A lot of people have died lately. That blows for us still here...
much love.
carrie jade
p.s. time to bust out the Valley Song again.
07 July 2009
19 June 2009
Kinda Neat
I follow Huntington University on Twitter and finally got curious enough about something they were "tweeting" about to investigate.
A while back some students created a video called "After Hours". It was filmed int he Huntington Courthouse and won some award and has since been submitted to a few contests. You can see it here:
The only person involved with the film that I know personally is Lance Clark - he's a professor there, a very good one at that.
If the star of the film looked familar, "and you think he can dance", he can also be seen here:
So he didn't actually go to Huntington, but that's still pretty cool, I think.
Read here for HU's press release.
much love.
carrie jade
A while back some students created a video called "After Hours". It was filmed int he Huntington Courthouse and won some award and has since been submitted to a few contests. You can see it here:
The only person involved with the film that I know personally is Lance Clark - he's a professor there, a very good one at that.
If the star of the film looked familar, "and you think he can dance", he can also be seen here:
So he didn't actually go to Huntington, but that's still pretty cool, I think.
Read here for HU's press release.
much love.
carrie jade
08 May 2009
live
I'm going to see this band next Saturday in Fort Wayne. The keyboard man is one of Drew's best friend's older brothers. I'm pretty excited...
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another:
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what's one more?
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Dad - I really think you'd like this so I'm sending you an invite on facebook :) I think you'll like the last link best. At least I do...
much love,
carrie jade
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another:
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what's one more?
http://
Dad - I really think you'd like this so I'm sending you an invite on facebook :) I think you'll like the last link best. At least I do...
much love,
carrie jade
24 April 2009
in ah rest in
The seminary at which I work recently started working with the Missionary Church's PLI program so that they will be able to offer Bachelor and Master's level degrees to their graduates through WTS. That being said, I received their Spring 2009 newsletter this morning and found the opening paragraph interesting:
Not long ago Bill Bright, founder of Campus Crusade for Christ and the Global
Pastors Network, published the following statistics derived from polling pastors
across denominational lines:
1500 pastors leave the ministry each month due to moral failure, spiritual burnout, or contention in their churches.
4000 new churches begin each year, but over 7000 churches will close.
95% of pastors do not regularly pray with their spouses.
90% of pastors said their seminary or Bible school training did only a fair to poor job preparing them for ministry.
90% said ministry was completely different from what they expected.
80% of seminary and Bible school graduates who enter the ministry will leave the ministry within the first five years.
80% of pastors’ spouses feel their spouse is overworked.
80% of adult children of pastors surveyed have had to seek professional help for depression.
80% of pastors (and 84% of their spouses) feel unqualified and discouraged in their role as pastors.
80% of pastors surveyed spend less than 15 minutes in prayer daily.
70% of pastors constantly fight depression.
70% of pastors do not have a close friend, confidant, or mentor.
70% said the only time they spend studying the Word is when they are preparing their sermons.
70% felt God called them to pastoral ministry before entering ministry, but only 50% still felt called after three years in ministry.
50% Are so discouraged that they would leave the ministry if they could, but have no other way to make a living.
50% of pastors’ marriages will end in divorce.
40% (almost) of pastors polled said they have had an extramarital affair since beginning their ministry.
So, either these statistics are completely discouraging or they're comforting to those pastors out there who comfortably fit into these statistics.
I think it raises two questions: 1. What are our seminaries doing wrong and/or missing? and 2. What can our denominational leaders do to address these needs of their pastors?
I personally would reccomend that mentors become a large part of seminary education (something the PLI program seems to emphasize, and the direction I feel WTS it moving towards). I would also suggest that more practical continuing education type events be held (either by denominations, seminaries, or third parties) that address areas such as burnout, balancing family and ministry, maintianing a healthy marriage in ministry, spiritual formation, depression, and specifically for my denomination: how to be a pastor who does it all (i.e. rural churches with little to no support staff). Maybe it's as simple as organizing support groups who reading books together, or creating online communities, I don't know.
And, as always, I will point out that we know little to nothing about how the survey was conducted. Who was surveyed? How many people? What qualified someone to be surveyed? What questions were asked? We all know that the questions themselves can scew the way a person answers, as well as knowing why they're being asked. There are several factors to a survey like this that can make the statistics completely worthless. However, I think there's some truth here regardless.
for what it's worth,
Carrie Jade
13 April 2009
The Valley Song
My supervisor's brother was killed yesterday. He was driving his motorcycle and was hit by a 19 year old girl.
After my lunch break I was jammin to Jars of Clay and heard this song. Jars of Clay music means a lot to me for a variety of reasons that maybe I will disclose at some other time. Anyway, The Valley Song came on and I decided that I want it played at my funeral instead of having the 23 Psalm read. Not that it's better than scripture but I just like it. Anyway, here's the video
And here are the lyrics:
much love.
