January 2012
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Coloring Between the Lines is LAME!
If I hear one more person say “I am not creative!” I may just slap them. I think it is absolutely absurd to say that you are not creative – you may just not know how to unleash it. Here’s my thought – everyone is creative! You are made in God’s image, and He’s the ultimate Creator, so some of that must have rubbed off on you (I’m not sure how theologically sound that is, but it makes sense in...
August 2011
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The 'He-Man Woman Haters Club'...that I joined
For a long time there was a tension in my home. I felt called to ministry, and my dad didn’t want me to be in ministry. At first, this made me angry. Who was he to tell me what to do with my life? How dare he say that because I was a girl I couldn’t do it! Why did he hate me so much?! Granted, I was a teenager who disagreed with everything my dad said, and felt like he was...
July 2011
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The ramblings from day 1 of camp...
So I am currently sitting in what I suppose is called the atrium of a hotel, in the middle of Coral Springs exhausted, but unwilling to move. It is day 1 of a student ministry camp that I am running, and while I am running on fumes, I cannot help but sit and take it all in. This hotel has lots of fountains in it, which is freakishly soothing, and has mesmerized me in this moment. After a day...
June 2011
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You must clean the poop!
A couple of days ago, I had an amazing and humbling experience to be on the opposite end of an intern Q&A. Our church has 5 amazing interns from Liberty Univ. this summer, and they are all anxious to learn. Every week, they have an opportunity to interview a pastor. I am not a pastor….but my boss/Student Pastor was the man of the hour, and decided to pull my co-worker and I into the...
March 2011
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February 2011
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Ugly babies and loneliness....the unmentionables
Have you ever wondered if you were going to have an ugly baby?! I know that is a strange question, but I’ve wondered that many times. I know 2 things; all newborns are ugly, and all babies are beautiful in their parents’ eyes. But seriously, what if you had a kid that was legit busted?! If your kid had a unibrow, how soon is too soon to wax it?! If you know me well, you know that...
January 2011
1 post
People Say the Dumbest Things
Have you ever had one of those moments where you hear yourself say something, and you are just like….”Why am I saying this? Stop….No, seriously, stop talking….what are you doing?!” Yes, people do say some dumb things, but sometimes, I’m people. Pardon the grammar, but the point is, I am just as much of an idiot sometimes as everyone else that I sarcastically...
October 2010
2 posts
The Problem with Comfortable
You would think that being comfortable is a good thing, right? Who doesn’t like a warm blanket on a giant sofa with re-runs of VH1’s latest reality show entertaining you? Or a nice chai latte with Ray LaMontagne playing through the speakers as you sit in the last big chair at starbucks? Or even those Saturday mornings that you have nothing to do and no one to see, so you put on your...
There's no crying in roadtrips!
Today I got home from a much needed vacation. After being ‘on staff’ at my church (volunteer and paid) for two years now, I took my first vacation that was more than a long weekend. So needless to say, I was very happy to get away and enjoy some time with friends, enjoying life and thinking about nothing.
After a week in Orlando, while I wasn’t ready to come home, I had to,...
September 2010
2 posts
Delegation.....................................Neme...
There is a note above my desk, a simple reminder that I need to delegate. Here’s my problem, I don’t want to! My whole ministry career I have been told that my biggest struggle and the thing that holds me back the most is my lack of desire to delegate. Notice I didn’t say lack of ability. I know how to delegate, I just don’t like it.
“If you want it done right,...
Firing the Unfireable
I recently just experienced a first: firing a volunteer. This is something that I have heard about, read about, and even spoken about many times in ministry. It was just something that I had never had to deal with first hand. And let me tell you, it was quite the experience. I used to think that you can’t fire a volunteer…they are volunteering! If someone has the heart for...
August 2010
3 posts
"I don't wanna" doesn't mean it should suck
Sometimes we don’t always have a choice in what we get to do. Especially in ministry. While I am called to student ministry, and am paid to do student ministry, I sometimes find myself doing non-student ministry things. Even within student ministry, I have specific duties that I am expected to fulfill, and do with excellence, and then there are the things that don’t fall under the...
Casting vision...nothing like a net
My dad has been a fisherman my whole life. I remember the days where it seemed like every Saturday morning I was being woken at the butt-crack of dawn, place in a vehicle, and eventually sat on a live-well turned bench on my dads fishing boat. I was the bait girl, mainly because I got too bored just fishing. I didn’t see the fun in it, nor did I see the skill attached. But I went, and...
If Howard does it, I should too...
At some point in every person’s ministry, they have to come to a very difficult decision. Well, there are probably many difficult decisions they have to make, but there is one that seems to have been a topic of conversation for me lately. This is the decision to be a leader of leaders, not a leader of students. I know, this seems a little contradictory, why would someone called to student...
May 2010
3 posts
Unicorns, The Perfect Man, and Salt-Exploded Frogs
There are a lot of myths I’ve heard over the years. Some I know for a fact are false and don’t even give the time of day, others I like to imagine are true and turn a blind eye to thinking of how unrealistic they are, and some may possibly be true, but the thought of looking into finding out the facts kind of freaks me out.
In student ministry the same occurs. You hear myths all...
Christians making fun of Christians...Christian...
I have a confession: I don’t like Christian music!
I have another confession: I secretly mock the person who says that they do.
I know, it is horrible. There is so much value in the world of Christian music, but for some reason it is such a joke to me. Part of me doesn’t even feel bad about it. I think that every person who has grown up in a student ministry has had that...
More than Mediocre: what's in a name?
I think that every person should have a life-goal. Not something obtainable like owning a home or making partner in a firm (although those things are good), but something to strive for. I suppose goal is not the word, goals have an end result. Maybe vision statement is a better term, I just don’t really like that wording, but oh well, it is probably the best fitting. So people should...