My Community Outreach Program For The Northeast Texas Public Health District

At church, in addition to my participation in the worship services, I volunteered at our church’s soup kitchen, medical camps and elementary school for underprivileged children. These experiences opened my eyes to the deprivation of love and care in the world and a dire need of God’s grace for people at large so they could receive forgiveness, healing and restoration in their lives.

I did my community service at Dr. Porter and Clark in Flat Rock during November 2016. They were doing their annual food drive for families that couldn’t afford thanksgiving in neighboring cities. The food drive needed help dividing up food for the families and organizing/making the drive route. I chosed this service because as someone who actively uses food banks on month to month basis, even week to week sometimes it's nice to give

As my sophomore year in high school was swiftly ending in 2014, I was strongly active in my church, Word of Faith Christian Center, with the youth ministry and enjoyed helping with the children’s and nursery ministry. I choreographed many routines and participated with the youth choir on fifth Sundays. On two Sundays out of each month, I helped with the children church and nursery as a youth assistant. Additionally, I was an active member of the Young Ladies of Virtue Mentoring program. Majority of my work ethic and personality was developed in church and it made me have a compassion for helping others. It was not until June 2015 when I was chosen to help others while being free of my comfort zone. In 2014, the founder of Word of Faith Christian Center International, Bishop Keith A. Butler, determined to send a group of teenagers on a mission trip for the first time.

I have had the pleasure of being a part of Big Brothers and Big Sisters program. Spending my time as a role model for my “little sister” has made a huge difference in not only her life, but also my own. Seeing her progress academically and behaviorally is very uplifting and gives me motivation to work with other at-risk youth. The organization plays a huge part in my decision to become a school social worker. I intend to remain a volunteer with the organization through adulthood. Along with Big Brothers and Big Sisters, I also spend time volunteering at Renaissance Care Center, a nursing home in Canton, IL. Renaissance Care Center has provided me the experience of working with the elderly as well as people with developmental disabilities. I truly enjoy my time spent volunteering with each age group, and will successfully apply my experiences to my future work. I am now completing my practicum at Heartland Healthcare Center. I have been able to apply my knowledge to the workforce, and have been reminded daily that social work is the job for me. It will be hard to leave the facility upon graduation, and have been asked to come back as a volunteer or activity assistant. Either way, I know I will be coming back to visit the residents and

I volunteered at the Little Lights Urban Ministries. I had the pleasure of working with adults and kids but, majority were adults in a low income community. Little lights was founded in 1995 by Steven Park. Little Lights is located in Potomac Gardens public housing apartments in Washington DC. It all started off with Steven tutoring one child in an uptown neighborhood. Then he met his wife Mary and things started expanded. They started allowing 15 kids come over after school to do homework and bible study. Sometimes they would order pizza or buy chicken to feed the kids if they stayed over late. A couple of years later they was blessed with the main building and somebody donated a van for transportation. Steven then start his nonprofit and

“Restoring At-Risk Communities,” written by John M. Perkins is a collaborative work of urban professionals in ministry, providing a blueprint for working in urban communities. It provides the personal expertise of so many to help fellow missionaries and those in ministry to develop a Christian community. In today’s culture, many of our cities are falling apart due to poverty, lack of education, lack of religion, and large amounts of people leaving for the suburbs. People who are being called to minister in the downtowns, or those who are already suffering in the trenches are struggling with how to reach the community for Christ. Perkins shares his personal experience of being on the frontlines of ministry, and the appropriate strategy to reaching those communities. He writes, “The desperate problems in America’s inner cities will not be resolved without strong commitment and risky action on the part of ordinary Christians with heroic faith” (Perkins, 1995).

This paper is the final results of my internship ministry practicum II experiences reflection in my church organization work settings and training. My experiences from different areas of exposure sharpened my skills for my professional role of the Doctor of Ministry Program in the theological field of counseling and teaching. My ministry practicum consists of direct involvements with hands-on, real-life interactions under the supervision of my Supervisor, Chaplain Andrea Fletcher. This Comprehensive Written Review analyzes the full spectrum of my observation and participation in tasks from my Ministry Learning Agreement Form. The opportunity allowed me to view other leaders in ministry exercising their gift and in turns

The use of the survey by the community and public health nurses to identify problems and develop a plan of action. The development of education programs by employing the Knowles principles to reach out to the adult learner.

3. Participants will have the opportunity of sharing their own pitfall, successes, and goals in preparing their residents and faculty in cultural, religious, and spirituality competence.

In the HLTH 305: Community Development and Engagement in Public Health course at the University of Waterloo, the final project consisted of an intervention where we had design and implement a community based activity. With this, my team and I faced a variety of obstacles in order to produce an intervention for students at the University of Waterloo. This project had multiple parts that had to be completed in order for the intervention to be a success; thus demonstrating teamwork skills will allow for successful and smoothly planned intervention in regards to the stigma surrounding homelessness in the KW region and in general. The major parts of this intervention that was focused on by our team was bringing in a guest speaker in from a homelessness

Ordinary Ministry, Extraordinary Challenge, edited by Norma Cook Everist, is comprised of short stories written by women designed to explore “images of God at work in diverse communities” (Everist, 2000). Ordinary Ministry is not about women in ministry directly, but rather, it is a book of stories that just so happens to be written by women from a woman’s perspective, all while “juggling our appointments to fit in yet one more activity.”

Goal: We plan to continue our current programs while expanding the scope and frequency of our community-based outreach initiatives to include additional physicians and allied health personnel.

Gina Marie Jamieson spent many of her summers and weekends in the Williamsport area. The New York based actress grandfather is Putsee Vannucci, a photojournalist who resided in Williamsport. Jamieson is currently starring in a new web series called “The Outreach.”

I began preparing for this mission by volunteering as an intake coordinator at the Christian Assistance Ministry (CAM). Although I had many responsibilities, the role that consumed most of my time and energy was interviewing clients and assessing their physical and emotional needs. One of my greatest contributions was streamlining and updating the

My attendance at a meeting in Philadelphia, PA changed my life, forever. What I thought was a routine introduction to a new mission outreach spearheaded by several pastors and other members of the clergy, took my life on a journey of discovery beyond my wildest imagination. In addition to opening my eyes to how something so wonderful could turn ‘rapidly’ acidic when personalities are left unchecked, which strained my consciousness where I questioned many motives and on occasion, struggled emotionally to process the negative sides of the human condition: the excessive need for praise, control and, sometimes exposure of the insatiable appetite to take what is unlawful.