Intern Reflection Paper

After a car accident three years ago, God used the recovery period to hone my old skills and birth new. Over the course of the process, He repositioned me for a different journey. The new path led to a transition from a secular K-12 setting to Christian higher education; yet, still within the context of supporting a diverse student population. My purpose became preparing and teaching ministerial leadership in a

I have learned many great things to help me in my life while studying Saint Thomas Aquinas and all of the things he did during his life. He showed me there are many different ways to serve God. He was a priest, a theologian, a philosopher, and a writer which all helped him serve God. I learned that to be a good Christian you don’t have to be a bishop or priest, there are a lot of options. You can be a writer, a preacher, or simply a parent and raise a Christian family, all to serve

First Year Seminar is a beneficial, getting started-like course provided by West Coast University during the first term of the program. Since the Bachelor of Science in Nursing program is very rigorous this course is helpful in adjusting new students, such as myself, to a very demanding, fast-pace program. This class focuses on topics that help students organize and understand oneself and the mission of WCU mission to achieve the greatest success as a student. In my Signature Assignment term paper I will focus on my experience with FYS and what information I’ve gained to help me understand my learning style, strengths and weaknesses I have as a student, how working collaboratively benefits me and how I will go about achieving success at WCU.

Information from chapter one comprised of a summary of my assignments reports from the various ministries served and class discussions post. Moving forward to chapter two talks more of the vast amount of lessons learned through the five goals and the effectiveness of actual hands-on application: the practice of communication, pastoral-spiritual care, the practice of leadership, engaging diversity, and handling conflict. There were target events in each goal setting subject. For example, in communication, my target events were in small groups, classes, writings of creative activities curriculum, and counseling. In this process, my practice skills supported an audience of women, youth both boys and girls, and children. The area of pastoral-spiritual care involved Bible studies, home visits, hospital and nursing homes visits, grieving family visits, and prison ministry visits with the Children of Inmates Program. The practice of leadership comprises of attending events, training, and assisting in various ministries in need. Engaging diversity involved observing other ministry leaders engaging in a large church congregation, speaking at women's breakfast or functions, speaking at funeral services, and assisting in the planning of funeral with family members. Handling conflict dealt with counseling of premarital sessions, marriage counseling sessions, counseling child abuse sessions, counseling drug addiction session, counseling depression with childhood sexual abuse sessions and assisting with crisis individuals seeking assistance through the resources at our church Peacemakers office. Consequently, chapter three describes the most life changing events causing major setbacks in this journey of my calling and the solutions involved. Chapter four detailed some specifics on the results of my self-analysis test. Some of the shared data comprised of personal

This semester has been a revelation for me in my spiritual walk and building relationships with others. I have taken what I have learned in this class to bless others and encourage them that they can make it because God loves them. During the times of witnessing and servant hood, I have found so, many people that just want someone to listen and love them. My perception of people has changed because now I feel that I am more compassionate now, sensitive to the needs of others, humble, loving, and willing to be servant.

This memo describes my progress to date in the course COSC 684 300: Professional Internship in Summer 2015 semester. I shall also discuss my plans to successfully complete the course in August 2015. The memorandum would be divided in three main task areas which were agreed at the time of the individual internship agreement between me and the department.

Ever since I started in high school, mission work has been a major part of my life. For the past three years, for two weeks at a time, I have been going to the poorest region of Jamaica. The organization I have been a part of is called American Caribbean Experience, or ACE for short. The experiences I have had while doing mission work in Jamaica have changed my life forever. In order to pursue my passion for mission work I decided to apply for an internship with ACE. I was chosen along with six other people to become interns for the summer of 2018. This internship will be the first thing I do as soon as I graduate because I leave May 23rd and we graduate May 21st. This internship will also prepare me for my long term goal of becoming a doctor

For three years now, I have participated in a leadership development program through a Christian camp called New Life Ranch. As you progress through the program, you are handed a new set of tasks every summer that are designed to challenge you as an individual, make you question your current worldviews and perspectives, and ultimately help you grow in your spiritual faith. This summer however, I entered my final step of the program in which you are given a job and required to serve for three weeks in that

For the intern interview, I was fortunate in that there is an intern, Amanda, working at the school where I am employed as a classroom aide. It occurred to me that I would welcome any words of wisdom from someone who is much further along in the school counseling program process and yet not so far removed that the lessons are still accessible.

