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Improvising Life: A Guest Post by Adam Walker Cleaveland
Happy to welcome Adam to The Blue Room today! Adam shares the story of a great new ministry venture, Illustrated Children's Moments, which he began just a few weeks ago. I'm sure it will be of interest to many of you who work in congregations. And for my non-churchy readers, it's a great example of the ways that life doesn't always go according to our best-made plans. We often need to pivot... change course... improvise! Also, don't miss the special offer for Blue Room readers at the end of the post!
By Adam Walker Cleaveland
It was spring of my senior year of high school. I was Hugo Peabody in our school's version of Bye Bye Birdie. Life was good. I had a fun date planned for prom. In other words, it was the perfect time to get whooping cough.
While I was stuck at home for a few weeks, I wrote a 10-year plan of my life. Seemed like the obvious thing to do. My 10-year plan looked something like this:
Graduate college with a religion major
Get married the week after graduation
Move to Africa to be a missionary for a year
Go to seminary
Get a PhD
Teach at a seminary for the rest of my career
Thing turned out a bit differently than I had planned. My path has had twists and turns, fun surprises and blessings, deep grief and confusion, joy and much more. The most recent twist and turn was leaving a church I'd been serving for two years. The church wasn't a great fit for me, and I'm glad to have made the decision. But I didn't have any concrete plans for what to do.
About two years ago, I decided to spend time focusing on rediscovering my childhood love of drawing. I received a Clergy Self-Care Grant from the Chicago Presbytery, and used it to take some online classes and buy art supplies.
I loved drawing. I could get lost in my doodles, zentangles and watercolors. I was doing some good work. I started looking for ways to incorporate art into my ministry. And one Sunday before worship, I quickly sketched out a drawing to give the kids when I led the children's moment.
The kids liked getting something to take with them that reminded them of the story, so I did that again the next time I led a children's moment. And I kept drawing. Parents started telling me their children would put the drawings on the refrigerators and talk about the story throughout the week. Some parents even snagged an extra copy for themselves and placed it in their devotionals.
As ministry at my last call was ending, I started dreaming about how this rediscovered love of drawing could become a part of my ministry, and at the same time, bring in a few bucks. I thought there might be other pastors and Christian educators who could benefit from my illustrations and approach to children's moments.
Two weeks ago, I launched Illustrated Children's Moments.
It turns out I was correct.
In the past two weeks, I've welcomed over 700 subscribers to my email newsletter, gained some good traction on social media, made 82 sales, and my illustrations have been used in over 50 churches. I'm doing illustrations for both the Narrative Lectionary and Revised Common Lectionary texts, and I've received many positive comments.
I'm sure God was chuckling a bit at me when I sat down to write that 10-year plan. If you had told me, when I was 18, that I'd be an artist/entrepreneur/pastor, I don't think I would have believed you. But being open to the surprising ways God works has led me to a place where I am now using gifts I had forgotten about, and I'm meeting an important need that people in churches deal with on a weekly basis.
If you are interested in this original artwork that can be used for children's moments or newsletters, emails or bulletins, please stop by my new website: Illustrated Children's Moments. You can follow us on all the normal social media channels as well: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest and Tumblr. Or you can shop at our store. When you sign up for our email newsletter, you'll immediately get a link to 5 free illustrations. Sign up here!
SPECIAL OFFER for Blue Room readers, today only! Adam has offered readers of The Blue Room Blog an offer code for $1 off any current illustration in his store. That means some will be free and some will only be $1. You can find them here. Code is blueroomblog .
Adam Walker Cleaveland is a pastor, artist and entrepreneur who lives in Chicago with his wife Sarah, also a pastor, and their 3-yr old son, Caleb. Adam is a Parish Associate at Highland Park Presbyterian Church, a Program Mentor at a new alternative education opportunity for kids in Evanston called Hackstudio (it's seriously cool - check it out) and is doing a lot of drawing. You can follow Adam on Twitter at @adamwc or on Facebook here.
Do you know someone who's improvising their life? I'd love to feature them here, so let me know!
In Improvising Life Tags guest post, improv, ministry
They Wrote a Thing and It's Awesome: A Review of #WomanInThePulpit
Ten years ago this summer, RevGalBlogPals was born. It began as a loose collection of pastor-bloggers, mostly women, mostly pseudonymous (as was the custom at the time). We began, as all good things begin, with a T-shirt. Now, RevGalBlogPals is a global network, with conferences, events, meetups, a burgeoning Facebook community, and a director, the Rev. Martha Spong, who is the editor of There's a Woman in the Pulpit: Christian Clergywomen Share Their Hard Days, Holy Moments and the Healing Power of Humor.
One of the nagging regrets of the last year is letting the deadline for submitting essays to this collection pass me by. Given my life at the time, it couldn't be avoided, but after getting to know so many of these women over the past decade, I'm sad not to be a part of this project.
But having their words on my shelf is a gracious plenty.
This book is stuffed full of 50 essays on life, death, the unique gifts and challenges of being women in ministry, and the things they don't teach in seminary. The essays are the perfect length for picking up the book and putting it down in the midst of a busy life, or reading one selection a week for an entire year, or revisiting them again and again, which I'm sure I'll do.
I'm still making my way through the book, but there are so many favorites. Kathryn Johnston writes an incisive piece about double standards between men and women in leadership in the sharply-titled "Balls." Later in the book, Stephanie Anthony's essay provides a good companion to Kathryn's as she describes the feeling of not being "one of the guys," but realizing it's important to be present for the little girls who are watching us step into leadership.
Deborah Lewis considers "The Weight of Ash" and the full depth of what is many pastors' favorite church observances, Ash Wednesday. Rachel Hackenberg offers a couple different selections, but "A Prayer for the Plunger" was a personal favorite: "As you eavesdrop on the church council's argument over new carpet, do you remember your debate with the Pleiades over the color of grass?"
Robin Craig's essay on how she learned to preach the gospel following her son's death by suicide is worth the price of the book. Patricia Raube's glorious meditation about coming out to her congregation brought tears to my eyes. Love wins, people.
And editor Martha's essays and section headings provide a gracious glue for the book. (I now "see" the RevGals logo in a whole new way!)
You know what though... those are my favorites right now. The beauty of a book like this is that favorites will change as life changes.
I hope you'll check out this wonderful book. Congratulations to everyone who was a part of it.
The title refers to a catchphrase during that first miraculous Big Event, where many RevGals met for the first time: We made a thing and it's awesome.
In Ministry Tags books, ministry, women
My Friends Make Stuff: New Books by Rachel Hackenberg and Bob Harris
November 3, 2014 MaryAnn McKibben Dana
Two new books for your consideration today! Sacred Pause: A Creative Retreat for the Word-Weary Christian by Rachel Hackenberg is one of those books that makes you breathe more deeply just flipping the pages. I perused it in the dentist's waiting room recently, and was so immersed that I forgot the sounds of suction and dentist's drill wafting through the open door. No minor feat.
The book, with sections like "The Verb Became Flesh" and "In the Shadow of Wingdings," is an invitation to explore the language of our faith in fresh and inviting ways, through impromptu poems, images and even doodles. I liked the section in which she likens Jesus' words "my yoke is easy" with those elastic strings that tie her kids' shoes together in the Target shoe section. Lovely! So much of the language of scripture relies on metaphors that aren't immediately accessible to a non-agrarian, technological society. How can these words come alive again?
