Al pastor Essays

In my original response to what I knew about Mexican food, I was able to identify food items that are of popular thought when thinking about Mexican food. I named tortillas, enchiladas, refried and black beans, rice, cheese, picante sauces, burritos, tacos, batidas and freshly made fruit juices as being the dishes that first come to mind. After reading all about the origins of Mexican food I don’t think I was too far off, but I did not consider how important the tortilla was to Mexico’s history and

On April 24th, 2017, I interviewed Marco Sauri from Consejo Counseling and Referral Services. Marco is a supervisor of the substance use disorder (SUD) program at Consejo. Consejo has provided SUD services for over 37 years. Consejo’s SUD program mainly works with low-income, monolingual, often undocumented Latino adults and Youth. Marco has been a supervisor for the SUD department at Consejo since 2010. He has worked at Consejo in the SUD program since 2005. He first started as a chemical dependency

During the interview with Timothy Hughes, Pastor of the First Baptist Church, many difficult and probing questions were asked to discover the heart of his decision making process. The pastor, making himself available for this interview answered with much openness and transparency revealing how he makes decisions regarding a variety of issues. In regards to fear and its impact on his decision making, one could ascertain that this pastor uses acknowledgement of his fear to provide balance in this

Who I am, what I am called to do, and why I want to pursue training at the Seattle School is one of the most incredibly, beautiful, daunting, impossible, frustrating, fulfilling, and terrorizing prompts I’ve written on in my 25 years on earth. However, my ego powered me through countless now deleted drafts, convincing I could write the perfect paper. In this mania, I somehow found time a space to reflect. As I wrote and reflected and cried and laughed and panicked and drank unsafe amounts of coffee

personal strengths and weaknesses. With the help of my CPE peers and supervisors, I am now able to use pastoral authority more effectively, although it is still a struggle. I am still not certain how people can make statements like “God has made me a pastor,” when I believe that a church system made them a minister. While I do well when visiting parishioners in hospitals and praying for them, I am still hesitant to use pastoral authority while answering parishioners ' theological questions about issues

The pastor of one of the small town churches is Pastor Ted Weis. Him and his family all do their part for the church. Melissa Weis plays the piano for the congregation, not do the pastor and his wife lead l Sundays but they also lead their three teenagers through life. Jenna Weis being the oldest, Valerie Weis being the middle child, and David Weis being the youngest of the three. Each Sunday, younger people attend to the basement for their Sunday school. The two different schools having separate

In his memoir “The Pastor”, Eugene Peterson, renowned biblical scholar, Christian author, and Presbyterian pastor, offers us a glimpse into what it truly means to be a pastor. He gives insight not just to the destination of pastoral leadership, but gives detail to the journey that led him both to his calling and to his pastoral placement. The tagline to the book, “Every step an arrival”, rings clear throughout the book as he shows us that his experiences growing up in the Montana wilderness, and

Christianity of India. The all too familiar question “ Since you’re parents are both pastors, will you become a pastor too?” If I can count there may be around 3,000 times people asked whether I would become a pastor since I will be fourth generation women on my mother’s side that go to seminary. It still confuses me every time why everyone thought I would become a pastor like my parents. Indeed, I come from a long lineage of pastors and missionaries from both of my parent’s families, however, I always felt

summary of the training. Pastors starting new churches make outreach a priority for ministry.  Almost all pastors have three priorities: preaching, teaching and pastoral care. Pastors also find time for an area of special interest such as pastoral counseling or social justice or prayer. When I started as a church planter, the area of special interest was dictated for me. If I didn’t lead the congregation in reaching out the community, the new church would fail. Pastors of established churches can

Mass media and Terrorism: An interdependent relation In the late history, social scientists have provided plenty of examples of mutually beneficial relationships between the terrorist organization and the media and since the terrorist organization have noticed the significance of mass media has on the attainment of their objectives they started using social media to increase support and attract new recruit from other countries and because of media business trends, media contents production

