What's up everybody? I'm EvilRabbit. We are here on Irwindale. Definitely been itching to get on Irwindale recently after watching Chris Forsberg, Matt Fields, Daiya Shihara, and all them ripping on Irwindale. They're doing some testing on their new FD cars. So we are here in a server with a lot of people right now. Public server in the Slide Boys cars here at Irwindale. We're gonna get some random tandem seeing if we can't throw down the bangs here in this 350Z with the tandem with some randoms. Got a lot of guys going on running. Looks like they're running trains up on the walls.  Make sure you guys follow me on Instagram and Twitter. I'll look for the description box below that. Man, just sent it. Let's see if we can wait for somebody to come and chase. Okay, apparently they don't want to chase. They want to go by themselves. Problem with the online sessions, I feel that people don't really follow the lead and chase the rules. The rules, scrubbing the walls. We managed to somewhat keep control. Definitely been enjoying the Slide Boys cars. They are a very good car pack. And they got the power to handle the bangs here at Irwindale. Kind of a little bit saucy on the edge of that last run. Let's see if we can actually try and get into some tandems here. Irwindale, one of my favorite tracks to do tandem here in this set of course are because of the high bangs, the high speeds. This 350Z just pops off. We're gonna see if we can get somebody to lead and I'm gonna try and throw down a tandem run here. So we do have an E46 in the fourth gear. Oh, I hesitated. I thought he was gonna biff the walls over a little bit back on the chase, but we can make that up here. Cut this thing a little bit shorter. Didn't lose much ground based on where I started on the bank. Nice solid run by that man. Oh, as I said that the dude goes airborne after the last bit. Rip, RIP, the E46 that car is not not gonna be back here probably. Wow, they're running full trains now. I think we need to try and get a part of that train. Yeah, they're running trains. We're gonna try and be a part of that. The man just hit the cones. The cones here on the Irwindale track. You can't go through them. They will definitely rock you for sure. The stand-in me was these guys earlier. These guys are pretty good in the GT4586s. We're just gonna go in and try and send it behind them. Grabbed fourth gear. As I said, that dude loses it. What a punted that clip. A little wall tap for him. A little clutch kick. I thought he was gonna completely lose it. But nonetheless a clean run Irwindale definitely a difficult track to start learning. He's running that interbank too. Difficult track to start learning with the long bank and everything and that interbank having a bit of a changing radius where it changes a little bit. You gotta, oop, tap. You gotta make sure you slow down a little bit so you don't run hit that wall. Grabbed fourth. Man, definitely over angled. Saved it though. Didn't wreck the cars. That got dicey. We almost died from that guy. Just a little wall tap at the end. Nothing too severe. Those are 2 GT4586s. They were getting it down earlier. They're, uh, maybe I'm throwing some pressure on them and they're making mistakes out well as they hit the walls and stuff. Well, we'll see. If we can't throw maybe a lead. Bring it back up to the wall. There we go. Over it off that last clip, but a somewhat smooth lead. Drift that inside. Edge. Well, don't hit Supras or those cones. Ow. We're on another lead. Sparking rear valences. Pretty decent on the bank. Right on that wall in that crease. Probably the best lead run I've had is a wall tap it on the end, but managed to be one of the best lead runs I think I've had recently.  Don't know what that Supra was doing. Kind of scared me and then E46 lost it. We managed to keep it. So public lobbies are definitely very, uh, sketchy when it comes to doing the lead and chase stuff because not many people follow the lead and chase parameters, which is unfortunate because you know, it's great to have that and that heck just happened there. Okay. Guess we're going this way. Like I said, public lobby problems. I've never had any problems like this before in the center lobby too much. That guy was all over the place. I feel like I'm back in a four to seven lobby. In the center lobby, four to seven lobby, I'm super confused. I'll try following this black E46. I haven't followed him yet. Why is that guy going backwards on the track? So unfortunately we are getting all kinds of people mixing up our lines and stuff. So I can need to try and follow these four, five, eight, six, six. They seem to be the only ones that are really running the lead and chase stuff. Cut this bank. Oh. Got to stay out of the wall hitting from them. Okay, I got surged on. I think we're going to get maybe one or two more runs here to end this episode off. Unfortunately, it looks like it's getting hectic here and well, I guess we're just going to go out with a full bang. People are just doing donuts in the box. So this will be the last run for today's episode. Make sure you follow me on Instagram and Twitter. I'll be found in the description box below. Hope you guys are enjoying the car pack, the missile car pack I released. Hope you guys are liking the cars. Constructive criticism would be very appreciative as well on things you maybe think I should change in further cars and stuff like that. So as always, thank you guys for watching. That's a wall. See you guys on the track.


