Saturday, August 21, 2010
Thursday, August 19, 2010
New things.
So...this is no longer the Crossfire blog...but you are more than welcome to hang around and read what I spill about my life and how I'm learning and growing...or making mistakes. because that happens a lot, too.
But, Crossfire did end about 3 weeks and 2 days ago with our last church being in Sandersville, GA. After that I started intern training at the UGA Wesley Foundation.
13 Associate Directors.
72 Interns
390 Student Leaders
Never in my life and even continuing into college did I think I would be #1 at UGA #2 at a campus ministry that big and #3 interning at it. The training lasted for 2 weeks and functioned as a staff community building/learning about Methodist theology/learning about how to honor in the for real definition of the word given by God/ growing in confidence in hearing from God and praying to Him. Those 2 weeks were incredible.
But..as you can imagine I'm learning a lot about my weaknesses in this growing process, too. Being around 85 people in one not-so-large building from 8-4:30 everyday is not something I have been exposed to in my short 21 years of life. We are all working on our different ministry area needs and learning how all of this goes down with different personality types and different work styles (and none of the interns have offices, we're just in 2 rooms together to set the scene for you)...
One day during training we took the four color personality test (Gold, Green, Blue, Orange) They each stand for a type (blue- more feeling oriented, orange- extroverted, free, adventurous, green-introverted, more inquisitive, solution-maker, gold- more traditional, work/goal-oriented, by-the-rules) Most people who take the test have 1 color higher in points than others..
I ended up with 32 pts Green, 32 pts Orange, 31 pts Gold, 25ts Blue. yep. what?!?
I'll be taking the Strengths Test soon for a more thorough insight just for fun...because I like seeing what these kinds of tests say.
So yes. I'm just learning right now. A lot. We had our first Wesley of the year last night at Tate 2 on Campus and it was phenomenal of course. God just keeps pushing me out of my comfort zone and encouraging me every step of the way. Being a "leader" among my peers is not a role I have ever volunteered for before and so I'm really having to trust and know that God put me here. In every sense of the word. And it's beautiful.
But, Crossfire did end about 3 weeks and 2 days ago with our last church being in Sandersville, GA. After that I started intern training at the UGA Wesley Foundation.
13 Associate Directors.
72 Interns
390 Student Leaders
Never in my life and even continuing into college did I think I would be #1 at UGA #2 at a campus ministry that big and #3 interning at it. The training lasted for 2 weeks and functioned as a staff community building/learning about Methodist theology/learning about how to honor in the for real definition of the word given by God/ growing in confidence in hearing from God and praying to Him. Those 2 weeks were incredible.
But..as you can imagine I'm learning a lot about my weaknesses in this growing process, too. Being around 85 people in one not-so-large building from 8-4:30 everyday is not something I have been exposed to in my short 21 years of life. We are all working on our different ministry area needs and learning how all of this goes down with different personality types and different work styles (and none of the interns have offices, we're just in 2 rooms together to set the scene for you)...
One day during training we took the four color personality test (Gold, Green, Blue, Orange) They each stand for a type (blue- more feeling oriented, orange- extroverted, free, adventurous, green-introverted, more inquisitive, solution-maker, gold- more traditional, work/goal-oriented, by-the-rules) Most people who take the test have 1 color higher in points than others..
I ended up with 32 pts Green, 32 pts Orange, 31 pts Gold, 25ts Blue. yep. what?!?
I'll be taking the Strengths Test soon for a more thorough insight just for fun...because I like seeing what these kinds of tests say.
So yes. I'm just learning right now. A lot. We had our first Wesley of the year last night at Tate 2 on Campus and it was phenomenal of course. God just keeps pushing me out of my comfort zone and encouraging me every step of the way. Being a "leader" among my peers is not a role I have ever volunteered for before and so I'm really having to trust and know that God put me here. In every sense of the word. And it's beautiful.
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