Ordinary Saints Visits the Los Angeles Urban Project
Wednesday, 04 August 2010 14:25 | 
Written by Rachel Hamilton | 
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Imagine you take six weeks out of your summer to learn about urban ministry and God’s heart for the poor. You live in community, work with an urban ministry and worship all in the heart of Los Angeles. If you studied scripture from a new point of view, from the perspective of the oppressed, how might that affect your career plans? I met up with 25 interns who were five weeks into a six week revolution called the Los Angeles Urban Project (LAUP) hosted by InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. On this particular night, recently graduated or about to graduate students came for a Seniors’ Night, just to discuss how their new perspectives could feasibly be applied in real life. Listen to a few of the questions they asked:
- How do I address my families concerns about my life choices? How do I evaluate their needs when I make a decision about what I will do after college and where I will live?
- Which is more important in overseas missions- rural or urban outreach?
- When you are earning an income, how much is godly to save? How much should we give to the church and/or parachurch ministries?
- How do you speak out and act for justice if there is injustice in your workplace?
- After you have found a job, how do you find and commit to a community that is doing ministry?
- If your job keeps you far from cities or other places of poverty, how can you incorporate service into your life?
Rachel Hamilton joins the staff of Ordinary Saints!Tuesday, 22 June 2010 11:06 | Written by Greg Pennington | |
Ordinary Saints would like to introduce Rachel Hamilton as its new Vice President. Hear her story here:Just last week, I, Rachel Hamilton, agreed to join Ordinary Saints. It is an exciting opportunity to focus my energies on mentoring young adults who are looking to try out a short-term (3 month—2 year) internship with a mission organization. My connections with college campus fellowships, missions minded churches and young adult and college ministers will be my first place to start finding people who could benefit from this kind of mentoring.
I owe a debt to some great leaders who gave me a chance to try my hand at leadership at a very young age – relative to the responsibility I was given. I see as a leader now how hard it can be to turn over the reins of ministry to the next generation. But at the same time, this is our charge to bring in the next class of leaders to a place of real responsibility and mentor them into this role.
Africa Journal - Day 7 & Day 8Friday, 26 March 2010 08:32 | Written by Greg Pennington | |
Day 7 Felt good enough (or crazy enough, depending upon your opinion of me!) to try another jogging trip this morning. I took off out the door around 6 am and got in a 45 minute run on pretty quiet streets-the elevation is around 4000 feet so I am blaming “my huffing and puffing and barely hanging on” with the altitude!!
Africa Journal - Day 5 & Day 6Tuesday, 09 March 2010 16:27 | Written by Greg Pennington | |
Day 5 Got in another run this morning-extra bonus was running about 20 minutes of it with a Nigerian youth (18 or so) who was running to keep in shape for basketball. We got to talk a little bit so that was fun!
Africa Journal - Day 3 & Day 4Tuesday, 09 March 2010 16:26 | Written by Greg Pennington | |
Day 3 Not much sleep-jet lag reared its ugly head! Finally got up and made myself some instant coffee with powdered milk-tasted as good as starbucks right then. Took a quick shower and even had some hot water since the power worked during the night. Got dressed in nice clothes to head to an African wedding with Chris and Christi-they were dressed in matching traditional Nigerian dressy clothes with hats.
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We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love. Mother Teresa |
| "We must become the change we want to see.” Mahatma Gandhi |
| "Don't call us saints; we don't want to be dismissed that easily" — Shane Claiborne |
"And I think that's what our world is desperately in need of - lovers, people who are building deep, genuine relationships with fellow strugglers along the way, and who actually know the faces of the people behind the issues they are concerned about." — Shane Claiborne |
| Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| Act Justly, Love Mercy, Walk Humbly. Micah 6:8 |
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish He didn't trust me so much. Mother Teresa |
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” Mahatma Gandhi |
