...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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...in the Kingdom Paper The Part I Play in the Kingdom Paper PART ONE: My Fit in Ministry (Before): I fully understand what my position in my ministry now. Serving on the youth ministry, the women ministry, evangelism ministry, and the loss prevention ministry. I feel that my ministries are the ministries destined for me, because I served effectively on all of them and I love during so. Being able to give back and to helping other to come to Christ is what a good servant of God should be able to do: not just quoting scriptures but actually being out there getting down and dirty with the lost ones .Helping them to find what they have been seeking for in their lives and how they can reach out to God. Going to the nursing homes, the women shelter and youth group homes spreading the word to the women and men in there that feel that their love ones have walked off and forgotten them. In the women shelter who never knew Jesus as their personal Lord an Savoir, but knew drugs, sex and other things that was keeping them from getting closer to God. In the women shelter who never knew Jesus as their personal Lord an Savoir, but knew drugs, sex and other things that was keeping them from getting closer to God. Youth, who that have be abused and abandon: not train or taught who God was. After taking this class I am sure that these are my calling .Being in your class has given me a love for what I am doing for the Lord and makes my heart...
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...“Every child has a different learning style and pace. Each child is unique, not only capable of learning, but also capable of succeeding.” This quote, spoken by Robert John Meehan, presents the idea that every individual learns differently, and expanding on this idea, even different age groups learn variously. Statistics show that teenagers are more likely to attend some sort of worship service over adults (“What”). Our generation is slowly getting back into church and the youth is finding their way back. Every minister spends a great deal of time crafting lessons to reach out and impact individuals with the hope of advancing the kingdom of God. Keeping the audience in mind, pastors compose Bible teachings for every age to perceive. With an...
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...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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...him. William Franklin Graham, Jr. was born on November 7, 1918, in Charlotte, North Carolina. Billy was the first of four born to parents William and Morrow Graham. At the age of sixteen Billy went to a series of revivals done by evangelist Mordecai Ham, which would change his life forever. After hearing Mordecai’s sermon on sin he felt something. After high school Billy moved to Tennessee to go to a Christian college, Bob Jones College. He didn’t like the rigid doctrine that they had so he moved over to Florida Bible Institution. While in Florida Billy found him a church called...
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...pardoner’s tale displayed how greed and avarice can only bring treachery and death, the money causes them to behave in ways that lead to their demise. In the prologue, the pardoner admits that he is a fraud and is motivated by greed and avarice and many sins that he himself displays. He preaches that money is the root of all evil but sells relics to others which is supposed to bring them great fortune; he also states that many of his sermons are the product of evil intentions. When asked to tell a tale he agrees only after he has food and wine to eat and drink. He begins his tale about a group of young people who spend most of their time drinking and partying excessively, he names gluttony, drunkenness, gambling and swearing as a few sins they commit. As they drink a coffin passes and they are told its one of their old friends who was killed by the hands of death; the three personified death and decided to search for him and slay him in order to avenge the death of their old buddy. On the search they passed an old man who searched for youth again, he said “death won’t even take him” when he said this the three demanded to be lead to where death resided, the old man told them death was under the oak tree in the groove, when the approached the tree death wasn’t there, but eight bushels of gold. All three friends automatically began to plot on ways to receive a larger amount if not all the money, the older two sent the youngest back to town for food and wine, while he was away...
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...“The Prince of Preachers,” Charles H. Spurgeon is deserving of that title. Many have studied the work of Mr. Spurgeon, whether his sermons or his writing, in order to come to a deeper appreciation for the Holy Spirit inspired Word. It was a devotion to the Word that would begin and fuel the ministry that Spurgeon would devote most of his lifetime to. He was a preacher, a writer, and the founder of a number of great institutions. Each area of Spurgeon’s life continues to inspire and thrive today. LIFE AND DEATH Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) was born at Kelvedon, in Essex. His father, John, and Grandfather, James, were both Independent (Congregational) pastors and evangelical Calvinists. Charles’ mother Eliza bore seventeen children with only eight of them surviving through infancy. Due to the hardship that his parents faced, Charles was sent to live with his grandfather in Stambourne. It was in Stambourne where Spurgeon learned to walk, talk and read with the aid of his aunt Ann. During his early teen years, Spurgeon enrolled in an agricultural college with the aspirations of becoming a farmer. A year later, he transferred schools to Newmarket and there learned Latin and Greek but more importantly it was at Newmarket where he learned much about theology from the school cook, Mary King. Spurgeon and King often discussed the sermons they heard when they arrived back at school. “(I)t was from her that Spurgeon learned much about election, final perseverance and...
