8/25/16 Dear Uncle Paul, Hey, Uncle Paul, I just wanted to say hi and tell you about my summer because I have not heard from you since the end of the school year (I think). I figured that you would want to hear from me soon. So I wanted to write you a letter to tell you about my summer. The first week was our free week because my mom and dad were so nice that they gave us a free week to do whatever we wanted to do. Of course I played video games all week because that is what I love to do in my freetime. The second week my brother and I were at a thing at our church called VBS. VBS stands for Vacation Bible School. VBS is a thing were we go to our church for five days in a row, from 8:00 to 11:30, to play fun …show more content…
Each grade had its own section and group(s) My job this year was to be a helper for the games section. I have been a helper for two years now. (including this year).The games had to be connected to Jesus in a way. One of the games that we made up was cave building. The theme this year was Cave Quest. Cave Quest was all about following Jesus the light of the world. The object of the game was to make the biggest cave you could out of a certain number of boxes you were given. Each group had to work together to make the cave as big as they could make it as long as it was stable and did not fall over. I think that the last group did the best because they were not fighting over the boxes, whereas the other groups were fighting over the boxes. Also they were working together the best. So that was my second week of summer. The third week of summer was kind of a chores week. In that week and the free weeks that came after that, that we had I had to read for an hour each day, practice my instrument for half an hour or more. Also I had to do one house chore each day whether it's washing door handles or vacuuming the tile.Thirdly, I had to do one sudoku puzzle each day.In the fourth week I had band practice for the fourth of July (US
After, we played some fun activities like rolling down hills, which was this game where people crossed arms and then tried to have every body's arms straight. We also spotted deer. The deer were trying to hide from us when we saw them. They sprinted off faster than a cheetah when we saw them. We were able to have our lunch and then we played more fun games after that. My class went and walked all over Leroy oaks getting to see all of the nature. One guy who worked there taught us about acorns. He was hilarious, sarcastic, and was like go ahead and jump in the poison ivy. Next, we went inside a museum and did a scavenger hunt. The scavenger hunt was about raccoons and all the other creatures in the museum. I was not the biggest fan it but it went pretty quickly. All I had to do was look at some posters and in some drawers. Mrs. Palpant had a station where you had two rugs and you had to get across with six people on the mats and not touch the ground. It was hard to succeed because there are six people. I was always the person that had to move one of the mats up. The rugs were not very big only about two and a half by two. But, up next we were going to go in the water. I was ready to
The Eastern Christian School Association was founded in 1892. At that time, Christian day-schools were under the sponsorship of religious ethnic groups, for instance Irish Catholics or German Lutherans. Eastern Christian was formed by the Dutch immigrant community which settled in Paterson to work in the silk mills and had 102 students in its original enrollment. Since then, the school system has grown and diversified. It now includes three separate buildings which house an elementary school and a middle school in towns in Bergen County, and the high school in Passaic County. The system-wide enrollment is approximately 765 students, with about 342 in the high school, 196 in the middle school, and 227 in the elementary school. The schools are parent-owned and are governed by an elected Board of Directors. Support continues to be largely from members of the Reformed and Christian Reformed Churches
Last night during the middle of summer, I thought that I would stay up late and just play games the whole time. That’s how it happened though. I played my favorite game being a First-Person Shooter game. It was on my tablet and in a pixelated version.
I did not do much this weekend. I had two baseball practices that was it. One was on Thursday afternoon and the other was Friday morning. We worked on hitting an we also threw a little bit, which I don’t really like I just like to hit. We also played a weird game and it was really fun. It is hard to explain, but it involves a bouncy ball so that was fun.
Vacation Bible School is an amazing program that gets kids invested in their faith. I was gifted the opportunity to guide preschoolers through their Vacation Bible School experience and watch them grow in their faith. Vacation Bible School takes place at Hales Corners Lutheran Church, where I am a member. I helped with the set-up of the camp as well as be a leader for two days of the camp. The theme this year was “Cave Quest” and it focused on using God to find your way through life. Everyday of camp we started with devotion and songs. This part of the day always had a powerful impact because you could see the excitement in the kids eyes just coming to camp to learn about God. Next, we would go do a craft. The first day we made crosses out
“We didn’t hate white people,” she said softly. “We didn’t even know any. We hated the system. That’s what we were protesting about.” - Spoken by Janise Wesley Kelsey who participated in the children's crusade of 1963. During the Civil Rights movement, the children's crusade of 1963 became an international outburst. School aged childrens, some even seven or eight marched to end segregation in Birmingham Alabama. They were directed by Martin Luther King Jr. to plan the non violent protest on sixth street baptist church. Although, the local police didn’t react nicely, they kept marching on and made a beautiful achievement. The march was so significant in the world at the time because, of the age of the marchers, the town, and the achievement.