Currently, I am grateful for the missionaries for teaching me how to confront my fears. I knew I could talk to them without getting judged. In the end, I learned that accepting the possibility of failure is the first, hardest step to succeed. Without accepting failure, we tend to never make a choice to succeed in any particular field. We only take on tasks that we know we will do well in, but we need to learn to invest in sacrificing -- mainly our pride -- to

While being a Mayor's Intern Fellow, I would love to enhance my current qualities, such as patience, organization, and kindness. I love to work with children, observe teeth, and spread God’s word. My career goals are to become a pediatric dentist and a youth pastor. In order to be that, I have to know how to improve my current attributes. This past summer, I worked for a non-profit, Youthful Blessings, to provide less fortunate children with food. This job helped me to improve my patience with children. Every day I worked with children that had behavior concerns, emotional concerns, and physical concerns. This helped me learn to have patience for those who sometimes behave unseemly. This last school semester I was appointed by outgoing seniors

Recently I sat down with my pastor to discuss my future in ministry. I had some very heavy things weighing on my heart. After laying them out, I stated that “I often feel like I don’t have the needed self-confidence to do this ministry thing” and that “I think that I’m going to need a very supportive pastor in order to survive my first pastorate.” It was there that he stopped me cold and made if very clear that I could not and should not enter into ministry with that mindset. I could not expect my self-confidence to come from other people. I had to seek that from God. In the moments to come, through some very introspective conversation, I realized that I had been approaching the entire idea of ministry from the wrong direction. Without realizing it I had made it a “strong on the outside” thing. I had completely avoided the true spiritual formation that needed to be occurring on the inside.

These positions that I currently hold is not something I would expect myself to hold. I used to be a shy girl, who was terrified of public speaking and large crowds. My face would have turned bright red when I was called by a teacher. I still am, but with God’s help, I am always able to respond and represent my clubs without anxiety. God has truly provided. There were many times, I regretted having these responsibilities that are skill demanding and “time consuming.” Psalms 32:8 says, “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.” God always lead us into paths and circumstances that will prepare us for the future. I am still unsure what situations, circumstances, and positions that I have experienced and hold in my life as a college student would help me in the future, but I am trusting Him in his supernatural strength and wisdom to lead me through these trials each

The internship that I acquired during the summer of 2010 at the Greenwood Sports and Industrial Rehabilitation Center (GSIRC), allowed me to gain an immeasurable amount of experience during my tenure at this facility. Within this period, the exposure to new concepts within the physical therapy industry allowed me to observe and work hands on with patients of all ages and disabilities that exposed me to various treatment plans and programs to restore client’s mobility. The essential Physical Education and Exercise Science (PEES) courses taken at Lander University were beneficial to my academic knowledgebase, which prepared me and developed me for the opportunity within the physical therapy discipline. Working as

Over the course of the semester, there has been numerous amount of areas where I believe I have improved in comparison to high school. What has helped me in my writing is the writing class and the in-class writing workshop. The writing class that is located in the Kremen education building has helped me with my writing greatly because in the writing center the person in charge teach us lenses and we apply those lenses to the writing, draft, or reading that someone brings in. The in-class writing workshop has helped me because other students get to read my writing. This is helpful because I get feedback from many students and they let me know what needs to be fixed. A new tool I have been using is They Say I Say. The book is very helpful because of the information and examples it provides such as the templates. I have been applying the templates into my essays and I have seen a significant difference.