Entries Categorized as 'Ministry'

Faith’d

December 3, 2007

You know how there are just certain people who really should be blogging. Maybe you know it because they always have interesting things to say. Or perhaps it’s because they always email you links to interesting or insightful articles and say “Hey - you should blog this!” Or perhaps it’s because they tried to blog [...]

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Churches: Change Your Web Hosting Companies!

November 20, 2007

In the past few weeks, I’ve been appalled with the price that some churches and ministry organizations are paying for their web hosting. It’s not the church’s fault; many of them signed up with web hosting companies years ago, and are still paying the rates from years ago. Here are two examples of groups [...]

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Handshakes on a Sunday Morning

November 3, 2007

In photo: Pearl, Adam & Elmer
I’m not sure exactly how it began, but within a few months of moving to Wendell, Idaho and working in a small, rural PC(USA) church, Elmer and I connected. I’m not sure why we did to be honest. I was a recent college graduate, a punk kid with out-of-control facial [...]

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Why do I enjoy leading music?

October 23, 2007

I led music this past Sunday at a friend’s church while she was away on vacation. Another fellow seminarian preached - and I think we both did pretty well and we had a good time leading worship. It was at a pretty small church, and I was leading them in a few hymns and some [...]

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Tween Mashup at Digital Life in NYC

October 2, 2007

Last Friday a group of us went up to a Tween Mashup sponsored by Ypulse at the Digital Life Convention in New York City. It was basically a group of around a hundred advertisers and marketers who especially work with you and those who would be considered “tweens” (in between being kids and teens) - [...]

Posted in Ministry, Technology | 7 Comments »

Preaching

September 6, 2007

I have a problem - I forgot how to preach. It’s been over a year and a half since my Princeton preaching courses - and I haven’t preached since then. Besides, I don’t know how well they prepared me for the type of preaching I’d like to do. So. I have to preach this Sunday [...]

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I’m done with self-reflection.

August 7, 2007

Over the past week, I’ve answered questions and completed paperwork for my upcoming CPM (Committee on Preparation for Ministry) meeting in Idaho, finished 8 pages of self-reflection for my CPE final evaluation, and now I’m working on the seminary paperwork for my CPE experience (which is incredibly redundant - and just more self-reflecting). And this [...]

Posted in Ministry, PC(USA) | 10 Comments »

A Centering Prayer Virgin’s Story: My First Time

August 5, 2007

It was my first time, and it was messy. I didn’t really know what to do, and it was awkward. I thought I was going to like it, but…unfortunately, I didn’t. And I’m embarrassed to say that, because I really want to like it (and not just because they hate it). I like people who [...]

Posted in Emergent, Ministry | 19 Comments »

Reflections on Being On-Call

August 1, 2007

It is 7.20am in the hospital and things are relatively quiet [I just used the "Q-Word" which can tend to jinx you at the hospital, but since I only have 1hr left of my last on-call, I think it's safe]. This morning at 8.30am I’ll hand over the on-call pager for the last time as [...]

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“We make people cry.”

July 30, 2007

When someone once asked my CPE Supervisor, “So, what is it that chaplains do?” she responded by saying, “We make people cry.”
And it’s true. I often joke with Sarah when I’m telling her about my day when I say, “Well, it was a pretty good day today. I was able to make 3 people cry.” [...]

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