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Meet Our District Leaders
During a
few special services we will have an
opportunity to meet with the Executive
Leadership of the North Texas District
Council of the Assemblies of God. The
services will follow:
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Sunday - Jan.14, 2007:
Meet our Superintendent Rev.
Vic Schober
Vic Schober,
superintendent of the North
Texas District, brings a
wealth of experience from
his forty years as an
ordained minister; most of
this time was spent in
serving as a senior pastor
either in Houston or
Austin. His last position
as senior pastor was at the
Church of Glad Tidings in
Austin, where he served for
twenty-seven years, January
1976 to June 2003. It was
during this time as senior
pastor that the church grew
from approximately 200
to over 1600 people
who called Glad Tidings
their
church-home.
With twelve full-time
ministers on staff a
full-range of ministries
emanated from GT
including a strong pastoral
care counseling
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center, a vibrant
Master’s Commission ministry,
and several outreaches to
children like Royal Family Kids
Camp and the Neighborhood
Church.
He is a graduate of
Southwestern Assemblies of God
University and the University of
Houston. From 1970 to 1974 Vic
Schober served the South Texas
District Assemblies of God as
their District Youth Director.
He has ministered in over 50
youth camps both in the United
States and overseas and has
ministered in over 30 nations of
the world. For over twenty-five
years he had a daily radio
ministry in Austin called ‘God’s
Promises.’ During that time
frame he directed Glad Tidings
into becoming a leading
mission’s church’ in NTD with
the church giving almost one
million dollars in 2002 to
Assemblies of God mission’s
ministries at home and abroad.
He served as the
presbyter for the Austin Section
for thirteen years and as an
executive presbyter for NTD for
five years. He continues to be
on the executive presbytery. He
is also serving as a general
presbyter, a member of the Board
of Regents and executive board
of Southwestern A/G University,
and a member of the board of the
Pleasant Hills Children’s Home.
He and his lovely
wife, Naomi, have been married
for 44 years and have two
married children, Cindy and
Jonathan, both are in active
ministry, and they have nine
grandchildren, all of whom
attend the Church of Glad
Tidings in Austin.

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Sunday - Jan.28, 2007: Meet our
Secretary/Treasurer Rev.
James R. Jackson
Reverend James R. Jackson
currently serves as
secretary-treasurer of the
North Texas District
Council. |
Prior to his election
to this position in October of 1999,
Brother Jackson served as senior
pastor of First Assembly of God in
Gainesville,
Texas,
for 17 years (1982-1999). He filled
the position of presbyter for the
Denton Section from 1987-1999, and
continues to serve the district as a
general presbyter and executive
presbyter, positions he has held
since 1993.
Brother Jackson has
worked with the district in a wide
range of areas. He has served on the
district Finance Committee, the
district Missions Committee, and
acted as chairman of the district
Budget Committee. In the West Texas
District, Brother Jackson held the
position of District Youth Director
from 1970-1976, served as a
sectional presbyter for 5 years
(1977-1982), and held the position
of President of the Board of
Directors for Teen Challenge of West
Texas.
Brother Jackson has
served on the Southwestern
Assemblies of God University Board
of Regents since 1993, and on the
Board of Directors of Pleasant Hills
Children’s Home in
Fairfield,
Texas.

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Sunday - March.11, 2007: Meet our
Assistant Superintendent /
Missions Director Rev.
Rick DuBose
Pastor Rick DuBose has been the senior
pastor of Sachse Assembly of
God since March 1987. |
While under his pastorate, the
church has grown from 17 people to
in excess of 800. It has become one
of the leading missions churches in
the North Texas District, but
continues to keep its focus on its
own neighborhood.
Before coming
to Sachse
Assembly, he
pastored for three years in
Hallsville, Texas. He started his
ministry as a youth pastor at First
Assembly of God in Mesquite, Texas.
In 2000, he
was honored by the city Chamber of
Commerce as Man of the Year. He
served on the Assemblies of God
World Missions Board from 2001-2003.
He has served as Presbyter
of the North Dallas Section for the
North Texas District since 2001 and
as Executive Presbyter for the North
Texas District since 2003.
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