...Hannah Smith CHMN 201-[D06] 4/20/15 Church Leadership and Ministry Evaluation Paper For this paper, I did a self-evaluation. 1. Would you say that your congregation (or the people within your particular department or area of ministry) is “Living Out the Mind of Christ” (i.e. Unity, Humility, Selflessness) as they interact, serve, and minister to/with each other? How specifically do you as a ministry leader teach, cultivate, and maintain “The Mind of Christ” in your area of ministry? My area of ministry ranges from grades 6-12. At these young ages, students are still trying to find themselves. As they do so, they crave and desire a relationship with God. My team and I are very dedicated to teaching them that they are all united as one, and God loves each of them individually. This unity will hopefully teach them that they can lean on fellow believers their age and grow spiritually together. 2. Would you consider yourself a “Wounded Healer?” Also, would you please share an example where you have ministered to a person who is/was “wounded” in the same manner that you once were? (Cf. II Corinthians 1:3-5) Yes, I consider myself a wounded healer. I went through a physically and emotionally abusive relationship about three years ago. In going through this, I learned to find my self worth in God before I looked to others. I have been able to use my story to capture many girls in toxic relationships. One in particular was a girl my own age. She had been dating a guy...
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...conflict may or may not lead to felt conflict. Felt conflict is “felt” in the form of anxiety, tension and/or hostility. The final stage is manifest conflict. Manifest conflict is not only perceived and felt, but is acted upon. At work I recently was witness to the progress of conflict in these three stages between two employees. One employee was very shy, quiet and kept to himself. On the other hand another employee was outspoken, rude and disrespectful. It was a known fact that conflict between the two existed, also known as perceived conflict. The loud employee one day said to the quiet “why don’t’ you ever talk or have friends.” The individual kept quiet but this type of action moved the conflict into the “felt” stage since obvious feelings such tension and hostility became present. Eventually, it moved into the manifest conflict stage. The quiet employee printed off a personal bank statement and went to pick it up at the printer and oddly enough the loud disrespectful employee was reading it and laughing. The quiet employee proceeded to punch the loud mouth in the back of the head several times. Needless to say, this is an example of manifest conflict. This is a type of conflict that should be avoided, especially in the working environment. 2. Stages of group development The performance of groups depends on both...
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...The rain poured from the sky like it always does in this small town. Perfect rain drops as it hits the puddles. The smell of fresh cut grass lingers in the air. I love this smell. Summer is right around the corner. The beautiful waterfall catches your eye before you walk up the twenty one gigantic steps leading you to the beautiful glass doors which you would open and then you would enter into a 100 year old building. It almost looks like a mansion, it is so big. I let out a long breath of air as I entered. The feeling like I just got off work from a long day and sat down on the couch and kicked my shoes off. The scenery is so beautiful and relaxing. Custom Bronze Bench Seats that are made of books await you as you enter the first set of doors. These benches are a functional piece of art, for anyone to sit down, relax and enjoy the love of reading. Glass cases in the entrance with very old books and different items for our viewing. A Discovery, warmth, knowledge, dreams, and welcoming, those are just a few of the feelings people get when they walk into this library. Perfume and cologne smell lingers in the air. Tall ceilings with gigantic round light fixtures that hang down, with the lights dimmed. As I walked in, it was so calm and peaceful. Rows and rows of books. Magazines and books lying everywhere. The new books felt smooth, the old books made crinkly noises as you turned the pages and the old table had many rough spots. Artificial trees and plants stand in almost every...
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...important to each person, no matter students or working people. As we know, everyone want a comfortable place for them to relax and engrossed in their own work at home, therefore, well allocation of personal private space in every single house is necessary. In this house, we have got three bedrooms and all located in the second floor, hence, the private areas of my home are grouped together. Clean and quiet environments are the first element that normally required for a domestic space. My bedroom is quiet and clean and that fit my basic requirement. F.2. Day view of my bedroom on the second floor. We all in this house will not make noises to disturb each other so basically we will not be incommoded, especially in bed time. As my bedroom is located in the second floor, it is much more quiet than some rooms which are next to kitchen or garage. Also it is convenient to me that I do not need to share my bedroom with other people as I can do anything without other person’s permission. In my room, I always feel free, leisure and secure that I can do whatever I want to do in most of the time....