In the Presbyterian Church (USA), we have a prayer in our book of worship that we pray before reading scripture. It says in part, "O God, amid all the changing words of our generation, speak your eternal word that does not change." Over the years I've grown dissatisfied with this prayer. Our lives our changing all of the time. Our God is improvisational, I believe. So I've added a phrase: "speak your eternal word that does not change and yet is ever new." Hackenberg's book helps us hold those two ideas in creative tension. Check it out here.
Entering Wonderland: A Toolkit for Pastors New to a Church is a new book by Robert A. (Bob) Harris, a friend and colleague in this presbytery. Since retiring from parish ministry, Bob has been working as a coach, helping pastors set good goals and move forward in ministry.
As the name implies, the book is aimed at pastors who have recently arrived in a congregation. It features an approach to getting to know the leaders and many in the congregation, assessing them as spiritual leaders, learning where the minefields are, clarifying expectations, and a host of other things. Bob served as my coach when I first arrived at Tiny Church and I'm thankful for his guidance in helping my ministry get off to a good start there.
But the book is not just for pastors new to a church; the book has a wealth of resources and ideas that can help pastors and church leaders.
Entering Wonderland is published by Rowman and Littlefield, who took over Alban Institute's publishing arm. Check it out.
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In Books Tags coaching, language, ministry, prayer, words
3 Ways the Internet Made My Life Awesome This Week
It's a heavy time in the world. Ebola. Israel and Palestine... please let the cease fire hold. Ukraine---still unstable, and I have a personal stake in this. There are no Christians left in Mosul, Iraq for the first time in almost 2,000 years. The children keep coming from central America, fleeing a level of violence and lawlessness (or even just poverty) we can scarcely imagine. And those little Nigerian girls are still missing.
The globalization of the news means it all appears right in my blue room. I wouldn't have it any other way. As David Wilcox sings, "there's no 'far away.'"
So like many of you, I do what I can, and I take my signs of hope and joy where I can get them. It is a privileged thing to be able to do that, to turn one's attention elsewhere for a while. But I must. We must. Otherwise it's too overwhelming.
So in that spirit, here are three things that brought some awesomeness to my life this week---Internet edition:
Serving communion to one of our members who's in a nursing home. She wanted the five of us gathered to sing "On Eagle's Wings". We didn't know the words, but no problem: Safari on the iPhone to the rescue. Best communion I've attended in a long time.
The discovery of Moms RUN This Town, a running club whose local chapter has a Facebook page. After 3 years of running solo and only occasionally with friends because of my crazy schedule, I now have access to groups of people in the neighborhood running early and late and fast and slow and everything in between.
This guy. Just this guy. You're going to want to fast forward, but don't. Just let it emerge.
http://youtu.be/qs_-emj1qR4?t=5s
What is making your life awesome right now?
photo credit: Nina Matthews Photography via photopin cc. I chose it simply for its beauty.
In Just for Fun Tags beauty, ministry, music, running, technology
#NeverPrayAgain -- An Author Q&A
May 19, 2014 MaryAnn McKibben Dana
Chalice Press (publisher of Sabbath in the Suburbs, still available at fine online retailers) has some great stuff in the works these days. There's Who's Got Time? Spirituality for a Busy Generation, which I featured a few months ago. Traci Smith's book Seamless Faith was also featured here recently. Coming next year will be a book by Frank Schaefer, the United Methodist pastor who was defrocked after he performed the wedding for his gay son. Today we feature Never Pray Again: Lift Your Head, Unfold Your Hands, and Get To Work by Aric Clark, Doug Hagler, and Nick Larson. I've known these guys online for a few years and find them to be provocative, yet humble and good-humored---and I think the latter two qualities are ideal in order to fully engage the former, eh?
Anyway, here's a little Q&A that will give you a sense of their book:
1. How did this book come about? What was the initial impetus to write it?
We don't intend to imply that she supports the book, but we can kind of blame it on a heady cocktail of Unco11, insomnia and Sara Miles. We love what she does with Take This Bread, nailing down liturgical practice to concrete activity in the world, and we were brainstorming ways to do similar things. Sara Miles clearly articulates that her experience of communion was a call to feed her community, out of which grew their food pantry. It's crazy to us that a church can celebrate communion, and talk about sustenance and welcome, and yet have starving people across the street, and whole populations who are anything but welcome.
So we came up with prayer, which to us was emblematic of this tendency. We pray to God to forgive us, and feel better without having to reconcile with people we've hurt, or who have hurt us. We praise God, but look down on people who don't achieve success by our standards. We pray prayers of thanksgiving, but Christians are famous for being poor tippers, and we often fail to thank the many people who make our lives possible.
We went through a common liturgical structure, which is punctuated by various forms of prayer, and organized the book in that way. We picked the title Never Pray Again at first to be as attention-grabbing as we could, but by the end of the writing, we have a greater sense for prayer as being one among many spiritual practices, and in itself no more necessary than liturgical dance. Notice that the title isn't stop-praying-because-you-are-doing-something-bad, because that is not our argument. It is our belief that you can do something so much better in following Christ which will naturally lead you to Never Pray Again. Ultimately this book is about how we are called to act, more than whisper things in love.
2. I can tell you all have the pastor's heart. You are very clear at the beginning, "If this book is not for you, put it down." Who is this book for? Who do you hope will read it?
We imagine people who struggle with the efficacy of prayer, or with the constant assurance from other Christians to just "pray about it" when things go wrong, will get a lot from this book. People who are open to progressive ideas and who want to be challenged in various areas of their practice will be challenged by this book, we think in a good way. People who are already consistent pray-ers will find many other resources and ideas that, we think, will only strengthen them. We also found that our crowd-funding efforts with the Never Pray Again coloring book caught the attention of a number of members of an atheist community, and people who heard about us from that community made up about a third of our backers. For non-believers, I think the challenge will be that this book is stuffed full of Biblical allusions, stories and quotes. So we'll say things they agree with about prayer, but the challenge will be that the direction we go is deeper into Christianity, rather than away from it.
3. You do a good job building a positive case for a very active life of faith, and you spend less time critiquing prayer itself and why it's bad. That's a good thing--it makes the book ultimately more constructive and useful. But is it possible to "get to work" AND to be actively engaged in a life of prayer? Or do you see something problematic about prayer itself, as it's currently practiced?
This question comes up a lot, and we anticipated it. In theory, one can be living an active practice of Christianity and also pray regularly. Many of our personal heroes were pray-ers (though many others were not). We make the case in the book, however, that there are plenty of situations where prayer can be an impediment to Christian practice, and as Christians in community we are surrounded by examples of this, and have impeded ourselves as well plenty of times. Aric said it really well, that if there is a situation where you can have a 'good' prayer life and 'relationship with God', but a poor relationship with other people around you, then you are deceiving yourself about your prayer life and relationship with God.
One thing we definitely want to challenge is that Christians must pray. Our experience is that prayer is presented as a panacea, and as such, it doesn't work very well. We disagree that prayer is a sine qua non of Christian practice. So far we have found, unsurprisingly, that the idea of being Christian and not praying is challenging to a lot of Christians. But if we put all the Bible passages about how and what to pray in one column, and all the Bible passages about how to treat people in another column, we would find many things that are more central to Christian practice than prayer.
We also hear things like "Well, anything done for God is a form of prayer," which might be true, but if everything is prayer, then does the word prayer mean anything? We don't think so. In that case, we aren't talking about the same thing. In Never Pray Again, we are talking about what people mean when they say something like "Let us pray." What happens next is most often that we close our eyes, bow our heads, clasp our hands, or put them up in the air, and say words in our minds or aloud which are directed at God. This is what the word prayer means 99.9% of the time, and this is what we are challenging. And we are not merely saying 'pray a little bit differently.' We are saying that it is fruitful to at least consider that we Never Pray Again.
