Ok, I have a couple of shameless plugs for great opportunities to give :P These are too good NOT to post.
If you are looking for a Mother's Day present that will impact the lives of many moms including your own, consider donating to the nonprofit that I work for, PATH Achieve Glendale. If you give a gift of $25 towards helping homeless moms get back on their feet, PATH Achieve Glendale will send a Mother's Day card to your mom with a note that you have given a gift in their honor. The deadline was initially May 1st but I believe that they are extending it through the weekend, so give now! The website is http://www.achieveglendale.org/main.html
Also, if you have been hearing about all of the swine flu crazyness but are not sure how to respond other than washing your hands a lot and staying away from crowds, Transformación Urbana Internacional in partnership with Servant Partners is working to get face masks, soap, and bleach to marginalized families in Mexico City who cannot afford even these basic hygenic supplies. Check out the details here: http://laurbansnob.blogspot.com/2009/04/swine-flu.html
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Monday, April 20, 2009
Endings and New Opportunities
Wow, it has been almost a month since I last posted. Oops!
Probably the most exciting development that I have not posted about is that I will be going to Bangkok, Thailand for two months this summer! I will be staffing one of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship's Global Urban Treks, where college students spend six weeks living and serving among the poor in some of the world's major urban slums. Bangkok is likely going to have two sites for the students--one working with Compassion International, teaching English to the children in their programs, and the other with Baan Chiwit Mai (House of New Life) working with men and women who have physical and mental disabilities. Right now we have seven students that are definitely coming, and I am SO excited for the opportunity to help pastor them through their summer of interactions across cultural and economic lines, in hopes that they might grow more and more fully into understanding the deep compassion of God and his commitment to justice. As a student in college I myself went on a Trek to Calcutta, India, and while the experience was somewhat overwhelming at the time, God really redeemed it and used it to press me into incorporating a greater commitment to justice into my life. Without the Trek, I don't know if I would have ever joined the Servant Partners internship.
Speaking of the internship, we only have a little over a month left. It has been a good ride. I have loved living in the L.A. area--the enormous diversity of food, easy access to beaches, sunny weather, more cultural events than is possible to ever attend in one's life, and on and on. The major downfall has been LA traffic! I have loved having Bible studies and fun nights with junior high girls from my neighborhood and seeing them be able to actually read a text and get something out of it themselves, seeing them begin to have a fuller understanding of what this Jesus is really about--and decide for themselves if they are interested in him. I've loved the chance to intervene in a small, small way for the health of my community and my city--especially for the poor in NW Pasadena. I've loved the community of SP friends and staff--people who are willing to listen to me and pray for me, to feed me hotok for the first time, to be serious as well as silly together. And even though there have been many weeks when I really did not want to go to Luke study or Acts study, I have been deeply impacted by all of the time that we have spent in those Scriptures--some things that I heard in Christianity but never thought much about have become real and alive to me--and that is cool!
I am ready for the internship to end but I will miss it when it is over. And next? That is a great question!
After the Trek I will be spending two weeks in Bangkok to visit various organizations there and see if I might be interested in joining any of them. After the trip I plan to return to Pasadena, continue working at my job, and seek to discern what comes next.
Probably the most exciting development that I have not posted about is that I will be going to Bangkok, Thailand for two months this summer! I will be staffing one of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship's Global Urban Treks, where college students spend six weeks living and serving among the poor in some of the world's major urban slums. Bangkok is likely going to have two sites for the students--one working with Compassion International, teaching English to the children in their programs, and the other with Baan Chiwit Mai (House of New Life) working with men and women who have physical and mental disabilities. Right now we have seven students that are definitely coming, and I am SO excited for the opportunity to help pastor them through their summer of interactions across cultural and economic lines, in hopes that they might grow more and more fully into understanding the deep compassion of God and his commitment to justice. As a student in college I myself went on a Trek to Calcutta, India, and while the experience was somewhat overwhelming at the time, God really redeemed it and used it to press me into incorporating a greater commitment to justice into my life. Without the Trek, I don't know if I would have ever joined the Servant Partners internship.
Speaking of the internship, we only have a little over a month left. It has been a good ride. I have loved living in the L.A. area--the enormous diversity of food, easy access to beaches, sunny weather, more cultural events than is possible to ever attend in one's life, and on and on. The major downfall has been LA traffic! I have loved having Bible studies and fun nights with junior high girls from my neighborhood and seeing them be able to actually read a text and get something out of it themselves, seeing them begin to have a fuller understanding of what this Jesus is really about--and decide for themselves if they are interested in him. I've loved the chance to intervene in a small, small way for the health of my community and my city--especially for the poor in NW Pasadena. I've loved the community of SP friends and staff--people who are willing to listen to me and pray for me, to feed me hotok for the first time, to be serious as well as silly together. And even though there have been many weeks when I really did not want to go to Luke study or Acts study, I have been deeply impacted by all of the time that we have spent in those Scriptures--some things that I heard in Christianity but never thought much about have become real and alive to me--and that is cool!
I am ready for the internship to end but I will miss it when it is over. And next? That is a great question!
After the Trek I will be spending two weeks in Bangkok to visit various organizations there and see if I might be interested in joining any of them. After the trip I plan to return to Pasadena, continue working at my job, and seek to discern what comes next.
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