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...Raechel Huizinga Mr. Dempsey ENG 2D April 4, 2014 The Quiet Door One of the hardest tasks to accomplish in life is obtaining a sense of peace. In a disordered world that circles with fear and confusion, it is difficult to find. The concept faced and feared by all is the idea of death. It is not the act of dying that humankind desires to avoid, but the unknown beyond it. It is obvious through culture how the world fears death; movies, literature, and general behavior prove it. However, there are few who contradict the idea that death is dark and forbidding. In a poem called ‘Death is a Door,’ the author, Nancy Byrd Turner, writes, “Death is only a quiet door / in an old wall” (11-12). Some believe that death can be approached peacefully, rather than unwillingly. In the poem ‘Let Evening Come,’ Jane Kenyon uses various poetic devices, such as imagery, repetition, and symbolism, to create a peaceful mood. The peace the reader feels while reading the poem is the peace that can be adopted when crossing the threshold into death. Imagery is one of the most important literary devices a writer could use. Imagery allows the reader to become a part of the story and to interact with characters. Without imagery, there is no picture or setting, only empty words and actions that cannot be understood. The mood of a piece of writing can be created using imagery. In ‘Let Evening Come,’ Kenyon instills a peaceful mood by creating peaceful, comforting images in the reader’s mind. “Let the cricket...
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...writer was not afraid of being alone I believe he must be very familiar with the forest and probably grew up near it. The wood behind my house was a very special place for me. In the summertime it was a place to build forts and have adventures with my friends. On cool summer nights, it’s where my friends and I would pitch a tent and tell scary stories by flashlight. My family and I would go on hikes and discover a new place to pick wild blueberries for a pie my mother would bake that evening. Before the age of computers and cell phones, nature was where we learned about life. It was where the world would stop and we could imagine, dream and pray about the past, present and future. Before the author’s next journey, he is drawn to the quiet serene forest where he can contemplate his life’s journey up until this...
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...The Shades of Red By Angela Yohey We were children pushed together by marriage. We became sisters by choice much later in life as adults. Colleen Michelle was born August 28, 1971 in the Bloomsburg hospital just nine months after me to a woman not yet my mother. Her birth was just like her, in a hurry to start living life. She decided to leap into the world a whole 19 days early; no one, not even a doctor was going to tell her she needed to wait one more second to do what she was ready to do. She has continued to live her life with enthusiasm and energy. She was raised as an only child in a family that now has three daughters. I was raised with my biological sister Stephanie by our mother in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. Our parents divorced when I was five and Stef was eight. Colleen was four when her parents divorced. Her mother and my father married, and soon after they moved to Pittsburgh where Colleen would be raised. I always thought she had the best of him, and for that I was envious. I did not know their relationship had struggles from so far away. It would take years before a child would become a daughter and a stranger would become a father. Her very nature is flamboyant, as are the many shades of red in her personality. When she enters a room, the door flings open with a flurry of activity and chatter. It is straight to kisses and hugs that are not your average embrace. She takes you into the fullness of her...
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...and listen to the kids playing in the street. The Catholic school across the street had just let out and the street was full of the sounds of parents calling out and collecting their children. This was the most active our quiet dead end street would ever be. After all the children went home our block would settle down to just the kids that lived on our street. Next to us lived the Donavon family and they had a large family. There were 4 boys and one girl. They were friends with my cousins with whom I lived and they would always play outside our house. The girls name was Patricia and she had the most beautiful voice. Her words were soft and compassionate and when she spoke it seemed her words were aimed at me. As I listened to her from my window on this seemingly typical late afternoon I thought how it would be to join them and finally speak with Patricia. I slowly made my way down the creaky stairs and regrouped at the base of the stairs. I sat down on the bottom stair and leaned my head against the railing. It was so quiet and peaceful. I debated withy myself if I had the courage to go outside. Sometimes I was winning the debate and sometimes it seemed I was kidding myself. What I did know is the feeling of safety I had sitting all alone in the quiet and warm foyer of our home. I thought how wonderful it would be to talk with Patricia and hear her beautiful voice whispering her soft words into my ear. Outside I joined my cousins and they quickly brought me into their...
