Rachel Jackson Newsletter / Blog

This Wednesday Jared and I are lead ing worship along with a team of other local ministers!  This is so awesome because of the fact that the focus is to worship God in unity and not on what church we represent .  Our essential belief in Christ is the same which is f or s tudents to see our hearts and to gather as the body of Christ . It is important and beautiful in the eyes of God.  I believe this blesses him to see his people encourage and lead together for the sake of winning the lost and glorifying his name! The event is called “Fields of Faith” and it is worldwide!  Students across the world will gather on their school ’s athletic field to hear fellow students share their testimonies, challenge each other to read the Bible , and come to faith in Jesus Christ.   Jared and I took part in a “ Fields of Faith ” event for the first time in Sulphur Springs, Texas and wanted to bring it to Verdigris , Oklahoma .  There will be Free Food, Inflatables, A D unk T a

What a blessing my daughter has been in our lives! Aliyah is 6 years old. It blesses our hearts how God changes the hearts of little children so much they are compelled to desire to follow through in baptism. She asked to do this and with excitement and passion. We are so proud of her! Another exciting thing was her daddy got to baptize her! This was the first time Jared has been privileged to do a baptism and it was his daughter!! So cool and a memory forever!

Something I believe in is talking candidly and honestly without fear of what others might think.  It should be for another's benefit to let them know of something that is usually hard to discuss. It is good to express sincere thoughts and opinions that are intended to be helpful. The two are not necessarily always inclusive but it is good to actually mean what you are saying and learn from each other.  Real talk is about things that are meaningful which is the opposite of what seems to be on Facebook.    There is something funny about honesty.  We often wrongly assign honesty to one we admire, but sadly, honesty is a characteristic not inherent or natural in humanity. To be truly and completely honest with someone, one must first be truly and completely honest with oneself. A lot of times we are incapable of seeing past our own fears, desires, prejudices, convictions, emotional attachments, memories, and flawed perceptions. It is hard viewing things without our filtered real

The reason I write these newsletters at all is because I hope to encourage, minister truth and hope, reach out to people, and partner in prayer.  Because if you ask any of my closest friends, I am not a good speller or good with grammar, or desire to be a writer at all.  In fact its almost like one of the things I don’t like to take time to do, I would much rather talk face to face then write.  But for some reason God has laid this on my heart.  So I write when it comes to me and just flows out so easy it took no time at all.  This is really how my songs come to together as well.  Written in 15 mins and done. :) Today I would like to share Jovie Marie Jackson!  She is our new little addition to our family.  Now we are the Jackson 5. hehe!  Her name means Joyful and she sure is!!!  She smiles more than any baby I have ever known!  She is so much fun!  There were no complications with her is delivery what so ever.  I am so thankful. True story........ Gavin and Aliya

My life has changed so much in the past half a year!  It is amazing how much God has moved things around and made things happen that I could not control even if I tried.  I was very unhappy, lonely, and disappointed. But now my life feels like the happiest time I have had in my life.   I have to be honest.... many times we can look at what all took place in our hard times of the past and walk away saying we learned something from it.  The only thing I can see that happen for us in MANY of the things that took place between May 2011 to June 2012 is our character was tested. It is so important to remain in good character and do the right thing no matter what others do, don’t do, say or not say. Stand with Integrity. Over all this time I am speechless and have decided that I am not going to analyze anything and just be glad that God has pulled us out of the fire. We live in a fallen world full of sin and scripture says in Matthew 5:45 “He causes his sun to rise on the evil and th