Personal Narrative: The Pastor Who Changed My Life

FACTS: Samantha Clark, forty-five years old, is the mother of eight year old Tommy and seven year old Timmy. Ms. Clark became a member of the Real Life Church of God, a fundamentalist-type religious sect located in the rural areas of the state of Oceana, after her first husband died ten years ago while looking for spiritual assistance. She has become the church’s first ordained female minister. She met her second husband John Clark, who is also an ardent believer, and they were married nine years ago. As per church custom, they journeyed to a mountaintop

to her religion and a skeptical father. Two different paths that could enhance his religious ambivalence. Another

Wright argues that the social obligation to participate in the church is disastrous to young inquisitive minds, and criticizes church members for being ingenuous and hypocritical. Wright exposes the manipulation tactics used by his family members, his peers, and the church to express how the attempts to persuade him into becoming religious only further repel him from religion. The attempts made by Wright’s family to convince him to believe in God often damaged the familial relationships.

I'm sorry to inform you, but I am resigning from Methodist. It has been a humbling experience, with many memories and laughter. I have leaned a fair amount from my fellow volunteers, the Nursery school teachers, and especially the kids. They taught me to cherish the moments. I am beyond grateful for the experience I had in the past 2 years, for yourself allowing a place at this wonderful hospital. Once again, thank you & I hope you have a blessed day.

Today was a boring and very uncomfortable day for me. Everyone know my last day here at Grace Christian Center is tomorrow so everyone is telling me that they’re sorry that I’m leaving. I’m not sure if its true or not , but its nice to hear. When I walked through the doors of GCC I went straight back to my seat and started cleaning out my desk. I don’t have much in there but I want to make sure that I leave it in better shape than when I got it. Just because I’m leaving doesn’t mean that I have to leave my work area cluttered. After cleaning up my area I decided that I was going to go downstairs to eat lunch with the rest of the staff member, which was odd because that’s something that I normally run away from. Me and the staff ate

Powell, better known as Preacher, wins over John’s family with his, “flashing eyes and rolling, booming voice” (63). Yet he has another motive—the 10,000 dollars. Preacher is the evil step-mother to John’s Cinderella. He turns John’s entire family against him, eventually killing John’s mother and forcing John and Pearl to flee their home. Preacher puts on a facade to lure in his prey, a clever hunter, but ends up revealing his true figure giving his prey a chance to escape. Grubb’s portrayal of Preacher as a two faced evil step-father further proves appearances don’t always reveal the truth.

I was watching a Christian bishop on the television. He preaching about begin pressured, worrying about things, and living in depression. While I was watching the bishop preaching my sister took the television remote and she changed the channel to watch pretty little liars without asking me if she could change it. I was annoyed at her because she was careless. I raised my voice at her, I asked her why did she changed it. I really wanted to hear what the bishop saying, so I told her I’m suffering from this and maybe she watch it for herself. I asked her if she could please put it back. My mom was sitting next to me and she told my sister to put the channel I was watching back on.

In today’s society, the way an individual defines how they earn their livelihood is generally described as their work, career, profession, or job. Often times, the word hustle, or grind is used to describe a person’s work. Even the term vocation was established among the theologians, Luther and Calvin, during the Reformation, it’s rare that one would hear a pastor describe his work as his or her vocation. Perhaps they find it easier to say what they are instead of what they do, i.e., “I am the pastor at XYZ church”. An individuals work, job, profession or career is anything that person does to occupy their time and exhaust their energies and creativity on a regular weekly basis to a business or corporation in exchange for a desired pay

I am writing this on a very special occasion: I have just been ordained for ministry by the Presbyterian Church. I have been hired by the Female Missionary Society of the Western District to begin preaching in upper New York. I think it is first important to record how I got here where I am today.

I’ve been under the leadership of Pastor Dunbar for eight years, and I’ve found him to be an excellent mentor, a wise counselor, and a dedicated Pastor. What I’ve learned from this interview with Pastor Dunbar is that “pastoral care” means caring, serving not because you must, but because you are willing, as God wants you to be; not greedy for money, but eager to serve. It’s important, not to lord over those entrusted to my care, but be an example to the those I serve. I have always admired Pastor Dunbar’s ability to maintain self-control in all situations. If I can master the gift of self-control that would be phenomenal. Self-control is one of the greatest gifts to have in ministry. Self-control means you have the ability to regulate your

Jeanne’s thirty year old son, my cousin, Walter, had a terrible accident and was in a coma for ten days on full life support. The doctors basically told her she needed to make the decision to take her only son off life support because they had never seen anybody recover from the excessive amount of brain damage he suffered from. Walter was not a Christian, but that did not stop my aunt from praying for him continuously. She informed the doctors that they were going to see something unbelievable and they did. As Walter deified all odds and began to recover my aunt transformed her life so she could transform his. She left her life in Maryland and moved to Denver to help Walter through his months of recovery, and she started a revival in his life. She showed him Jesus and preformed one selfless act after another all in obedience to God, where she truly displayed what it means to be a revivalist. This story is an example of opportunities everybody has in their lives to live out the meaning of being a

The G.D. changed my life completely, and it didn’t just change mine, it also changed my family’s life. I’ve lost friends and family members because of the great depression, I lost my stock market and crop, I’ve lost everything. I’m really trying here to make a living through this disaster and it’s hard but my whole family depends on me, my kids, my wife everybody. All I want right now is to be able to provide for my family, feed them and not have to struggle as hard. We lost everything and from now on all I can think and hope is that we can move forward from this and make a better living.

I came to Christ at the young age of four. My parents were Christians and were actively involved in the church. Most of my only memories from when I was between the ages of three and ten were going to church, VBS, and house church. I loved going to those events and having fun and learning about Jesus. The things I learned at church and from others had a major impact on my entire childhood and built me into the person I am now. I was as die hard of a Christian as a child could be. I knew Jesus, I loved Him, and all I can remember was wanting to learn more about Him.

Interviewing several pastors can be eye opening in that you will begin to see different character qualities, disciplines and where they are in their spiritual journey. My intention was to interview several pastors, however, I was unable to obtain the responses needed to complete a study such as that. I did get to meet with one pastor, and I believe that it was truly difficult for him to answer most of the questions even after giving him some time to think about each question. My interview was with a very intelligent and spiritual man named Les Harvey. He is currently serving at the Church of the Highlands Greystone campus under many great leaders.

My journey with God started in February of 1993, when I went to a ladies’ conference in Columbus, Texas. It was while the speaker was explaining that she knew there were some of us out in the audience, who felt guilty about something they had done in their past, and they did not feel that God could forgive them for it. But then she quoted from God’s word; “For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, not principalities, no things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Rom 8:38-39 NASB) The speaker continued on to say that all we need to do is