Ministry, theology and stuff.
Well hello there.
Its now been roughly a month or so since I resigned from being a professioal eavesdropper. What have I been doing in the meantime?
Well to be honest not a whole lot really. The only real committments I know have are St John, Recharge (youth group at church) and doing this funny thing called a youth ministry internship one day a week.
I too should point out that the priority of each of those activities is by no way reflected in the order of the list. Furthermore, there are other items that in all honesty should be there. However, in the interest of simplicity they have been omitted. Rest assured those of you who really should know about such things allready know.
So anyway what have I really been up to? Well last year the internship idea was floated by one of the ministers at my church. After lots and lots of thinking, reflecting and not to mention prayer....always good to involve God in such things!!! Especially when you are thinking about sacrificing so much to serve him! I decided to take the internship on, or at least apply and see how we went.
So I lodged my application and shortly after attempted to talk to the relevant people at work. However, for whatever reason it seemed as though I was continually being ignored due to various work pressures. Not being one to cause a fuss I allowed that to slide. In the meantime I had been accepted into the program.
It had been my hope to reduce my workload to four days a week and do the internship on the side however, after carefully thinking it through again and looking at the pracitcalities of my job role, I realised that it was not a realisitic expectation to do so. Thus after much prayer, thought, reflection and guidance I decided to resign.
I have since began the internship and have been incredibly challenged in my approach to youth ministry and how I approach the bible and my own relationship with God. It has been an immense challenge and one that has been like walking up a very large hill covered in dense bush. Not light work at all, rather its been a hard slog, but a hard slog well worth doing.
All in all things are going well. My brain has never hurt so much in my life but hurt in a good way not in a I'm going into a coma kind of way. If only I had some way of earning that weird money stuff that now seems virtually non existent things would be quite fanschmabulous but I trust this too will happen in good time.
Stay tuned.
Its now been roughly a month or so since I resigned from being a professioal eavesdropper. What have I been doing in the meantime?
Well to be honest not a whole lot really. The only real committments I know have are St John, Recharge (youth group at church) and doing this funny thing called a youth ministry internship one day a week.
I too should point out that the priority of each of those activities is by no way reflected in the order of the list. Furthermore, there are other items that in all honesty should be there. However, in the interest of simplicity they have been omitted. Rest assured those of you who really should know about such things allready know.
So anyway what have I really been up to? Well last year the internship idea was floated by one of the ministers at my church. After lots and lots of thinking, reflecting and not to mention prayer....always good to involve God in such things!!! Especially when you are thinking about sacrificing so much to serve him! I decided to take the internship on, or at least apply and see how we went.
So I lodged my application and shortly after attempted to talk to the relevant people at work. However, for whatever reason it seemed as though I was continually being ignored due to various work pressures. Not being one to cause a fuss I allowed that to slide. In the meantime I had been accepted into the program.
It had been my hope to reduce my workload to four days a week and do the internship on the side however, after carefully thinking it through again and looking at the pracitcalities of my job role, I realised that it was not a realisitic expectation to do so. Thus after much prayer, thought, reflection and guidance I decided to resign.
I have since began the internship and have been incredibly challenged in my approach to youth ministry and how I approach the bible and my own relationship with God. It has been an immense challenge and one that has been like walking up a very large hill covered in dense bush. Not light work at all, rather its been a hard slog, but a hard slog well worth doing.
All in all things are going well. My brain has never hurt so much in my life but hurt in a good way not in a I'm going into a coma kind of way. If only I had some way of earning that weird money stuff that now seems virtually non existent things would be quite fanschmabulous but I trust this too will happen in good time.
Stay tuned.