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...similar, but the dance moves and time frame are different in both Footloose movies. The first thing noticeable is the difference in the time eras from one movie to the other. In the 1984 movie, the game of chicken is introduced when Ren is challenged to play chicken on farm tractors on a narrow road. Ren is driving one tractor and Chuck is driving the other going toward one another until one tractor goes into the ditch. Now in the 2011 movie, Ren and Chuck play chicken using derby busses to play the game, by racing in a figure eight (with four busses total making sure to not go too fast or too slow). The end is when one of the busses catches on fire, as Ren jumps from the bus, and crashes into the other bus. The other thing one will also notice is the similarities and difference between the reckless behaviors in the two movies, in the 1984 movie, when Ariel (the preacher’s daughter) is leaving church in a car with her friends; Chuck drives up beside the girls. Ariel climbs out of the car onto Chuck’s truck, and at one point Ariel is standing between the two vehicles while an oncoming eight-teen wheeler approaches head-on; both vehicles wind up in the ditch. Another time when Ariel’s reckless behavior comes into play in both movies, is when visiting the yearbook (old freight train cargo car that sits in the train rail yard). Students have been writing all over it with things that everyone could read that they thought was important to them at that time in their lives. Ariel ask Ren...
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...Name: Course: Tutor: Date: Essay A. Summary The author of the article begins the essay in an extremely captivating manner. The story revolves around the prominent character named saguaro. The writer defines the large cactus found in deserts as funny objects that make the desert look less tedious a dry than it should be. Throughout his description of saguaros, the writer shows some extensible knowledge and understanding while giving facts on how long they can grow and live before falling. The writer then shifts from talking about the saguaros and introduces the real picture of where he is. In his narration, the author focuses on the olden days when apaches used to attack citizens forcing them to run to hide in the mountain until they (the apaches) had left. The writer also focuses on the desert and the experiences while sojourning. In the end, he mentions a hotel with a hot-tempered woman and another town with no life in it (Moon 111) A. Questions set 1 1. Surgeons are large cactus that looks like trees. They grow to be about 200 years old. However, most of them fall of with half the age to full maturity. They grow arms after forty to fifty years. The rate of maturity is six million to one. (Benson, 122) 2. Cactus wrens use the surgeons as their nest. The birds curve their nests in surgeons. In the nest, they are safe from all things expect the black raisers which swallow eggs whole. 3. The sentence show how empty and hot Arizona was where the only place...
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...Mbp Report Name: Wing Yiu, See (Rix) Student Number: 13040295 Introduction A restaurant, which is called Toro noodle bar, has been found in this report. Toro noodle bar is a Chinese restaurant and which is mainly providing the Chinese food to the customers. Despite that, Toro noodle bar focus on serve to the foreigners especially local, rather than focus on Asians. Moreover, the decoration and the service of the Toro Noodle Bar is not same as traditional Chinese restaurant like Toro noodle bar set up a bar table and providing English beer to the customers. This report will be divided into three sections to analysis this organization and give some recommendation to this company. The first section will concentrate on looking at the five performance objectives such as quality, cost, speed, etc, in order to analysis the company performance. Secondly, this report will base on five performance objectives of the company to create an important/performance matrix, thus analysis the matrix. The last section will talk about the capacity strategy and give the recommendations of the capacity strategy to the company. First Section Performance objectives are used to indicators of effective performance. According to SAGE Publications Ltd, “performance objectives in order to ensure that resources are allocated appropriately in operation it is necessary to record, monitor and review aspects of operations performances.” Performance objectives can be divided into five aspects which allow...
