The 5 steps of Apology - 5 'R's
After Gary Chapman and Jennifer Thomas
1. express regret
2. take responsibility
3. make restitution
4. genuinely reprnt
5. request forgiveness
Tuesday, September 06, 2011
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Community Outreach
Community Caregivers of Greater Derry used Journey Church's new building to get High Schoolers from Pinkerton Academy to treat some senior citizens from Derry. One of the elder ladies was Margaret Camuso, mother of our own Bob Camuso.
http://www.derryinklink.com/2011/05/sometimes-years-fall-away.html
Community Caregivers of Greater Derry used Journey Church's new building to get High Schoolers from Pinkerton Academy to treat some senior citizens from Derry. One of the elder ladies was Margaret Camuso, mother of our own Bob Camuso.
http://www.derryinklink.com/2011/05/sometimes-years-fall-away.html
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Union Leader Article
This community event was held at Journey Church. We didn't get much of a mention, but that's OK: Here is the article:
Sometimes the years fall away.
Derry:
A Day of Caring helps girls of all ages realize there is little more than time that separates them.
By CAROL ROBIDOUX
Union Leader Correspondent
DERRY
OVER COFFEE AND SCONES, Joyce Diemer and Caitlin Harper were just a couple of girls who’d lived in Chester with a mutual love for Siamese cats and well-manicured nails.
The 65-year gap between them was nothing more than time and space.
“I lost my husband a year ago, and I miss him every day. But I’m glad we did so much together,” Diemer said to Harper, 17, a student at Pinkerton Academy. The two were paired up for a Day of Caring through Greater Derry Community Caregivers.
Diemer had some advice for Harper: Make the best of everything and cherish every moment with those you love.
“Just before my husband died we went on a cruise to the Maritimes, in 2009. The weather was perfection and the sea was like glass. That would be my best advice to you: Go on some cruises and enjoy your life,” Diemer said.
Monday morning was planned as a day of pampering and girl talk across the generations, as seven Pinkerton Academy students were matched with seven seasoned citizens for manicures and a movie. They met at Journey Church, a newly renovated factory-turned-contemporary house of worship on Tinkham Avenue.
Seated at tables set up like a coffee house, the multi-generational meet-up began with light refreshments and coffee.
The students were asked to bring along nail polish and lotions, which provided their manicure partners with plenty of colors to choose from.
Shana McKinnon was working on Elaine Duke’s nails.
“It’s called Hot Sexy Pink,” said McKinnon, who mentioned that it was the color Duke had requested by name.
“Yup, I sure did,” said Duke, who had already won McKinnon over by mentioning that she’d often regarded her husband of 39 years as “a bit of a pain.”
“I love that,” said McKinnon, sharing another laugh with Duke, between brush strokes.
“We were double dating when we met. He was going out with my friend, but he kept looking in the rearview mirror and winking at me,” said Duke. “He promised me we’d be married at least 57 years, but we didn’t make it.
He didn’t make it.”
Duke met her husband when she was just 17 — the same age McKinnon is now.
“I guess I think about having a family and a husband someday, but right now I’m focused on college and a career,” said McKinnon.
Cindee Tanuma, executive director of the Greater Derry Community Caregivers, had a feeling this event would be a hit for everyone involved.
She said she looks forward to the annual Day of Caring because it gives her a chance to orchestrate important moments, like this one.
“After we do the nails we’re going in to watch an old movie, ‘The Bells of St. Mary’s,’ and then we’re going to have tea sandwiches together,” Tanuma said. “I guess you’d say the real mission of this is for intergenerational learning. Sometimes older individuals have a perception about teen girls today, that maybe they’re not so sweet or innocent. But they quickly learn that there’s something universal about being 16 or 17 — there really is no difference, except their life experiences.”
For the past 13 years, Pinkerton Academy instructor Roger Konstant has been putting out the call each spring for student volunteers who’d like to get involved in their community. He connects students with various agencies who assign tasks, including the Caregivers, The Upper Room, Vintage Grace, Meals on Wheels, Camp Carpenter and the Nutfield YMCA.
“I was just thinking about this today while I was driving home, thinking about why we do this every year. It occurred to me that kids in our community get a lot of help through various groups while growing up, like Scouts or Little League or church. A lot of people have helped them along the way, and so this is really just a chance for them to begin to give back,” Konstant said. “I don’t know if they realize how much support they have as kids growing up here, but they come away from this experience really having a great time and learning something in the process.”
