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Huntsville mas has inspirational musical message
Christi Laney
The Huntsville Item, June 5 2009
After being adopted into a family of 34 children, one Huntsville resident has used his unique upbringing and love for God to create a burgeoning musical career, including the release of his first album in 2007.
As a Christian contemporary artist, the market may be smaller for this determined singer, but the passion he carries for the message behind his music is strong and impossible to break.
Jon Sheptock, a native of New Jersey and recent transplant to Texas, has taken his love of music and vocal talent to stages across the United States, from performing in the prisons of Huntsville to touring with his idol , Bill Gaither, in Gatlinburg, Tenn. His voice and inspirational messages have uplifted thousands and led him into a life he never dreamed he would be able to enjoy.
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Making Life’s Challenges God’s Victories
Joy MacKenzie
Homecoming Magazine
“Friend, you are about to see that God can make anything happen. I am just a regular “soccer dad” who serves an extraordinary God. I have always known that I was given the music to share God’s story, and I have been giving that testimony since I was a child. At that I have been ridiculed, and persecuted, but I have followed God’s leading as I have shared my music in schools, churches, and prisons across the United States. I can see, as I you can also, the moving of God in my life. As I have steps of faith, He has been more that sufficient in His grace.”
This is the testimony of an extraordinary man of faith who has indeed made a habit of “Making Life’s Challenges God’s Victories” is the title of the recent DVD of his incredible life story. Jon Sheptock was born in New Jersey in 1976 with a very unusual affliction. He had no arms and a short right leg, He was more than his birthmother could bring herself to see, and without even holder her baby boy, she turned him over to the State.
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Jon Sheptock visits SVORI offenders
Leslie Wooley, Lauren May
The ECHO, May 2011
If anyone deserves to have a negative attitude or an excuse to use drugs, it is Jon Sheptock. Born in 1976, with all odds stacked against him, Jon came into this world without any arms in addition to his right leg being shorter than his left. Jon’s biological parents did not even want to hold him but put him directly into foster care. Jon was in foster care for six months and was then adopted by an extraordinary couple who knew it was their calling to bring a special needs child into their family. Jon was brought into the large Sheptock family – a family with 37 children, mostly all adopted.
As Jon grew up, there were many challenges. He was unable to crawl as a child, and he was unable to walk until the age of four. In school, he was ridiculed and spit upon by classmates and never felt like he fit in as a teenager. This persecution led to a sense of rejection, self doubt and even thoughts of suicide. Instead, Jon became a Christian and found that with God he could conquer anything. This new mission gave him a reason for living and a reason to share his story to help and encourage others. “I know God has a great plan for my life and I am willing to go where ever He leads,” he said.
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Making Life’s Challenges – God’s Victories
Judy Hoy – Elizabeth Cotner
Christian Events Magazine
Every so often, you meet and individual that changes your entire perspective on life. Jon Sheptock is one of those people. Instead of viewing life though a glass half empty, Jon’s glass positively runneth over. He is an extraordinary man.
He possesses that unique quality that makes you feel at ease the instant you meet him. Though you are initially stunned by his physical disabilities, you are just as amazed by the anointing that God has on his life. The grace that lives inside this young man is one of the most astonishing miracles of all. His differences far surpass physicality; It’s the inner miracle in him that makes him so special. Jon will be the first acknowledge that it is God doing for him what he could not do for himself.
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Christi Laney
The Huntsville Item, June 5 2009
After being adopted into a family of 34 children, one Huntsville resident has used his unique upbringing and love for God to create a burgeoning musical career, including the release of his first album in 2007.
As a Christian contemporary artist, the market may be smaller for this determined singer, but the passion he carries for the message behind his music is strong and impossible to break.
Jon Sheptock, a native of New Jersey and recent transplant to Texas, has taken his love of music and vocal talent to stages across the United States, from performing in the prisons of Huntsville to touring with his idol , Bill Gaither, in Gatlinburg, Tenn. His voice and inspirational messages have uplifted thousands and led him into a life he never dreamed he would be able to enjoy.
Read More.....
Making Life’s Challenges God’s Victories
Joy MacKenzie
Homecoming Magazine
“Friend, you are about to see that God can make anything happen. I am just a regular “soccer dad” who serves an extraordinary God. I have always known that I was given the music to share God’s story, and I have been giving that testimony since I was a child. At that I have been ridiculed, and persecuted, but I have followed God’s leading as I have shared my music in schools, churches, and prisons across the United States. I can see, as I you can also, the moving of God in my life. As I have steps of faith, He has been more that sufficient in His grace.”
This is the testimony of an extraordinary man of faith who has indeed made a habit of “Making Life’s Challenges God’s Victories” is the title of the recent DVD of his incredible life story. Jon Sheptock was born in New Jersey in 1976 with a very unusual affliction. He had no arms and a short right leg, He was more than his birthmother could bring herself to see, and without even holder her baby boy, she turned him over to the State.
Read More...
Jon Sheptock visits SVORI offenders
Leslie Wooley, Lauren May
The ECHO, May 2011
If anyone deserves to have a negative attitude or an excuse to use drugs, it is Jon Sheptock. Born in 1976, with all odds stacked against him, Jon came into this world without any arms in addition to his right leg being shorter than his left. Jon’s biological parents did not even want to hold him but put him directly into foster care. Jon was in foster care for six months and was then adopted by an extraordinary couple who knew it was their calling to bring a special needs child into their family. Jon was brought into the large Sheptock family – a family with 37 children, mostly all adopted.
As Jon grew up, there were many challenges. He was unable to crawl as a child, and he was unable to walk until the age of four. In school, he was ridiculed and spit upon by classmates and never felt like he fit in as a teenager. This persecution led to a sense of rejection, self doubt and even thoughts of suicide. Instead, Jon became a Christian and found that with God he could conquer anything. This new mission gave him a reason for living and a reason to share his story to help and encourage others. “I know God has a great plan for my life and I am willing to go where ever He leads,” he said.
Read More...
Making Life’s Challenges – God’s Victories
Judy Hoy – Elizabeth Cotner
Christian Events Magazine
Every so often, you meet and individual that changes your entire perspective on life. Jon Sheptock is one of those people. Instead of viewing life though a glass half empty, Jon’s glass positively runneth over. He is an extraordinary man.
He possesses that unique quality that makes you feel at ease the instant you meet him. Though you are initially stunned by his physical disabilities, you are just as amazed by the anointing that God has on his life. The grace that lives inside this young man is one of the most astonishing miracles of all. His differences far surpass physicality; It’s the inner miracle in him that makes him so special. Jon will be the first acknowledge that it is God doing for him what he could not do for himself.
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