After my lunch break I was jammin to Jars of Clay and heard this song. Jars of Clay music means a lot to me for a variety of reasons that maybe I will disclose at some other time. Anyway, The Valley Song came on and I decided that I want it played at my funeral instead of having the 23 Psalm read. Not that it's better than scripture but I just like it. Anyway, here's the video
And here are the lyrics:
You have led me to the sadness
I have carried this pain
On a back bruised, nearly broken
I'm crying out to you
I will sing of Your mercy
That leads me through valleys of sorrow
To rivers of joy
When death like a Gypsy
Comes to steal what I love
I will still look to the heavens
I will still seek your face
But I fear you aren't listening
Because there are no words
Just the stillness and the hunger
For a faith that assures
I will sing of Your mercy
That leads me through valleys of sorrow
To rivers of joy
I will sing of Your mercy
That leads me through valleys of sorrow
To rivers of joy
Alleluia, alleluia
Alleluia, alleluia
While we wait for rescue
With our eyes tightly shut
Face to the ground using our hands
To cover the fatal cut
And though the pain is an ocean
Tossing us around, around, around
You have calmed greater waters
Higher mountains have come down
I will sing of Your mercy
That leads me through valleys of sorrow
To rivers of joy
Yeah
Alleluia, alleluia
Alleluia, alleluia
Alleluia, alleluia alleluia, alleluia
Alleluia, alleluia alleluia, alleluia
I will sing of Your mercy
That leads me through valleys of sorrow
To rivers of joy
I will sing of Your mercy
That leads me through valleys of sorrow
To rivers of joy
I will sing of Your mercy
That leads me through valleys of sorrow
To rivers of joy
I will sing of Your mercy
That leads me through valleys of sorrow
To rivers of joy
Oh, Lord sing of Your mercy,
Mercy
Your mercy
much love.
26 January 2009
25
I've been thinking about doing this for some time. I'm not sure why...it's a facebook thing so I'm breaking all the rules but posting on my blog but I'm just a rebel like that.
Rules: once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you . at the end, choose 25 people to be tagged . you have to tag the person who tagged you . if i tagged you, it’s because i want to know more about you... was told to tag 25 different people...
1. I keep Cranberry juice jugs full of filtered water under my desk. There are currently 3 empty ones, 1 full one, and 1 almost gone. I try to drink one a day.
2. I have weird eating habits. On Monday I get hungry for something and then I eat it once a day for almost an entire week - sometimes two. Last week it was caesar salad, this week it's feeling like Tostitos Party Pizzas (not nearly as healthy).
3. I read more often than I watch tv.
4. I touch my face when I read. That sounds a lot creepier than it actually is.
5. I crave my grandma's spanish rice almost once a week (at least) and then I get really sad and a lot of times I cry about it.
6. I recently started collecting crosses. I have 3. One is from my parents, they got it at Ten Thousand Villages. The other two were on clearance at Hobby Lobby and for some reason I think that's humorous - in a dry sense of humor way.
7. Royal Tennenbaums is my favorite movie and I can almost say it word for word.
8. I recently started putting tomatos and mayo on my grilled cheese sandwhiches.
9. I could eat macaroni and cheese every day for the rest of my life and not complain. Even if I was restricted to the Blue box.
10. I drink a glass of milk with a straw every night before bed, Monday thru Thursday, and also on Sunday.
11. I can't sleep if I can see an open door.
12. Worms and beans are the two most discusting things on this planet, in my opinion, and the sight of them makes be want to vomit. Always.
13. After I work out for a decent amount of time I crave two things: crunch wrap supremes and double cheese burgers from McDonalds.
14. I quit drinking vanilla lattes unless someone else is buying. If you've known me for the past 5 years you know this is a dramatic change in my life.
15. The Giver is my favorite book and has been since 4th grade when I read it in Mrs. Throneburg's class. I don't think I grasped the concept at all back then but I kept reading it and it get's better every time.
16. I don't really enjoy chick flick movies but I really enjoy reading chick flick books.
17. I also like to read books about religion.
18. If I don't go to church on Sunday my week is impossible.
19. I live 90 miles away from my boyfriend and it's stupid.
20. I have worn the same jewelry every day since I graduated college - with the exception of maybe a week total.
21. A majority of my friends are in their 50s. It's very beneficial but I forget how to interact with people my own age.
22. I still sleep with a teddy bear, Oatmeal, but I no longer require it.
23. My mom and I have this strange connection of almost always scheduling our haircuts on the same day (or a day apart) without knowing it. Then we get to have breakfast that morning and go to Ann Taylor afterwards. One of my favorite ways to spend a day.
24. I don't ever want a big house. Just comfortably small.
25. One of the best pieces of advice I was ever given was to dry off my toothbrush with a towel after I brush my teeth. life changing. try it.