A lot of education here whether it be morning report on the floors in the clinic or you know afternoon attending rounds noon conference But my favorite is morning report because you know we went to medical school. We learned about diagnosis and pathology but residency is about learning management and morning report provides not only literature you have a Skilled attending that's there to help you manage the cases that you bring forward that you've admitted overnight And in addition it's more of a discussion when throw up is really the hidden gem of pediatrics on Long Island and We we have every pediatric subspecialty here besides pediatric cardiothoracic surgery so we see a wide range of pathology in a smaller environment and I think that in combination with the faculty and the group of residents we have it's it's a very nice Friendly environment to learn medicine. I feel like the education here is excellent. We have We have times that are Specific only for education that are protected and the quality of the the quality of the presentations that are given to us are you know wonderful. They are always focused on our Board exams or pediatric board exams usually questions that are would be very common to see on the boards are infused in Most of our presentations. So I feel like they are starting right from the beginning to get us prepared for that So we have dedicated didactic time on Thursdays and Fridays mostly They're a mixture of lectures and simulations of laparoscopic surgery that we can do at our simulation center and we have didactic lectures that are given by both like I said private and Faculty attendings Sometimes we'll have guest speakers come in particularly for grand rounds And we have a robotics training simulation which is Run by our associate program director who's a gynecologist oncologist So we have a set curriculum that we have to follow with our robotics training Which is great because at the end of our residency program will be officially certified to do robotic surgery I want to specifically talk about our attendings. They're so so great They're super passionate about teaching. They're incredibly intelligent And they have so much to offer and they're so approachable It's really intimidating sometimes when you meet these incredibly intelligent brilliant people And you're like, okay, I feel like I have a dumb question And then you ask them and then you have this extensive conversation and it's a great learning experience So the attendings have been so great and then all of the rest of the staff and their truly I I respect my faculty because I would not have achieved what I achieved today without them I currently matched at Well-renowned institution johns hopkins institution actually at a hematopathology program And I would not have been able to achieve this without the support and the training that I received at my program Here I was able to grow. I was able to Really own my cases and really grow into the physician that I I believe that the My future institutions saw in me and and that that I believe is because of the training I received here They bring us into c-sections from day one If there's anything that you're interested in learning you have someone who's willing to Talk to you about it for hours or take you through it You know, they don't shy away from working with you just because you're a new resident From the time you go through the door, they are taking you under their wing and really teaching you know, and that's really important In terms of the faculty, they're extremely dedicated to education and to teaching Which is very it was wonderful for our education. And there's both formal and informal Teaching that goes on on a day-to-day basis The faculty are excellent. They are very effective educators. They're fully dedicated to teaching All different levels from the medical student to the resident and the fellow Um, I can say for sure that I've interacted with a lot of our clinical faculty They provide great mentorship, especially when it comes to research projects And also career planning so uh that That professional as well as personal investment in our in our futures is uh, I think what makes this Program stand out compared to the other programs


Warm greetings to all of you meeting in person and online. It's good to be with you from my home in Abbotsford, British Columbia. Though we are separated by geography, I'm grateful for God's spirit that joins us together as we gather around this theme of reimagining ministry. Last month, I received an email from a high school student in Texas. He introduced himself and wrote this. As part of my junior year research project, I'm looking into Christian thought surrounding self care. This research has brought me to your book for gifts. Part of my assignment is to conduct an interview with an expert in the field. So I wanted to ask if you are available and willing to have an interview over Zoom about 30 minutes before the end of February. As a writer, I don't always know where my words will go or who will read them. So I was amazed and grateful to hear from this high school student. Not that I consider myself an expert. I think what Thomas Merton says about spiritual disciplines applies to self care too. He said, we do not want to be beginners, but let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything else but beginners. I'm definitely still learning about self care and I was eager to find out what could I learn from this high school student. So I emailed him back, yes, I'd be happy to talk with you and could you please send me some questions in advance so I would know the direction our conversation might take. Some of the questions he had were really more about writing because his research project was part of an advanced placement English class. But here are his questions that relate to our overarching theme of reimagining ministry. Do you think the coronavirus pandemic had an effect on attitudes towards self care? Is the popularity of self care bad for society in regards to productivity and so on? Are pastors and churches addressing self care the way they should?  Is mental health given the correct amount of attention in churches? These are all great questions, real life questions and they serve as background for what I would like to share with you over these next few days. How is self care related to reimagining ministry? Are we addressing self care enough and in what ways? This morning, my focus is on what we might learn from Jesus example, from how he imagined and reimagined his ministry. That could go in a number of different directions but I'd like to highlight just three today. I note first of all that even before Jesus began his public ministry, before he started preaching and teaching and healing and going about the countryside, his ministry to come was shaped by time with God in the wilderness. In the Bible, the wilderness was often the place to meet God. That's where Moses led the people of Israel, where they received the 10 commandments, where they were formed into the people of God and it was in the wilderness that God prepared Jesus for his ministry. For Jesus, this was not self care in the sense of enjoying a nice meal and a hot bath and a good night's sleep. There's a place for those things but that wasn't here and it wasn't self care as self indulgence or self pampering. As the gospel of Matthew tells it, Jesus time with God in the wilderness was actually physically demanding in his fasting and praying. It was spiritually demanding in Jesus wrestling with deep questions about life and ministry. In that way, his time in the self in the wilderness went beyond any kind of superficial self care to a deeper level of soul care. It was a time of testing and defining his character and his values. It was a time of testing and defining who he would be as a ministering person. In