or attention or success or even, helping others
out by serving them to excess. How can anger be an
addiction? Good question,
but a type of dopamine is
released in the brain, a
sense of power unleashed,
of course its not a healthy
sense of power, but to the
addicted brain it is still the
strong resource to obtain a
false sense of success. Even
if it is only to ones own
self. All addiction is like this;
it brings with it the sense of
rightness as we indulge. A
powerful sense of control or
abandonment from healthy
values proclaiming to the
world at large that we are
above reproach and will do

our own thing regardless of

the consequences to ourselves or others.
As a child my family
owned a cat whose name
was Gut buster. My whole
family loved to fish, how he
was named is selfexplanatory. He never
seemed to learn by experience. He was more than
sufficiently filled with nutrition; plenty of us to keep
his un-quenchable appetite
fulfilled. Along came another cat and wouldnt you
know, he taught this one
the fine art of dining as
well. Cats minds are not all
that readily renewed.
Somehow he managed to
make it to adulthood inspite of himself. His largeness almost was his demise;
my father fell in the snow
on a hill and slid right over
the top of him.
We are not so different
ourselves; I mentioned that
my whole family loved to
fish, even as my 10 brothers
and sisters drifted off into
lives and families of their
own I continued to fish. If I
could I took someone with
me if not I could be found
riding my horse off into the
woods by myself. Id tie
him to a tree and go uncover the homemade pole I left
by my favorite stream. Id
move a few rocks and catch
worms or catch a few grasshoppers and off I would go
up or down stream as the
mood struck me.

Why you might ask? Well

it gave mesatisfaction and a
sense of worth. I used the
feeble but true excuse that
it was a needed supplement
to our meager food supply
after my father had passed
away and even before as his
heart failed him. But truth
be told, I simply loved it. If I
chose I also would pick a
supply of whatever berries
were in season and bring
them home for my mom to
make syrup jam or a pie
with. It gave me an excuse
to take off on my horse,
whom also was one of my
addictions.
It never really occurred to me that being by
myself out there in the
woods with a fishing shirt
on with a front pocket to
put my fish in made me into
bear bait. I was so busy enjoying myself that I took
little notice of the fact that
if I got into trouble there
really was no one to help
me. But with all these
things that could and probably at least should have
made me take note and use
more caution it was my
strong will to live life on my
terms. Honestly my addictions werent that much
different than for those
who use drugs or those who
over indulge in alcohol.
Mine were just the smiled
at kind, or excused: That
girl is horse crazy.
The Lord requires
more of us, more of our
true hearts evaluating pow-

er, more renewing of our

mind.
2Corinthians 10:5,6 NKJ
casting down imaginations, and every high thing
that exalteth itself against
the knowledge of God, and
bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; 6 and having
in a readiness to revenge
all disobedience, when
your obedience is fulfilled.
5

Allowing God the freedom to speak into your

heart and life and teach you
from His own wisdom that
will give you a true sense of
value and perspective and
allow you to be changed
into a reflection of Christ.
Thanks for walking with me
as we seek His heart together.
Blessings,
Love Colleen

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Unaffordable Housing
The Seattle Times ran a
front page story about
Washington State being
number one in rising home
prices in the U.S. Jefferson
County leads the state in
increases in home prices.
Lack of available housing,
lack of affordable land,
building codes high cost of
septic systems and utility
connections, and skyrocketing rental costs are
putting the working poor
and the middle class in danger.
We have to come to
some out of the box solutions. Unfortunately we
cant do this without government changing some
rules. I would like to propose off the grid tiny homes
on tiny lots in Irondale.
There are many 25 X 100
foot lots available that are
inexpensive but not currently permitable in Irondale.

Suppose we could get

the county to let us experiment with a 0.5 acre lot
($50,000) with 4 tiny homes
($10,000 ea.). Collected
rain water would replace
city water; small community
like this together with small
gardens for $100,000. Private financing at 7% would
make payments of $900.
per month, divided by
4=$225 per tiny home for
15 years.
We could also do one
tiny home on a 25 X 100
foot $5,000. lot. Payment
would be $135. per month
for 15 years.
We are headed into a
jobless economy. Amazon
is the fastest growing job
creator in the country. Unfortunately it replaces 2
jobs for every one it creates. In the last 8 years
small businesses have

Coming Events

July 9, at 1:00, there will

be a memorial service
for Maggie Taylor, Jake
Johnsons mother who
passed away recently.
It will be followed by a
potluck in the Fellowship Hall. Please bring a
dish to share.
July 16, 4-6 pm, Spaghetti Feed Fundraiser
for Ruby Moss tiny
house. Tickets are
$15.00 and are available from John Jamison

shrunk from 16 million to 12

million. 156,000 factories
closed or moved after
NAFTA was passed in 1990.
As Ross Perot said at the
time, youll hear a giant
sucking sound as these
jobs are lost. Technology is
replacing jobs. What will
people do to fill their time?
Drugs?
Food costs are soaring.
We must make these small
affordable communities
partly self sufficient. Hydroponics, anyone?
Are you interested in
forming a team to make this
happen? We need a politician who will do and not
just talk. A lawyer? A builder? An architect? Prayer
warrior?
Text John Jamison at 360320-9700.

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SPAGHETTI
FEED
FUNDRAISER
SATURDAY JULY
16
4-6 PM

IRONDALE
CHURCH
FELLOWSHIP
HALL
PROCEEDS GO
TOWARD THE
PURCHASE OF
BUILDING
MATERIALS
FOR RUBY MOSS
TINY HOUSE

My Choices
or the church office.

July 17, Jeff and Renea

Pettit, missionaries
from Hope for Mexico
missions will be here to
share about their ministry with us. Following
the worship service, we
will have our annual
church picnic BBQ.
Hamburgers, hot dogs
and drinks will be provided, please bring side
dishes and desserts.

My Choices Pregnancy Medical Resources is a mobile

unit based in Port Angeles. They travel the entire Olympic Peninsula
offering free
confidential
pregnancy
testing, education, early prenatal ultrasounds, mens
support and
fatherhood training, school education programs, earn
while you learn programs, and more. My Choices is a
Christian organization and ask that we keep them in our
prayers. They recently stopped in our parking lot and
gave a tour of their well equipped bus.

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Pastor & Wife: David & Colleen Hodgin , Associate Pastor: Troy Norman, Visitation Pastor: Chuck Gadbaw
Elders: Dave Noble, John Jamison, Fritz Gordon, LeRoy Glessing, Dave Eddie
Council: Colleen Hodgin-Youth, Melissa Norman & Shirley Gadbaw -Fellowship, Mary Noble-Finance, Troy Norman-Worship, Jim
Wilcox-Interior Property, Kim Wilcox-Treasurer, Su Tipton-Missions

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7-8:30 Kids Club grades 3-6
Thursday: 11:00 Prayer Hour
7-8:30 Youth Group grades 7-12
Friday: 1:00 Revival Prayer
2nd Saturday: Mens breakfast at Chimacum Caf
3rd Saturday: Busy Hands Quilts for Foster Kids
4th Saturday: Mens Breakfast at IHOP (Irondale House of Praise)

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