...Liberty University CHAPLAIN AUTUMN WILSON: BACKGROUND AND INTERVIEW A paper submitted to Dr. David Hirschman In partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the course LEAD 635 Liberty Theological seminary By WILLIS WAINRWIGHT Lynchburg, Virginia Sunday AUGUST 25, 2013 The Pastor I interviewed is my Chaplain onboard USS SHILOH CG-67, Autumn Wilson, from Atlanta, Georgia. Chaplain Wilson has been in church ministry practically all her adult life. She has served churches in Atlanta, Florida, Rhode Island and Yokosuka Japan. She has served in the traditional setting as a choir director and as a youth pastor. She has a B.A. degree from Georgia State University in church ministries and received his Master of Arts in Religious Education from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. Autumn has heart for missions, both locally and internationally, and sees herself finishing her career in the mission field overseas where she currently reside at in Yokosuka Japan. Observations Chaplain Wilson is a transformational leader. The mission statement onboard ship is KNOW the Lord, Grow in the word, and Go into the entire world preaching his name.’ She has a passion and enthusiasm for those locally and internationally. Locally, she is a familiar face at the on base community center; knowing everyone that works there by name and many of the regular visitors. She knows about their marriages and kids; the things that they are interested...
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...restoration. When devastation happens within a family and hopelessness is among those that remain, whom do you call? A hospital Chaplain is available for families in their time of need and suffering. “Many hospitals stress that although their chaplains belong to specific religious groups, the spiritual services provided are interfaith, meaning that people of all religious faiths will be respected, and that additional religious officiants can be provided upon request.” (Smith, 2012) The roll of a hospital Chaplain is to offer families or individuals spiritual support at any time. This also includes staff members. In specific situations when death is the unfortunate result of a patient, The Chaplain may be requested to be at the bedside for the remaining family members. They offer support and spiritual guidance and are available to questions and concerns about the patient’s death. They may refer the family to outside services for funeral planning as well. Nurses and physicians may also call upon the Chaplain for their patients that have expressed depression and despair. The patients always have the option to refuse the services of a Chaplain at any time as well. The author recalls running into the hospital Chaplain from time to time in the halls of the hospital. He was welcoming and available to answer question or concerns for those that approached him. The Chaplain may hold a spiritual service at the hospital, typically on Sunday mornings, for all who choose to attend. At the hospital...
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... | |Julia Keleher | |Nigel francois | |5/13/2012 | | | Job description When researching the company that I will work for I choose Florida Hospital. The position that I choose and research is Director of Pastoral Care. The job description of this position goes as follows: The Director of Pastoral Care is responsible for managing the Pastoral Care Department. S/he oversees and ensures the provision of pastoral care to patient/residents, their loved ones, and, as appropriate, to staff. S/he oversees and ensures provision of education and training as appropriate for the institution. S/he communicates and provides liaison with the religious community and administers the Pastoral Care Department. S/he participates in the institution’s management structure. Principal Duties and Responsibilities 1. Ensure the delivery of a complete program of pastoral care to patients/residents...
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...was Junior Seau was killed Wednesday by a gunshot wound to the chest. His family will let researchers study his brain for evidence of trauma. The chaplain of the San Diego Chargers Shawn Mitchell told Cnn News on Friday. Since the news have broken about Junior killing himself a lot of people think that all of the hits that he was taking over all of the years that he was playing football took a part in why he might have killed his self. The family made the choice to go through with this idea to help the NFL players and the other players in the future that are playing this sport. The corner said that it will be a while before the can complete the autopsy on the body. There two links that are included in the report. The one link is part of Cnn, talking about how a lot of players from that 1994 team started to lose their lives. It was 8 people from that team. The other link is connected to the San Diego new channel 10 about his that might have an connection to the NFL All three websites have some of the same things but some are every different. Cnn News had to people on this story since it broke. The other website sites just had one person cover what was going on with this. The story from Cnn was on about player safety in the Nfl not so much about what is really happen to him. MSNBC: The story starts out that the Chargers chaplain telling Sam Farmer of the Los Angeles times that the family has made the choice to allow his brain to be studied. The news broke Wednesday that he...
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...General Exec. Questions: 1) What do you feel are your strongest leadership qualities and how will they help you lead as a member of exec? Or what do you think is the most important attribute an exec member should possess? I feel that my strongest leadership qualities include honesty, integrity and commitment. These characteristics will allow me to be a strong leader for our chapter. Members can be assured that my honesty and integrity will determine the choices I make on the executive board and that these decisions will be in their best interest. A strong leader is determined to serve the needs of the fraternity, not the other way around. I will determine what my brothers want for our chapter and be committed to serving their needs. Furthermore, my commitment to strengthening and supporting our chapter and my ability to delegate tasks effectively will assist the chapter in accomplishing its goals. 2) What is the goal and responsibility of the exec board as a whole? A strong executive board is essential to a successful chapter. The responsibilities of the executive board are to guide the chapter in a direction where it can effectively accomplish its goals. To do this the executive board needs to utilize strong management skills in order to create and execute strategies that make the fraternity self-sufficient and grow. Our main goal needs to be to create an environment that attracts the finest new members who will be an asset to the chapter. The next executive board...