4. How do you understand the Sermon on the Mount in light of your book? Jesus has a lot to say about how we pray (in your closet, etc.), but he also lifts up the Lord's Prayer as a template.
So, in Matthew, 5:1 through 6:4 is about things we talk about in the book at length. Matthew 6:5-13 is about prayer, and then we're back to other concerns in 6:14 through the end of chapter 7. Interestingly, there is very little Jesus says about prayer in this passage, and this is the most he talks about prayer in any of the Gospels, as you pointed out. But the way he describes prayer is such that a person who prays regularly will look no different from someone who doesn't pray at all, because he admonishes his followers to pray in secret. We think that this reflects Jesus' concern that prayer can take the place of action - a concern we share.
So how is it that, for Christians, prayer is necessary, but the other things Jesus talks about are optional? Subversive blessing, being salt and light, fulfilling the Law and doing what's right, extinguishing hatred and sexual objectification, truth-telling, integrity, nonviolence, loving enemies, giving to the needy, fasting, non-worry and courage, giving up certainty of food and drink and clothing, being non-judgmental - these are also things Jesus talks about, but they occupy far less of an average Christian's time and energy than prayer, and few seem to see them as absolutely necessary to Christian practice. Why is this?
We have a challenging theory - Christians focus on prayer because prayer is easy. If on the one hand I can pray, and on the other hand I can be a homeless pacifist truth-teller who loves his enemies and judges no-one, prayer is the easy choice. And we wonder, with this focus on prayer, do we make ourselves feel better about consuming, hating our enemies, judging others and being hypocritical? Our experience is that taking prayer off the table, so to speak, leaves us bare to the fact that our practice is lacking, and that we use prayer to make ourselves feel better about that. Think about the criticisms of millennials of the church - that it is judgmental, exclusive, hypocritical, that it does harm to vulnerable people, etc. These are all instances where we are failing to live up to everything in the Sermon on the Mount, including prayer, because we don't focus on prayer in secret. We even push the Supreme Court to rule on prayer at public gatherings! Jesus would say don't pray at public gatherings at all.
5. How has the book changed (or has it changed) the way you engage in prayer with the folks in your congregations? What fruit do you see or hope to see with your faith communities?
This is a more of an individual question, so we will answer individually.
(Aric) Writing and publishing this book has definitely changed the way I pray in and with my congregation in that it has forced me to address some areas of real hypocrisy in my life. Where the phrase "I'll pray for you" had previously served as a sort of lazy stand-in for almost any expression of compassion, I now have to consider in each case what the best way to express my sympathy and solidarity might be. I find myself saying "I love you" a lot more and to a wider array of people, because that is what I really meant by offering prayer. The fruit I already see within the congregation I serve is people having to think through their reasons for praying. I have had many discussions with people about "why" they pray, which for most of them isn't something they'd ever even considered. Prayer was just "what you do."
(Nick) The collaboration and challenge of the book as an idea started changing me, which I'm sure has influenced my own prayer life and that with my congregation. From that initial conversation the underlying challenge of directness asks more of me. Last night I was gathered with our college ministry, Disciples on Campus, for a final meal to end the semester, and we closed with group prayer, but we were also eating at a Mexican restaurant who had stayed open late to accommodate us. I found myself walking back into the kitchen (a few of the students even followed me) to thank our cooks, and server who stayed late for us before they could start to close up. Before this book I don't think I would have taken that action.
(Doug) The process of writing this book, a year and a half of research and struggle and discussing and revision, has changed me a lot. It has given me a chance to think through my commitments more thoroughly, and has strengthened my sense of the call of the Christian life. My hope is that a big part of my ministry is encouraging people, and modeling as much as I can, not to let outward religious practices replace true commitment to living a Christ-like life. For me, it's all about Isaiah 58, and that line of thinking has informed me from the moment I thought I might do ministry as a career.
Excellent responses, guys! I hope your book is a great success.
Read more about Never Pray Again here.
In Books Tags jesus, ministry, practices, prayer, writing
On Competition and the Church
I ran a race on Saturday morning, the Fairfax CASA Run for the Children. Our church has gotten connected to this organization, which provides volunteers to support abused and neglected children making their way through the court system. It was a beautiful day for a run, and we had 8 folks from Tiny Church participating in the 8K run and 3K run/walk.
I love road races for a lot of reasons, but one of the big ones is that it gives me perspective on my competitive nature. I've always been competitive, which is strange since I'm not much of an athlete and never have been. So my competitiveness would come out in other ways: trying for first chair in the junior high choir, taking part in speech/drama events, and competing with the Academic Decathlon team.
A drive to improve and achieve can be an awesome thing. It can also be harmful to one's self and one's relationships. (Sometimes it's neither great nor harmful, it just shuts down the fun. Just ask Robert about The Canasta Incident.)
But road races are a great check on competitiveness. Half a mile into any race and you get how ridiculous it is to compare yourself to other people. Yes, there's a certain kick of motivation you get when you turn on the gas to pass someone. But how meaningful is that? For all you know, they're nursing an injury, or just started running a couple months before. (Then there was the woman who passed me in my first half marathon wearing a T-shirt that said, "I just finished chemo three days ago." Fierce!!)
I spent most of Saturday morning ten paces behind a guy who looked to be at least 75 years old. OK, that was a little depressing. Until I realized he's a living reminder that I can keep doing this for the next 30 years, maybe not breaking any speed records, but keeping fit and having fun.
The drive has to come from inside yourself, and be directed internally.
You'd think the church would be a good model for cooperation and mutual support, especially among clergy colleagues. We are educated in a theology of call in which it's all about "fit" and the work of the Holy Spirit. But it's complicated. Search committees still look for certain traits, whether overtly or subconsciously. The deck is still stacked against women and people of color. Sometimes youth is an asset; other times the congregation wants "experience." In the Presbyterian Church (USA), we have cleared the way for LGBT people to be ordained, but it's a tougher sell in many congregations.
And as church membership rolls continue to shrink and full-time positions decrease, there will be more and more contention for fewer and fewer slots. If you're one of those folks whose livelihood is on the line, it's natural to read those glossy Meet Our New Pastor brochures and think, "Why did they choose that person and not me?" We take vows to be a friend to our colleagues in ministry, but jealousy rears its snarky, catty head. All the time.
This stuff was on my mind as I spent time with The Well last week. We have "tall steeple" pastors and pastors of small churches. We have folks who've been open to a new call for a long time, and others who frequently get contacted by churches even though they're happy where they are.
But just like the road race, it's silly to think comparatively. There are too many factors at play. Several of our members are geographically limited because of their spouses' jobs or other factors. Others have had the benefit of stay-at-home spouses who manage home life so the pastor can pursue a career more intensively. And then there's the fact that many of us simply don't want the kind of positions that others might clamor for. (God might surprise me, but I am having too much fun doing writing and part-time parish work to imagine going back to a full-time pastoral position.)
All that said, members of the Well have been in contention for the same ministry positions. This has happened at least five times in our six years together.
So far, we've weathered these situations well. We're not perfect at this, and it would be hubris to say that we're immune from the hurt or resentment that can come from being passed over, or the "survivor guilt" of being the one chosen. But we have learned some things along the way. Again, I offer our experience for the benefit of other colleague groups.
