May, 2013

Wells Fargo Bank 301 Junction Hwy Suite 333A

Tom Jones, Director 830-257-3545

Christian Mens Job Corp

The Anvil

What is Love
By Don Abbott
The twenty first chapter of the Gospel of John is one of the most profound and challenging scriptures in the whole Bible. The resurrected Christ meets his disciples at the Sea of Galilee as the disciples venture back to their old life style of being fishermen. With Jesus on the shore and the fishermen in a boat off shore, Jesus calls to them and ask if they have caught any fish. Being tired and weary from an unsuccessful night of fishing, they reply they have caught nothing. Jesus then tells them to cast their nets on the right side of the boat and they will find some. When they made the cast, the net was so full of fish that they could not haul it in. John, the son of Zebedee, realized that it was Jesus on the shore and told Peter, It is the Lord. At this revelation, Peter put on his clothes and jumped into the lake and swam to shore. The rest of the disciples followed towing a net full of fish. When they all got to shore, they had fish and bread for breakfast. Jesus addressed Peter by using his old name and asked him, Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these? Peter replied, Yes Lord, You know that I love you. Jesus replied, Feed my lambs. The words that are used twice here are two different words for love. The word that Jesus uses is Agape and the word that Peter uses is Phileo. In describing the meaning of both words, we lose the dynamics by putting the meaning into English. However, the scriptures give us a picture of the difference between the words. With phileo the disciples prayed and fell asleep in the garden of Gethsemane. With agape, Jesus prayed for the Will of the Father to be done. After Jesus was arrested, with phileo Peter followed behind to see what would happen. With agape Jesus permitted the arrest and mock trial to play. With phileo Peter wept bitter tears for his denial and sin. With agape, Jesus wore a crown of thorns for our shame. With phileo, His followers lined the street and went to Calvary. With agape, he bore the stripes of a scourging for our healing. With phileo we stand at the foot of the cross and look up. With agape Jesus is nailed to the cross and looks down. With agape, Jesus was resurrected from the grave and gives us a clear picture of the way God loves us. This is the food that we feed His lambs.

The Purpose of Christian Mens Job Corp of Kerr county is to help unlock the future for men in need by empowering them to meet their educational and employment goals as the more from dependency to selfsufficient, by learning job and life skills. Who can enroll? Men who are 18 years or older may apply to be a participant in CMJC. Simply come by the CMJC located in the Wells Fargo Building, 301 Junction Hwy, Suite 333A, to pick up an application form, or call and someone will be glad to meet you. The CMJC program is available participants at no cost. The men who staff CMJC volunteer their own time to help other men. CMJC is funded 100% through donations

Caution-God at Work

Christian Mens Job Corps Graduation #17

Friday, April 26th, the Christian Mens Job Corps of Kerr County celebrated their seventeenth graduation at Notre Dame Catholic Church. With over 200 family members, friends, and volunteers attending, ten men graduated from the spring session. The meal was prepared by Bills Bar-B-Q, served by Notre Dame ACTS volunteers, and music provided by Zion Lutheran praise team. The ten men graduating are Oscar Menchaca, Marcus Guterrez, Jose Robledo, Jr., Antony Vaughn, Jonathan Anderson, Cesar Ceniceros, Christian Gonzales, Tyler Deese, Robert Gonzalez, and Mitchell Moore. The key note address was presented by Pastor Mike Williams of Zion Lutheran. The graduates received a diploma for their twelve weeks of work and a Crooked Cross donated by Bruce and Kim Carey. The celebration was closed by many of the graduates giving testimony of the life changing twelve weeks of class seventeen.

The Forge

Alumni Corner

{Mitchell Moore}

My name is Mitchell Moore. For someone in my mind growing up with a Christian family and being in church most of my youngers years, I would of thought that, in my mind, would grow up to be a great godly person. Well, for me, I was the one that rebelled and did my own thing. For the past couple of years Ive lived in the wrong and hurt plenty of people close to me. The past 12 weeks at CMJC has been one of the most amazing experiences and eye openers I have had in a long time. All of the volunteers that help out to make this class possible just to see men become closer to God and get on the right path. Ever since graduating with class 17, I have become closer to God and live an honest stress free life, I work for a company that I enjoy going to every day, and on the road to completing my degree in school. Nonetheless, CMJC has been a huge part of my life in just 12 short weeks with 9 men and allot of great Godly instructors. Iron sharpens Iron, so shall on man sharpens another.

New Web Site We have a new website, www.cmjckerrcounty.org!! On this site we have updated news of what is going on with CMJC of Kerr County. We have pictures from the recent class #17 and the celebration of graduation. There will be continuing stories of testimonies of the men that graduated from CMJC and the impact on their families. There is also a place to make donations and find out how to volunteer and provide meals. There is a place to apply to join the next session of CMJC that will start in August. Keep up with us on Facebook and on our website.

Pastors Corner
Don't Waste Your Adversities It is amazing to me how different people are in responding to adversities! How we handle the trials that we face speaks of our character. James dealt with this in first chapter of the book of James verses 2 4: My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; Knowing this, that the trying of you faith worketh patience, But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. Are you wasting your troubles? Anytime God allows trials and testing to enter your life, He has a purpose for them. He wants you to squeeze out every ounce of spiritual growth instead of letting difficulties squeeze you into despair and discouragement. If you'll just respond in the right manner, the trial that looks as if it could destroy you will become an instrument of blessing. Folks respond differently to adversity! It is natural for us to groan and plead with the Lord to remove it. If that doesn't work, we might get angry or try to find our own way out of the difficulty or pain. Sometimes we resort to blaming others for the trouble. And in truth, someone else might have caused the problem, but ultimately God allowed it. No matter where affliction originates, who is involved, or how evil their intentions, by the time it reaches us; it's been dipped in the Father's love and shaped to accomplish His good purpose. The question is, will we cooperate with Him, or will we resist? Perhaps the key word is found in verse 4 of this scripture. God wants to use our trials to develop spiritual maturity, but unless we let it do its work, that opportunity will be lost. If we could foresee all the benefits the Lord designed our trials to accomplish, maybe we'd be more cooperative. Although we can't see all the specifics of God's plan, we know that His goal is to use our adversity to supply something we lack so we can be mature and complete. Even though the experience is painful, rest in the Father's comforting arms, and let Him do His perfect work in you. We can absolutely trust our Heavenly Father! Submitted by, Franklin Pullin Western Hills Baptist Church