the language of this conference, we might say that it was a time for Jesus to imagine and reimagine his ministry. It was also a time for him to receive God's care when at the end of his trials, God sent angels to care for him. In Jesus' first trial, the devil tempted Jesus to turn stones into bread. Jesus had already been in the wilderness fasting for 40 days so surely he was now entitled to eat. Why not turn stones into bread to satisfy his hunger? What could be wrong with that? But the trials we face in life and ministry are not always between right and wrong, between good and bad. Instead, the test of character may be focused on doing something good for the wrong reason or at the wrong time. The day would come when Jesus would eat. When he would multiply bread and fish to feed a crowd, but alone in the wilderness, he chose not to use divine power to satisfy himself. That's what the devil imagined for him. Instead, Jesus insisted on waiting for God's word in God's time. For the second trial, the devil did not deny that Jesus was the son of God, but he tempted him on exactly that point. What kind of son of God would he be? Would Jesus use God's power to draw attention to himself, to attract followers by having God perform a miracle? That's what the devil imagined for Jesus. And again, the time would come when Jesus would perform many miracles, many signs and wonders, calming storms, casting out demons, healing people, even raising the dead, but not for public acclaim or human approval, not for money or for personal gain. In fact, Jesus would sometimes ask people to be quiet about the miraculous things they experienced. His miracles were not advertising, but they were signs of God's kingdom meant to bring justice and hope, salvation and peace. Here in the wilderness, Jesus refused to play the devil's game of tempting God. Finally, the devil took Jesus to a high mountain and offered him all the kingdoms of the world in return for his allegiance in worship. Think of all the good that Jesus could do with all that power. He could rid the world of political corruption, poverty, slavery, war, every kind of abuse and oppression, but once again, Jesus set aside what the devil imagined for him. One day, Jesus authority over all things would be clear, but only after his own suffering and brutal death, only after his resurrection, ascension and coming again. In the meantime, he would not take the devil's shortcut. Three separate trials, three separate victories for Jesus, and yet each temptation was really a variation on the same theme. In the first, Jesus faced the temptation to doubt God's provision and instead to look after his own needs. In the second, he faced the temptation to doubt God and seek the approval of other people. In the last, he faced the temptation to doubt God and take the easy way out. Those temptations might sound familiar to any pastor or leader. We may not have the power to turn stones into bread, but we may also be tempted to doubt God's provision and try to get what we want in our own way and in our time. We may not be tempted to test God by throwing ourselves off a building, but we might be tempted to misuse God's power for our own ends or to please other people. When we're faced with challenges, we may find ourselves tempted to take the easy way out instead of relying on God's strength and leading to see us through. We too know the temptation of doubting God and going our own way, but when trials come, we can learn from the way Jesus relied on scripture in the wilderness. He remained grounded in scripture and we can learn to remain grounded in scripture. Of course, quoting scripture is no guarantee that we've got it right. In the gospel account, the devil misuses scripture to tempt Jesus and we know that scripture has been misused throughout history and even today to justify racism, oppression, war, and other forms of injustice. But the misuse of scripture gives us even more reason to read carefully and to study, to immerse ourselves in the word as Jesus did, to know it deeply as our guide to faith and life. From Jesus' time in the wilderness, we also learn the importance of remembering who we are and whose we are. Just before his time in the wilderness, Jesus had been baptized by John and the spirit of God descended on him like a dove. Divine confirmation came in a voice from heaven. This is my son, the beloved, with whom I am well pleased. As the beloved son Jesus went into the wilderness empowered by the Holy Spirit and knowing who he was, who's he was. Remembering who we are as precious children of God also shapes us and strengthens us for ministry. We are created in God's image, empowered by the spirit to bear the image of God into our world and into the challenges we face each day. From Jesus' time in the wilderness, we also learn to worship God alone. We are not to worship money or success, conveniences or consumerism or any other idol. Even the good things of life, family, friends, church, work, community service and every other blessing, these things find their best place in our lives in light of God's kingdom. When we say yes to God first, other things take their rightful place and the no's that we need to say become clearer. As Jesus dismissed the devil, his words also challenge our priorities for life and ministry today. You will challenge, you will worship the Lord, your God and serve only him. As we sang earlier, you are God, you are God, you have no competitor. For Jesus, this time alone with God in the wilderness, set the tone and direction for his ministry to come and throughout his ministry, Jesus would continue to take time to make time to get away from the crowds and away from his disciples to spend time alone with God. Some of you know part of my personal story that last year my husband was in treatment for cancer and what we thought was a bad reaction to his chemotherapy turned out to be something much more and he unexpectedly died from cancer related complications. This Sunday will be the one year anniversary of his death. So as you can imagine for me, this last year has been a kind of wilderness. Even though I've eased back into speaking and writing again, I am still wrestling with some heavy questions. I'm still needing to reimagine many things about my life and ministry. So when I accepted the invitation to speak at this conference, knowing that this weekend would be the one year anniversary of my husband's passing, I thought once the conference is over, I really need to deliberately take some time to be alone, to be alone with God. I won't physically go out into the wilderness up a mountain somewhere. Right now for me, the wilderness and the chaos that I feel is more internal, but like Jesus, I will take some time to be alone, alone with God. So this Sunday, I won't be preaching for my church or for any other church. I won't be co-hosting our Zoom worship as I often do. Instead, I will retreat from those things to be grounded in scripture and prayer, to remember that I am loved by God and empowered by the spirit, to sit with, to wrestle with the big questions that I face at this time, to receive and to rest in God's care. The challenges and questions you face are quite likely different from mine, but as you reimagine life and ministry, I commend to you Jesus' practice of taking time alone with God in the wilderness. Maybe you can't get away for 40 days, but maybe you can take a few days or a few hours or a few moments. One of my former colleagues in ministry would regularly a few times a year go alone to our church camp for an evening and overnight and the next day. That was his wilderness time to be alone with God. A friend of mine regularly gets up early and goes out to her patio and watches the sunrise all year round in every kind of weather. That's her wilderness time to be alone with God. Well, in addition to listening