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...Katie Bucher 03/01/10 TR 11-12:30 Weckerly Faith Community For my Faith Community assignment, the place of worship that I chose to attend was the non-denominational church, Real Life. Being a non-denominational establishment, means that they do consider themselves Christians without determining which branch Christianity they belong to. Basically, they worship god and accept anyone who does the same. Since I was raised in the Roman Catholic Church, it was quite a different experience. When I first arrived I was immediately greeted by several people welcoming me to the church and asking me if I needed help finding my way around. I was very surprised by the amount of hospitality these people presented themselves with, because typically in a Catholic church everyone sort of sticks to themselves. Everyone was dressed in a different manner, in everything from gym clothes to a work uniform, the message portrayed in this was come as you are. “Sunday’s best” was paid no mind in this church. The room was an auditorium type set up with a huge big screen projector allowing everyone in the building to clearly see the pastor. There were no pews, no statues, no crosses, no deacons, no priest, instead, a band came out and started playing up-beat lively music. The people at the church really got into the music. Everyone was singing and dancing to the songs, and this went on for a good twenty minutes. This is much different from what I am used to because at the Catholic Church...
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...The name of the church was Kumgok Church and the address is “29, Gyeongchun-ro 1015, Namyangju-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea.” I went there on Sunday, July 12th. The service took place at 6 o’clock in the evening. The service I attended was “youth mass.” It was not the main service but it was mainly for youth group including college students. However, I was able to find many adults in the service as well. There were many women wearing white clothes over their heads, but I was not able to see any special clothes for men. The building itself was not abnormal. It was a brisk building that looked pretty new. The auditorium had a high ceiling and it had stained glass windows in every window, which I thought that it looked very nice and antique. Because it had high ceiling, it gave me more stable mood when I first went it. Since I arrived at the church right on time, I was not able to see any person greeting in front of the church. However, I assume that there is not a person particularly to greet people in front of...
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...LOCAL CHURCH COMPARISON GROUP PROJECT: KEALAOKAMALAMALAMA CHURCH We interviewed the kahu of the church, Kina Akana. The church we went to was Kealaokamalamalama Church, a Hawaiian Christian church. Scripture is used in their church every Sunday morning when they have service or convention. Each day they recite one of the scriptures in the bible and present it to their whole group. After they present it, they talk about the true meaning of it and give realistic examples of what it means. They have the youth present in front of all of them to sing a song after they recite a verse of scripture to learn except to recite it in Hawaiian. They want all the younger generations to have more faith in God and see the true God they may have...
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...segmented-programmatic to accommodate different ages individually in their own classrooms learning their own thing. A segmented-programmatic church means that the family is never together and are all learning something different. However, many churches have found that this method is becoming old and they are finding it to no longer work with today’s times. Researchers have shown that 70 percent of young people leave the church by age 22 this is because churches are failing to bring in young worshipers and keep new the old ones. Now, many churches are starting to lean towards a more family-integrated service. A family-integrated service is one in which all of the different classes you get with segmented model is eliminated. There is no youth group or children’s church, everything is done in the main sanctuary and the family is always together. The segmented-programmatic church model came out of the nineteenth century when school systems started putting students in tightly in tightly-graded classes. The church saw that this was a functioning model in society and they believe that it would work within their walls. The segmented-programmatic model has a couple good things that can come out of it; however, there are many bad things that come from it. One good thing that can come from the segmented-programmatic model is that each age can learn age specific things. For example, in a middle school class, going through puberty will be a hot topic for both the boys and the girls. That...