Transparency. Our norm is that if we find out another member is interviewing for the same position we are, we talk to that person. It's tricky because we don't always know, but we do our best. (Third parties who are in the know can help this along.) We picked this up from another group's experience. One year they met and had a member of the group come down at dinner time wearing a suit and heading off to an interview. The next day another person came down, similarly dressed... and off to an interview at the same church.
Grounding. Within the safe space our group, we see our role as to build one another up when a tough call is wearing the person down, AND to keep the person's ego in check when he or she starts to believe her own press. And outside of the group, we have that person's back 100%.
Increased Accountability. We've started talking about how we can hold one another accountable to good self-care and boundaries. We have a check-in time at the beginning of every week, but it's easy to gloss over the hard stuff. A member of the group suggested an intentional question to ask each person: Is there anything else going on that you need to tell us?
Discernment among Friends. When I was discerning whether to stand for vice moderator, I talked with members of The Well. All were helpful in making sure I was thinking well about the situation. And one person put it plain: Give me three reasons why you want to do this... and be honest. I am grateful to her.
What do you think? What is your experience?
photo credit: mino2006 via photopin cc
In Ministry Tags competition, ministry, pastors, support groups
Design Your Own Preacher Camp: What Makes a Clergy Group Work
I'm meeting this week with The Well, my yearly cohort group. I like to say that I laugh more during this week of "preacher camp" than I do any other week of the year. This year has been heavier than normal, with several concerns for friends, loved ones and ourselves. This has made the mirth all the more necessary and sweet.
Many colleagues have wished for their own preacher camp. This prompted me to write "Design Your Own Preacher Camp," which has become one of my most popular posts. I stand behind those instructions, although they're a few years old and some things have changed.
There are many different kinds of clergy groups out there. Some get together mainly to play, meeting in a beach house, say. That's great, and in a demanding job like ministry, it's not frivolous to do so. As for us, we've been called the "nerdy group," and we wear the badge proudly. We play a lot, but we also each bring two papers about the upcoming year's scripture texts that we share with one another and discuss. For me, it's easier to justify an entire week away from family if I can come back with something that is going to make my job tangibly easier. And this year I'm returning with a head start on 30 weeks' worth of preaching.
I know groups that have formed using our approach that are thriving. I know others that started out but didn't "take." I wish I knew everything that makes for success in a group like this---I really want such groups to propagate, as does everyone in The Well. We think it's vital for the health of our congregations. So I asked our group for insight into why ours has worked for seven years now, and here are some things they cited.
Deep prior relationships. As it happened, we started out with two circles of friends that were connected to one another through a couple of key relationships. What that means is that nobody in our group knew everyone. But everyone had a strong connection to at least one other person. We invited people we knew well, not people we knew only by reputation. ~
The right amount of diversity. We range in age from young 30s to almost 50; we serve small churches and very large churches and everything in between. But we are all Presbyterian. And we represent a relatively narrow theological spectrum. Yes, yes: it's very healthy to cross theological boundaries and be in dialogue with people who are more liberal or more conservative than you are. But this is not where we do that. That doesn't mean we always agree. We push each other all the time. But that's not the point of our group. The point of our group is support, accountability, and the scripture work. ~
A shared focus. Most of us are pastors. We do have a woman who works for a presbytery and another who directs a national network of churches, but all of us are passionate about congregational ministry, and that's the glue that holds us together. I'm not saying our group wouldn't succeed if we had chaplains or seminary professors among us. But our focus is on pastoral ministry. ~
Accountability. The papers we write are our price of admission. We all recognize that the minute we relax that expectation, we are sunk. Our group is so much more than the papers. But our group wouldn't be what it is without them. Even if you don't do papers, figure out what accountability you need. The group I mentioned above that gets together for recreation? Even they have an expectation: if you have two "unexcused absences" in a row, you are out. ~
Interminable but important conversations. We set aside time each year for good-of-the-whole conversation. This may be as simple as deciding where and when to meet the following year. Or it's a time to work through whatever group dynamics have come up. I'm contemplating a separate post on what happens when colleagues are in contention for the same ministry position---it has happened repeatedly in our group of 18. The point is, stick with those conversations, even when they are hard (or boring). Accept what you can't change, but name and change the things you can. ~
Adding people the right way. We've added people to the group twice, and each time we added them in a batch. Adding one person at a time doesn't change the dynamic enough; adding two or three at a time shakes things up, but also makes us more mindful of inside jokes and communal norms we take for granted. ~
Inviting healthy people with healthy egos. I don't want this to come out the wrong way. We are all wounded and broken in myriad ways, and we do not have all of our stuff together. But our group works because we all understand the value of self-care, and we do not rely on this group for therapy. Our group has a level of intimacy with one another---and we have been through some very tough stuff together---and there are years when one person leans on this group more than others. All I'm saying is, do not invite a colleague to join a group of this nature because "he is really hurting and needs something like this." Find other ways to support that person. ~
Magic. There is an X factor to these things. There are cohort groups that have great people and do everything right (assuming there is such a thing) and just don't gel. There's some luck or grace at work here for sure. So don't feel bad if your group doesn't come together. Just keep trying and searching for the right fit.
In Ministry Tags friendship, ministry, preaching, support groups
Upcycle the Blue Hymnal: Five Easy Advent Crafts
November 10, 2013 MaryAnn McKibben Dana
Like many Presbyterian churches, Tiny Church recently purchased a set of the new hymnal, Glory to God. (I love it.) Now, of course, we have stacks and stacks of blue (1990) hymnals we are no longer using. We'll keep a set of them, but we're starting to talk about what to do with the extras. Are there fledgling church communities or nursing homes that could use them? Undoubtedly... though I suspect many of these organizations will be inundated with offers of old hymnals since there's a lot of us suddenly trying to unload these things.
If and when we find a new home for the hymnals, there will be some random extras that are in such poor condition that they can't be passed along. I myself have 2 or 3 hymnals floating around my house and study, and they are not fit to donate.
So... how about upcycling the copies that have lived a good life and are ready for some transformation? Old sheet music is beautiful and historic and a lovely material to work with. It's good stewardship to give these old books new life.
Presenting: five easy Advent crafts using the blue hymnal!
I enjoy doing things with my hands, but I'm not skilled. So my suggestions are meant to be simple enough even for the craft-challenged. Got an Advent ministry event coming up? Sunday School lessons to plan? Potluck dinner in need of an activity? Here are my five best suggestions for EASY crafts with the blue hymnal... or any other sheet music or pretty paper. (Of course, I recommend you use hymns 1-60 for these crafts: Advent and Christmas.)
Stamped Music Ornaments
My girls and I are in the middle of making these right now and they are pretty and simple to make. The circles of music are so pretty, and the snatches of lyrics are festive. I got a set of Christmas-themed stamps and some burlap ribbon and we're good to go. We're putting sheet music on each side so there's no "wrong" side.
Clear Globe Ornaments
This picture is done with a wedding invitation but it would be easy to create strips of hymns and coil them inside the ornaments. Add a decorative ribbon and you're done. Here's one set of plastic ornaments I found.
For this project and the one above, it would be nice to have a small tag explaining the source of the music... especially if these are gifts.
Advent Poems
This is a craft and a contemplative activity rolled into one---great for a Quiet Day or prayer gathering. Take a favorite Advent/Christmas hymn (or maybe a non-favorite) and read through it for words or phrases you might string together to make a new poem. Circle those words and doodle the rest of the page as shown.
Paper Chain
Oldie but goodie! Use strips of hymnal pages to make a garland for the tree or a Christmas "countdown" chain. I can report that vertical strips of the hymnal are a good length for stringing together.
