Al pastor Essays

In my original response to what I knew about Mexican food, I was able to identify food items that are of popular thought when thinking about Mexican food. I named tortillas, enchiladas, refried and black beans, rice, cheese, picante sauces, burritos, tacos, batidas and freshly made fruit juices as being the dishes that first come to mind. After reading all about the origins of Mexican food I don’t think I was too far off, but I did not consider how important the tortilla was to Mexico’s history and

On April 24th, 2017, I interviewed Marco Sauri from Consejo Counseling and Referral Services. Marco is a supervisor of the substance use disorder (SUD) program at Consejo. Consejo has provided SUD services for over 37 years. Consejo’s SUD program mainly works with low-income, monolingual, often undocumented Latino adults and Youth. Marco has been a supervisor for the SUD department at Consejo since 2010. He has worked at Consejo in the SUD program since 2005. He first started as a chemical dependency

of highly effective people is “seek first to understand, then to be understood.” Most misunderstandings relate to ineffective communication. Emmanuel Lartey in his book, In Living Color implores us to consider different cultures when approaching pastor care. We must recognize that cultural differences require diverse strategies and methods of pastoral care.

anticipation to reluctance, from enthusiasm to paralyzing fear. Despite the prevalent assumption that all ministers are free from the pains of shyness or the terrors of stage fright, this simply is not true. Pastors with a clear understanding of the power of preaching in the life of the Christian community, pastors who have seen the people sitting in the pews hungry for a truthful word that clarifies and compels knows that

Who I am, what I am called to do, and why I want to pursue training at the Seattle School is one of the most incredibly, beautiful, daunting, impossible, frustrating, fulfilling, and terrorizing prompts I’ve written on in my 25 years on earth. However, my ego powered me through countless now deleted drafts, convincing I could write the perfect paper. In this mania, I somehow found time a space to reflect. As I wrote and reflected and cried and laughed and panicked and drank unsafe amounts of coffee

personal strengths and weaknesses. With the help of my CPE peers and supervisors, I am now able to use pastoral authority more effectively, although it is still a struggle. I am still not certain how people can make statements like “God has made me a pastor,” when I believe that a church system made them a minister. While I do well when visiting parishioners in hospitals and praying for them, I am still hesitant to use pastoral authority while answering parishioners ' theological questions about issues

During the interview with Timothy Hughes, Pastor of the First Baptist Church, many difficult and probing questions were asked to discover the heart of his decision making process. The pastor, making himself available for this interview answered with much openness and transparency revealing how he makes decisions regarding a variety of issues. In regards to fear and its impact on his decision making, one could ascertain that this pastor uses acknowledgement of his fear to provide balance in this

of the Executive Pastor In the last fifty years, the Christian church in America experienced great change and redefinition. That time period saw the rise of so-called mega-churches, religious communities with large congregations and footprints that dwarfed their historically small counterparts (Kiel, 2012). With attendance rolls in the thousands, these organizations necessitated a new leadership model and could not rely on the single traditional model of a single senior pastor (SP) providing every

Pastor’s Information The pastor interviewed was Bishop Jerome “Jay-Jay” Branch, Jr., Senior Pastor, Lion of Judah Community Church, Williamston, NC. The church does not have an official webpage, but can be viewed on Facebook using the church’s name, city, and state. Interview Questions Interviewer: Tell me about your call to pastoral ministry. Interviewee: My call to pastoring was birth out of a desire to see people saved, trained into disciples, and sent out to bring others into the kingdom

and according to Thomas Long, this makes me very pastoral in nature. “Preaching should intentionally seek a beneficial change in the hearers [and] should help people make sense of their lives.” For me, this points to more than just the image of the pastor as preacher – it points to what kind of preacher image that I chose to take on. This is because the congregation, the body of Christ, is a living and dynamic body of people. In order to help people to make sense of their lives, make changes in their

The pastor of one of the small town churches is Pastor Ted Weis. Him and his family all do their part for the church. Melissa Weis plays the piano for the congregation, not do the pastor and his wife lead l Sundays but they also lead their three teenagers through life. Jenna Weis being the oldest, Valerie Weis being the middle child, and David Weis being the youngest of the three. Each Sunday, younger people attend to the basement for their Sunday school. The two different schools having separate

In his memoir “The Pastor”, Eugene Peterson, renowned biblical scholar, Christian author, and Presbyterian pastor, offers us a glimpse into what it truly means to be a pastor. He gives insight not just to the destination of pastoral leadership, but gives detail to the journey that led him both to his calling and to his pastoral placement. The tagline to the book, “Every step an arrival”, rings clear throughout the book as he shows us that his experiences growing up in the Montana wilderness, and

summary of the training. Pastors starting new churches make outreach a priority for ministry.  Almost all pastors have three priorities: preaching, teaching and pastoral care. Pastors also find time for an area of special interest such as pastoral counseling or social justice or prayer. When I started as a church planter, the area of special interest was dictated for me. If I didn’t lead the congregation in reaching out the community, the new church would fail. Pastors of established churches can

Christianity of India. The all too familiar question “ Since you’re parents are both pastors, will you become a pastor too?” If I can count there may be around 3,000 times people asked whether I would become a pastor since I will be fourth generation women on my mother’s side that go to seminary. It still confuses me every time why everyone thought I would become a pastor like my parents. Indeed, I come from a long lineage of pastors and missionaries from both of my parent’s families, however, I always felt

Minister and Manager A church ministry cannot live on if it is only run by one man. This is because just like a typical business enterprise, a church is a comprised of various members who seek to know the Lord. Thus, a ministry can be regarded as a community, just like the business entities around the world. In line with this premise, this paper will provide for interviews with a minister and a manager of a particular business. These interviews will discuss the similarities and the different administration

research of pastors’ self-care shows that “over 70% of pastors considering leaving the ministry due to stress” and around 90% pastors think of leaving the ministry once and feel “worn out on a weekly or daily basis”. The number is surprising. When a person hears the calling and comes to the seminary to equip himself/herself with the knowledge of God, s/he may never think about someday s/he will want to quit this scary job. The Focus on the Family survey finds out that “most of the full-time pastor work

Mass media and Terrorism: An interdependent relation In the late history, social scientists have provided plenty of examples of mutually beneficial relationships between the terrorist organization and the media and since the terrorist organization have noticed the significance of mass media has on the attainment of their objectives they started using social media to increase support and attract new recruit from other countries and because of media business trends, media contents production

As humans, we are all dispositioned to feel fear, suspicion, and anxiety towards secrecy. These discomforts have led more than a hand full of people to speculate secret societies comprised of super elite politicians, millionaires, presidents, and influential public figures are working against the general public, and rather focus on manipulating politics, wars, and worldwide events in order to control the world and form a totalitarian one world government better known as the New World Order. Apart

In his “9/11 Address to the Nation” the 43rd President of the United States of America, George W. Bush assures that America will not be affected by the unruly and evil attacks carried out on September 11th, 2001. The President drafted this speech to resist the impending fear and questioning that American citizens around the country would soon be consumed by. Because 9/11 was the most impactful, yet devastating terrorist attack on the United States to date, Bush was not able to derive his thoughts

Rhetorical Analysis of Word Wars A strategic narrative is a story that a nation must tell itself, and the world, to wage a war or to maintain a competitive advantage in the international system (Free Speech). The mass impact of technology has captivated this idea and has used it to express the freedom of speech in ways that has never been done before, but also "[pushes] these limits past common decency" (Wickman 27). Two authors debate with this international problem in different styles but share