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...Combat Medics whom I will call SGT Medic, had committed suicide. The Soldiers’ cry for help and those who heard but did not listen to the warning signs of suicide. A Combat Medics Cry for Help Noncommissioned Officers (NCOs) are the back bone of the United States (U.S.) military. We are responsible for the training and leadership instilled in our Soldiers. This NCO had developed into an effective Combat Medic where his duty was to provide emergency medical treatment until further assisted. He lived his life helping others on and off the battlefield. This paper will provide an overview of an NCO Combat Medic battling his own internal daemons from the Iraq war that took away all that training instilled and the ability to adapt. In addition, this paper will give an example on how no matter the amount of training received, the amount of videos seen, numerous times hearing a Chaplain brief on Suicide Prevention there will come a time the warning signs are evident, and you will not react. The Call August 30th, 2015 approximately 19: 30 my husband and I were watching television, and in between commercials reading my emails. My cellphone rang and I recognized the number, one of my NCOs . As I greeted him, his first words to me were “Command Sergeant Major (CSM), I think SGT Medic killed himself”, I responded “how, when did this happen”? The Soldier had been on his Facebook page and had seen many messages of rest in peace, thinking of you, we will miss you. I asked the Soldier...
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...Meursault's interaction with authority, his attitude towards Marie, and his attitude towards his own death as a means of summarizing the major message of the book. Meursault is uncaring for his actions towards the authority strengthening the theme. Going through the case, Meursault did not seek the Chaplain’s empathy to convince them he was innocent, rather he did the opposite. The chaplain asked if Meursault believed in God because his belief was that, “... all men believed in God… and if he were ever to doubt it, his life would be meaningless. ‘Do want my life to meaningless?’ he shouted… It didn't have anything to do with me, and I told him so” (69). His response reveals that no one should be able to control another person’s life and beliefs; even if it was the authorities or a greater power. If he chose to change his belief and...
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...as she wanders through the harsh prison, to deliver some sad news to a killer-inmate. The story is playing out in what seems like a classic county prison. Evie, the catholic chaplain, is assigned to tell the inmate, Victor Zamora, that his Nan dead. As she enters his cell, she immediately notices, that Victor is not a regular long-term prisoner. Even though he has been imprisoned for five years, for killing a fellow student with a butterfly knife, he does not have any long-term staleness, as you would expect people like him to have. His skin is still olive and his eyes are blue, and they still have spark. And when she brings him the news, he does not react, as you would expect. He does not start to cry or become upset, which would be the typical reaction. And at the same time, she wonders, how something with as peaceful a name as a butterfly knife can be used to perform such a horrible act. The plot of this story proceeds chronologically, and we are thrown directly into the story without any form of introduction. There are no flashbacks, no flashforwards or foreboding. It is all happening as it would in real time, without any jumps in time. It is a third person, limited omniscient narrator, which is following Evie’s point of view. It is a third person narrator, because terms such as “I say” or “I feel” are not used in the story. We can tell, that the narrative function is following Evie, because it describes how she is feeling and thinking: “As soon as she says these words...
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...society known to the characters of The Outsider by Albert Camus, gender ideologies are explored. In the novella, men are represented as the dominant, powerful gender while women are represented as weak and undermined. It is through the character of Meursault’s girlfriend Marie, that the idea of gender identity is revealed. When Meursault is arrested for the murder of the Arab man, Marie is called to court as a witness to the crime, as well as been questioned for her own character. At the court case, instead of Marie being asked for her recollection of the events that took place on the night of the murder, she is interrogated about her relationship with Meursault, in particular her sexuality. ‘He therefore asked Marie to describe the day on which I had intercourse with her’ (page 90) The judge and the jury manipulate the information given from Marie creating the illusion that she is rather promiscuous and uses her sexuality to get...
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...tells” Sorry for the Loss. It means that the narrator doesn’t have access to the thoughts of the other persons in the novel. Therefore, in this case, the narrator has a limited point of view. The narrator does only have access to the thoughts of Evie, who is a Catholic chaplain. Therefore, we don’t have access to the thought of Victor or the officer. If we had access Victors thought or the officers. We would have a bigger picture of the situation and their reaction to various subjects. The restricted point of view gives us as reader better understanding of Evie. We learn how Evie is as a person for an example. She says “Although she has been in the post for over a year she still finds the environment of a prison abrasive and intimidating” (P.1, L 18-19) Evie is the main character of the novel, she is characterized by the narrator as an inexperienced Chaplain since it’s her first time she is going to deliver a death notice without an assistant. “This will be the first death notice she has delivered on her own and she wants to get it right” (P.1, L 1-2) The fact that, it’s her first time coming with a death notice without any assistant to Victor, who has lost a member of his family. It frustrated her, she wants to finish it as quickly as possible. When she tells Victor...