Jackie Elsmore was fanning her nails, admiring the handiwork of her hand stylist, Kathleen Felch, 17. Waiting for the movie to start, they’d moved on to small talk.
“Jackie was telling me how she has always loved singing and dancing, and was an entertainer in the USO, and how she beat 10 men swimming once at Lynn Beach,” said Felch. “Oh, and, how she was a goalie for her high school’s hockey team when she was about my age, and lost two teeth when she got hit with the puck.”
“Yeah,” said Elsmore. “I stopped it with my mouth.
I was a bit of a tomboy back then, but thinking about it now, it doesn’t seem so long ago.”
Rae-Ann Iacuzio of Derry puts some finishing touches on the elegant fingernails of Norma Helbig of Derry during Monday’s Day of Giving Back.
CAROL ROBIDOUX
This community event was held at Journey Church. We didn't get much of a mention, but that's OK: Here is the article:
Sometimes the years fall away.
Derry:
A Day of Caring helps girls of all ages realize there is little more than time that separates them.
By CAROL ROBIDOUX
Union Leader Correspondent
DERRY
OVER COFFEE AND SCONES, Joyce Diemer and Caitlin Harper were just a couple of girls who’d lived in Chester with a mutual love for Siamese cats and well-manicured nails.
The 65-year gap between them was nothing more than time and space.
“I lost my husband a year ago, and I miss him every day. But I’m glad we did so much together,” Diemer said to Harper, 17, a student at Pinkerton Academy. The two were paired up for a Day of Caring through Greater Derry Community Caregivers.
Diemer had some advice for Harper: Make the best of everything and cherish every moment with those you love.
“Just before my husband died we went on a cruise to the Maritimes, in 2009. The weather was perfection and the sea was like glass. That would be my best advice to you: Go on some cruises and enjoy your life,” Diemer said.
Monday morning was planned as a day of pampering and girl talk across the generations, as seven Pinkerton Academy students were matched with seven seasoned citizens for manicures and a movie. They met at Journey Church, a newly renovated factory-turned-contemporary house of worship on Tinkham Avenue.
Seated at tables set up like a coffee house, the multi-generational meet-up began with light refreshments and coffee.
The students were asked to bring along nail polish and lotions, which provided their manicure partners with plenty of colors to choose from.
Shana McKinnon was working on Elaine Duke’s nails.
“It’s called Hot Sexy Pink,” said McKinnon, who mentioned that it was the color Duke had requested by name.
“Yup, I sure did,” said Duke, who had already won McKinnon over by mentioning that she’d often regarded her husband of 39 years as “a bit of a pain.”
“I love that,” said McKinnon, sharing another laugh with Duke, between brush strokes.
“We were double dating when we met. He was going out with my friend, but he kept looking in the rearview mirror and winking at me,” said Duke. “He promised me we’d be married at least 57 years, but we didn’t make it.
He didn’t make it.”
Duke met her husband when she was just 17 — the same age McKinnon is now.
“I guess I think about having a family and a husband someday, but right now I’m focused on college and a career,” said McKinnon.
Cindee Tanuma, executive director of the Greater Derry Community Caregivers, had a feeling this event would be a hit for everyone involved.
She said she looks forward to the annual Day of Caring because it gives her a chance to orchestrate important moments, like this one.
“After we do the nails we’re going in to watch an old movie, ‘The Bells of St. Mary’s,’ and then we’re going to have tea sandwiches together,” Tanuma said. “I guess you’d say the real mission of this is for intergenerational learning. Sometimes older individuals have a perception about teen girls today, that maybe they’re not so sweet or innocent. But they quickly learn that there’s something universal about being 16 or 17 — there really is no difference, except their life experiences.”
For the past 13 years, Pinkerton Academy instructor Roger Konstant has been putting out the call each spring for student volunteers who’d like to get involved in their community. He connects students with various agencies who assign tasks, including the Caregivers, The Upper Room, Vintage Grace, Meals on Wheels, Camp Carpenter and the Nutfield YMCA.
“I was just thinking about this today while I was driving home, thinking about why we do this every year. It occurred to me that kids in our community get a lot of help through various groups while growing up, like Scouts or Little League or church. A lot of people have helped them along the way, and so this is really just a chance for them to begin to give back,” Konstant said. “I don’t know if they realize how much support they have as kids growing up here, but they come away from this experience really having a great time and learning something in the process.”
Jackie Elsmore was fanning her nails, admiring the handiwork of her hand stylist, Kathleen Felch, 17. Waiting for the movie to start, they’d moved on to small talk.
