[amc] Fw: ss for feb 6
- From: "Palmers" <candapalmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <amc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 09:37:32 -0600
Hello all,
Here is some information from Patrick that he and Ivet will discuss in the
Sanctuary class on Sun., Feb. 27.
Ann
From: Patrick Bresnan
Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2011 9:29 AM
To: Palmers
Subject: Re: ss for feb 6
Hi Ann,
Here are some images from our time in Cameron
http://homepage.mac.com/patrickxavier/Sites/photocameron/index.html
We have an exhibit in Philadephia of some the images and video from work with
MDS over the years. Here is the curators statement.
Curator’s Statement – Service: Photographs by Patrick Bresnan and Ivete Lucas
What is it that drives people to serve selflessly: to help or give without
asking in return? (Some modern skeptics deny true altruism even exists). We
might learn more of the answer – moving beyond easy theology – by considering
the three parties normally involved in service. The first two: those served (or
in need of service – in the case of this exhibit, people from the
hurricane-ravaged town of Cameron, LA); those serving (providing energy and
resources to supply to those in need – here a conservative Mennonite group from
Harrisonburg, VA). The third party in the realm of service is not so much a
defined group as it is a sense, a feeling; a spirit. It is the goodwill; the
bonhomie; the mutual fulfillment created – and in some sense, revived – as a
byproduct of the selfless pattern of one people’s service to another…though we
may discover the lines of serving and being served fuzzier than we first
imagined. All three parties may be found populating these photographs by
Patrick Bresnan and Ivete Lucas.
This exhibit involves two additional entities linked to the idea of service,
one which is mysterious and difficult to pinpoint, and the other more obvious:
firstly, the drive or motivation behind service; the cause, beliefs; a desire
meeting a need. Secondly is the physical record of the parties of service: the
pictures seen around you. But these photographs by Bresnan and Lucas are much
more than simply a record – they are sincere and integral components of that
same spirit of service: they are, in a way, a psychological mortar between the
bricks of service, spiritually binding and anchoring the solid byproducts of
goodwill; bonhomie; mutual fulfillment. Simply put, photography unites. And
this is made even truer by their parallel aim of being aesthetically
captivating: in color, composition, emotion and association. The Shaker saying,
“If something is worth doing, it’s worth doing well” comes to mind. If one is
to photograph a people in action – in service – then won’t the core aims of
that service be expanded by good craft; careful composing; arresting images –
by visual examples of the same serving mentality, spirit and practice? Might
the photography itself become an actual service?
Judge for yourself – and absorb the arc, the depth and breadth of life visible
in this exhibit: both the people who serve as well as the people who receive
service; working at their respective day-to-day activities, as well as those
specialized times of direct service, along with scenes of the landscape, the
environment, the architecture of the places where service happens. Use these
photographs as an opportunity to investigate and consider this panorama of what
service is – and how it looks. A final question can be left with you the
viewer: does service continue as everyone involved returns to their “normal”
lives, in their “regular” places of living? That spirit of mutual fulfillment,
does it also continue, and seep into unexpected areas of the parties’ lives and
hearts? Consider the “easy yoke” of service in and for your own life, and
uncover the answer for yourself.
www.mds.mennonite.net - Mennonite Disaster Service, domestic disaster missions
www.mcc.org - Mennonite Central Committee, multi-denominational;
global missions
www.emm.org - Eastern Mennonite Missions, branch of Lancaster Conference,
MC-USA
Timothy Gierschick, curator
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On Feb 25, 2011, at 9:40 PM, Palmers wrote:
Hello Patrick,
Do you have time to send a brief note about the topic of your SS class on
Sunday, Feb. 27 to the ACM listserv ?
Ann
From: Garland Robertson
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 11:40 AM
To: Ann Palmer ; Ann Palmer
Subject: ss for feb 6
hello ann, a note to let you know that partick and ivete will be sharing with
the sanctuary class about their recent voluntary service in miss on feb 6
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: refreshments
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 08:11:42 -0600
From: Patrick Bresnan <patrickxavier@xxxxxxx>
To: Garland Robertson <pastor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Garland,
WE would love to. We have an art show at a Mennonite Church of images from
work in Cameron LA
http://homepage.mac.com/patrickxavier/Sites/photocameron/index.html. This is
the most exciting part of faith for me because I can't sing or read well in
public.
Look forward to seeing you in the this new year.
CHeers,
Patrick
On Jan 6, 2011, at 9:34 AM, Garland Robertson wrote:
> hello patrick,
>
> blessing on your work in miss. maybe also on feb 6 in the adult class you
> can report on your work and discuss future opportunities that others might be
> able to join as well.
> please let me know sometime before the end of jan how this feels to you.
