Week Two Writing Assignment

*Long Term Vision

I want to go to the other countries especially Asian and African countries, because I'm interested in their live, their music, the history, and their culture.

*Short Term Vision

To achieve my long-term vision, I'm doing TWO things.

First, I do two pert time jobs to get money. The jobs are waitress of sobaya and tavern. To combine these jobs with hard ICU works is sometimes difficult for me. When I feel bad about the job, my motivation comes from my long term vision. I save up the all salary of sobaya for going to foreign countries. Of course, the reason is that the money is necessary to go to other places!

Second, I study about Asian and African countries which I'm interested in. I often go to many kinds of symposium, briefing session, documentary film screening, meeting. I get much information in these opportunity. And, I study by my self. Recently, I'm studying about Cambodian history. I went to Cambodia two month ago as a mission study tour. So, I really want to know about Cambodia more and more. The reason of why I try to know about these countries is that I believe it is important to know about the history and culture of the countries to which I hope to go. Knowing nothing is rudeness for the people in the actual place.

These two things are my doing things for achieve my long-term vision.

my sentence

The life was beside by people who are forced to be as weak.

I'm just willing to be like this.

Not to be a person who can give many things for poor people.

Not to be a person who can help many suffering people.

I want to live with people who are forced to be in the weak position by this society.

preface

I've been to Keisen Baptist Church since I was a baby. In my church, there are many events and people like them. When I was a high school student, I often sang worship songs with my Christian friends. We liked the time to worship in the church. So, we planed a gathering of worship named "Joyful Night". JN have held about 3times in a year. The program is not only singing worship songs, but also testifying and reading the Bible. I planed this gathering as a main parson. Through this JN's planning, I learned 3things which is important as a leader.

Firstly, to listen to others is necessary to make a good events. Each of member have own great ideas, I believe. To make the event by own self is easy, but this is missing something. At the beginning of this project, I did many works by my self. Then, the other member did nothing. They were just waiting. There was no positive attitude. I noticed, this is because of that they didn't feel much need for them. And, it was necessary to change the situation by bringing them in the planning. The best way to achieve that the members become more positive about planning JN is listening to their advices and ideas. By this trying they could notice that JN is planed by ourselves including own. So, listening to other voices is important to make one with all members.

Second, to give something to do for other staffs who are not main member of planning team. JN is one of events of my church, so I needed to involve church members in JN as much as possible. I advertised about JN to them, but that was not enough. To pass this difficult problem, I found the idea that asking many people to cooperate about JN. For example, appearing on the stage as a speaker or a player of musical instrument, and cooking cakes for after tea party. Then, people who relate to this event participated to JN, not only them but also their friends came to JN. So, giving some works for church's member as much as possible was nice for making JN as a church's event.

Third, the most important thing is to take pleasure in everything about the event. I really enjoyed doing something for JN at first. However, I felt negative feeling during the preparation of the third holding of JN. The feeling might be felt by other members. Then, all motivation fall down. It was clearly unlucky situation. To break the situation, it was needed to think back the first mind. At the beginning, we started JN with much of pleasure. I was so happy that I can service and worship God through this event. The service must do with pleasure mind. When I recall these flesh mind, I regained the motivation and filled my mind with hope and pleasure. This feeling reached the other members. And, we could start the preparation with new mind.

Therefore, what I got the important things as a leader through the operation of JN was that listening other voices, asking cooperation, and enjoy all things. To do these things, it's needed the communication skill. The base of these things might be the good relationship.