As humans, we are all dispositioned to feel fear, suspicion, and anxiety towards secrecy. These discomforts have led more than a hand full of people to speculate secret societies comprised of super elite politicians, millionaires, presidents, and influential public figures are working against the general public, and rather focus on manipulating politics, wars, and worldwide events in order to control the world and form a totalitarian one world government better known as the New World Order. Apart

In his “9/11 Address to the Nation” the 43rd President of the United States of America, George W. Bush assures that America will not be affected by the unruly and evil attacks carried out on September 11th, 2001. The President drafted this speech to resist the impending fear and questioning that American citizens around the country would soon be consumed by. Because 9/11 was the most impactful, yet devastating terrorist attack on the United States to date, Bush was not able to derive his thoughts

Rhetorical Analysis of Word Wars A strategic narrative is a story that a nation must tell itself, and the world, to wage a war or to maintain a competitive advantage in the international system (Free Speech). The mass impact of technology has captivated this idea and has used it to express the freedom of speech in ways that has never been done before, but also "[pushes] these limits past common decency" (Wickman 27). Two authors debate with this international problem in different styles but share

September 11, 2001, four aircrafts were hijacked and two of them were crashed into the twin towers. Throughout the chaos and burning fires from above, there were still many people who spent countless effort in making sure they got out of the towers. However, among these people were also those who saved others. The selflessness of the many people on 9/11 is one of the reasons for all of the survivors from this event. This act of selflessness is also defined as altruism. This act of heroism throughout

Hysteria has been seen throughout history, but what dictates the outcome is how the community reacts. Hysteria can be defined as uncontrollable emotion among a group of people. Hysteria has been depicted throughout human history, and can be seen during the Cold War, 9/11, and terrorist threats. The Crucible evidently shows how hysteria leads to the disunification of a community through the human obsession of reputation, the Puritan lack of respect for privacy, and human fear. The Crucible is a play

1- Introduction. It was the night between the 14th and the 15th of April 1912. The British ocean liner Titanic, described as " unsinkable " by the builders and the ship-owners, sank due to a collision with an iceberg in the Atlantic ocean , ending with a tragedy that cost the lives of 1517 people ( 2223 in total ) [1]. What went wrong ? How can an “unsinkable” ship sank after only five days ? The event was so dramatic that an inquiry by the British Wreck Commissioner was convened to discuss safety

Temperance refers to helping people to moderate liquor use or abstain from drinking large amounts of liquor. Prohibition means to make it illegal to manufacture or even sell alcohol. The movement of prohibition was created in order to eliminate businesses that manufactured, distributed, and sold alcoholic beverages. [1] There has been many ideas as to why the prohibition was designed to reduce drinking, but I will only discuss a few. In my opinion, I am for the manufacturing, distribution, and retail

CHARLES “LUCKY” LUCIANO 2 Charles “Lucky” Luciano: The Father of Modern Crime Thesis: The immigration of the Lucania family from Italy to the United States would be the cause of one of the most drastic changes in the workings of organized crime. 1. Charles Luciano experienced the hard childhood experienced by the children of almost all immigrants. 1.1 November 24, 1897, Charles Luciano, christened Salvatore Lucania, was born in the village of Lercara Friddi in Sicily (Gosch, 1975)

they were no joke. “During the first ten years of the 18th amendment, the murder rate climbed to 78% across the country and the arrests for drunken driving increased by 81%” (Hanson). One of the most popular and well-known gangsters in the 1920s was Al Capone (Lieurance 72). His most popular nickname was “Scarface” because when he was young he was attacked by a man named Frank Galluccio that cut his face three times with a razor (Lieurance 72). Capone was in a gang in Chicago and worked for his uncle

In the novel, The Kite Runner, numerous infringement of human rights are depicted. In Afghanistan, where the novel happens, the Taliban has assumed control over the nation and the individuals and has wrecked much of what Afghanistan once was. The Taliban is powerful to the point that they could murder a man or a ladies only on the grounds that they needed to. They hang poeple in parks, beat them to death before substantial swarms, hold social affairs to be-head delinquents, and above all, they strip