to God in the wilderness, Jesus' ministry was also significantly shaped by other people. In the Gospel of Matthew, a Canaanite woman begged Jesus to heal her daughter and Jesus said to her, I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. From the start of Jesus' public ministry, he focused his ministry in that way. After his time in the wilderness, the Gospel of Luke says that Jesus returned to Galilee and began teaching in the synagogues throughout the region. So when he went to Nazareth, he taught in the synagogue. When he went to Capernaum, he taught in the synagogue because the synagogues were at the very heart of Jewish life. They were part meeting place and part prayer hall and that's where Jesus began his ministry. At the synagogue in Nazareth, he met with some early success. It was after all his hometown. His disciples had come with him and when they went to the synagogue on the Sabbath, Jesus began to teach. Many who heard Jesus were astounded. How had Jesus learned to speak so well? How had he gained such wisdom? And when they heard of the marvelous healings that he had performed, they were astounded at his power. Here was one of their own having gone away and done mighty things now back home, accompanied by a band of followers and teaching like a rabbi in the synagogue. Yet the people's favorable response quickly turned. They knew Jesus and his family. He was a tradesman who worked with his hands, not a rabbi. He was the son of Mary. Perhaps they thought of him that way because his father Joseph had already died or perhaps they questioned the legitimacy of his birth. And so instead of acknowledging, according to the custom as a son of Joseph, they called him the son of Mary. In any case, they knew Jesus' brothers and sisters and they thought they knew him. He was one of them, not a wonder worker. So the people took offense at him. Who did Jesus think he was? He might have brought followers with him. He might be teaching in the synagogue. He might be styling himself as a prophet, but they refused to accept his claim. They didn't believe him. What a drastic change from Jesus' first success among them. This was still early in his ministry, but the Pharisees and Herodians were already conspiring against him. The scribes from Jerusalem had already come down and accused of Jesus of having a demon. Even his family didn't understand his ministry and now his hometown, those who at first seemed glad to welcome him soon turned away. But the people's reaction did not put an end to Jesus' ministry. In the face of opposition, instead of giving up, instead of lashing out at those who refused his message, Jesus left Nazareth and expanded his ministry in a new way. Instead of teaching only in the synagogue, he pivoted to the surrounding villages. He called the 12th and he began to send them out two by two. So they also went about preaching, teaching, healing and casting out demons. Jesus demonstrated that same kind of ability to pivot throughout his ministry. When the Canaanite woman begged him for help, yes, he did say to her, I have come only for the lost sheep of Israel, but when the woman persisted, Jesus healed her daughter. When a centurion came to Jesus about his desperately ill servant, Jesus didn't send him away because he was Roman. Instead, he commended the man for his faith and he healed his servant. Jesus didn't hesitate to talk with a Samaritan woman at the well and she went on to evangelize her whole town. Clearly Jesus' ministry was not only for the house of Israel, he stepped outside of it more than once. When Jesus taught in the synagogue in Nazareth, he read these words from the prophet Isaiah. The spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set free those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor. Today, said Jesus, this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing. With that bold claim, Jesus set himself squarely in the prophetic tradition in the house of Israel and for the house of Israel. And yet immediately after reading these words and making that claim, Jesus followed this with two stories about people from outside of the house of Israel, how in the midst of a severe famine, God provided food for a widow of Zeraphat, how God cured Naaman the Aramean from his skin disease. They were not part of the house of Israel, yet Jesus pointed to them as examples of God's favor. For Jesus and for us today, the stories, the questions, the challenges, the persistence of the people around us can also contribute to our imagining and reimagining. In my own experience, I never imagined becoming a pastor. As a child, I loved books and dreamed of becoming a writer. In high school and university, I began to imagine myself as a social worker. But when I didn't get into the school of social work, I did an internship with a city magazine that rekindled my love of writing, my dream of writing. So I wrote and I studied, I taught English and Bible at a Bible college and I kept writing. I had found my calling. In those days, my husband and I were also becoming part of Immanuel Mennonite Church in Abbotsford, just down the road from the college where we both taught. We knew the church was having some difficulty because the pastor had left earlier in the year, left very abruptly, literally there one Sunday and then gone the next Sunday. But I had been a guest speaker at the church a couple of times. We were getting to know people and decided to become members of the church anyway in spite of the turmoil. The church still didn't have a pastor. They were relying even more than usual on members to be involved. So when I was asked to plan and lead the four worship services in Advent, I was quite willing to do what I could. So I planned, led those worship services and after the first Sunday, a woman came up to me and said, how would you like to be the pastor of this church? And I left. That was the furthest thing from my mind. I thought I already found my calling to teach and to write and to be an active member of the church. Pastoral ministry was nowhere on my radar screen. But what I had never imagined for myself, other people began to imagine for me because over the next weeks as I continued to plan and lead worship, other church members began asking me the same question. What about pastoral ministry? The chair of the search committee called me. Suddenly, the church and I were reimagining ministry together and we continued to imagine and reimagine ministry together for over 25 years. I can hardly believe it even now that I pastored for over 25 years let alone 25 years in the same church. But of course, it wasn't the same church over all those years and I wasn't the same pastor, the same person. What I had never imagined for myself, God imagined for me. The church imagined for me and we imagined together. So along with taking time in the wilderness to be with God, I also see a place for listening to the people around us. In the face of opposition, do we persevere in the same direction or do we pivot and reimagine something else? What good questions and challenges do other people raise for us that might spark our reimagining? Our encounters with other people can help stretch our imaginations. Our imagination for ministry can also be shaped by our context. The world Jesus lived in significantly shaped his ministry. He lived in a world inhabited by people, planting seeds, baking bread, lighting lamps, looking for lost things. And these things made their way into his teaching in the real-life situations that he addressed in the stories that he told. Jesus' parables of the kingdom give evidence of his creativity and imagination. In Mark's Gospel, Jesus tells a parable about a tiny mustard seed that grows into a large bush. He used exaggerated language to make his point, calling the mustard seed the smallest of all the seeds on earth and the mature plant the greatest of all shrubs. Some seeds are actually even smaller than the mustard seed and some shrubs larger than the mature mustard plant, but Jesus' point was clear. Just as a tiny seed can grow into a large bush, the kingdom of God starts small and becomes great. That was amply demonstrated in the life and ministry of Jesus. His earthy life began in a small way with his birth as an infant. Even as a grown man, he was not considered great in the eyes of the world. He was just one voice preaching and teaching to the crowds.  