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...game day. Although we hadn’t made the playoffs it was still a big game since it was the last game of the season as well as me and many teammates last time playing together. As the bell rung to dismiss my class I could feel the butterflies in my stomach start to grow, nervous and anxious to play as I always was even though the game didn’t start for another 5 hours. I went on about my day as I normally would, went home and took a nap. After waking up and getting ready for the game I was finally back at school which is when I really began to feel the pressure. It was as if my heart was hanging by a thread, ready to drop into my stomach and join what felt like a million butterflies. With every step I took the gymnasium only grew in size, making me more nervous. We were all walking silently, my teammates and I, mentally preparing ourselves for what was about to take place. As we reached the entrance and took our first steps inside, all that was happening overcame me. The smell of popcorn from the concession stand, the sound of sneakers squeaking on the polished hardwood floors, bursts of excitement from the crowd. “We did it. We actually made it.” Was the only thing running through my mind. After a solid 5 minutes of walking we finally made it to our changing room, the sound of bags hitting the floor and zippers filled the quiet room. Coach came in followed by our assistant coach, and walked up to the front of the room. We all were expecting just a quick briefing, Coach liked to...
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...In The Quiet American by Graham Greene, Thomas Fowler’s perspective of Vietnam is more justified because due to his greater experience, he understands the situation in Vietnam more holistically, compared to Alden Pyle. Some might say that Pyle’s perspective is more justified because he seems to genuinely want to help the Vietnamese people. He is passionate about introducing them to the western democratic way of life, because he thinks it’s the cure to their problems. However, Pyle lacks the experience to truly understand them. When Fowler is explaining the cause of Pyle’s death he says to the American Economic Attaché, “... You gave him money and York Harding's books on the East and said, 'Go ahead. Win the East for democracy. He never saw...
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...Anyone know about the symbolism in ‘A Quiet American’ by Graham Greene? | Pyle represents the idealistic New Age America, thirsty for heroism. Phuong represents pre-war Vietnam, passive, innocent. What exactly does Fowler represent? Is it the wisdom and world-weariness of Old Europe or Britain’s involvement in the war simply for personal gain? | The symbolism of the individual characters has to be placed within the context of colonialism, since that was the relationship between the nations they each represented. Pyle's motives are far from heroic. An idealism that is motivated by interventionism in a Third World country's affairs can be dangerous and destructive, not only in the way Graham Greene saw it in the early fifties, but as history proved it by the events that unfolded years later, leading to the US war in Viet Nam. Or for what is happening now in Iraq, if you will. Fowler had the "old colonialist" wisdom that questioned Pyle's justification for violence. He had already learned that "democracy" is something many countries neither understand nor want, and any foreign attempt to impose it is doomed to failure. I don't know that this helps, but I can't see the novel any other way. | | Outline of characters | Thomas Fowler is a British journalist in his fifties who has been covering the French war in Viet Nam for over two years. He meets a young American idealist named Alden Pyle, who is a student of York Harding. Harding's theory is that neither Communism...
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...advantage for me. Probably some of you think that it is not a quiet city to live and that’s true, but that is one the principal reasons that I like to live in this city; I’m young and I am not prepared to live in a boring city yet. If you are looking for the biggest party of your life you can find it, on the other hand if you need a quiet place to spend some time with your friends and your family you have a lot of options, many restaurants, parks, beaches, bars, cultural centers, etc. Miami has fantastic weather. It is summer almost all year long. That could be one of the main reasons why Miami is visited by a lot of tourist all year long. According to data released by the US National Travel and Tourism Office Miami was the second most visited city in the US with more than over 4 million visitors in 2013. It’s increased 15% from 2012. When I came to Miami the first thing that I loved was its views. I don’t know if you have experienced the same feeling but when I saw this amazing city with the most beautiful skyline that I had ever seen in my life. Wow!!!! I can’t describe how emotional it was. Miami also is a good place to find a decent job. It has many companies and factories; therefore you could get a job related to the field which you are studying. Moreover, you have a lot of opportunities to start a small business in Miami. Furthermore there are many fast food restaurants so you could easily find a job working part time if you are a student. Miami is all for me. It is my...
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