oh yes, we have a website! see the "Sojourn Collegiate Ministry" link to the right, or go to:
http://www.sojourn-ne.org/
bobby is the best.
23 November 2005
ATL
so last weekend i was in atlanta for the National Missionary Convention. it was tim, nate, hank, and myself representing Sojourn and The Boston Partnership in our very own booth! exciting times for sure. hank tagged us as "the most irreverent booth present." many would probably agree. i mean, not only were we from the evil East Coast, but we were young and kind of loud. no one actually came out and said any of this, we just figure these were the thoughts behind the many stares we got. especially the booth next to us, where the people were roughly 4 to 5 times our age.
anyway, bobby drew out a sweet "Boston" sign on canvas for us since, sadly, he did not join us in ATL. upon arriving, nate and i constructed a frame for said canvas, about 10' X 9'. then, the four of us painted it over the course of the convention, inviting others to paint as well. so the canvas served a few purposes: advertisement, interaction, and entertainment for us when we got bored. so, some pictures... [click to enlarge]
tim with a staple gun = terror.
i'm such a pseudo-artist!
good work hank.
the final product!
ATL was good times. on the canvas, we had some fun facts about Boston written above "Boston," things like "1/2 of world leaders study in Boston" and "95% of population will not attend church this weekend." then at the end, we painted over those facts with "God is in..." the canvas was this "work-in-progress," much like Sojourn and The Boston Partnership are.
other highlights: my friend lindsay lives in ATL, so i got to hang out with her a bit...and, my "second dad" Rob was at the convention from my home church in Indiana. it was wonderful to see both of them...i was very encouraged.
it was nice to get away for a few days, but it is so good to be home. and tomorrow is Thanksgiving! it will be a "very Sojourn" Thanksgiving, looking forward to it. plus, i just made two pumpkin pies, my first pies ever! all without the smoke alarm going off.
to copy from an email i just sent: life is good. jobs, tutoring, running, everything. i love boston, and i love where God has me right now. lately i've felt completely overwhelmed by who God is, and the personality traits of Jesus, and the needs of people, and where i fit into all of that. i've been trying to absorb and learn all i can...about ministry, about people, about God. i wish i could absorb more, but i think i'm learning a lot.
a few other things:
anyway, bobby drew out a sweet "Boston" sign on canvas for us since, sadly, he did not join us in ATL. upon arriving, nate and i constructed a frame for said canvas, about 10' X 9'. then, the four of us painted it over the course of the convention, inviting others to paint as well. so the canvas served a few purposes: advertisement, interaction, and entertainment for us when we got bored. so, some pictures... [click to enlarge]
tim with a staple gun = terror. 
i'm such a pseudo-artist!
good work hank.
the final product!ATL was good times. on the canvas, we had some fun facts about Boston written above "Boston," things like "1/2 of world leaders study in Boston" and "95% of population will not attend church this weekend." then at the end, we painted over those facts with "God is in..." the canvas was this "work-in-progress," much like Sojourn and The Boston Partnership are.
other highlights: my friend lindsay lives in ATL, so i got to hang out with her a bit...and, my "second dad" Rob was at the convention from my home church in Indiana. it was wonderful to see both of them...i was very encouraged.
it was nice to get away for a few days, but it is so good to be home. and tomorrow is Thanksgiving! it will be a "very Sojourn" Thanksgiving, looking forward to it. plus, i just made two pumpkin pies, my first pies ever! all without the smoke alarm going off.
to copy from an email i just sent: life is good. jobs, tutoring, running, everything. i love boston, and i love where God has me right now. lately i've felt completely overwhelmed by who God is, and the personality traits of Jesus, and the needs of people, and where i fit into all of that. i've been trying to absorb and learn all i can...about ministry, about people, about God. i wish i could absorb more, but i think i'm learning a lot.
a few other things:
- i've been thinking about and researching the U.S. National Debt lately [random, i know, but $8.1 trillion is ridiculous].
- Don Miller rocks my world.
- i can be a big idiot sometimes. i hate that.
- we got new nametags at work [harvard] today...they are pretty sweet.
14 November 2005
plans
so, it's been some time since i last posted, mainly because life has gotten busy-ish (which is how i like it) and blogging isn't so much a priority. but also i've been thinking about a lot of things, which i can do quite easily since i'm a girl. lots of things, kind of heavy things, but very good things that i am now moving forward in processing. so yeah, i will share a few in this post. but first, not-so-heavy things/events to let you all in on.
two weeks ago, i got to spend a day at the Cape with a friend. (the "Cape" is Cape Cod). i've been to the Cape a couple times before, and it's always beautiful and definitely never gets old. this time was unique because it's fall, so everything was in different hues and colors. also, no one was there except the locals, which was great. my friend and i drove scenic route 6A, and took lots of pictures, and hung out at the beach for a couple hours. it was great time with a friend, and also great solitude time as well, as we went exploring in different directions while on the beach. it was just a great day.
last weekend, i got to go camping and hiking in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. it was a short trip, but even just one night of sleeping under the stars was a needed escape from urban life. don't get me wrong, i do love life in the city and all, but mountains and the ocean are practically in my backyard...and i LOVE anything having to do with mountians and forests and water and oceans. i don't think i will ever get used to the fact taht the mountians are 1.5 hours away, and i can pretty much see the ocean whenever i want. amazing. i love it.
