I just wanted to tell you that I just discovered Jasper First's website. I especially enjoyed the history section. I remember many of the pastors listed there. I love the photo of the people with the tent.
Keep up the good work,
-Melba Clark
Greetings!
I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed looking at the history section on your website. My grandfather, J.G. Wells, was your pastor for awhile in the 1940s. He passed away in Maryville, Tennessee, in 1989. Two of his three sons survive--Jim Wells (of Nashville, TN) and Earl Wells(of Knoxville, TN). I look forward to seeing an update sometime. I am a member at Pasadena First Church of the Nazarene near Houston, Texas. I can remember my dad (Bill Wells, died in 1989) speak of many happy times when he lived in Jasper. I've seen family pictures of the old red brick church building. Hopefully, my uncles have some photos they can share with you.
Blessings!
-Sandra Wells Hoffpauir
Dear Webmaster,
During the course of my work I am at the computer 20 to 30 hours each week.
I am a retired Dr. now serving as a disability consultant and part of my
workday even then was to navigate the net to look over research papers etc.
I am in at least 30 websites daily and have been for many years dating all
the way back to my first computer which had the massive power of a 2 mb ram
and an 80 mb hard drive......and those were Gateway's premium upgrades at
the time. All we had at that time was dialup which could take as long as 3
minutes to move from one page to another.
I wanted to take a moment to tell you that the First Church's website is
one of the best thought out and most easily, and fun to navigate, that I've
seen. You have done well.
Congratulations on this most successful work. I do appreciate you
and this effort. It is of the quality that I have become accustomed to at
First Church, and you deserve the recognition for it.
-Bill Van Fossen
Below is a letter that one of our military men in Iraq has composed to the congregation. In this letter it speaks of the people whom he considers his family in God. The people who he believes were the unsung hero's of his life and he would like to take a moment to honor them, or rather the Lord's influence though them. Never the less, they are the foundation of who he is today. His work in Iraq has placed him in harm's was many times, although he would not want to worry anyone, he would like to say thank you to those people, and to tell the church that they are his home. He asks for prayer from anyone to help him "keep the faith out here, for faith is truly what I need."
Greetings,
A lot of people do not remember me, but I once (and still do) call Jasper First Church my home. I look at this site and remember what it was like as a child there, and how I was such a handful to Doris Pittman and Linda Bridgemon. I pray for them both.
I remember looking-up to people like Tom Pittman, Ken Key, and Johnny Arthur as role models for the man that I wanted to be. Sometimes I can still smell Johnny's Saturday morning breakfast.
As a teen I was a quizzer under Wynelle Key. Her coaching still keeps with me in life, and her lessons still guide my thoughts. I made many friends there; Jesus was one of them.
I remember the words of encouragement from Malea Grace as she taught me not just to sing, but to"shout to the Lord of the earth and sing, power and majesty, praise to the king."By then, my role models had grown to include Dewayne Grace, Gerald Parmer, and his son Randy.
As a young man I met my wife in those halls, and we were married there as well. Soon thereafter I joined the United States Navy and moved away, but in my heart Jasper was still my home. Years later I lost my only son, and I brought him back to my home. There in those walls I prayed that God would care for him. Months later I was told that I was to deploy to Iraq, but before I went, I returned home. I slipped into the church and went to the alters that I had prayed at all my life, and I prayed again. I prayed not for my safety, but I prayed that God would find a way to bring my home to me. Just today something in my head told me to look for my home online, and I did. Glory be to God for the wonders of this age.
I pray for you, I pray that God will bless this church, and mostly I pray that God will return me home that I may fellowship with you.
Have a blessed day.
-D.F.
If you would like to tell the webmaster about your experience on jasper1stnaz.com, please email him at jeremyhagood@jasper1stnaz.com.
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