Resident Minister, University of San Francisco
2012 VEV West Coast Former Volunteers Retreat Chair
October 29, 2012
Just one week ago former volunteers from Tucson, AZ to San Francisco, CA
to Dublin, CA joined together at Mercy Center, a Sisters of Mercy
convent and retreat center located in lovely Burlingame, California.
Fifteen former volunteers, including the leadership team of five local
young adults, as well as Volunteers Exploring Vocation staff Jim Ellison
and Martha Wright, came together for the 2012 “Volunteers Exploring
Vocation” West Coast Retreat.
The retreatants in attendance were
alumnae/i of Jesuit Volunteer Corps, Jesuit Volunteer Corps NW, Jesuit Volunteer Corps International, Presbyterian Young Adult Volunteers, Lutheran Volunteer Corps, Episcopal Service Corps, Mission Year and AmeriCorps..
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Doctoral Fellow ('11-'12) Undergraduate Fellow ('06)
Associate Pastor to Young Adults, Trinity UCC, Chicago
October 22, 2012
If there is one thing that I know, it is that I have been blessed with people and
communities who have supported my ministerial and academic endeavors. This
support has motivated to continue pursuing my calling to preach and teach. As
time as transpired, I’ve met countless young adults who have not had these types
of support systems. Without the blessings of likeminded peers and mentors, many
young adults have been left to figure things out for themselves. On one hand, this
has clarified the resilience and the creativity with which many young adults are
living into our vocations. On the other, it has clarified the void into which affirming
words have yet to be spoken to the next generation of leaders.
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President
The Fund for Theological Education
September 05, 2012
I would like to share with you some important news and changes to our program offerings for the coming academic year.
In 2014, FTE will celebrate its 60th anniversary. In a time of great
economic uncertainty and significant shifts in theological education and
the broader church, this anniversary represents an important milestone
in the life of our organization. During the last six decades, FTE has
given approximately 7,000 fellowships to young adults who now represent
some of the most important religious voices in North America and leaders
within denominational bodies, congregations and theological
institutions.
As we look to a new era and decade of cultivating the next generation of
leaders for the church and academy, we are aware of several cultural
and economic factors impacting the church, theological education and the
larger society, and want to be responsive to the changing times.
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TIM Alum
Associate Pastor
The House of Hope Presbyterian Church
Saint Paul, MN
August 15, 2012
As a pastor, my Sunday mornings are spent in one of God’s gathering
places. Currently, you will find me in a big, gothic Presbyterian
sanctuary built in 1914, but the houses of worship where I have spent my
Sundays vary and differ. What they all have in common, however, is a
feeling of being safe and held, both by God and the community.
When I learned about the shooting at the Sikh Gurdwara (or temple), in
Wisconsin, I felt horrified that people who had gone to seek God and
community on a Sunday morning were instead met with violence, hate and
death. In another one of God’s gathering places, a place where people
of faith had probably also felt safe and held, deep tragedy and pain,
fear and horror, violence and guns had entered that sacred space.
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FTE Ministry Fellow ('02)
Pastor, Perritte Memorial UMC
Nacogdoches, TX
August 10, 2012
At the opening of Evening Prayer, as I often pray it, come these words:
invoking ancient astronomy they catapult our spirits into the depths of
the galaxy even now when our knowledge of the heavens is more vast than
ever, as the machineries of imagination have been realized in
satellites, probes, & rovers. Our eyes turn toward the inky
blackness of outer space as our hearts and minds wonder if our bodies
can sustain a renewed attempt at exploring its mystery again.
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Director of Congregational Learning
August 08, 2012
In light of the deaths of six devout Sikhs, gathered for worship in the
sanctity of their gurdwara when they were brutally murdered on Sunday in
Oak Creek, Wisconsin, this story from the days immediately following
9/11 has taken on new meaning for me. These latest victims are not
alone. Hate crimes against Muslims and those imagined to be Muslim rose
1,600% after 9/11. The number of devout, peace-loving, non-violent
people who have been profiled, beaten, stabbed and shot over the past
decade have been legion. But this time the whole country was watching.
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Undergraduate Fellow ('12)
Centenary College of Louisiana
July 05, 2012
As day two of the FTE Conference comes to a close I find myself
spiritually exhausted. If you've ever preached a sermon you know what I
am talking about. Spiritual exhaustion is that moment when you have
given or received your limit of spiritual food for the day. I mean we
all get "full" when we eat right? It's the same concept. Currently I am
suffering from a severe case of spiritual "fullness."
Today was our first day to dive right in and explore the in's and out's
of The Beloved Community - a radical vision inspired by Dr. Martin
Luther King. It was a vision grounded in
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