so today i visited Eitz Chayim, a Jewish congregation that is a couple blocks from my apt. they have lectures on sundays, and today's was on building Abrahamic partnerships...basically, how Jews and Christians and Muslims can be an interfaith community of learning. the guy who gave the lecture had some pretty interesting points, and while i didn't agree with everything he said, i did walk away with some new perspectives. plus, this was my first visit to a Jewish congregation and i am learning Hebrew (slowly). so, it was good.
so i've been listening to Death Cab's new cd, Plans, a lot lately. thus, the title of this post. great music, great lyrics. you should get it.
now for some deeper thoughts. and i probably won't be super deep b/c this is a blog, not my journal. one thing i've been wrestling with in my mind lately goes along the lines of, what are the driving forces behind the passions in my heart? like, for example, there are so many things i want to do in this life, too many to list here; a couple of those things involve living outside the US at some point, namely the continent of Africa. and then i think about how i would love to go here and do this, and go there and do that, and if i think about it long enough, i have from now until the time i'm 70 all taken up. but, i wonder, do i have the passion to go and do all these things because i really want to go and i really want to help people? 100%? or is it because i want to be transient, always meeting new people and changing locations often enough that i never fade away or am forgotten, but i'm always a new face to someone, some group of people, some place? or maybe i want to just do diffenent things involving ministry, or social justice, or medicine, or whatever because i would be constantly surrounded and working with those that have the same passions, and that would be, in a sense, comfortable. i thought all of this out loud while walking home one night, half hashing it through my mind, half praying. the next day some cool stuff happened, and it's a story in itself, so i'll just say, God showed me some things about my heart that i needed to see. it was good.
things with Sojourn are going really well, but i must be honest: working in ministry is hard. and starting a ministry is even harder. in many ways we see how it likens itself to starting a business, and i am pretty clueless when it comes to that kind of stuff. but, i am learning...i think we all are. i like it, and i'm excited.
much of the time i wonder if i am cut out for this, for being a campus minister. i mean seriously...who am i to be a minister for Jesus when i do a pretty poor job of representing Him, in my thoughts and my knowledge and my heart and my love? i'm just...me. thankfully and graciously, my God is God, and He supersedes anything that i was, and am, and will ever be. good news, indeed.
ok...it's late and work is early. if you made it through to the end, thanks, and i'm proud of you. :) g'nite friends.
two weeks ago, i got to spend a day at the Cape with a friend. (the "Cape" is Cape Cod). i've been to the Cape a couple times before, and it's always beautiful and definitely never gets old. this time was unique because it's fall, so everything was in different hues and colors. also, no one was there except the locals, which was great. my friend and i drove scenic route 6A, and took lots of pictures, and hung out at the beach for a couple hours. it was great time with a friend, and also great solitude time as well, as we went exploring in different directions while on the beach. it was just a great day.
last weekend, i got to go camping and hiking in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. it was a short trip, but even just one night of sleeping under the stars was a needed escape from urban life. don't get me wrong, i do love life in the city and all, but mountains and the ocean are practically in my backyard...and i LOVE anything having to do with mountians and forests and water and oceans. i don't think i will ever get used to the fact taht the mountians are 1.5 hours away, and i can pretty much see the ocean whenever i want. amazing. i love it.
so today i visited Eitz Chayim, a Jewish congregation that is a couple blocks from my apt. they have lectures on sundays, and today's was on building Abrahamic partnerships...basically, how Jews and Christians and Muslims can be an interfaith community of learning. the guy who gave the lecture had some pretty interesting points, and while i didn't agree with everything he said, i did walk away with some new perspectives. plus, this was my first visit to a Jewish congregation and i am learning Hebrew (slowly). so, it was good.
so i've been listening to Death Cab's new cd, Plans, a lot lately. thus, the title of this post. great music, great lyrics. you should get it.
now for some deeper thoughts. and i probably won't be super deep b/c this is a blog, not my journal. one thing i've been wrestling with in my mind lately goes along the lines of, what are the driving forces behind the passions in my heart? like, for example, there are so many things i want to do in this life, too many to list here; a couple of those things involve living outside the US at some point, namely the continent of Africa. and then i think about how i would love to go here and do this, and go there and do that, and if i think about it long enough, i have from now until the time i'm 70 all taken up. but, i wonder, do i have the passion to go and do all these things because i really want to go and i really want to help people? 100%? or is it because i want to be transient, always meeting new people and changing locations often enough that i never fade away or am forgotten, but i'm always a new face to someone, some group of people, some place? or maybe i want to just do diffenent things involving ministry, or social justice, or medicine, or whatever because i would be constantly surrounded and working with those that have the same passions, and that would be, in a sense, comfortable. i thought all of this out loud while walking home one night, half hashing it through my mind, half praying. the next day some cool stuff happened, and it's a story in itself, so i'll just say, God showed me some things about my heart that i needed to see. it was good.
things with Sojourn are going really well, but i must be honest: working in ministry is hard. and starting a ministry is even harder. in many ways we see how it likens itself to starting a business, and i am pretty clueless when it comes to that kind of stuff. but, i am learning...i think we all are. i like it, and i'm excited.
much of the time i wonder if i am cut out for this, for being a campus minister. i mean seriously...who am i to be a minister for Jesus when i do a pretty poor job of representing Him, in my thoughts and my knowledge and my heart and my love? i'm just...me. thankfully and graciously, my God is God, and He supersedes anything that i was, and am, and will ever be. good news, indeed.
ok...it's late and work is early. if you made it through to the end, thanks, and i'm proud of you. :) g'nite friends.
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