This Is My Beginning (Week 7)

So we are down to single digit countdown…just a few more days until we leave for Canton!  I know this week is going to be busy, lots of you are going down to Alive…others have sports or other activites, but I would encourage each of you to take a little quiet time out of your days this week in preparation for next week.

Here are the questions for this week:

What stuck out most to you this week?  Why?

One thing that continues to stick out to me throughout this book are the photographs.  Each photograph tells its own story and adds so much more to the story that it is tied in with.  One photo that I would like you to take another look at this week is the photo of the church tied in with the story of Hope.  Why do you think this photograph was used?  Does church represent hope to you?  If so, how?

Carmen gives some really great examples of how she lives her life as ministry in really practical ways in the story called “A New Way of Living”.  What are ways that you can tangibly live your life as ministry?

I’m looking forward to next week and hope that all of you are beginning to get excited!  Thanks for all of your thoughts!

 

Where Do I Begin? (Week 6)

Remember that just because Mission Training is over it does not mean that we are done reading or blogging.

Thank you all for your thoughtful answers over the past few weeks!

Here’s a few questions for this week:

What story stuck out the most to you this week? Why?

One of the reasons why do service projects throughout the year in Flipd is because of what’s described in “Two Stones.”  We want our faith to rub against injustice.  Do you have an idea for a service project Flipd could do next year as a youth group?  What’s an area of injustice that you see in our city that Flipd could do something about?

How can you “start small” like suggested in “Friend With Money”?  What are some small changes that you’re thinking about now as a result of the reading we’ve been doing in the last couple months?

See you all on Sunday when we get back from Boston with the 7th Graders

This Is My Justice (Week 5)

(If you have not blogged for previous weeks, please do so.  Also do not forget to comment on others from the previous week)

This past week Joe Tucker came in to talk with us about his experience in “Mission Year.”  Joe spoke a lot with us about the story of The Good Samaritan.  The question he asked us to think about was “what is keeping us from helping others?” We all came up with four answers between the story and our own ideas.  1.) We have a hard heart. 2.) We are too busy and it would take extra time that we feel we do not have. 3.) We are afraid.  It could be dangerous for us to help others. 4.)  We want to ‘stay clean.’ Ministry can get kind of messy, as Joe talked about.  I hope that as you have been reading through the chapter this week and processing what Joe talked with us about you have been thinking through this.  I also hope that through hearing Joe speak, as well as through reading you have been challenged.  I know that as I continue to read the stories of others, I find myself to be challenged in different ways.

Here are the questions for this week:

Reflect on Marianne Williamson’s quote (pg. 108).  What do you think it means?  Why?

What is a part of your neighborhood, community, country, world that you see injustice in?  What can you do to help imagine and then live justice into that area?

“The Body is the most beautiful thing when all the parts are working differently, but together, for the same goal.”  Take some time to reflect on what this means for us as a team in Canton this summer.  What are some ways that you see this playing out this summer for us?