I've always wanted to see this done. I can only hope that the Economist will draw enough people for it to actually be representative (however unlikely that actually is seeing how their reading population is so far overwhelmingly biased) but still it's a start.
It's not that I believe other countries should actually have political power in choosing our leader, but it's nice to know what they think before the guy gets in office and the inevitably end up hating him. Here at least we can point to their numbers and say, "Hey, you really seemed supportive back in November of 08, so what now?"
Enough from me.
Global Electoral College
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Leading and following
Since I know that all of my faithful readers (Josiah, Reno) are on the edge of your seat wondering if I decided to go for that youth ministry job I thought I might tell you the outcome. Then I realized that you both already know so I don't need to say anything here.
Just kidding. More people read than that right?
Yes, Brent Williams (who I am convinced stalks me since he knows everything without me telling him) addressed me as "Mr. Youth Pastor" the other day. That was weird, so I'll stick with "youth leader"... I'm no pastor. Dr. Jones led my first time in "Youth at Center Christian" and he introduced me, gave a quick lesson on the first few verses of Philippians and now I'm on my own. We had only two kids- bro and sis, Adam and Erin but I'm sure I'll be able to meet more soon. I'm no longer nervous about whether I'm ready- I'm just excited.
Yesterday I was running out of Wengatz to meet some friends to go to dinner when I ran into Mr. Williams, my middle school band director. He went here back in the day and was taking some high schoolers from his church to visit. He's one of the people I think of when people ask how I knew about Taylor and decided to come here. It's funny because he was always a "good public school employee" and never said anything blatantly Christian and I don't know how little ole 7th grade me sensed it, but I feel like I knew somehow and I really looked up to him. We tried to meet up a couple of times that evening but I was too busy so we got to talk a bit on the way to chapel. He's now a youth/associate pastor at his church after abruptly resigning from his job at the school (while being offered an administrative position, but he felt God's call too strongly. I really admired that, seeing how I know I've felt similar calls and dropped plans that look great to the world to follow God and it's encouraging to see the same in him.
Just kidding. More people read than that right?
Yes, Brent Williams (who I am convinced stalks me since he knows everything without me telling him) addressed me as "Mr. Youth Pastor" the other day. That was weird, so I'll stick with "youth leader"... I'm no pastor. Dr. Jones led my first time in "Youth at Center Christian" and he introduced me, gave a quick lesson on the first few verses of Philippians and now I'm on my own. We had only two kids- bro and sis, Adam and Erin but I'm sure I'll be able to meet more soon. I'm no longer nervous about whether I'm ready- I'm just excited.
Yesterday I was running out of Wengatz to meet some friends to go to dinner when I ran into Mr. Williams, my middle school band director. He went here back in the day and was taking some high schoolers from his church to visit. He's one of the people I think of when people ask how I knew about Taylor and decided to come here. It's funny because he was always a "good public school employee" and never said anything blatantly Christian and I don't know how little ole 7th grade me sensed it, but I feel like I knew somehow and I really looked up to him. We tried to meet up a couple of times that evening but I was too busy so we got to talk a bit on the way to chapel. He's now a youth/associate pastor at his church after abruptly resigning from his job at the school (while being offered an administrative position, but he felt God's call too strongly. I really admired that, seeing how I know I've felt similar calls and dropped plans that look great to the world to follow God and it's encouraging to see the same in him.
Saturday, September 6, 2008
Youth Ministry?
This semester, I don't have any classes I hate. None that are lame and just can't wait to be done, and no blow off classes either (which can be a blessing and a curse :-p ). But my youth ministry classes are really great so far and I feel like I've learned so much in the first few days that I want to redo my practicum evaluation from this summer (because I know how much I missed... got an A on that by the way) and I'm currently in the processes of totally rewriting how I want to do U-Turn. Fortunately, my co-director, Amy, is all on board with that and I think things will turn out nicely.
Then I got a job offer.
My academic adviser (who is also my history prof and the Dead of Academic Affairs) sent me an email last night telling me that the church he's involved in is looking for a new youth minister and when he asked one of our youth ministry profs who would be a good candidate, apparently Phil thought of me. Phil was my practicum adviser for this summer, so I'm assuming that's where he gets his ideas about me since we've only had three class sessions together so far.
Anyway, it's a small church near Fairmount and it's a very low key position with incredibly flexible five hours a week working with a youth group of only five to ten teens. I still haven't decided for sure if I'm going to do it; I'm need to pray about it and I'm going to visit the church tomorrow for Sunday services to see what it's like. But it's all very exciting and I'm kind of scared I'm not ready. I mean if the first two weeks of YM classes gave me such ideas that I want to revamp U-Turn, how am I going to be ready to take on a whole youth group (albeit a small one). We'll see. I'll keep you updated.
Then I got a job offer.
My academic adviser (who is also my history prof and the Dead of Academic Affairs) sent me an email last night telling me that the church he's involved in is looking for a new youth minister and when he asked one of our youth ministry profs who would be a good candidate, apparently Phil thought of me. Phil was my practicum adviser for this summer, so I'm assuming that's where he gets his ideas about me since we've only had three class sessions together so far.
Anyway, it's a small church near Fairmount and it's a very low key position with incredibly flexible five hours a week working with a youth group of only five to ten teens. I still haven't decided for sure if I'm going to do it; I'm need to pray about it and I'm going to visit the church tomorrow for Sunday services to see what it's like. But it's all very exciting and I'm kind of scared I'm not ready. I mean if the first two weeks of YM classes gave me such ideas that I want to revamp U-Turn, how am I going to be ready to take on a whole youth group (albeit a small one). We'll see. I'll keep you updated.
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