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"Children are our most valuable Treasure"
Dr.Terry Horn
"A Hero to kids", "a Ministry Legend", "a Pioneer in kid’s ministry" and a "Missionary to the inner city" are just some of the titles that have been used to describe “Uncle Sam” who is none other than children's Evangelist and Pastor, Dr.Terry Horn.
Terry was surrendered his life to Christ and answered the ministry call at age 19, the year was 1974 the Jesus Revolution was winding down and Terry began ministering to children on a local kids TV show broadcasting on WHMB TV40 there in his home town of Noblesville Indiana. In the fall of 1974 Terry attended "Christ for The Nations" Bible College in Dallas,Texas. Even as a student, Terry was ministering to kids on several Sundays in the DFW area.
Not long after during a serious time in prayer with another children's evangelist and close friend "Captain Hook" (Rev.Von R. Saum) Horn heard from God, got the answer and commission he needed and the "New Uncle Sam" was born. At the age of 20, Horn now using the character name of "Uncle Sam" began his traveling evangelistic kids ministry, taking the gospel message of "God and Country" to our nations children with the theme that "America's Greatest Need Is Jesus". From the start in 1974, his life has been about Soul Winning, "that's the heartbeat of God", Horn says. "Our efforts and ministry is all about winning the lost". To this day Uncle Sam is still found ministering to kids at churches, kids camps, kids crusades and in urban settings. On July 4th 1986 Dr. Terry married Cynthia Sights, both are Licensed / Ordained ministers through "Christ For The Nations" of Dallas,Tx. Dr.Horn has a valuable name in children’s ministry and kids entertainment. With over 62 years of performing puppetry he knows how to pull a few strings to make you laugh. Whether it’s a gospel related event, or an outreach or family fun event, public school assembly or speaking at a local civic organization you’ll find his style of presentation to be powerful, humorous and captivating.
Now celebrating 50 years in active children’s ministry of which 30 of those years Dr.Terry has been reaching children in public and assisted housing complexes in major cities throughout America. Currently he and his wife Cynthia operate “Metro City Kids” A dynamic inner city children’s ministry to the kids in public housing in Jacksonville, Florida. They are aided by the use of their one of a kind “Metro Ministry Fun Truck". This unique truck has a huge Jumbo Tron screen (see some of the photos and videos below) that’s revealed when this side of the truck is let down as a stage. The screen is used to show all the graphics and videos for that day’s outreach. The stage also has a G-Scale model railroad track mounted to it so the children can enjoy the train from time to time. The back end of the truck opens up revealing a game wall and puppet stage area all cleverly designed and professionally built where kids can have a blast when playing the cool games of skill.
During Metro City Kids the children are taught Biblical Truths, Moral Values, Good Manners and Citizenship. Children who attend will be taught and entertained by two of Dr.Horn’s favorite puppet friends “J.R.” (a BIG eared, bald headed wise crack’n ventriloquist dummy) and the funny peanut body shaped puppet “Holy Cal”, who does a very funny impersonation of roadkill, which always gets a BIG laugh from the children.
Also featured during their program, face painting and simple ballooning, which the kids thoroughly enjoy. Food, snacks and candy treats are given out after each ministry event. Metro City Kids influences the lives of Hundreds of inner-city kids each month with the life changing Gospel message of Christ love.
The Horn's and Metro City Kids value the lives of every child and are fighting hard for this next generation of kids. We have to reach our nations kids whether in church or the inner city with the truth of God's Word.
They need your involvement and invite you to partner with them on a monthly basis. You can donate online by clicking on the word "Donate" on the tab above or by clicking on his Uncle Sam hat in the photos below.
This dynamic ministry is available for weekend church services, civic organizations, public or christian school assemblies, VBS, kids camps, children’s workers training featuring puppetry and Ventriloquistism classes.
To schedule Dr.Terry “Uncle Sam” for a kids service or for him to simply share about this amazing kids ministry, call and leave a message. Our office number at 703-855-0411 or Text us, someone from Metro we will get back to you soon as we can.
"Children are our most valuable Treasure"
Dr.Terry Horn
"A Hero to kids", "a Ministry Legend", "a Pioneer in kid’s ministry" and a "Missionary to the inner city" are just some of the titles that have been used to describe “Uncle Sam” who is none other than children's Evangelist and Pastor, Dr.Terry Horn.