>
> thank you for your ministry to the community. may it go well with you.
> sincerely,
> g robertson
>
>
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Hi Ann,
Here are some images from our time in Cameron
http://homepage.mac.com/patrickxavier/Sites/photocameron/index.html
We have an exhibit in Philadephia of some the images and video from work with
MDS over the years. Here is the curators statement.
Curator’s Statement – Service: Photographs by Patrick Bresnan and Ivete Lucas
What is it that drives people to serve selflessly: to help or give without
asking in return? (Some modern skeptics deny true altruism even exists). We
might learn more of the answer – moving beyond easy theology – by considering
the three parties normally involved in service. The first two: those served (or
in need of service – in the case of this exhibit, people from the
hurricane-ravaged town of Cameron, LA); those serving (providing energy and
resources to supply to those in need – here a conservative Mennonite group from
Harrisonburg, VA). The third party in the realm of service is not so much a
defined group as it is a sense, a feeling; a spirit. It is the goodwill; the
bonhomie; the mutual fulfillment created – and in some sense, revived – as a
byproduct of the selfless pattern of one people’s service to another…though we
may discover the lines of serving and being served fuzzier than we first
imagined. All three parties may be found populating these photographs by
Patrick Bresnan and Ivete Lucas.
This exhibit involves two additional entities linked to the idea of service,
one which is mysterious and difficult to pinpoint, and the other more obvious:
firstly, the drive or motivation behind service; the cause, beliefs; a desire
meeting a need. Secondly is the physical record of the parties of service: the
pictures seen around you. But these photographs by Bresnan and Lucas are much
more than simply a record – they are sincere and integral components of that
same spirit of service: they are, in a way, a psychological mortar between the
bricks of service, spiritually binding and anchoring the solid byproducts of
goodwill; bonhomie; mutual fulfillment. Simply put, photography unites. And
this is made even truer by their parallel aim of being aesthetically
captivating: in color, composition, emotion and association. The Shaker saying,
“If something is worth doing, it’s worth doing well” comes to mind. If one is
to photograph a people in action – in service – then won’t the core aims of
that service be expanded by good craft; careful composing; arresting images –
by visual examples of the same serving mentality, spirit and practice? Might
the photography itself become an actual service?
Judge for yourself – and absorb the arc, the depth and breadth of life visible
in this exhibit: both the people who serve as well as the people who receive
service; working at their respective day-to-day activities, as well as those
specialized times of direct service, along with scenes of the landscape, the
environment, the architecture of the places where service happens. Use these
photographs as an opportunity to investigate and consider this panorama of what
service is – and how it looks. A final question can be left with you the
viewer: does service continue as everyone involved returns to their “normal”
lives, in their “regular” places of living? That spirit of mutual fulfillment,
does it also continue, and seep into unexpected areas of the parties’ lives and
hearts? Consider the “easy yoke” of service in and for your own life, and
uncover the answer for yourself.
www.mds.mennonite.net - Mennonite Disaster Service, domestic disaster missions
www.mcc.org - Mennonite Central Committee, multi-denominational;
global missions
www.emm.org - Eastern Mennonite Missions, branch of Lancaster Conference,
MC-USA
Timothy Gierschick, curator
On Feb 25, 2011, at 9:40 PM, Palmers wrote:
> Hello Patrick,
> Do you have time to send a brief note about the topic of your SS class on
> Sunday, Feb. 27 to the ACM listserv ?
> Ann
>
>
> From: Garland Robertson
> Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 11:40 AM
> To: Ann Palmer ; Ann Palmer
> Subject: ss for feb 6
>
> hello ann, a note to let you know that partick and ivete will be sharing with
> the sanctuary class about their recent voluntary service in miss on feb 6
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: refreshments
> Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 08:11:42 -0600
> From: Patrick Bresnan <patrickxavier@xxxxxxx>
> To: Garland Robertson <pastor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> Garland,
>
> WE would love to. We have an art show at a Mennonite Church of images from
> work in Cameron LA
> http://homepage.mac.com/patrickxavier/Sites/photocameron/index.html. This is
> the most exciting part of faith for me because I can't sing or read well in
> public.
>
> Look forward to seeing you in the this new year.
>
> CHeers,
> Patrick
>
>
>
>
> On Jan 6, 2011, at 9:34 AM, Garland Robertson wrote:
>
> > hello patrick,
> >
> > blessing on your work in miss. maybe also on feb 6 in the adult class you
> > can report on your work and discuss future opportunities that others might
> > be able to join as well.
> > please let me know sometime before the end of jan how this feels to you.
> >
> > thank you for your ministry to the community. may it go well with you.
> > sincerely,
> > g robertson
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
>
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