Scroll to the bottom of this page for instructions. This is the most complicated of the five options here, but still not all that challenging.
I've started a Pinterest board with these and other ideas for upcycling the old hymnals. With each liturgical season---Epiphany, Lent, Easter, Pentecost---I will choose my favorites and create a post just like this one. In the meantime you can follow my "upcycling-the-hymnal" board (or all of my boards).
Speaking of ways to connect, starting later this month I'll be writing weekly email articles including tips and inspiration to have a "Sabbathy" Advent. Sign up for those here.
In Ministry Tags advent, crafts, creativity, ministry, music, upcycling
Mind Your Margins
Do college students still mess with the margins in order to make their papers appear longer? Or has that practice fallen away in the age of email and word counts?
(And how dumb did we think our profs were to fall for that?)
My family's yearning for Sabbath began several years ago when we realized that our lives hummed along perfectly well, so long as nothing went wrong. We jam-packed our days and worked to exhaustion, which was fine so long as nobody got sick or the basement never flooded. Regular periods of rest gave us some emotional decompression time and also helped us think about the rest of our week differently.
What we were doing was minding our margins. I prefer "margins" to boundaries, which feels too unyielding to be helpful amid the complexity of life. But even with the looser language, margins are hard for me.
After James was born, I went to a half-time schedule and became very good at efficient scheduling. I suspect it was hard on some of the folks I worked with, whose model for ministry was more "be open to what comes and savor the interruptions." Yes, ministry is about relationships. And interruptions are a part of the package. But as an associate pastor in a programmatic position with 20-25 hours on the clock each week, there were certain things that needed to get done each day.
I still like back to back meetings---random 25 minute blocks of time between appointments make me a little batty. Like many of you, a lot of my work involves thinking and writing, and I can barely get my metaphorical pencils sharpened in 25 minutes.
That said, it's important to build adequate margin between appointments, especially if those meetings have a heavy emotional undercurrent to them---or you think they might.
Plus, you know... traffic.
The goal for me, as always, is flow: an effortlessness and mindfulness to what I'm doing. In those moments I am neither rushed nor languishing. I am just... in time.
Yesterday was a tight-margin day in which I moved in and out of flow, and even had to cancel something because I'd packed things in too tightly. First up was a coffee appointment with someone to plan an event I'm doing in January. We met at the Starbucks, because right after that a church member and I were doing some de-cluttering, to get ready for some high school band students whom we'd hired to do some schlepping to the dumpster. That took longer than I'd expected, which led to the cancellation. After lunch and some emails and phone calls, I had a quick run, which had to be cut short (another too-tight margin). Then it was a hospital visit and home with the kids.
As I type it, it seems frenetic, like a lot of chopped up experiences and harried distraction. And given the need to cancel stuff, clearly I'd planned too much. But I didn't feel harried at all. The Starbucks conversation meandered and flowed and ended when it needed to. I was not checking my watch at the hospital; there was sufficient time, and I had prearranged with my neighbor to get the kids at the bus stop so I could take my time.
So yesterday was good, on the whole. But there are just as many jam-packed days in which I feel like I'm all elbows and stubbed toes. I'm hard-pressed to figure out what makes the difference. In the meantime, I'll chalk it up to the work of that mysterious Holy Spirit.
photo credit: CarbonNYC via photopin cc
In Spiritual Stuff Tags busyness, margins, ministry, part-time, sabbath, time


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Plea Bargaining Report
by Greer Illingworth (JD '10),
As I have discussed in previous posts, the criminal case backlog in Uganda is extreme and as a result prison system is suffering from severe overcrowding. This unfortunate reality is a direct manifestation of the courts inability to dispense of cases in a timely and efficient fashion. The statistics and anecdotal stories I have heard of men waiting years, sometime decades, for their trial are just awful. And this goes without mentioning those victimized parties who have to endure years of uncertainty before getting a sense of closure or justice. Much of the backlog can be attributed to the fact that Uganda is a solely litigation based system with no alternative dispute resolution mechanisms. Further, the personnel and facilities necessary to speedily dispense justice are simply not available nor are they likely to become available in the future. As a consequence, the three criminal judges in the High Court of Kampala and a dozen or so lower court magistrates scattered about the countryside are expected to handle the entire backlog of something around 45,000 cases. The system is simply a failure both in design and execution.
When Micheline and I started, Justice Lugayizi, as the Head of the Criminal Court, requested we work with him to develop and advocate for the adoption of alternative dispute resolution practices that would help the court dispense of cases without having to always conduct such long, costly main trials. The crux of ADR in the criminal field is plea bargaining and Justice Lugayizi specifically requested that we detail the mechanics of the practice and provide a recommendation as to how it may be incorporated in Uganda.
Plea bargaining in its most basic form involves a negotiation between the prosecutor and the accused of the specific charges that he will face at trial. Usually, in return for a plea of "guilty" to a lesser charge, a prosecutor will dismiss the higher charge. The judge then reviews the plea to ensure it was made knowingly, voluntarily, and there is a sufficient factual basis to support the charge. After this, the case is dispensed with and the court moves on to other matters.
In America, about ninety-percent of all criminal cases are now resolved before going to trial. Plea bargaining has become one of the most, if not the most, important facet of our society's administration of criminal law. After all, if every charge were subjected to a full-scale trial, the need for more personnel and facilities would have to be multiplied by the thousands and practically speaking there is neither the money nor the will to have such a gigantic judiciary. So, as Americans, we have taken the approach that as long as plea bargaining is properly administered it should be encouraged. Over the years, it has become more refined and is now almost universally accepted across the nation as an equitable and efficient supplement to litigation.
Dealing with unreliable internet as well as a limited law library at the court house, Micheline and I made gradual progress on our research until on Monday felt we were ready to present our findings to Justice Lugayizi. Our final report discussed plea bargaining's nuts and bolts, its constitutional basis, the scholarly arguments for and against its use, and ultimately recommended that the system outlined in the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure should be employed in Uganda.
Micheline and I were more or less pleased with what we had produced considering what we had to work with. Upon receiving and reviewing our report, Justice Lugayizi asked if we would be willing to formally present the findings before the senior officials of the High Court, including the Principal Judge of Uganda (who is the highest ranking judge and in charge of setting all of the courts policies). We obviously said yes and were particularly excited because plea bargaining is a customary practice and not a legislative enactment. As such, the power is completely in the judiciary's hands to initiate the process with the cooperation of the prosecutor's office. If the officials of the court could be convinced then work could begin to get it started.
The meeting was held in the chambers of the Principal Judge and the odd set up of the room meant that when speaking I had to stand in the center and sort of rotate around throughout. A powerful thunderstorm had just passed through the city when the meeting began and the streets were bustling again with people. Justice Lugaizi rose and gave a nice introduction when that lonely moment of speaking began. I stood to my feet buttoning my coat and the presentation began. It lasted about thirty minutes and overall seemed to go well. During the closing remarks, however, I got a bit carried away. I cited the following quote made by the Chief Justice of Uganda last year and from there went a little overboard with my language.
The judiciary must live to its responsibility of being the last hope for mankind and create a new world order built on sound human and moral principles including equality, peace, freedom, and social justice…We must be prepared to walk the talk.
I basically began to call them out as complacent, slow to take action. That they talk a lot, but they have failed to walk. I'm sure each of them probably thought "who does this 20-something year old from America think he is to come here and lecture us on how to run our judiciary?" Micheline even said I was a bit blunt; but, I really didn't care too much at the time because Ugandans only really respond to such direct challenges. Directness works in Uganda and our situation wasn't an exception.