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...Leadership Stress Management Through Effective Leadership Before taking this class, I thought that stress was the sole topic and just that. To my surprise, stress management is actually comprised of a variety of elements. I compare it to a pie (the “stress”) cut into triangular shaped pieces (e.g. internal management, death of an officer, dangerous situations, misconduct, sleep, testifying in court, effects on the family) forming a whole circle. My initial concern was the impact of how administrators handled (or mishandled) the management level of their employees. That was important to me because it determined how effectively a department is run which greatly influences the overall morale of its employees, thus molding the primary sources of stressors (Zhao, He, & Lovrich, 2002). I believe that most police departments do desire to supervise their employees as effectively as possible. Over the years, administrators have presented evolving opinions of what constitutes effective supervision. One way to look into the subject of management is to view it from the subordinate’s perspective. For example, what do police officers expect from their sergeant? And sergeant from a lieutenant? Supervisors become effective managers when they teach, conduct and delegate cases fit for each police officer. For example, in order for me to compose the best team possible for a serial rapist case, I would have to choose those properly trained and with the most experience in the field...
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...I first observed Mark on 1/16/18 when he came treatment team. Mark said that he didn’t know why he is here (at the hospital). He asked the psychiatrist about his medication, saying that he doesn’t like the way it makes him feel and that he doesn’t like what they are doing to him. He quickly got tearful and said that he really misses his family, he just wants to leave and start living life while he is young enough to do so. Maybe have a family of his own one day and that time is running out. The psychiatrist talked to him about the importance of medication and Mark replied that chewing gum is more helpful than the meds. He said he does not need antipsychotics and that he is not a schizophrenic and is just here because he kept getting into...
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...who is prison chaplain. In the text she is about to tell an inmate that a relative of his died. This is the first time she is going to do this. The text is about the expectations she has towards telling him the grim news and how people can surprise you. She had her expectations and maybe even prejudices going into that cell. By analyzing symbols and reactions in the novel, this essay will look deeper on the reaction of the inmate Victor. This essay will also look at Evie’s workplace and how she feels about her work. Last, it will look at some of the symbols in the text and how they are used to make us understand certain points in the text. Victor reacts differently than Evie expected because he understand his situation. Victor seems to care very little about his grandmother’s death. At least compared to what you would expect but there is one thing you need to understand. Victor is in for murder and has done 5 years. He will be doing a lot more years and there is no point in becoming soft now. He knows the rules in the prison. “Is there anything you’d like me to do? I can find out the time of the funeral if you like?” “I won’t be able to go though will I, Miss?” (p. 4 l. 140-141). He would like to go if he could but he knows that he cannot so he does not want to seem like he cares. Prison is tough and when you are behind bars for as long as a man with a murder sentence is, your hard surface is very important. He is not trying to be intimidating or frightening but I he is trying...
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...the final time.” (Atwater, 1964) “How do you parent without a net, without a future, knowing that you will lose your child, bit by torturous bit?” (Rapp, 2011) Will it be a boy or a girl? What color will the eyes, the hair be? Whose smile will the baby have? These are just a few of the many questions that begin when parents find out they have conceived a child, and most of the time the questions only grow as the pregnancy progresses too; what will they want to be when they grow up? Who will they look like? Will they be strong, graceful, independent, or determined? Should we look at preschools and colleges now? It may not seem to occur very often that parents will say to themselves; we never thought about how we might parent a child without a future. Now instead of questions that may focus on the future, the focus is questions for the present and seeking answers; how much time will I have with my child? How do I handle the problems and pain? Why is my child being punished before they are even born? What did I do wrong? Why won’t anyone tell me how to fix this? In some situations, such as the case study for this paper, these questions occur all too often and may have only heartbreaking...
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...Vincent Coughlin PATHE 200 Final Project Spring/15 RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY IN MEDICINE THESIS STATEMENT: Patients with multiple religious beliefs are treated everyday by emergency care workers which creates a void in respect towards the patient and their beliefs if the proper training and knowledge are lacking. INTRODUCTION When the subject of religion and spirituality come up in conversation in the governmental arena most people will argue that they are both on separate planes and should remain that way. But when people were asked if there is a place for religion in the medical field, the majority of those asked will say that they would prefer their physicians inquire about their individual faith and beliefs. In fact, polls indicate that the U.S. Population is highly religious; that most people believe in Heaven and hell. The same people also believe in the healing power of prayer and the capacity of faith to aid in the recovery from disease (N.E.J.O.M. 342). Religion and Spirituality have become an intricate part of patient care in the last 20 plus years. Religion is understood as a set of beliefs, rituals and practices usually embodied within an institution or an organization. Religion is more generalized and all-inclusive. Spirituality is more defined and specific to each individuals Religion. Spirituality is thought of as a search for what is sacred in life, one’s deepest values, along with a relationship with God...
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