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This brightens my day.

Posted in photograph, urban children's ministry on July 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Dear Miss Jan, I love you very much you are nice to me and you love me to.

I’ve had a couple bad days recently, but love letters like this totally refresh me!

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Published!

Posted in personal, tagged , , , on July 30, 2008 | 5 Comments »

Today I had my first article published!
My denomination’s international magazine published an article I submitted over a year ago about my experience at youth camp! Check it out here, pg. 24-25.
RelevantMagazine.Com published an article I wrote called Life is Bigger Than This Moment but the COG Evangel is my first print article! Exciting!

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Water day – I’m so proud!

Posted in urban children's ministry on July 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Our Water Day on Friday made the UrbanPromise blog!
Check out the fun here!
The kids really enjoyed dousing me with buckets of water. They were even tricky about it! “Hey, Miss Jenn, we want to show you something….come on!” And then….woosh!
We had four stations of water games:
1. Water relay – [...]

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Camp Faith – week 3

Posted in videos, tagged on July 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »

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Family Breakfast.

Posted in photograph on July 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

On Friday mornings we have our Camp Faith family breakfast for the staff. Food is the key to a person’s heart, I’m learning.

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Sacred.

Posted in urban children's ministry, tagged on July 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Things have been going really well at camp these last few weeks. I’m already in love with the kids and the teenagers are definitely growing on me.
I’ve had tremendous conversations and have been learning more about what life is like in Camden. However, I’m hesitant to share these conversations and experiences [...]

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Stuff White People Like.

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on July 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Again, via twitter, through my friend HBB I found:
Stuff White People Like – #62 Knowing What’s Best For Poor People

“White people spend a lot of time of worrying about poor people. It takes up a pretty significant portion of their day.
They feel guilty and sad that poor people shop at Wal*Mart instead of Whole Foods, [...]

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In the ghetto.

Posted in videos, tagged , , , , , on July 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

My friend Jason sent me this via twitter a couple of days ago and it’s hilarious:

In The Ghetto
On a cold and gray Chicago mornin’
Another little baby child is born
In the ghetto
(In the ghetto)
And his mama cries
because if there’s one thing that she don’t need
it’s another little hungry mouth to feed
In the [...]

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Notes to self v2 – They want what you got.

Posted in theology, tagged , , on July 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

For the last year, in the Notes application in my iPhone I have a list of notes I’ve made to myself from things I’ve agreed with, things I wanted to think about more later or things I found out right heretical.
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From 181 days ago:
People become Christians because they see what you have and how you’re [...]

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Love letters and shells.

Posted in urban children's ministry, tagged , on July 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »

My new kids are really the sweetest group of kids I’ve ever worked with. I’ve only known them a couple of weeks and they are already lavishing me with affection.

Zahriah went to the beach yesterday and brought me back this shell. How thoughtful!

Hector and Kelia spent last night drawing me pictures and then [...]

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