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I guess I'm an addictions worker
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So my life has taken me on many journey's. During my years at Providence
College, I constantly fought about what it means to feel 'called' to
youth work, but having a particular passion for the church. I guess this
last statement needs to be qualified, church has been a struggle for me.
I guess once you go down a certain path a lot of 'mainline' churches are
no longer an option for you, since you are thinking about life and
church so utterly different. Providence was a place I was able to fall
in love with the church again(maybe for the first time), but the church
I fell in love in with belongs on the fringes of soceity.
After my intership at a fairly conservative church in Winnipeg, it was
clear that I needed to take a step back from 'ministry'. Just a quick
word on that word 'ministry', I feel most Christian are involved in
ministry and how many Christians use this word is crippling to the work
of the Kingdom. In spite of many struggles during my internship
including a periode of depression and seeing a counselor(I must admit my
counselling session were extremely helpful for 'reclaiming my story'), I
got through my internship with a better understanding of what it means
to be a Christian in postmodern/pluralist world.
So I got married and after going through two horriable jobs I stumbled
upon my dream job, a Treatment worker at a therapeutic community in
Selkirk...<snip>
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