“Jackie was telling me how she has always loved singing and dancing, and was an entertainer in the USO, and how she beat 10 men swimming once at Lynn Beach,” said Felch. “Oh, and, how she was a goalie for her high school’s hockey team when she was about my age, and lost two teeth when she got hit with the puck.”
“Yeah,” said Elsmore. “I stopped it with my mouth.
I was a bit of a tomboy back then, but thinking about it now, it doesn’t seem so long ago.”
Rae-Ann Iacuzio of Derry puts some finishing touches on the elegant fingernails of Norma Helbig of Derry during Monday’s Day of Giving Back.
CAROL ROBIDOUX
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Holy! Holy! Holy!
These past several months I have been growing around the idea of the holiness of God.
These past several months I have been growing around the idea of the holiness of God.
I have been thinking about the strong theology (perspective?) of 'God as love' that we have in our optimistic Wesleyan holiness tradition. Alongside that, I have been thinking about the diminutive theology of 'God as just' that we also have. We know that God is just, we just don't talk or preach about it very much, and we don't unpack what that means too deeply. I think our brethren in the Calvinist tradition probably have this worked out with more focus than we do.
How do I hold these both in tension? Where do they meet, and what does that look like? These question bear careful thought. If we loose site of God's justice because His love fills our vision, we might not be seeing all that God has revealed to us. We might grow up as mis-shaped Christians. We might miss profound ways that God is working out His mission in the world, in us, and among us. Yes, we need to see God for who He truly is - for all of Himself that He has shown us.
I think I am discovering that God's love and justice meet in complicated and mysterious ways. I think the one place they meet particularly is the cross; and also the empty tomb. I think also their meeting place is the where the notion 'holy' is birthed. Perhaps my own working definition of holiness is the intersection, in the character of God, of His unflinching demand for justice, and his fathomless depth of love.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
In You
Usually the English language is so rich that it gives us several words to chose from for almost anything we want to say or write. Oddly, there are a few instances where this is not so. One example is with the word 'you'. There is only one word for 'you' whether we are referring to one person or many people. In olden times there used to be the handy word 'ye' which was plural as opposed to 'you' which was singular. So you could say 'John, can you help me?' or you could say 'Family, could ye help me?'.
Since we have lost 'ye' and replaced it with 'you', it is sometimes hard to know when one person or many people are being addressed when we read the word 'you' in the Bible. Take the final phrase of Colossians 1:27 for instance: " To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory." Where exactly is this hope (future certainty) of glory? It is ‘“in you’. Often we North American evangelical Christians have read the word ‘you’ in this phrase and assumed it is you-singular, that is …me. Thus we conclude that Christ is ‘in me’ and connect immediately with the beautiful notion that Jesus can and does live in me since I confessed my sins, accepted Jesus into my heart and became a Christian. That is wonderful and Biblical indeed, and yes, glorious! BUT that is actually not what is being said here, and we might miss an equally glorious point if we don’t see it.
Now I am not a Greek scholar, so I have to go to a range of good commentaries to understand the Greek of this sentence, but it’s worth doing. In the ancient Greek language that the New Testament was written in we can distinguish between singular and plural ‘you’, and we discover the ‘you’ in this phrase is plural. If we lived in the southern US we could say “Christ in y’all, the hope of glory”. So Christ is ‘in’ a group of Christians – in this case the church at Colossi in Turkey. How then can Christ be ‘in’ a local church? Again we go to the Greek scholars to study the word ‘in’. It turns out that the word ‘in’ does not here mean ‘inside’ so much as ‘in between’. It’s not giving a sense of ‘internal’ but a more a sense of ‘amongst’.
So now we know the hope of Glory is Christ among y’all. Beautiful! When Christ is evident in our church relationships – in our dealings with each other – then he is glorified – that is – we see Him evidenced and made of first importance. Amen. Our translators did a good job, but studying the Bible - as well as reading it devotionally can give us deeper insight and discover new, wonderful truths.
As you pray for your church people this week, as and as you meet in small groups, or just write a encouraging email or make that touching-base phone call, you are giving glory to Jesus and His glory is shining all around your church.
As you pray for your church people this week, as and as you meet in small groups, or just write a encouraging email or make that touching-base phone call, you are giving glory to Jesus and His glory is shining all around your church.
Monday, April 04, 2011
Big Kettledrum (3)
BKD EP
My friend Jeffrey Todd Keel is a banjo playing, guitar sliding, hat wearing, song writing, Jesus loving member of the roots folk-rock band Big Kettle Drum. The band have issued their first EP, which I think is very good indeed:
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