Humanly speaking, the kingdom of God looked very small. Yet from that humble beginning came a tremendous result. Jesus rose from the dead. His disciples were transformed by from being in fear behind locked doors to spreading the good news to everyone who would listen. Jesus' lone voice long ago has echoed through the centuries.  What began small turned out to be significant. That's God's kingdom. What's more, Jesus' choice of the mustard seed tells us that the kingdom of God won't look the way we might expect. In his day, the people had great expectations of the coming kingdom and what it would mean for them. They believe God's kingdom would be a great and mighty kingdom that finally their enemies would be under their feet and they would be delivered from oppression. If the crowds were to have chosen a symbol for this mighty kingdom, it would more likely have been a stately tree, maybe a cedar of Lebedon. But Jesus made an unexpected choice. The lowly mustard plant must have caught their attention of his listeners. It made them listen and vividly demonstrated that God's kingdom would look different than anyone might have expected. And again, that was true in Jesus' life and ministry. People might have expected their king to be born in a castle, but Jesus was born in humble circumstances. When he entered Jerusalem, people might have expected him as a king to ride a mighty horse, but he entered the city riding on a donkey. Instead of a great display of power, Jesus died on a cross. Humanly speaking, none of those things looked like a mighty kingdom, but that's exactly what God's kingdom is like. It starts small, it grows big, it doesn't look the way we expect. Today, some people might look for God's kingdom in a grand dramatic style. They might look for it in a mega church and in signs and wonders and they might well find God's kingdom in such places. But as Jesus imagined his ministry in his parables, in his context, he saw real kingdom power in things that were quite ordinary, like a seed growing into a large bush. That was part of Jesus' imagination for ministry, drawn out of the ordinary things in his immediate context, drawn from seeds and planting them in the ground and watching them grow. Three years ago, if you had asked me if my current church would consider worshiping online, I would have said, I can't imagine that. We were a small liturgical worship community grounded in the reading of scripture and prayer and the classical music tradition. We read scripture and songs, sang songs from the liturgical booklet that our worship team put together each week, printed, stapled and handed out in person to everyone on Sunday mornings. Our focal point at the front of our worship space was this cross, crafted with great respect and care out of yellow cedar by a skilled carver in the stallow tradition, since our church meets on the traditional lands of the stallow people. There was no screen at the front of our worship space for song lyrics or slides like this. The church was up close and personal with no apparent desire to expand their use of technology. Today, we are still a small liturgical worship community, but our use of technology has changed. Now on Sunday mornings, we have a hybrid worship service both in person and on Zoom, sometimes lovingly referred to as our back row. During times of congregational sharing, we hear from those in our physical worship space and those online. People serve as scripture readers and speakers, both in person and online. What I wouldn't have imagined three years ago has become our reality. I can't say that the church went through a deliberate process to reimagine ministry in this way, perhaps in our case, it's more that our immediate context of the pandemic reimagined us. At the height of the pandemic, when we were not able to meet in person, the church suddenly became more open to experimenting with technology. People who had never heard of Zoom were willing to give it a try. When we were able to start worshiping again in person, we decided to continue with Zoom to allow people to return to in-person worship at their own pace. And some still remain online due to mobility or other issues that keep them at home. Some live at a distance too far to commute. Some mainly worship in person, but connect online when they're out of town or recovering from COVID or recovering from surgery. One Sunday on Zoom, we had two people in Australia, very early Monday morning their time. We had one person who was traveling in France Sunday evening her time and the rest of us locally on Pacific time. I don't know when or if that would have happened for us as a church without the pandemic, but that immediate context shaped us, it spurred us on to imagine ministry in a new way. Well, there are many things that can help spark or spur us on to reimagine. Worship, music, art, personal reflection and prayer, small groups, and many other elements that are part of this conference. From Jesus' own earthly ministry, let us also reimagine with God in the wilderness. Let us reimagine by listening to and discerning the voices of those around us. Let us reimagine by being aware of our own context. Enjoy the rest of the day as you continue to reimagine ministry.


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I'll see what I can do Oh, thank you You wish to send answer to telegram this moment we'll see Your presence is required at the Demulan ranch the sum of $1,000 has been deposited in your account to ensure your prompt arrival an additional $1,000 will be deposited on the completion of your services signed the contest Marie de Mulan Contest or married Demahoo de Mulan Oh, the owner of the largest cattle ranch in Oregon. Hey boys an empire in itself and Ruled as such by one of the most colorful women this frontier is ever known. They contest.  I take trip Begin both of them here. 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I Stopped when I saw the main house caught by its majestic beauty as it rose from a hilltop Silently watching over its vast holdings Many stories had been told about his owner the contests stories of her strength pride and iron-fisted control At the house. I was met by a servant shown immediately to a huge bedroom furnished in the best French tradition Propped up in a large poster bed was a very old woman her eyes burning with fierce pride This was the legendary contest frail and weak now in sickness, but still the ruler So you did come mr. Paladin Come closer so I can see you the report said you were a man of character But I wasn't sure whether you'd come or not my curiosity would allow me to do nothing else Your curiosity or the money I offered you both Sit down mr. Paladin. Thank you Perhaps you already know Six months ago my son died I read about it What you don't know is that my grandson Andre Disappeared shortly afterward your grandson He ran away. I Haven't seen or heard from him since well. How old is he contest 20? Why did you run away? Andre was always given everything he wanted No matter what it was But in spite of this the boy became sullen and resentful He made friends with an undesirable person called pheasant who succeeded in intensifying Andre's rebellion toward this ranch and everyone on it and when he ran off he went with this pheasant yes a black mark Against the name of