When we finished, all of the officials present agreed that plea bargaining needs to be adopted and all of them additionally agreed with the same or closely similar system to what we recommended. Throughout the question and answer session, they kept reiterating the line that they will "walk not talk." The Principal Judge even said that they will "sprint." I sure hope so. A lot depends on it.
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[streaming] The Silence – Sarabande
Pubblicato da rraff il 31 luglio 2019 31 luglio 2019
Drawing from all phases of psychedelic, progressive folk-rock reminiscent of the golden age, The Silence make new music in the new century from an almost blinding collection of inspirations. Their deep songs have all manner of lyricism, unexpected chord progressions and tempos, with instrumental breaks where acid-washed guitars, rasping saxophone, nimble drums and gooey bass all get their moment to shine. Metaphysical Feedback, the group's fourth full length outing, finds them on a linear path moving from more traditional blues-based psych-folk-rock material to something broader, refined, and frankly, freaky, for those with a keen musical ear (yeah, we're talking to you)!
Take this new single, "Sarabande," which opens proceedings with Masaki Batoh arpeggiating his Gibson Firebird through two Leslie speakers, guiding a warbling flute melody into place before the song earnestly kicks in. Then Batoh's voice sets the song ablaze, and the band stretches out – piano tickles, the rhythm section begins to roll… and then, half-way through, the doors are blown off, a scorching guitar squall erupts as the tempo increases, and things get OUT. But the wise band brings it back down to earth with ease – returning to a pensive, sanguine place of rest. "Sarabrande" is nearly nine minutes long, proving The Silence know exactly how to construct a rock and roll epic that burrows into your ears and never leaves! Listen to "Sarabande" now and don't forget to pre-order the new album before it officially drops on August 30th.
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Miao & WafuPafu Comic Blog » Curse you PETKNODE!!
Was so unhappy when I heard bout the news of this pet boarding centre, PETKNODE mistreated the customers pets by leaving them behind cage without food and drinks for 9 days.
The pet centre owners did not even shows any remorse and threaten to sue those owners who broke into the centre to save their pets for trespassing. WTM!
Posted on September 8, 2011 by Jian Akiraceo.	This entry was posted in Rant and tagged animal abuse, curse, miao, petknode, voodoo, wafupafu. Bookmark the permalink.
yeahh hope karma bites them!
dont worry…everything will come with karma…sure the owner of petknode will eventually get a bad karma….
omg wtffff they will have karma!!!
One question…maybe Im a noob did not know about this…what is WTM?
i replacing all foul words to other words like meow, frog..
curse the owner to hell… !!!!!!!
Btw,do you know other abandon pet news bout the owner went 4 vacation & abandon his dogs for 2 weeks w/o food n water, when he came back home…he was killed(eaten by his own pet cause of starving).
ya, they took more than they can handle..
yah so sad, they're so annoying why they even do that. . .
and their doings just proves that Malaysia have a lot of pet lovers. . .
No Tar Siu Yan ah!
my canto not that good..
its hit small people right?
Put him behind bar with no food and drink for 9 days!!!


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Pitt hires environmental consultant
Pitt's Institute for Entrepreneurial Excellence hired a new environmental consultant this month to help small local businesses become more environmentally aware.
The IEE announced on Jan. 7 that Lee Ann Briggs would serve as the new environmental consultant for the Environmental Management Assistance Program. As an environmental consultant for EMAP, Briggs will perform one-on-one consultations with small businesses in western Pennsylvania to reduce their impact on the environment and educate them on environmental regulations for businesses.
"I'm not here to tell anyone they're not compliant [with environmental regulations]. I'm purely a resource to help them in terms of a knowledge base," Briggs said.
According to Bob Stein, executive director for the IEE, the Allegheny County Health Department funded the environmental consultant position with a three-year, $350,000 grant. Stein said the grant will fund Briggs' salary and travel expenses.
Until 2011, Briggs served in a similar position at Duquesne University for 11 years until the university lost the funding to support the program. Briggs' past experience made her an obvious choice for the position, according to Stein, who said the IEE had been hoping to hire an environmental consultant for some time.
"It's nice that we can help small business owners and generate economic impact by providing environmental consulting services at no cost," Stein said.
Briggs, who has 28 years of experience in the environmental regulatory-compliance field at industrial companies, such as a paint and coatings manufacturer and consulting firms, will aid Pittsburgh businesses "such as auto body shops, manufacturers and printers," according to a press release.
In addition to consultations, Briggs will perform on-site assessments, do emissions calculations, search for alternative materials and guide permit applications.
Briggs will select the businesses she helps based on referrals from business consultants or the Department of Environmental Protection. In the future, Briggs said she hopes to reach clients through word of mouth from previous consultations.
"My plans are to help as many small businesses in western Pennsylvania as I can," Briggs said. "The big focus will be on Allegheny County, but I will cover 11 counties."
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Why is the Accreditation by Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM) important in my Engineering Degree Studies at Private Universities in Malaysia?
The Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM) Accreditation of Private Universities' Engineering Degree is Important to Students
Students in Malaysia planning to study engineering should understand what it means to become a professional engineer and the pathway. To become a professional engineer in Malaysia, a student must graduate from an engineering degree that's accredited by the Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM). The Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM) is recognised by the Washington Accord because Malaysia is one of its signatories therefore allowing graduates to be able to work in any country that has signed it.
Please fill up the Form below and I will WhatsApp you and provide you with sound advise on how to choose the best private university or college in Malaysia to study at. If you do not give your mobile number or full name as in IC, your query will not be answered. Our knowledgeable & experienced counsellor will send you a message on WhatsApp & provide assistance from there.
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What is the Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM)?
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The Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM) registers graduates and professional engineers under the Registration of Engineers Act 1967 (Revised 2002). The requirement for registration as a graduate engineer is a degree in engineering recognised by the Board. Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM) is the only body certifying Professional Engineers in Malaysia.
This regulatory body for engineering practices in Malaysia was set-up by the Malaysian government under the Registration of Engineers Act (1967) to administer and to enforce the Engineering Act and its provisions to protect public interest.
Only Graduate Engineers and Professional Engineers registered with the Board of Engineers, Malaysia (BEM) are entitled to practice engineering in Malaysia. All engineering practitioner MUST register with BEM within 6-months of practice.
A professional engineer (Ir or PEng) is a person who is licensed to practice to practice engineering in Malaysia after meeting all requirements of the (e.g. pass PI Examination).
What is the Institution of Engineers, Malaysia (IEM)?
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The Institution of Engineers, Malaysia (IEM) is a professional learned society. It was formed in 1959 and was admitted a member of the Commonwealth Engineers Council in 1962. The Institution is a qualifying body for professional engineers in Malaysia.
The Corporate member of the Institution can apply to the Board of Engineers, Malaysia (which is a registration body) for registration as a Professional Engineer, which will entitle him to set up practice. The qualification standards are determined by the Council of the Institution.
The Institution is one of the few professional engineering institutions in the world, which represents all disciplines of the profession, and is thus able to take a broad view of the professional scene.
BEM (Board of Engineers, Malaysia) is different from IEM. BEM is a government body that regulates the
registration of engineers in Malaysia while IEM is a professional Body or Learned Society for engineers.
If you have to approve or/and submit layouts/designs to the approving authortity, P.Eng is mandatory. But if you are working in the manufacturing sector for instance, you can opt just for the M.I.E.M. Getting either/both the P.Eng or the M.I.E.M is a great personal satisfaction if you ask me and they look absolutely fabulous on your resume.
