Chaplain Ronnie Cowart, Cartersville Fire Department
P. O. Box 1390, Cartersville, Georgia 30120
Contact Information:
rcowart@cityofcartersville.org
770-547-4780 404-391-6679 770-387-5635 (work)
CHAPLAIN’S MESSAGE: - May 2011
A.S.K.
In the fire service, we love to use acronyms. It seems there is always a shorter, faster and smoother way to say nearly everything. Some examples are HAZ-MAT, EDITH, GSFA, NIMS, GFA, GPSTC, SCBA, FDC, TIC, RIC, TIR, ICS and PAR, just to name a few. The way that we would use these may be like this:
“Using ICS, send in the RIC with a TIC near the FDC
wearing an SCBA to locate the GSAR team in the
HAZ-MAT zone that didn’t respond to the PAR.”
If you are in the fire service, reading and understanding this would be no problem.
I have found that Jesus also liked using acronyms in his work also. Jesus is referred to as the great teacher and I am glad that we follow his pattern. I don’t find where he used them quite as much as we do but I want to show his acronym that he gave to us.
You will find it in the book of Matthew, Chapter 7, Verse 7; it is only three letters and is spelled and best explained like this:
“ASK, and it shall be given you; Seek, and ye shall find;
Knock, and it shall be opened unto you.”
I say that this is a great acronym because it is a shorter, faster and smoother way to say that, if you ask him, for anything according to his purpose, he will give it to you and he does it all because he loves you.
How does YOUR county stack up? President Dixon in his article for the Spring Issue of the magazine asked this question, and the map provided with the article would not reproduce in color and would print as greyscale, negating the purpose of the map. So we decided to make this a standard posting on the website on the website for your review. Will you accept his challenge to help eliminate all of the counties showing up WHITE on the map (which means no members in that county)?