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...The Primary Sources “Sermons on Various Subjects”, “A Memorial of William Lloyd Garrison from the City of Boston”, and “Walden” reveal that mutual religious revival and the progressive reformation in the Second Great Awakening had been a paramount influential movement through change and increased church attendance in American history from 1790 to 1839. Specifically in Charles Finney’s “Sermons on Various Subjects”, sinners create their own “wicked” hearts. This notion can have many different meanings but can be inferred that those who sin make those choices by themselves. Their preference of choosing to sin is their own voluntary act, and nobody else’s. “They make self-gratification the rule to which they conform all their conduct. When they come into being, the first principle that we discover in their conduct is their determination to gratify themselves. It soon comes to pass that any effort to thwart them in the gratification of their appetites, is met...
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...Empowering Youth Focusing on Salvation and Service Missions Leadership Discipleship Evangelism Prepared by the General Conference Youth Department Layout by Ludi Leito A General Conference Youth Department publication. Please specify title when re-ordering. This material may be translated, printed, or photocopied by any Seventh-day Adventist entity without securing further permission. Republished documents must include the credit line: “Youth Department, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, used by permission. © 2001 General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists 12501 Old Columbia Pike Silver Spring, MD 20904, USA Contents Introduction...................................5 Introduction Chapter 1 Salvation and Service for All Ages ............................9 Chapter 2 OUTCOMES.....................................13 OUTCOMES Chapter 3 Discipleship Chapter 4 Leadership Chapter 5 Mission Chapter 6 Evangelism Strategies.................21 Strategies Strategies Strategies...................31 Strategies.........................37 Strategies Strategies..................41 Strategies “With such an army of workers as our youth, rightly trained, might furnish, how soon the message of a crucified, risen, and soon-coming Savior might be carried to the whole world!” (Education, p. 271). 4 Introduction It’s probably Ellen White’s best-known statement about...
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...11/14/2013 Holidays in China and Yemen AL-Dubai Omar Yaseen ZHEJIAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY Holidays in China and Yemen Submitted By AL-Dubai Omar Yaseen Abdulqader IMBA 2013219037 Zhejiang Normal University China, Zhejiang province, JinHua City Mobile: 18395969440, 669440 Email: yaxy@live.com Introduction: In my research I am going to compare between public holidays in China and public holidays in Yemen. Frist I am going to list the public holidays about China and later in my research I will list the holidays in Yemen Public holidays in China There are currently seven official public holidays in China. There was a major reform in 2008, abolishing the Labour Day Golden Week and adding three traditional Chinese holidays (Qingming Festival, Duanwu Festival, and Mid-Autumn Festival). A notable feature of mainland Chinese holidays is that weekends are usually swapped with the weekdays next to the actual holiday to create a long vacation period. January 1 New Year 元旦 Sun 1-Tue 3 January[ 1st day of 1st lunar month Chinese New Year 春节 Sun 22-Sat 28 January] 5th solar term (April 4 or April 5) Qingming Festival 清明节 Mon 2-Wed 4 April May 1 Labor Day 劳动节 Sun 29 April - Tue 1 May 5th day of 5th lunar month Dragon Boat Festival 端午节 Sat June 23 15th day of 8th lunar month Mid-Autumn Festival 中秋节 Sun September 30 October 1 National Day 国庆节 Mon 1–Wed 3 October Transferred holidays In all these holidays...
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...Catholicism Uncovering a religious understanding requires a universal acceptance of a higher being, and the willingness to accept the teachings of that particular faith. There are questions that many want answered in regards to what is religion, why so many different kinds of faiths, and what urges a person to practice certain religious traditions. What is known today is that religious traditions make who a person has become. Religion being a very complex issue throughout the world is a simple belonging, an attachment to the ultimate being. Some may look at having a religion as not being alone, or having a sense of direction in this confused world. Some find peace and answers sitting in from of a statues praying and some hold a cross. Others aim their prayers to the sky while some to the walls. Whatever the symbol God is present, through religious rituals people find division in yet all say basically the same. Assessing a religion to figure out why is this religion considered a true religion, and what drives these followers lives to be shaped in circumstance that hinder ones belief system. One of the most common religions today is Christianity, which carries the belief system that Jesus Christ was our savior, entailing the acceptance that Jesus is the son of God. At one point in history Christianity was divided in sects of the same belief system but including a newer understanding and tolerance of the faith. A faith of peace and clarity was established out of Christianity...
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