Once you get your P.Eng from BEM, you will have to renew your "license" every year in order to be able to continue to use the title Ir. Before you can renew your license, you must complete 40 hours (I may be wrong) of CPD (Continuous Professional Development) .
The Education Pathway to be a Professional Engineer in Malaysia after completing a 4-Year Engineering Degree that's Accredited by the Board of Engineers Malaysia
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The recognized academic qualification for registration as a Graduate Engineer with BEM includes the as a Graduate Graduate
Engineer Engineer with the Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM) includes includes the following:
An engineering degree accredited/recognized by the Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM) available in an approved list maintained by BEM
A pass in Part I & part II of the Engineering Council Examination of United Kingdom or Part I & Part II of the IEM/BEM Graduate Examination in any particular branch for qualifications that is not branch for qualifications qualifications that is not accredited/recognized by BEM/IEM.
An engineer who has just graduated with a recognised qualification must register with the Board of Engineers Malaysia. He/she can then start to obtain the necessary training and experience, normally four years, before he/she can attempt to sit for the Professional Interview, an exam to qualify Graduate Members of IEM to be transferred to Corporate Members. Corporate Members of Institution of Engineers, Malaysia (IEM) can then apply to upgrade their status to P.Eng. with the Board of Engineers Malaysia.
After graduation, an engineer needs to register with Board of Engineers Malaysia to be a graduate engineer. After a few years of practical experience (supervised by a professional engineer), the graduate engineer can apply to sit for Professional Interview (with IEM). If he/she passes the Interview, he/she can apply to Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM) to be a Professional Engineer that entitles him/her to use the title Ir.
Engineers Act 1967 requires every engineer to be registered with the Board of Engineers, Malaysia (BEM).
Graduates from recognised degree programmes shall be registered as Graduate Engineer to work as an engineer.
Practical training of more than 3 years is required for application to sit for Professional Interview (PI).
A PI candidate will be required to show that he can apply theory in engineering projects, and has acquired the skills of investigation, planning, and design.
Upon passing the PI, the candidate can then apply to BEM for registration as a Professional Engineer.
Can I still find work with a 3-year engineering degree?
Yes, you can still work as an engineer with a 3-year engineering degree. All UK degrees are 3 years in duration and therefore not accredited by BEM. If you want to become a professional engineer, then you just need to go for the M.Eng.
Generally, becoming a professional engineer is important for Civil Engineers as they need to sign and seal blueprints for the buildings. Other engineering fields do not need to do this so it is up to each individual's career goals whether to pursue becoming a professional engineer status or not.
Why become a professional engineer in Malaysia?
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If you ever want or need to become a consulting, engineer, you must be licensed as an Ir or P.Eng.
Only a Ir/P.Eng. can sign and seal engineering documents that are engineering documents that are submitted to a public authority or for public and private clients.
Many companies encourage licensure and some even pay a bonus for becoming a P.Eng.
In education, more universities are requiring a Ir/P.Eng. license to lecture in the engineering faculty or for holding certain positions.
In some industries such as utilities, and government positions, a P.Eng. is required for specified jobs or positions.
With the engineering profession now operating in an international environment, licensing may be required to work in or for other countries. You will be prepared in the event your career moves in this direction (e.g. APEC Engineers, EMF Int. Engineer Register, Washington Accord)
What is the Engineering Accreditation Council in Malaysia?
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Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM) has a duty to ensure that the quality of engineering education/programme of its registered engineers attains the minimum standard comparable to global practice.
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the Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM), and
for admission to graduate membership of Institution of Engineers Malaysia (IEM)
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The EAC is made of representatives of:
The Institution of Engineers, Malaysia (IEM)
Malaysian Qualification Agency (MQA)
Public Services Department (Jabatan Perkhidmatan Awam Malaysia (JPA)
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Engineering Accreditation Council (EAC) accreditation is to ensure that graduates of the accredited engineering programmes satisfy the minimum academic requirements for registration as a graduate engineer with the Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM) and for admission to graduate membership of IEM.
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3. Is it true that BEM do not recognize three (3) year degree programmes and only four (4) year programmes are recognized?
All institutions of higher learning in Malaysia have been informed since 2000 that no engineering programmes with 3 years duration of study would be acceptable for BEM's recognition or accreditation.
Only a four year (or more) programme is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Council (EAC).
The Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM) however provides a pathway for unrecognized engineering degree holders, but they would only be considered upon completing a top up Master programmes (taught mode) in related engineering discipline, on a case to case basis. It must be noted that the 3 year programme will still remain as unrecognized despite the holder having achieved the Master degree.
All Un-Recognized Engineering Degree must do a Top-Up in order to make their degree acceptable by BEM. The Top-Up can be in the form of a "Master Degree" in Engineering by Coursework. An Un-Recognized engineering degree can join IEM as an Incorporated Member
4. What is the requirement to register with BEM as Graduate Engineer and how can I apply?
The main requirement to register with BEM as Graduate Engineer is that the person must graduate from a recognized /
accredited degree by the BEM. The list of accredited degree for local IHL is provided in the EAC and BEM website. Please visit the www.eac.org.my and www.bem.org.my. You can make an application to register as Graduate Engineer by filling up the Borang A at the BEM website. The procedures for the application is stated in the Borang A.
5. Does Board of Engineers Malaysia recognize degrees obtained via online?
Presently, the BEM does not recognized nor accredit any distance learning programme.
6. If a person has recently graduated with (2+2)/ 3+0 twinning programme BEng (Hons) and also a 1 year Master in engineering (coursework) from the same local Malaysian college, will he be allowed to register with BEM?
Provided the twinning programme fulfils the residential requirement in the UK (2 years) and the degree is recognised by ECUK as partially fulfilling the Chartered Engineers (CEng) requirement. Master by coursework in a related discipline is still required for registration.
Note: EAC does not accredit twinning programmes. Only registration with the Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM) requires graduates to have an accredited degree from EAC or recognised by EAC. For twinning programmes of UK, the residential requirement of 2 years in the UK is necessary. It must be an MEng 4 year programme accredited by ECUK.
7. If a student enrolled in any accredited programme, but later on during the programme the accreditation status is withdrawn, then what will be the status of the degree that the student has obtained?
Accreditation with the Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM) is voluntary. However, MQA requires all programmes in Malaysia to be accredited. If it happens that the programme is not accredited, there is not much recourse except the graduate may sue the University for not maintaining the standard to such an extent that accreditation is withdrawn. That is why it is the best that you look for universities with good track record.
8. What is Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM)'s Policy on Recognition for Overseas Programme?
If the country is a signatory member of the Washington Accord, Engineering Accreditation Council (EAC) will recognise the engineering programme based upon the recognition given by the accrediting body of that particular country.
If the country is a provisional member of the Washington Accord,Engineering Accreditation Council (EAC) will recognise the engineering degree programme on a case by case basis based upon the recognition given by the accrediting body of that particular country.
What is the the Washington Accord?
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The Washington Accord is a multinational agreement signed in 1989, which recognises the substantial equivalency of engineering degree programmes accredited by the responsible bodies in each of the signatory countries such as the Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM).
Washington Accord is an agreement among the engineering quality assurance organisations of several nations that recognises the substantial equivalency of programs accredited by those organisations.
The agreement paves the way for mutual recognition of accredited programmes, establishing the notion that graduates have met the academic requirements for entry to the practice of engineering in any signatory country.
Signatories have full rights of participation in the Accord; qualifications accredited or recognised by other signatories are recognised by each signatory as being substantially equivalent to accredited or recognised qualifications within its own jurisdiction.
