Cathy's Corner

Cathy’s Corner

 

Welcome to the Theater and Studio 456!

Happy first day of the new Connection Class year. Welcome to our rookies and welcome back to our outstanding veterans. God is on the move and so are we. He is blessing our church and our preschool with many new young families. Today across the church we should have over 160 people serving in preschool. You may be in babies or toddlers in The Theater, or two and three year olds in The Theater or in pre-kindergarten or kindergarten in Studio 456. Where ever you may be you have already been prayed for and prayed over and we are glad you are on the team.

            Every week I try to provide you with some encouraging words, tid bits of information or something interesting I have read or someone else has shared with me. This week I want to introduce myself to those who are new. I am Cathy Jones your fearless leader and the Minister to Preschool. I have been married to Gary my knight in shining armor, off and on for thirty three years. I will explain that sometime. Gary and I both grew up in west Texas out where the sand blows and true grit is the sand in your teeth. I graduated from Southwestern Seminary in Ft. Worth in 1995.  I was on staff as Preschool and Children’s Minster at Lamar Baptist Church in Arlington for almost nine years. I was here as Preschool Minister from 1998 to 2001. I took the Preschool position at First Baptist Lubbock and we were there for five years. I’ve been back here now since the spring of 2006 and I love being back. Gary teaches second grade at Farrell Elementary in Arlington. After working in the Steel business for seventeen years he went back to school and got his Masters Degree and teaching certification and started teaching in elementary. He loves teaching and the kids love him. He also teaches in pre-kindergarten on Sunday mornings in Studio 456. I couldn’t ask for a better husband and friend. He loves me and supports me and has joined me in preschool ministry for over fifteen years. We have four children; three of whom married within six months of each other in 2008. Cassandra and Scott married in February, Kiersten and Jay married in July and J and Lindsay married in August. Caitlin is our youngest and she attends a music and theater arts school in Dallas and lives with us though with our schedules we rarely see her. It might be more correct to say she sleeps in a bed in our house and eats our groceries occasionally but always shows up when its time to go out to eat. The year of the weddings is now becoming the year of the grandbabies. Kiersten and Jay are expecting our first grandchild, a boy at the end of November or first of December. Jay is in the Navy and they are stationed in Virginia Beach, Va. Cassandra and Scott just found out they are expecting our second grandchild at the end of March. Cassandra and Scott live in Hurst and attend church with us here. J and Lindsay live in Houston. My prediction is that J and Lindsay will provide us with grandbaby number three by the end of 2010. It is an exciting time in our lives and I’m already thinking of ways to spoil them all. You may have noticed that we have a J and a Jay. It can get confusing but our son’s name really is just the letter J and so to differentiate between the two I sometimes spell out JAY when referring to my son-in-law. God has blessed us so much over the years and while there were many struggles raising four children and three of those within five years of each other; our children are our pride and joy. Now not only do we have in-laws to add to the mix but God’s reward of grandchildren as well. Well that’s enough about me and mine; you’ll hear more about them throughout the year. I’m glad you are here and we are serving together. Have a great year.

 

Have a great day in the Lord