Jennifer Kay Smith
in love with creativity & its sourceArchive for creativity
umc young clergy
i love creativity. so unpredictable, chaotic and beautiful.
i had a great friend in college who was an artist. she often experienced a creativity block when a big project was due. she often stayed up all night before it was due because an idea finally worked.
yesterday i was driving home from a day in cincinnati with my husband (we visited our first IKEA store…wow!). i wondered what websites there are for young clergy to connect and discuss some of our concerns & dreams. then i later wondered if i could shoot a documentary where people of all ages get a chance to share their thoughts. there’s something about the power of film. it tells us something we can’t hear from others.
12 hours later…
Check out http://www.umcyoungclergy.com/.
Join this Facebook group to get more info about being in the documentary.
Join UMC Young Clergy on Facebook.
Storyboard is started.
Applied for Media Credentials at GC.
If you’re going to be at General Conference, let me know. We’ll start filming there.
May this project help continue this discussion. Only when we’re honest and transparent, will change start to happen.
UPDATE:
As of April 12 – 40 people signed up to help!
April 13 – 60 people!!
April 13 – 81 people!
April 15 – 96 people!
April 16 – 125 people!
April 17 – 145
April 20 – 180
Connected with UM Communications in Nashville
Support from United Theological Seminary
Support from pastor at Church of the Resurrection
Support from many bishops in the US
Support from Young Clergy
Support from Lovett Weems & Ann Michal who wrote The Crisis of Young Clergy
ideas everywhere!
Do you ever have so many ideas, thoughts, observations and questions swirling in your mind that you have to shut down just to function?
Aaron and I have been sitting here at awaken08 listening and absorbing from Erwin McManus, Nancy Beach, Mark Batterson, Bill Hybels, Dr. Henry Cloud, Lee Strobel and so many more..
We are so grateful to Stillwater for making it possible to be here. I only hope we can find a way to share pieces of this with the staff and community. I’ll attempt to share the best highlights below…
Is your relationship with God restoring God’s wonder in you?
- Nancy Ortberg
We stop doing ministry out of creativity and do it out of memory. We stop creating and start imitating.
Our greatest moments in life happened when we were foolish. Faith is willing to look foolish.
What wakes me up in the morning is that there are ways of doing church that no one has thought of yet.
- Mark Batterson
We must find the courage to have difficult conversations. Let the elephant into the room. It’s easier to clean up after the elephant when you know where it is. – John Crosby & Kurt Vickman
There is much power in chaos. – David Arcos
more coming soon…