Admission to the Accord is more importantly an endorsement that the engineering education system of the member nation has demonstrated a strong, longterm commitment to quality assurance in producing engineers ready for industry practice in the international scene.
As a Washington Accord signatory, Malaysia's degrees that have been accredited by Engineering Accreditation Council (EAC)
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will be accepted by other Washington Accord signatories.
This means that students who study in universities with engineering degrees that are accredited by MQA and Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM) such as Curtin University Sarawak, Heriot-Watt University Malaysia, UCSI University and Asia Pacific University may find work in other countries that have signed the Washington Accord.
Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM) uses as a guide the list for Professional/Chartered Engineer by the accreditation organisations of the country where the degree is issued.
Candidates are advised to check with the relevant Engineering Accreditation bodies' web site for the list recognised degrees of professional chartered level.
However, Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM) reserves the right to review the list at any time without notice.
Accredited Professional Engineers in Malaysia can work globally because of the Washington Accord
In 2007, Malaysia became a member of The Washington Accord, which recognises experienced professional engineers
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represented by responsible bodies. The Washington Accord is a small group of signatories that have agreed to mutually recognise accredited engineering programmes.
Members of The Washington Accord are Hong Kong, South Africa, Japan, Singapore, USA, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, UK, Ireland, Taipei, Korea, Malaysia and Turkey.
The Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM), The Institution of Engineers Malaysia (IEM) and Association of Consulting Engineers Malaysia (ACEM) develop and use the EMF Register as a secure benchmark that allows a professional engineer to be recognised or exempted from licensing or registration in other countries (other than that in which they first gained recognition).
Eligibility for admission to EMF International Register of Professional Engineers Register is limited only to engineers who have completed an accredited or recognised engineering programme, registered with the Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM) and is a corporate member of the IEM who is capable of independent practice.
To qualify for admission to EMF International Register of Professional Engineers Register, a candidate must be:
A Professional Engineer registered with the Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM) and/or a Corporate Member with the Institution of Engineers Malaysia;
Seven years experience after graduation in a recognised engineering discipline;
Two years experience in responsible charge of significant work (may be obtained within the seven years experience)
Maintained their continuing professional development at a satisfactory level.
Engineering Agreements
There are six international agreements governing mutual recognition of engineering qualifications and professional competence. In each of these agreements countries/economies who wish to participate may apply for membership, and if accepted become members or signatories to the agreement. In broad principle, each country/economy must meet its own costs, and the body making application must verify that it is the appropriate representative body for that country/economy.
Agreements covering tertiary qualifications in engineering
There are three agreements covering mutual recognition in respect of tertiary-level qualifications in engineering:
The Washington Accord signed in 1989 was the first – it recognises substantial equivalence in the accreditation of qualifications in professional engineering, normally of four years duration.
The Sydney Accord commenced in 2001 and recognises substantial equivalence in the accreditation of qualifications in engineering technology, normally of three years duration.
The Dublin Accord is an agreement for substantial equivalence in the accreditation of tertiary qualifications in technician engineering, normally of two years duration. It commenced in 2002.
Agreements covering competence standards for practising engineers
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The other three agreements cover recognition of equivalence at the practising engineer level i.e. it is individual people, not qualifications that are seen to meet the benchmark standard. The concept of these agreements is that a person recognised in one country as reaching the agreed international standard of competence should only be minimally assessed (primarily for local knowledge) prior to obtaining registration in another country that is party to the agreement.
The oldest such agreement is the APEC Engineer agreement which commenced in 1999. This has Government support in the participating APEC economies. The representative organization in each economy creates a "register" of those engineers wishing to be recognised as meeting the generic international standard. Other economies should give credit when such an engineer seeks to have his or her competence recognised. The Agreement is largely administered between engineering bodies, but there can be Government representation and substantive changes need to be signed off at governmental APEC Agreement level.
The International Professional Engineers agreement commenced in 2001. It operates the same competence standard as the APEC Engineer agreement but any country/economy may join. The parties to the agreement are largely engineering bodies. There are intentions to draw IPEA and APEC closer together.
The International Engineering Technologist agreement was signed by participating economies/countries in 2003. The parties to the Agreement have agreed to commence establishing a mutual recognition scheme for engineering technologists.
The recognition of engineering degree from overseas (full time/twinning) will be based on the accreditation given by professional bodies who are signatories of Washington Accord:
Country / Jurisdiction
United Kingdom The Engineering Council (EC) www.engc.org.uk
United States Accreditation Board for Engineering Technology, US www.abet.org
New Zealand The Institution of Professional Engineers, New Zealand www.ipenz.org.nz
Australia The Institution of Engineers, Australia www.ieaust.org.au
Canada Canadian Council of Professional Engineers, Canada www.ccpe.ca
Ireland Institution of Engineers of Ireland www.iei.ie
South Africa Engineering Council of South Africa www.ecsa.co.za
Hong Kong The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers; www.hkie.org.hk
Japan Japan Accreditation Board for Engineering Education www.jabee.org
South Korea Accreditation Board for Engineering Education of Korea www.abeek.or.kr
Singapore Institution of Engineers Singapore www.ies.org.sg
Chinese Taipei Institute of Engineering Education Taiwan www.ieet.org.tw
Engineering Degree from these countries will be considered on case to case basis:
Engineering Accreditation Body
France Commission des Titres d'Ingénieur www.cti-commission.fr
European Countries European Federation of National Engineering Association (FEANI) www.feani.org
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TDoR 2022 / 2022 / June / 08 / Lorrayne Alves
Lorrayne Alves
Anápolis, Goiás (Brazil)
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This annual event raises funds for the Service Charity, to help ex serving and serving soldiers and their dependents in their hour of need.
Seven teams took part in a four ball competition; all had a good day culminating with a three course evening meal and awards ceremony.
Lord Mayor Councillor Michael Hammon and Deputy Lord Mayor opened the event.
The next SSAFA Charity Golf Day will be held on Thursday 14th July 2016. For more information please contact Peter Fazakarley at SSAFA Coventry Office on 024 7659 9098 or 0789647 8623, or email ssafacoventry1@btconnect.com.
SSAFA Coventry would like to thank Stoneleigh Deer Park Golf Club for all their help over the last 14 years we of hosting the Charity Golf Day. Next year will be our 15th year, so come along and celebrate with us!
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Video of NASA's Boeing 747-123 (N905NA) Last Take Off as a Shuttle Carrier
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NASA will continue to use N905NA to research reducing turbulence produced by larger aircraft.
BONUS: Video of both 747 shuttle carriers flying in formation
N905NA doing its job, carrying the shuttle Discovery in April 2012. Photo by jsmjr / Flickr.
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Two additional vertical stabilizers, one on each end of the standard horizontal stabilizer, to enhance directional stability.
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Instrumentation used by SCA flight crews and engineers to monitor orbiter electrical loads during the ferry flights and also during pre- and post-ferry flight operations.
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RE: Future of NASA SCA 905 & 911. I saw this at http://www.nasa.gov/topics/nasalife/features/shuttle_museum.html It says towards the bottom: "both shuttle carrier aircraft will support NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) Boeing 747SP aircraft flying." It looks like NASA uses the SCA to transport the Phantom Ray http://boeingblogs.com/bds/sightings/2010/12/phantom-ray-rides.html
One of the Controllers at LAX tower posted some great pics on his photoblog of 905 & Endeavour's arrival and flybys…Check out the crowds!: http://fromthecontroltower.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-endeavour-has-landed.html
Is David going to try to get into the United hanger to see Endeavour on the 29th?
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