Terry was surrendered his life to Christ and answered the ministry call at age 19, the year was 1974 the Jesus Revolution was winding down and Terry began ministering to children on a local kids TV show broadcasting on WHMB TV40 there in his home town of Noblesville Indiana. In the fall of 1974 Terry attended "Christ for The Nations" Bible College in Dallas,Texas. Even as a student, Terry was ministering to kids on several Sundays in the DFW area.
Not long after during a serious time in prayer with another children's evangelist and close friend "Captain Hook" (Rev.Von R. Saum) Horn heard from God, got the answer and commission he needed and the "New Uncle Sam" was born. At the age of 20, Horn now using the character name of "Uncle Sam" began his traveling evangelistic kids ministry, taking the gospel message of "God and Country" to our nations children with the theme that "America's Greatest Need Is Jesus". From the start in 1974, his life has been about Soul Winning, "that's the heartbeat of God", Horn says. "Our efforts and ministry is all about winning the lost". To this day Uncle Sam is still found ministering to kids at churches, kids camps, kids crusades and in urban settings. On July 4th 1986 Dr. Terry married Cynthia Sights, both are Licensed / Ordained ministers through "Christ For The Nations" of Dallas,Tx. Dr.Horn has a valuable name in children’s ministry and kids entertainment. With over 62 years of performing puppetry he knows how to pull a few strings to make you laugh. Whether it’s a gospel related event, or an outreach or family fun event, public school assembly or speaking at a local civic organization you’ll find his style of presentation to be powerful, humorous and captivating.
Now celebrating 50 years in active children’s ministry of which 30 of those years Dr.Terry has been reaching children in public and assisted housing complexes in major cities throughout America. Currently he and his wife Cynthia operate “Metro City Kids” A dynamic inner city children’s ministry to the kids in public housing in Jacksonville, Florida. They are aided by the use of their one of a kind “Metro Ministry Fun Truck". This unique truck has a huge Jumbo Tron screen (see some of the photos and videos below) that’s revealed when this side of the truck is let down as a stage. The screen is used to show all the graphics and videos for that day’s outreach. The stage also has a G-Scale model railroad track mounted to it so the children can enjoy the train from time to time. The back end of the truck opens up revealing a game wall and puppet stage area all cleverly designed and professionally built where kids can have a blast when playing the cool games of skill.
During Metro City Kids the children are taught Biblical Truths, Moral Values, Good Manners and Citizenship. Children who attend will be taught and entertained by two of Dr.Horn’s favorite puppet friends “J.R.” (a BIG eared, bald headed wise crack’n ventriloquist dummy) and the funny peanut body shaped puppet “Holy Cal”, who does a very funny impersonation of roadkill, which always gets a BIG laugh from the children.
Also featured during their program, face painting and simple ballooning, which the kids thoroughly enjoy. Food, snacks and candy treats are given out after each ministry event. Metro City Kids influences the lives of Hundreds of inner-city kids each month with the life changing Gospel message of Christ love.
The Horn's and Metro City Kids value the lives of every child and are fighting hard for this next generation of kids. We have to reach our nations kids whether in church or the inner city with the truth of God's Word.
They need your involvement and invite you to partner with them on a monthly basis. You can donate online by clicking on the word "Donate" on the tab above or by clicking on his Uncle Sam hat in the photos below.
This dynamic ministry is available for weekend church services, civic organizations, public or christian school assemblies, VBS, kids camps, children’s workers training featuring puppetry and Ventriloquistism classes.
To schedule Dr.Terry “Uncle Sam” for a kids service or for him to simply share about this amazing kids ministry, call and leave a message. Our office number at 703-855-0411 or Text us, someone from Metro we will get back to you soon as we can.
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Meet Uncle Sam - America's Most Historic Christian Patriot
Who doesn't know that tall buggy whip gentleman with a high hat and striped pants?
We tend to associate Uncle Sam and the United States together, but where did Uncle Sam come from? Was there a real Uncle Sam?
Historians generally attribute the title to Samuel Wilson, a great patriot and an outstanding Christian man in his latter years. Samuel Wilson was from Troy, New York. Samuel Wilson was such a nice man it seemed like he could fit into anybody's family. He was a toll slender man and when the kids would see him walking down the street they would refer to him as “Uncle Sam”.
