Interlaken VIDEO!!!
September 23, 2006
Paris Video!
September 3, 2006
The First Taste
June 18, 2006
Today I took part in my first pastoral intern of congregational care duty. After church I went with a guy, who also happened to be named Kevin, and visited a few elderly church members in a retirement home. One of the ladies didn't think today was a good day for us to visit, another was out and about, one was sweet but embarrassed of her hair, and the last was tired and fell asleep while we talked. Since it is Paramount's tradition to serve communion every Sunday we also take and serve communion on these visits. I didn't serve anyone communion today but I hadn't really ever thought that I would ever be serving people communion. As I watched and listened to what happened in our visits today I think I became more excited about the opportunities in front of me this summer. I think it will be one of the first times that I am truly going to be outside of my comfort zone, walking down the halls of the nursing home and looking at each picture and face of the person who lives behind the door made me think about how much love and care was needed in this place and each life. I don't think I will have enough within me and I know that I will have to depend a lot on God to give me strength to be strong for those who need strength and to be bold when I am afraid.
I keep forgetting the odd Texas sayings and customs that I want to write about…and I haven't been taking any pictures. I suppose that I need to carry around my camera and maybe a little notebook to capture the unique beauty of Texas. Since I do lack pictures at the moment I decided to post a little video I made of my first day of travel out to Texas. I was hard to condense fourteen hours of travel and one and a half hours of footage into a watchable video, and still maintain the theme of monotony without passing on a feeling of monotony to the viewer. Not to mention I only had basic software to work with…but I think it turned out well. Enjoy.
