Category: Student Ministry
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Tea Time
How easy is it to settle into the comforts of tea time. I’m not talking about the traditional across the pond time of day to sip tea and nosh on tiny sandwiches…I’m talking about sharing gossip. We feed off of what others are sharing about others. The gossip may even come in the form of…
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Socially Distant Blessings
Serving in student ministry has looked a little different since COVID-19 caused schools to shut down and life to shift. The butterflies of prom and the nervousness of graduation were replaced with a stay-at-home order and senior year dreams crushed. They are completely devastated. They are aware there are worse things going on in the…
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Arizona 2019
This is the trip I look forward to. The 41 hour bus ride from Pennsylvania to Arizona…the 7 days working on the Navajo Reservation in Window Rock, and the 2 days camping in Ouray, Colorado. I love every minute of it. I am so grateful for these past 11 days. It seems like we’ve been…
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You just have to laugh…
What a week it has been. On Sunday evening I had a heart episode while in the hot springs in Ouray, Colorado. Since then it has been an exhausting week of going to urgent care in Albuquerque, New Mexico on Monday, being advised not to fly, going on two flights traveling back to Pennsylvania on…
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Dear Sister
My heart breaks for you. I am in utter agony as I witness you hurt yourself in the same ways I have these past 15 years. No one deserves to battle an eating disorder. No one deserves the unbearable agony and overwhelming shame that comes with an eating disorder. An ED will take over your…
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Youth Ministry
In July 2018 I began to burnout serving at church. At the time I was the preschool and nursery lead, junior and senior high girls youth leader, part time front desk helper, part time assistant to the communications director, and a menagerie of other things. In April 2017 I went through a much needed breakup…
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#GoalDigger
My ultimate life goal is to be a wife and mom and work in student ministry. BUT my ultimate career goal is to work in the medical field as an in-home pediatric nurse or be a culinary instructor and run a non-profit, teaching kids how to grow, raise, and cook their own food. This would…
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Painful Beloved 