Dave Milan a Name that has for centuries been spoken with respect and you want me to find Andre I'm going to die soon. Mr. Paladin and I want my grandson back before I do He's my last living relative And if he doesn't want to come back you'll force him This man pestilence Keeps Andre from returning He's evil. He only wants what my grandson can give him. Do you know where they might be now? Yes Two weeks ago my foreman was in the town of placer Three days ride from here There he saw Andre and Faisal They were gambling Why didn't he bring him back? Faisal is a gunfighter. My foreman is not Mr. Paladin If you bring my grandson back to me I'll pay you not two thousand as I promised But five thousand dollars Five thousand yes Must mean a lot to you. It does There you'll find a picture of Andre on the dressing table Take it. All right Bring him to me. Mr. Paladin Bring him to me Contest You'll have your grandson Placer, Oregon was a small mining town nestled in the mountains near the crystal clear water of Grave Creek After searching the town for Andre de Mulan and Faisal I learned that two men answering their descriptions had left a few days ago And headed south toward Grant's Pass I followed and on the second day picked up their trail They were moving slow, and I figured I'd catch them the next day so I made camp for that night Don't move And don't turn around Drop your gun belt. You're done. Just fine Andy come in here. Are you sure surprised them? You surprised them real good How about it? Mr. Did I surprise you? Yeah? You sure did want to know why? Because I've seen you following us. Why were you following us? What makes you think I was no you were right enough What'd you do see Andy and me winning all that money back in plaster and figure on taking it from us? You seem to have all the answers Well, I'll tell you something mister. I don't like nobody following me.  You always shoot men in the back. No Nobody can say that about Faisal and not ever So you just turn around and get it in the belly All right, don't move Andy. There's still one bullet left in this derringer You killed Fezlin. He was only fooling you.  You don't know men like him Fezlin was my friend friend. Who are you anyway? What were you following us?   Why? Why would you want to do that?   No No, I'm not going back. You have no choice Maybe not now But the time will come you'll have to watch me every second mister because I don't intend to ever see her again The laughs on you if you're not tuned into comedy time every week day evening on CBS radio The laughs on you because you're missing the funniest part of the day That's when you hear the Amos and Andy music hall people by Amos Andy the Kingfish and all those other wonderful Characters invented by Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll These two witty gentlemen have been entertaining radio listeners for over 30 years and they're funnier and more popular than ever CBS radio's comedy time is also time for Andy Griffith Drolls star of the Broadway musical Destry rides again and just as Droll as a commentator on some of the crazy things you and I do every day Also in on the fun are George Burns and Gracie Allen the zanyest couple who ever went to the altar and of course those wonderful Satterists Bob and Ray with their riotous interviews contests and clubs But then probably the laughs on me. Maybe you haven't been missing CBS radio's comedy time at all Chances are you're already among the millions who've rallied to comedy time Monday through Friday evenings on CBS radio We buried Andre's friend Fezlin and for the next two days rowed in uneventful silence Andre was watching On the second night out. We made camp late before bedding down. I tied him hand and foot The mountain air was cold. So I left the campfire burning After I went to sleep Andre must have somehow wiggled over to the fire Burned off the ropes.   You? You don't know my grandmother She's a devil a witch My father he was just like her But he's dead now, and I'm glad that's a bad thing to say about your own father Just let me tell you something paladin My father was a tyrant. He used to tie people to a post and have him whipped when they disobeyed I'd watch from the house and then I'd hide because I was afraid he'd do it to me Well, that's pretty hard to believe there are laws here and people to enforce them Only laws on that ranch are made by the demulans and I'm ashamed of the name I wish I'd never been born with your choice of friends doesn't speak very well of your judgment Fezzelin was all right. He liked me. He taught me all kinds of things He sure was good with a gun. Look where it got him. Well, that's because you tricked him How is he supposed to know you had a derringer hit on you? Doesn't it mean anything to you that he was gonna shoot me in the back without a chance to defend myself He wouldn't have done that. He was just scaring you.  Yeah, these are real high cliffs, aren't they? Uh-huh on drop to the bottom of the canyon You better turn around and watch where you're going Andre, can you hear me? That's kind of like an answer to a prayer paladin Only you didn't fall all the way down just to the ledge Yeah You'll have to help me up Now why would I ever do that?  Will you still take me to the ranch?  I've got no choice. I told you I'm not going back to that ranch You'll be murdering a man just as sure as if you put a gun in his back and shot him I'm sorry about that Goodbye, mr. Paladin Constipation can be a problem for anyone even doctors and when constipation occurs It's interesting to see just what doctors consider important about a laxative They might use or recommend Well, a majority of the doctors we heard from had this to say a Laxative should be effective gentle as Close to natural acting as possible and a medicine that can be used with complete confidence Now x-lax has been popular with many doctors and millions of people over the years because chocolate at x-lax is Effective overnight it helps you toward your normal regularity X-lax is gentle next morning. It gives you the closest thing to natural action And that's why many doctors and millions of people use x-lax with complete confidence x-lax the laxative that helps you toward your normal regularity gently overnight is x-lax in your medicine cabinet The ledge I had fallen on to was about 15 feet below the narrow twisting trail and was impossible to climb Below me was a sheer drop of a hundred feet or more. I Crouched on the ledge for what seemed like hours before I finally heard the sound of a horse coming up the trail When it was near I shouted the sound stopped a Rope was lowered and I gratefully clambered to the top Andre I Couldn't do it paladin. I don't know why I I Thought about it for a long time, but I just couldn't let anybody die like that You've done a good thing boy I think that's the first good thing. I've ever done Andre Why don't you want to go back to your grandmother? I told you why now? That's hardly reason enough since she's going to die. I promise to bring it back to her. I know I'll go with you. I'll tell you this After you see her if you still want to leave I'll help you thanks But I don't think you'll want to not then I'm scared paladin. I don't want to go in Andre she's an old woman. She wants to see you before she died, but I don't want to see her I tell you you don't know her.  That isn't it. There's something I What Nothing all right quiet now Come in hello contest you've done it. Yes He's here. I'm so happy you found him mr.  No, no Why Mr. Paladin You can see I'm an excellent shot why Why would you do a thing like this? You ask me why?  He desecrated the name of Damolan murdered his own father. Yes. Yes Yes, but why because he was a weakling a filthy little weakling His father gave him a whipping just of whipping and he killed him But the world will never know The name of Damolan will not be blackened The name is already black contests.  Hey boy kiss. Oh miss Wong was very embarrassed You didn't have to be after all hey boy shouldn't go around kissing pretty girls cousins or not Paladin hey boy just try to copy you copy me All right miss long now you tell hey boy when you see him that he has my permission to copy me as long as the pretty girl He kisses is you if you're smoking more today, but enjoying it less try camels More people smoke camels than any other cigarette any filter any king any regular the camel blend of costly tobaccos has never been Equal for rich flavor and easy-going mildness the best tobacco makes the best smoke a real cigarette Will travel Created by Herb Meadow and Sam Rolf is produced and directed in Hollywood by Frank Paris and Stars John Daner as Paladin with Ben Wright as hey boy and Virginia Greg as miss Wong Tonight's story was specially written for have gun will travel by Ray Kemper Featured in the cast were Vic Parran Sam Edwards and Peggy Weber This is Hugh Douglas inviting you to join us again next week when CBS radio presents have gun will travel


