Okay so to take a break from all the life lessons here in NY and to move to the pervading question most of you may have, “What is it exactly that I do here?”
Well the answer to that question I’ve found lies down a dark and mysterious path…sorry, my creative writing is coming out. Anyway what I am doing currently is three days a week teaching a martial arts class for the kids from Post Ave. For 7 weeks of the summer we are closing down an entire block from 9-5 every day. As part of this program we are taking the kids on trips, working on English and health education, playing games with them, doing Bible Clubs, crafts, martial arts, and generally just loving on the kids.
In addition to the martial arts I have taken on the mantle of administrative organizing boss man! Basically this means I have been working with our director to help establish some stronger levels of administrative organization in the ministry here which includes various detailed assessments of our programs and ministries. I have also as a part of this been included in a number of grants training seminars that help us in the approach to holistic ministry and in better preparing us for grant and funding research. As such it has also fallen to me to be the gimmie money guy. I have been busy pursuing sponsorship and private\ public grant funding for our programs that are currently in place and those we have been eagerly waiting to pursue. So there is a lot to be accomplished here and we have simply needed the extra person to achieve most of this.
Non – Citivision related, I have decided to pursue putting together a worship team for the young adult ministry at Manhattan Bible Church (MBC). This won’t be a heavy time commitment because we will only be playing once a month or so with occasional rehearsals. The challenge here is just finding the musicians and individuals willing to play. In this at least I can call upon some of my education, whereas I would have been better equipped perhaps with an MBA or Sociology degree rather than one in Religion, but who ever uses their degrees anyway…except Tammy…and Dru…and Daniel…well maybe that’s a weak point after all.
Any who…life is good and flexible, just the way we like it. In the future after all the wonderful quality assessments are through, we are looking eagerly forward to pursuing a community center in the Inwood area that will holistically minister to the people in our community. This is the purpose of all the busy work, and that’s why I hold on +)
Love to all,
Jonathan
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