Friday, October 07, 2005

I'm famous!

Wow, here it is, the long-awaited news!

The local newspaper, the Sierra Star, published a story about me. Here's what it said:

Oakhurst Evangelical Free Church has appointed Elias Fairfield of Coarsegold to the position of Student Ministries Intern.

The position focuses on the importance of a Christian-based ministry to high school and jr. high School students in the greater Oakhurst community. He is a graduate from Master's College in Santa Clarita, with a bachelor's of science degree where he studied computer science and the Bible. In his new position he is responsible for all student ministries at EV Free including Bible Studies and special mission trips.

Elias has experience as a lay-missionary helping others by sharing his computer technical skills along with his Biblical knowledge. For example, he spent time in Papua, Indonesia with the Mission Aviation Fellowship researching and solving technical computer problems. He also spent time in Sumatra, Indonesia, as a satellite communications technician, working to build a secure and stable computer network in this third world country. During this stay he helped respond to the needs of the victims of the tsunami disaster as well. Elias recently returned from Iraq where he worked for Global Resources for Computing serving such companies as the UK's Department For International Development, the 82nd Airborne and numerous other companies helping to rebuild the country's infrastructure.

In his new role as a student ministries leader he plans to continue missions work. In October he will be leading a group of EV Free students to help with the rebuilding of a church in Tecate, Mexico.

The high school ministry, called Phase 2, meets on Tuesday nights from 7- 8:30. The jr. high school group, Vertical Life, meets on Wednesday nights from 6:15 - 8:15. Both meet at the church Ministry Center located at 40148 Enterprise Drive, Suite B in Oakhurst. All of the student activities are open to students in the greater Oakhurst area. For additional information regarding EV Free student ministries contact Elias Fairfield at (559) 641-6772 or the church secretary at (559) 683-2254.

A new EV Free church facility is under construction on the corner of School Road and Big Oak Flat Road South (across from Yosemite High School).

"The congregation plans to be in the new church by the end of the year," Elias said. "Our new church facilities will allow us to greatly expand student ministries along with many other ministries to better serve the greater Oakhurst community."
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There you have it.

1 Comments:

Blogger Leilani said...

Awww. Can I have your autograph? :)

10 October, 2005 18:51  

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