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Sagemont always tries to show Living Proof to everyone, on a day in June of 2008, we tried to show it in a tangible way by giving away 500 gift cards for gas at a local supermarket. This not only affected the people of our own neighborhood, but those who were giving away the cards and pumping the gas.

Sagemont member Michelle Gardner was happily married to Michael. In 2003, they discovered he had cancer and until his recent death, they dealt not only with his illness and pain but also with the struggle of knowing where God was in the midst of their suffering. As Michelle says in her story, “I’m not giving up on God because He’s not giving up on me.”

Leaders in the Men’s Ministry explain what it means to be a real man of God. Not just by attending church, but by leading their families, helping others and teaching other men to lead too.

Recently, Sagemont & the Less Than The Least Prison Ministry took a trip to the Darrington Unit of the Texas Department of Corrections. Since it was a Sunday, there was a service in the chapel. Chuck Schneider spoke and several of the volunteers helped to lead in worship. Before the service, several of the inmates wanted to give a personal message to those of us on the outside. They all warned about the consequences of making wrong decisions, rebelling and especially the freedom they found in Jesus Christ.

Philippines Mission Trip This story is about how anyone from a teen to a senior adult can go and bring the love of Christ to anyone in the world. The team members of this trip also discuss how trips can change the lives of others but more importantly how these trips change theri own lives giving them a desire to speak and bring the message of Christ to everyone. A Mandate From The Master January 06, 2008 Matthew 28:18-20, Acts 1:7-8 The most important entrustment of the Lord to His disciples is the gospel message. Jesus gave His last commandments instructing His disciples to go teach all they had learned to the new followers and, by doing so, make them disciples. No one can be a disciple of Jesus and not know and obey His commandments.

The Hutchinson Family: Sagemont members, Michael & Deborah Hutchinson lost their son, Ray Joseph, in the war in Iraq. They discuss their son and his dreams and devotion to duty that led him to a fateful decision of giving up a place on a plane out to another soldier. They also talk about how Sagemont helped them in their timwe of crisis. The Cost of Liberty May 27, 2007 Rev. Chuck Schneider, Executive Pastor The cost of procuring our eternal liberty was the death of God’s only begotten Son. The cost of preserving our physical liberty is, oftentimes, the death of men and women willing to sacrifice for the freedom of others.

Anti-Gang Program Sagemont Member and director of Less Than the Least Prison Ministry, Zeke Young tells about beginning a ministry to public schools on the importance of staying away from gangs. There are also interviews with former prisoners and gang members about keeping away form gangs. There are several interviews with teachers and school administrators talking about the impact of the program. Message Description: “To Be Like Jesus” May 6, 2007 Becoming a Christian involves more than just making a few adjustments in how we live. It demands a complete transformation of mind, character, relationships, habits, service and influence. It is a new birth and a new life. A dynamic transformation takes place where old things are no longer important and a vibrant new life begins.

Pastors and others in full-time ministry face situations and stresses that most people don’t realize. Several of these things are also complicated by our own emotional baggage that we bring into the ministry. Every quarter Sagemont offers a conference just for ministers who are facing crisis in their ministry or their own home life. This conference is also offered for people who want to learn how to avoid these things before they are burned out. Dixon Murrah and a pastor who graduated from the conference are interviewed.

God can use anyone doing almost anything to reach the lost. Sagemont’s RV Club goes to the Trinity Pines Camp on Lake Livingston every year to do landscaping, repair and construction projects. The club has just asked to be a servant and to bless the staff there at the camp. By the club and other groups volunteering throughout the year, the camp save hundreds of thousands of dollars in labor costs of hiring the work out. This savings allows the donations to the camp to be spent on the ministry of the camp in reaching the lost for Christ. As the director of the camp said, “They found out what God was doing and they got in on it…”

This story is about the Owens family and the importance of one person being willing to follow God’s leading. From 1 person beginning to attend Sagemont and her willingness to share what she had heard about the Good News, 2 families and over 20 lives were changed.

Evelyn Husband’s life was suddenly changed when her husband, Rick Husband’s space shuttle Columbia was destroyed on reentry. She discusses her faith and how Sagemont has helped her and her children to strengthen their walk with the Lord.

Sagemont staff member Daniel Pursley at the age of one, was taken, along with his young brother to his Grandparents’ home to live after his mother and father split up. His grandparents were very godly people and raised Dan and his brother. After accepting Christ at the age of 8, Dan began a long drifting away form the Lord. In his late teens, he began reading his Bible every day knowing that it would bring him back closer to the Lord. It did! And what a change to his life it brought. And what Satan meant for evil, God meant for good. Dan, while at work, is responsible for the audio recordings of our services, but away from here, he’s actively involved with street ministry and witnessing to others of what Christ has done in his life.

This story is one where one person at Sagemont heard of a need and then developed an entire team to help. A family where the mother had just recently given birth to quadruplets, was in great need of help with caring for the 4 preemies and a 15 month old brother. This team has helped the Breedlove family for almost 3 years now and has shown them God’s love in caring for their children.