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Vital Ministry Webinar: Rev. Justin Hancock

Posted on May 10, 2016 | Leave a comment

WHEN: Thursday, May 26, 1:30 pm CDT

TOPIC: Our guest will be Rev. Justin Hancock, MDiv.

The topic is “Disability, Ministry and The Church – beyond inclusion and accessibility.” Justin will help us explore new ways of understanding disability, how to think and talk about it in the church, and how the disabled and no disabled can form communities of mutuality and reciprocity.

HOW: We use the Zoom.us platform for our webinars. You can connect via computer, mobile device or phone. Instructions are available here.
(NOTE: you will need to download and install the zoom app, which takes a few minutes, in advance of the 1:30 start time.)

MORE ABOUT REV. HANCOCK:
Justin leads The Julian Way, a ministry to the church and the community that affirms the God-given embodiment of each person and the importance of true community as a means of enabling all people to progress toward their fullness in God. Justin and his wife Lisa (a PHD candidate in systematic theology and disability at SMU) live in intentional Christian community as part of the Missional Wisdom Fndn (MissionalWisdom.com). You can find Justin on Facebook at @TheJulWay – ( https://m.facebook.com/TheJulWay/ )

Hear directly from Justin on his The Julian Way Youtube Channel

Patient Trust

Posted on May 7, 2016 | Leave a comment

Above all, trust in the slow work of God.
We are quite naturally impatient in everything
to reach the end without delay.
We would like to skip the intermediate stages.
We are impatient of being on the way to something
unknown, something new.
And yet, it is the law of all progress
that it is made by passing through
some stages of instability –
and that it may take a very long time.

And so I think it is with you;
your ideas mature gradually – let them grow,
let them shape themselves, without undue haste.
Don’t try to force them on,
as though you could be today what time,
(that is to say, grace and circumstances
acting on your own good will)
will make of you tomorrow.

Only God could say what this new spirit
gradually forming in you will be.
Give our Lord the benefit of believing
that his hand is leading you,
and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself
in suspense and incomplete.

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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ:
This is from the wonderful little prayer book titled Hearts on Fire: Praying with the Jesuits. It’s a great book – highly recommended.

Vocation – Fredrick Buechner

Posted on July 2, 2015 | Leave a comment

Fredrick Buechner wrote the following about vocation…

IT COMES FROM the Latin vocare, to call, and means the work a man is called to by God. There are all different kinds of voices calling you to all different kinds of work, and the problem is to find out which is the voice of God rather than of Society, say, or the Super-ego, or Self-interest. By and large a good rule for finding out is this. The kind of work God usually calls you to is the kind of work (a) that you need most to do and (b) that the world most needs to have done. If you really get a kick out of your work, you’ve presumably met requirement (a), but if your work is writing TV deodorant commercials, the chances are you’ve missed requirement (b). On the other hand, if your work is being a doctor in a leper colony, you have probably met requirement (b), but if most of the time you’re bored and depressed by it, the chances are you have not only bypassed (a) but probably aren’t helping your patients much either.

Neither the hair shirt nor the soft berth will do.
The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.

– Originally published in Wishful Thinking

From FredrickBuechner.com

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