Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Manhattan

This past friday we had the chance to go to Manhettan. I will start by saying it is a huge and very blessed corps.
What have I learned about myself and my Faith?

For the past week or so I have been trying to stay focused on what is the most important.. The Lord.. I have found out that I have really opened up about myself and my faith. I have grown in so many different ways. Being able to go to all of these different corps and to see how things work and be able to participate has been incredible.

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Friday, February 15, 2008

This week we read a little chapter by Mueller Walt called “Understanding Culture”

There was a specific sentence in this article that really got to me, it said

“Culture has been created by God and has been given to humanity to use and enjoy”

I think it is awesome to think of it in that way. “Culture has been Created by God and has been Given to humanity to use and enjoy.

 

He created each one of us different, black, white, dark, pail. It doesn’t matter we were all created by the same God. He has given us the opportunity to grow up in different cultures to learn different things. Doesn’t mean we have to stay within that culture alone, but to take advantage of the differences around us, and be willing to learn more from others from those different cultures.

 

~B~

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Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Youth Work Leadership

This week we have read an article written by Paul Borthwick “A missiological perspective on youth ministry”.

Something that really hit me in this article was where he talks about speech being one of the big principles in culture. I have wanted for the past few years to travel to a different culture and tell them about the Lord. But something I didn’t consider for some reason is this.

He says in this article “The youth minister (Us) must be able to show that God speaks all of our languages.”  I think this is a very important thing for everyone, and I wish more would decide to take the time to learn a different language for our Lord. I think that it would be an incredible thing to go and see someone from a different culture be able to understand me. To be able to communicate and help them see the truth about Jesus Christ.

I pray that the Lord will give me such an oppertunity!

~B~

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Monday, February 11, 2008

Preview weekend/Brooklyn

What a week! :-)

This week has been a very good week, last wednesday me and my team had changed from the Newark team to the SFOT team. So, we are now staying here at the SFOT to work with all the kids here, it is an amazing difference. Both places are very good and love the Lord. They are just huge opposites.

What have I learned about being a servant Leader?

Well, last week we had Preview Weekend. It was an amazing weekend, I think it really gave each one of us here a huge chance to take a leadership role. It was amazing to see how fast we all just jumped in. I loved it, we were constantly on the go (I wasn’t crazy about that) and it was like we just didn’t even think of what we were doing we just did it. It was really cool, everyone really enjoyed it.

Me and a couple other students had the chance of leading 4 groups of worship. I have to say that was one of my favorite things ever. We were in our lobby and there were about 10 of us there. And to see how the Holy Spirit really was moving through each group, and moved through me at one point for each group was just awesome.

On another note, we had the oppertunity to go to Brooklyn corps this past friday. It was an incredible corps, they had so many kids and so much help, it was great. When we got there one of the first things they did was introduced us to their teen mentors. That was great to me. I love seeing teens getting involved in this stuff, but I really love knowing that they enjoy it as much as the kids do.

It is an amazing corps, and from what I have seen it is growing and going to be even greater than we can imagine. I know I will be praying for them and for their church to continue to grow aswell..

~B~

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Thursday, February 7, 2008

Thirteen!

This week we had watched the movie Thirteen. It is a story about this girl named tracy and I bet you can guess her age.

Something that really caught my eye in this movie was her desire to be liked, through the whole movie. But, being liked by her real friends wasn’t what she wanted, she wanted to be like but the cool ones. The ones that expected her to do different things than she normally would. She starts out being a sweet girl who goes to her friends to do her homework and seems like she is pretty laid back and nice. But in time, as she starts to walk around her school, she is teased by how she dresses, so she begins to have the desire to dress like the cool kids.

That is where it all begins. She desires for one thing after another, and next thing you know she had it all. She was liked by everyone because, she would smoke, she would drink, she would go out and party all night long when she was supposed to be back at a certain time. She became someone different so she could be liked.

As time goes on, things get worse. Her mom gets upset because she is lying and always disrespectful to her, and she starts to see all these different things, her bellybutton ring, her tongue ring. Then it leads to finding all the objects she would use with her friend while the door was locked. The stuff she used to get high, the stuff she used to cut herself. And all these things were brought to her, and in time she broke down.

I think in my oppinion when she got into this and got all this attention she had a desire to get out of it. But wouldn’t push herself. She was doing this now for a while, and we all know it is harder to stop than to start. I believe she wanted to change, but she felt she had no reason to.

We all have desires. My question is what do you desire? To be like by your friends? or to be Love by our God?

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