There ya go. I'm glad we shared this moment. Feel free to do the same, I enjoy reading these things :)
much love.
Rules: once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you . at the end, choose 25 people to be tagged . you have to tag the person who tagged you . if i tagged you, it’s because i want to know more about you... was told to tag 25 different people...
1. I keep Cranberry juice jugs full of filtered water under my desk. There are currently 3 empty ones, 1 full one, and 1 almost gone. I try to drink one a day.
2. I have weird eating habits. On Monday I get hungry for something and then I eat it once a day for almost an entire week - sometimes two. Last week it was caesar salad, this week it's feeling like Tostitos Party Pizzas (not nearly as healthy).
3. I read more often than I watch tv.
4. I touch my face when I read. That sounds a lot creepier than it actually is.
5. I crave my grandma's spanish rice almost once a week (at least) and then I get really sad and a lot of times I cry about it.
6. I recently started collecting crosses. I have 3. One is from my parents, they got it at Ten Thousand Villages. The other two were on clearance at Hobby Lobby and for some reason I think that's humorous - in a dry sense of humor way.
7. Royal Tennenbaums is my favorite movie and I can almost say it word for word.
8. I recently started putting tomatos and mayo on my grilled cheese sandwhiches.
9. I could eat macaroni and cheese every day for the rest of my life and not complain. Even if I was restricted to the Blue box.
10. I drink a glass of milk with a straw every night before bed, Monday thru Thursday, and also on Sunday.
11. I can't sleep if I can see an open door.
12. Worms and beans are the two most discusting things on this planet, in my opinion, and the sight of them makes be want to vomit. Always.
13. After I work out for a decent amount of time I crave two things: crunch wrap supremes and double cheese burgers from McDonalds.
14. I quit drinking vanilla lattes unless someone else is buying. If you've known me for the past 5 years you know this is a dramatic change in my life.
15. The Giver is my favorite book and has been since 4th grade when I read it in Mrs. Throneburg's class. I don't think I grasped the concept at all back then but I kept reading it and it get's better every time.
16. I don't really enjoy chick flick movies but I really enjoy reading chick flick books.
17. I also like to read books about religion.
18. If I don't go to church on Sunday my week is impossible.
19. I live 90 miles away from my boyfriend and it's stupid.
20. I have worn the same jewelry every day since I graduated college - with the exception of maybe a week total.
21. A majority of my friends are in their 50s. It's very beneficial but I forget how to interact with people my own age.
22. I still sleep with a teddy bear, Oatmeal, but I no longer require it.
23. My mom and I have this strange connection of almost always scheduling our haircuts on the same day (or a day apart) without knowing it. Then we get to have breakfast that morning and go to Ann Taylor afterwards. One of my favorite ways to spend a day.
24. I don't ever want a big house. Just comfortably small.
25. One of the best pieces of advice I was ever given was to dry off my toothbrush with a towel after I brush my teeth. life changing. try it.
There ya go. I'm glad we shared this moment. Feel free to do the same, I enjoy reading these things :)
much love.
21 January 2009
removal
I'm taking this quote off of my facebook profile and wanted it to be stored somewhere safe.
Greg Boyd, "The Myth of A Christian Nation" (p. 48-49):
"Our battle is "not against flesh and blood" (Eph. 6), whether they are right wing or left wing, gay or straight, pro-choice or pro-life, liberal or conservative, democratic or communist, American or Iraqi. Our battle is against the "cosmic powers" that hold these people, and all people, in bondage. Whatever our own opinions about how the kingdom of the world should run, whatever political or ethical views we may happen to embrace, our one task as kingdom-of-God disciples is to fight FOR people, and the way we do it is by doing exactly what Jesus did. He defeated the cosmic powers of darkness by living a countercultural life characterized by outrageous love and by laying down his life for his enemies. So too, we contribute to the demise of the "power over" principalities that hold people in bondage when we refrain from judgment of others and rather extend grace to them, when we let go of anger toward others and instead "come under" them in loving service."
Greg Boyd, "The Myth of A Christian Nation" (p. 48-49):
"Our battle is "not against flesh and blood" (Eph. 6), whether they are right wing or left wing, gay or straight, pro-choice or pro-life, liberal or conservative, democratic or communist, American or Iraqi. Our battle is against the "cosmic powers" that hold these people, and all people, in bondage. Whatever our own opinions about how the kingdom of the world should run, whatever political or ethical views we may happen to embrace, our one task as kingdom-of-God disciples is to fight FOR people, and the way we do it is by doing exactly what Jesus did. He defeated the cosmic powers of darkness by living a countercultural life characterized by outrageous love and by laying down his life for his enemies. So too, we contribute to the demise of the "power over" principalities that hold people in bondage when we refrain from judgment of others and rather extend grace to them, when we let go of anger toward others and instead "come under" them in loving service."
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