As I’m moving further into this year, I realize just how much I am learning about the people in my house, and how much more comfortable it is becoming. I am understanding my housemate’s moods better, noticing how they are feeling, and I in return am feeling more relaxed and comfortable around them. I feel […]
Co-Creation
Who’s Expectations?
One of the main reasons I applied to the Johnson Service Corps was because I realized that I was playing along with other people’s expectations. At the time I did not fully recognize it to be God’s voice that was asking me to question the values, beliefs, and practices of my culture. I had an […]
Good Things Happen
I have often felt that if I don’t do something to make a change then it will never happen. There are so many injustices in the world that don’t seem to be going anywhere so it must be up to me to set them straight, right? The beauty of co-creation is that it isn’t just […]
How do we unlearn individualism?
Co-Creation. I hear God’s voice above the clamor of the dominant culture. God asks me to question its assumptions and beliefs. As a servant leader I align my life with God’s dream and engage with others to be co-creative instruments of justice and peace. The clamor of our dominant culture is constantly pushing us to […]
What if God gets a busy tone? Reflections on being open to Call.
This month, I would like to reflect on the idea of “co-creation.” Not because I hear God’s voice, but because I am trying to listen. I joked with my housemates that if God has been trying to guide me to a call, he’s been getting a busy tone for years. There are dozens of reasons […]
From Call to Action
I had a really scary, yet amazing moment of clarity after attending the Dismantling Racism training this month. One of my areas of discernment has been to understand more how my call would look in a daily manner. It’s one thing to be called, but another level of service to turn it into a career […]
It All Starts With Changing Our Worldview
During our last Servant Leadership class we did a kind of review of all the things that we learned and still something that resonated with me was when we spoke about worldviews. We are raised to think about the world one way and this perception helps to shape us into the people we are today. […]
From Abstract to Concrete: Servant Leadership in Action
This month’s trip to DC to visit the Church of the Savior was a fantastic example of the JSC value of co-creation. We were presented over and over again with examples of people and communities living counter-culturally. Ray McGovern, for example, actively and publicly questions dominant systems and structures that manipulate and oppress. Becca Stelle, […]