It is with deep sadness and regret that we, the Johnson Core Team, must write this letter regarding the actions during the past leadership weekend. Without a doubt, our team was greatly affected by it, and we still feel its effects now, even as we have returned home from camp. We realize that poor decisions were made by us as a Core Team – who posed as leaders of leaders – and the negative implications that it has made for us, our teachers, and our administration. It is a decision that we admit to being a risk to not only the face of Monsignor Percy Johnson’s leadership, but the face of Catholic Student Leadership within the TCDSB. We acknowledge that our decision and actions do not reflect
Family Friendly Church Assessment The Family Friendly Church Assessment provides helpful information to congregations looking to take their family ministries to a new level. Assessments work with the pastors and include listening groups of congregation members that explore the current ministries and future visions of family and children’s ministry. Assessments last for three days, provide a report of the findings of the assessments, and include a year of follow up assistance. The Family Friendly Church Assessment begins with a general reflection on church culture and youth ministry culture in general It includes complete reviews of the history and culture of the congregation itself.
Reflection of Fieldtrip #1: Evangelical Church Service As Scot McKnight once professed, “Evangelicalism prides itself on personal testimonies, and rare it is to find an Evangelical who doesn’t well up inside when someone tells a story of conversion. So proud are we of conversions into the faith--and by that we often mean the Evangelical faith, and not just the Christians faith—that we are prone to accept anyone who makes the claim.” Although most Christians have the same fundamental core values, there are variances between the numerous denominations, including Evangelicalism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, and Anglicanism. Starting with Evangelicalism, many Christians or people in general are often unable to define Evangelicalism, but can
Following the first reading is the responsorial psalm 128, which is taken from the fifth book of the psalms. Titled “The Happy Home of the Faithful,” psalm 128 is a prayer for God’s blessing and is one of the songs of ascents. Its verses describe how God shall bless all those “who fear[] the Lord” and “walk[] in his ways” (Ps 128:1). By being devoted to God and following His laws and commandments faithfully, one is able to live a good life as “the good in life comes from God” (Schaefer, 308). God’s blessings are seen in the physical benefits in one’s daily life from fruitful labor, happiness, prosperity, a fertile wife, and a plenitude of lively children.
The Family Friendly Church by Ben Freudenburg was an interesting book that I was not entirely sure how I would react to it because I had heard mixed reviews on it from different people; in the end, after reading it, I ultimately liked it. The book talked about a lot of truth in family ministry how it is not that important in many churches. Ben talked about how at one of his first church’s, he and his wife, Jennifer, took on the role of parents in the youth group and once they took another call the ministry fell apart because they had made it all about them and not the actual parents (Page 18). I like that Ben admitted this about his past and got me thinking about my home church’s youth ministry which parents were not prioritized to be involved
We were playing our traditional boys against girls war with my cousins. This is something I look forward to every year because we get to be outside and build forts. However I have learned that thinking two steps ahead of everything you do really does help.
What followed was the veritable obstacle course of bureaucratic red tape. My mailbox was almost bursting with forms, applications, packets, and all manner of reading to delve through before the start of classes. How silly could I have been to think that I was finally done with summer reading? After much deliberation (and some help from my parents), I had applied for housing, found my roommates, and registered for orientation.
The shepherd and sheep relationship is the best illustration for the relationship between pastor and parishioners. When Jesus asked Simon Peter does he love him three times and said to him “Feed my sheep”, the shepherd and flock relationship has been set. Since Jesus is our good shepherd (Jn. 10:11a), he laid out a good example for us to follow - to lay down his life for the sheep. (Jn. 10:11b) Thus, the wellness of both in and out of the parishioners should always be the concern in the pastors’ hearts. Soul care for the people is essential. Christian friendship is the foundation of Christian soul care. Pastoral ministry including preaching, teaching, and worship forms the broad context of pastoral counseling. Pastoral care is within pastoral ministry but broader than pastoral counseling. God’s love is the source and motivation. Within the pastoral care, there are spiritual direction and pastoral
A pastor has a great responsibility to minister the Word of God and to be a shepherd to his people. The pastor must be committed to biblical truths when he engages the work of the ministry. Some of these truths include: The Bible is the infallible Word of God, his preaching must be from the Word of God, and he must do proper exegesis to get to the authorial intent and proclaim that to his congregation.