Personal Narrative: The Fruit Of The Spirit

My desire to become an Army Chaplain is motivated by my call into the ministry, leadership experience, multiculturalism, education and exposure to pluralistic ministry with people of different traditions and perspectives. As a dynamic, enthusiastic pastor and a church leader, with a 12 year track record of transforming and revitalizing diverse congregations with a renewed desire for both growth and increase in faith focus; I am seeking this vast honor as a regular Army Chaplain because of the aforementioned reasons.

Earley & Gutierrez (2010) “Ministry Is…How to Serve Jesus with Passion and Confidence” (Nashville: Broadman & Holman).

The message of my work is to try and highlight the importance of showing how a person’s faith can have a positive and life-changing impact on their lives. I have done this by looking into the lives of two early Christian missionaries and portray how they would 've felt about their journeys, who they met and what they were teaching others. In doing so, I try to portray, to the best of my ability and knowledge, the apostle 's thoughts and just how strong their conviction and faith in God was.

For 17 years God has blessed me to serve alongside my husband as directors of Chi Alpha at the University of Texas at Arlington. During my time here, I have served and mentored hundreds of young women and internationals who now fulfill the mission of Chi Alpha in the marketplace and the world as pastors, missionaries, police officers, nurses, teachers, and social workers. I am especially thankful to walk with those students who came to faith, experienced discipleship, and the Holy Spirit empowered their lives through the ministry.

There are many challenges to ministry in today’s world and having a vital and relevant ministry is even harder. Churches across all denominations face drastic declines in both attendees and financial giving. With this as the background, it is imperative that vital ministries seek out opportunities to grow and engage groups and communities that have previously been overlooked, missed or not involved for other reasons including some theological reasons. With this idea and goal in mind, this essay sets out to examine and design a process by which the Churches of Cherokee, Oklahoma can successfully connect with and minster to the new Hispanic community in Cherokee. Using the pastoral cycle method, a process will be designed in this essay to

For this assignment I took part in a religious service at a small Orthodox Church in Baltimore.

1. Demonstrate God’s love and the gospel’s power impacting and transforming the lives of our Soldiers and their Families.

Dr. Ricki Jimenez is an experienced pastor, evangelist and mentor that has witnessed this struggle in the men of our Christian culture and he has answered the mandate of God to lead men into their spiritual adventure and onto the battlefield of life. His call has thrust him into the adventure of challenging Christian men to “Just Be Men”. As a general of the faith, Dr. Ricki stands upon the rugged mountains of the Gospel and declares our Christian men to unleash the spiritual ruggedness within and to allow themselves to become men of God, men of faith, men of war, men of valor, men of honor, men of adventure, and men of victory. As the author of this book so eloquently and insightfully quotes, “Win the men and you will win the war.”

I invite you to join us for discipleship discussion @ St. Paul’s Baptist Church (Creighton Campus) 4247 Creighton Road. There will be Small Group sessions @ 9am and 11am each Sunday. I have the distinct honor of leading a discussion for the 9am (Fusion Group). However, there is an energetic group for all ages! Each session is always based on the sermon from the pervious Sunday. The sermon will be available via our website www.myspbc.org by Tuesday each week.

For me, this is how a disciple should prepare a new convert for Christian maturity. Once you can discern that such convert can grasp the basic precepts of Christian living, then comes the leading of

Reflect on some concepts that you heard about loving God that challenged your thinking. How will that impact your walk with Christ?

This course has had a great impact on my walk with Christ as well as my witness for Christ. I pastor a church and teach two classes and for me I thought that I was doing plenty. However this course has helped rekindle my passion for sharing Jesus Christ with people through personal evangelism. This paper will demonstrate what I have learned throughout this course.

For this project, I had decided to interview a person that inspires me through the work that he has done for our Seattle Youth Group Ministry – Matthew. This interview had really allowed me to get to know him on a more personal level and help reassured me on my own vocation in life. From a young boy who lived in darkness to a man who now led a life dedicated to spreading God’s light is what makes me felt connected to sit down and do this interview with him. Matthew’s contributions as a youth group leader played a huge part on how our youth group was able to grow till today. Although it was his story behind it that really made me felt alive during our conversation.

In this paper, the student-writer will discuss the methods that are taught in In Effective biblical counseling: A model for helping caring Christians become capable counselors by Crabb (1977). The student-writer will also use what is taught in this book with the skills that are expressed in Creating a Healthier Church; Family Systems Theory, Leadership, and congregational life by Richardson (1996) and Blessed Connections: Relationships that sustain vital ministry, by Schwanz (2008). The student-writer will compare and contrast the skills that are mentioned in these books to establish a well maintained way in which to ministry to clients, and meet their needs as a counselor.

In the following section, I would like to propose ten missionary propositions (or job descriptions) for the missionary engagement of the VCC, which are linked to the previous chapters. These propositions do not mean to be separated when applying them.