Samuel Wilson was the seventh child of a family of 13 children. He was born September 13th 1766, in Menotomy, (now Arlington) Massachusetts. His father was a farmer who had come to the New World is from Scotland.
Members of the Wilson family all learn to work hard and also learned the importance of being active in church. But they did more than attend church meetings. The poor families in the area new him well, for the Wilson's frequently carried fresh produce from their farm to feed the needy.
Samuel Wilson was just nine years old when the Wilson Farm was smack in the middle of one of the biggest battles of the revolutionary war in April 1775. His father, one of the Minutemen of Menotomy, fought the British right in the front yard of his own home.
Huddled with his brothers and sisters and in a clump of trees nearby, Sam watch the action. He was proud of his father for he understood how important freedom is. When the British retreated, Sam ran from the trees to his father and threw his arms around him.
After Independence was secured and peace ruled, Menotomy grew rapidly. Farmer Wilson love the simple life, however, so he moved his family to the quiet of a farm in Mason, New Hampshire.
In a small house In Mason, which is now open to the public, Sam Wilson grew to manhood. Here he finished schooling and learn the trade of bricklaying. Many of the buildings he worked on still stand in Mason to this day. Again he put his Christianity to practical use. Not only did he attended a small church in Mason, but it was Sam Wilson who gave Sunday school lessons to the children of the community each Sunday and every Wednesday “right after supper”.
A frugal man, Sam spend only what was necessary. But he wasn't miserly, for he gave of his means to help the needy. And he saved money too. By the time he was 23 he had saved enough money to move to Troy, New York, to start his own small brickyard.
During the next eight years he got married, owned a large brick yard, a brick laying company, a dock and the meet business-all products of working long and hard. During those eight years he had also built two small churches, put four needy young people through college, and helped hundreds of poor families in the emergencies they faced. It is safe to say he was a very generous and giving man and it's no wonder Samuel Wilson was so highly respected in his own time.
When the war of 1812 started, Government officials needed someone who would see to it that the American fighting troops in New York received meat and other foods enough of it and good quality as well. They new Samuel Wilson's reputation for honesty, they knew his love for his fellow man and his country. Since he was also in the meat business it seemed logical that they ask him to become a U.S. government meet inspector. Mr. Wilson accepted the position and did an outstanding job, even when it meant a financial loss for his own businesses in many times over. He was firm about quality, just as firm with his own packinghouse as with other companies. His firmness led to his famous trade mark nick name.
When a stranger came walking through Samuel Wilson's meat packing company one day, the packinghouse supervisor John Gleason was there to give the stranger a tour. Several barrels of beef were stacked up in the warehouse with the initials “U.S. Inspected” stamped on each barrel. The stranger ask Mr. Gleason what does all these barrels with U.S. stamped all over them mean? Mr. Gleason jokingly said "well the US stands for Uncle Sam, don't you know that Uncle Sam Wilson is feeding the army" and what had been intended as a joke caught on with the American public. From that day forward not only were the children using his nick name but everyone else was calling Samuel Wilson “Uncle Sam”.
Wilson was popular and seemed to epitomize the plain American citizen. He stood for so much, love for his country, for fellowman, success by hard-work.
By the end of 1813 uncle Sam's name was being used in newspapers, political leaflets, and all kinds of communications.
Toward the last 25 years of his life, a local resident said that Samuel Wilson had a real encounter the Lord. Ask how he knew this the man replied "Because 's his walk and his talk reflected the inner change that only God can make upon a man's heart". I believe Samual Wilson “Uncle Sam” must have had a real conversion experience to be born again.
At the age of 88 Samuel Wilson died in 1854, 100 years later I was born in 1954 to be the latest version of Samuel Wilson’s “Uncle Sam”. May many more of Samuel Wilsons nephews and nieces make an honest effort to live as this beloved patriot lived, honestly and unselfishly, with Love of country, of fellowman, and most certainly Love for God The Father, Jesus His Son and be led by the the Holy Spirit.
having been instructed by Uncle Sam of the importance of honoring our flag Porky pig awakes from a dream and says
the Pledge of Allegiance to our Great Flag, (This pledge was before they added
"Under God"
Uncle Sam in "South Of The Border"
Uncle Sam in "Ball Of Darkness"
Uncle Sam in "Panama Canal"
Uncle Sam in "The Enemies Of Democracy"
