JeffJay

I took a Legacy Center Abundance Workshop. My spouse and I were experiencing some shortages in our finances and in some other areas of our relationship that I had not realized until I went to this workshop. Shortly after the workshop one of my declarations was that I would bring in to the household at least $2,500 a month. Until this point I was billing approximately $1,500. Once I let go of my thoughts of “there’s not enough”, my income increased. As soon as I realized that I had everything I needed to be successful and all I need do was access these assets, my business grew to what I wanted it to be.
Abundance about money is a state of mind.
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In the Samurai Within workshop, I experienced a sense of letting go of everything, and stepping into what I truly want. For me, that means moving into my future unencumbered; free. With that freedom, comes the ability to respond in every moment to anyone at any time. That’s all that I need. I wish that for others around me. The feedback that I received was so potent, that I am experiencing shifts even after the training. These shifts are much like tremors that follow an earthquake. The landscape of my life is altered. I am noticing similar shifts in my workplace, with my clients, and in my home and personal life. I could go on and on raving about this training. Instead … just do it, and see for yourself! Legacy Center www.TheLegacyCenter.com

Chapel of the Cross, Chapel Hill, NC
An Episcopal Parish

Johnson Intern Program

I would like to take time to update parishioners on several exciting happenings in the Johnson Intern Program. The Exploratory Committee continues their planning process as we move toward the 501-c-3 not for profit status of the program. The committee is currently involved with restructuring the board to include broader community representation, continuing dialogue with our partner Public Allies, and developing a short- and long-term financial strategic plan. The primary foundational pillars of the program will remain in the Episcopal tradition aligned and rooted in core Christian values and historical Christian spirituality.

While the task of creating a revitalized program is exciting, it has been through several recent transforming experiences that have concretized, for me, the tremendous potential of the Johnson Intern Program. These experiences also offered me insight into the reason I believe JIP continues to provide a life-changing opportunity for young adults to be engaged in social justice issues of the world.

Over the past several weeks, I have been involved in a leadership training opportunity at the Legacy Center in Morrisville, NC. While being a part of secular training, I have had a profound spiritual awareness of the power of human ability for creating a better world. One Sunday afternoon our team gathered to challenge ourselves to make difference in the world in a spectacular way through an activity of feeding the poor. It was our task to decide what method we would use and the manner in which we would carry out our plan. The only parameter given was that we could not donate our own money and we could not directly feed anyone. As I began, I thought about the scriptural story of Jesus feeding of the 5,000 with a few loaves of bread and several fish. My experience as our team set out was perhaps similar to that of the disciples, a bit skeptical and critical of the whole situation. Without giving away the details of how we accomplished the feat, at the end of 2½ hours we had fed 69,000 people! (Yes, I did intentionally place three zeroes at the end of that 69)! My family fed 3500 and I never stepped foot out of the training room. In the moment we tallied our results I realized how small I had held my God-given ability to effect change in the world. I then thought more specifically whether the work of programs like the Johnson Intern Program might be the most important work of the Universal Church. Perhaps we have only brushed the surface in realizing the potential impact of young adults on the world. I asked myself whether I believed it feasible to consider that, a Martin Luther King or Gandhi would be drawn to such a program in their earlier formation years. Lastly, if we did believe God gives such a powerful potential to individuals, what investment would we then make to the 20,000 such Johnson Intern Programs of the world in response? Just thinking…