Hey everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching my tutorial today. I've got this really fun card to share with you. It's actually evolved from the double diamond card that I've done. Now I've done that in a six by six and I was looking back at my old tutorials and thought that would be nice to do in a five by seven and then as I started doing it I just started to cut things a bit differently and this is what I've got. So when it falls flat this is what it looks like and yes I've got the holographic card there because I just think the holographic card I love with everything but with my own papers and collection I just think it works really really well. So I have used the papers from my made to surprise party pack and the embossing folder is my celebration sorry the confetti and then I've used some balloons and the yay and stuff and I'll talk you through that in a moment but look at the balloons with the glossy accents over the top doesn't that look cool. So the card will open up and then it can be displayed like so so it stands up really nicely bring up a bit closer there just so you can see all the different texture and layers and then on the back you have your space to be able to write your message. So the whole thing will fold flat obviously I do have the dimension with the rosette so I would pop this into one of my five by seven box envelopes and I'll link them or you can just use it in one of like the bouncy envelopes and that would work fine but again if you're not adding all that dimension then it will fit into a standard five by seven envelope but I just think it's so much fun so yeah let me show you how to make this. Okay so I use that lovely turquoise color and that is the I want to say tonic studio one I'll link it if I can find it and today's is going to be this pink one here so I've done the balloons I've done lots of stuff because it's pretty easy I'll just talk you through what I've done the supplies I've used I use the woodware one-liners it's a great stamp set again I'll try and share if it's still available but I just use the happy birthday to you there at the top then that's my confetti embossing folder really nice especially against that mirrored cardstock or the holography you can just really see it does show up pretty well and then the balloons it's this one here it's a facetition balloon dies and I use the yay I just cut off the the bottoms there just so it literally just says the yay in the middle of the rosette so that's what I use for that and that comes with these four balloons you know these three big balloons there's four all together this one here is an old dovecraft one along with this little one here but any balloons will work but that if you've got the dovecraft one that's the one that I've used there and then my paper pad is this one I love it I've used it so much it's just such a fun happy cut and paper pattern I think because of all the colors it has it goes with so many different card you know playing card colors and this is the party paper pad so again I will link that one okay so card size you want here is 9 by 7 along the 9 inch side you want to score at one and a half three six and seven and a half okay so that's all the scoring with your scoreboard keep this well I'm gonna use a stylus I'll use my metal one and a ruler okay so what we want to do next when I open this up we've got score lines from the top here down to the bottom and then the top here down to the bottom and again so that's what we want to work on next so you've got your hold it up you've got this large area here in the center but you just want to score from the top left across this one and a half score line down to this one here and then from this bottom left for example up to that one so you do in the crosses just within the two kind of sections here and then the two sections here so I'm gonna lay my ruler down I like to use the smaller end of my stylus lay the stylus down first on the corner there and then move the ruler until you get it lined up with this bottom score line so you're going across that one and a half one down to the three okay and then again I'm gonna go from this side what I'll do is I'll pop a template on my blog with a picture of this because I know a lot of you do like the templates just so you can you know you're definitely sure on where you're scoring so again hold this one up for you so I hold that up and it catches the light there we go so you can see that's a good one you can see all the score lines there's the one and a half in the three I've just done my cross within the first two panels there and then down here you can see so all of that middle section that large bit is all empty and then just go down go across those other two okay so that now is all of our scoring done now we want to do some it's folding so what you're gonna do is just create valley folds make sure you get nice points on the two diagonal score lines that you've just done so both of those score lines I've just done and now valley folds so again so and then the one and a half will become mountain as you do it you kind of pop it like so and again with that one just kind of get it right down into the corner there so you can see valley valley but mountain folds for these pieces here okay and then these this one here needs to become a mountain so that then folds behind like so and then you can push all that down and these kind of pop out they look like a wing it reminded me a bit of a spaceship I haven't yet decided what I'm gonna call it obviously you would have seen already now so it would go into the title but as I'm doing it still I'm not sure it did remind me of something out of Star Wars just make sure everything's burnished well okay so now you can see it stays in its shape and then you can just open it up slightly and it will stand up really nicely so now we just need to do some decoration and our mats and layers so I have already stuck down this one here so that's going to go in the center like so and this one measures so the holographic is two and three quarters by six and three quarters and then you'll have two and a half by six and a half with the pattern paper and that's going to stick on there like so then I've got this piece which is going to go on the other side for you to be able to write on and that's two and three quarters by six and three quarters again if you want to do mats and layers you can but I'm just going to keep that plain white and then those are going to be for the sides but we'd go through these little pieces you can see there where I've embossed them and then I've got my white mat layer okay so you want four pieces that are one and a quarter by three I'm using the white and then you want four pieces for your layer