Winning Teenagers to Christ is our Business
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Winning Teenagers to Christ is our Business
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You Don't know Jack So get to know a little about Jack Hager
before he arrives here at Midland Ministries. Jack Hager brings a diverse background to the many schools, rallies, camps, and churches he speaks in throughout the year. Born into a military family, Jack traveled extensively during his childhood and youth. Graduating from high school in California, Jack forsook scholarships and enlisted in the Army for four years. Following tours of duty in Korea, Germany, and Vietnam, Jack was honorably discharged. Disenchanted and heavily involved in alcohol and other drugs, Jack spent the next few months wandering in the Marshall and Hawaiian Islands. Returning to the West Coast he began a short career of criminal activity. The “party” ended with arrest in 1973, followed by a prison sentence. Shortly after incarceration, Jack read a book and for the first time in his 26-years was confronted with the claims of the Lord Jesus Christ. Responding to the Gospel, Jack committed his life to Christ in 1974. Parole was followed by schooling at Christ Unlimited Bible Institute in Kansas City, where Jack was elected class president. Upon graduation Jack served as a Staff Evangelist with Kansas City Youth For Christ. Several years of almost constant travel followed, including well over 1,400 school assembly programs challenging young people to think about choices and the results of those choices. The theme of his school program is personal responsibility. He considers “It’s not my fault” to be an obscenity. Jack has preached in over 200 prisons, and speaks at 5 - 7 youth camps each summer. He fills the pulpit in dozens of churches annually, and does special meetings for from 3 to 7 days. He has been interviewed on scores of radio and television programs, and has spoken for numerous service organizations and several high school commencements and baccalaureates. He also has conducted numerous seminars on topics such as Bible study, evangelism, and discipleship. Beginning in 1987 Jack served as Ministry Liaison for Family Life Ministries in Bath, New York. He hosted a live, call-in radio program over the Family Life Network for eight years, and served as a researcher for the Network. At Family Life he directed the Bible Quizzing program, edited a bimonthly newspaper, “The Family Life Journal,” with a host of other duties. Over the years Jack has made time to interim-pastor at four churches, one for 18 months, two for a year, and one for seven months. Additionally, he helped birth a church and was its teaching elder until a full-time pastor was called. Jack is married to Jane, and they have three sons (Josiah, 23; Joel, 21; Jacob, 5) and one daughter (Janelle, 13). Army brat, alcoholic, drug user, dealer, vet, ex-con...all these and more have been descriptive of Jack Hager; but the one that is current, and the one he prefers, is “new creation in Christ.” Jack is thrilled to be called to Midland Ministries, and is currently finishing up the Bible quiz season in New York, where he directs three leagues; and plans to relocate to Saint Joseph shortly after the National Quiz Tournament in late April of 2008.
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