which is one by two and five eighths okay these pieces for the sides are one and a quarter by six and a quarter and they're going to be these larger triangles here so first of all get my trimmer and lay this out just so you can make sense of it all so I'm going to cut one of these from one corner top corner down to the bottom so I'm doing top left down to bottom right okay like so and now one of them will go down here it's going to go with the white which I'll do in a minute and one will go up there so you see now how that works so then this next one I would have to do well I could do the same again and then it go on that side so I'm going to do top left to bottom right so now that one can go over that side and then down here so they were top left to bottom right these ones are going to have to be top right to bottom left that one can go there and that one can go there so again top right bottom left and then that one can go just there and that one can go there and then with the white it doesn't matter because it's plain and it's you know double-sided it's the same I can just cut them all top left and I can just flip them over so it's you know it really doesn't matter but that will now have one of those like so you see there that one and then I can have that one there so I'm going to cut all of those but if you're again if you've got a pattern then you'll have to do two one way and two another way but I can just again flip all those over so they're going to go there okay and then that's all that ready with these two pieces here you just want to mark halfway I'm just going to use my stylus to put a little indent in the mirrored card so you want to do at one and three eighths because that's halfway so one and three eighths and one and three eighths and then you're just going to trim again if it's plain like mine then it won't matter you can have two the same so you can just flip them around but if it's pattern or directional you'll need to make sure you check in it all when you you know on the card for the areas that you want make sure you check in that it's all going to be in the right direction now that one is going to go in there and then that one can go in there so you've got these pieces all left over as well which I didn't check actually would they become the same yes they would so there you go if you want to use them as your mat letter so they're going to be too big for me so I'm using the white anyway but I didn't think about that but you do have two so you could use them to fill those spaces so I know lots of you watch the tutorials first so they go that might save you some card stop I'm now going to go and get all of this stuck down okay so that's everything stuck down also you do have that panel but I just decided I don't personally I don't think it's needed because you never really going to see it you know when it's open and it's displayed it's just not really well I guess it's up to you I haven't but if you do want to then you can and then by all then I would imagine you're going to have you know another four corners so they would become matte layers so it's up to you there is a way if you don't want to do that white I think if I hadn't done the white and I done holographic as the mat layer then maybe I would have realized that and then done it that way but I like the white and I wanted the embossed layer to be in the holographic which I think looks really nice with the confetti there but anyway that's all done so now it's just to finish off so the rose there is just a piece of one inch by 12 you can have it slightly shorter 11 you know a for length and then I just scored at every quarter of an inch concertina fold and then just stick it together I always use hot glue I just use the circle punches there but I'm going to pop that one same I'm literally just going to copy that I love it I think the balloon positioning everything so all the balloons I've already gone and done I've put a little bit of hot glue and some of this lovely string here it's gold which obviously I would have I guess preferred silver but actually gold and silver does look great mixed together and I think just because there's so much shine and you know sparkle with this card I think it looks really nice it's just so tactile it's great so I'm now going to position all this down I am using my hot glue gun there so that's warming up nicely and yeah I'm going to pop it on high speed get this all stuck down and then I'll finish it off with the glossy accents okay so I've stuck all that down so I've got my sentiment here and I've popped it on two lots of foam so it's quite dimensional because I want to kind of bring all these together I'm just going to pop this flat just so it's a bit easier pull them nice and taut and then you'll see where I put my foam I've put just one I've left this gap basically when my finger is so that can go over this piece here so what I want to do is decide where I want it so it's going to go there and then with my hot glue I'm just going to just lay a little bead of glue just over all of them and just hold that there and then with my other hand I'm just going to take the backing off of this very carefully make sure that's straight which it is still dry and so I'm not going to move it away yet I want to keep it up nice and taut still while that glue dries so and then I can just trim off the ends those are a little bit longer should have gone a bit higher but it it still looks great I still love it you can see now they're all full flat so then the glossy accent so those of you that have never seen this before this is the glossy accents it's an adhesive but lots people use it to create shine on their cards so you will often see me use it just to add a little bit extra and also on lots of the underwater cards it's great if you want to create like bubble effect I always keep a pin in mind just because it does kind of clog up sometimes and the trick with this is when you lay it down keep it down if you keep lifting it up you're going to create air bubbles in it and if you do get any air bubbles if you lightly blast it with your heat tool it will get rid of them but now I'm just going to get it going it comes out cloudy in areas don't worry it's just where it's thicker it will all dry clear and you don't always have to squeeze it just kind of move it around but I'm keeping the nozzle within the liquid so as not to get air caught up in there and just going to move it around elf leveling as well so it will kind of find its place leave that all around once you've got a load down there I'm not squeezing it anymore so there's no air coming out so I can just move it around you can see I've covered that whole balloon now you need to keep it nice and straight or flat because it will you know kind of drop but I'm now going to just do all the rest you could do them before you pop them down if you want but I find it easier to do these things when they're all in place okay so that is the card finished I just pop my pin back in that and then I'll just bring that one up so you can see there we go it's still leveling out a little bit probably join it up there actually you can always just come in it needs to be joined there we go sometimes when you hit it in the light there we go started to smooth out a bit more but I just love love the finish especially on balloons I think it looks really really good so that is the finished card so you can see just how fun that is I love all the color careful not to touch it there but it all folds flat like I said it would fit in my box envelope so they would have popped up along the tutorial link them at the end as well but I think it's lots and lots of fun so that's the pink and then there is the turquoise so thank you for watching as always I will say it but everything will be linked below please 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