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So Happy Mother's Day to all who are mothers...I know it happened this past weekend, but better late than never eh?
From my side of the mountain, here's the scoop...I'm still working toward going to Rome. This time there's a new twist to the plot though. My boyfriend and I have decided to go together. The problem being now, we have to BOTH get accepted. This could take a bit of convincing the team leaders at the ESM though.
Regardless we still have to send in all of our stuff. I've sent in my letter of motivation, but still have to complete my curriculum vitae, which should be done by this afternoon. Just a couple more sections to fill out, and it doesn't look too bad I might add. Stephen however, needs to do all of it. And we have to make sure we phrase everything just right.
Plus, we're going to have to find benefactors still...I know I've had to do this from before he decided to go as well, which is in large part the reason for this blog.
Which brings me to the point of this venture. I feel sort of cheap doing this, but I figured it'd probably one of the most efficient ways of communicating with everyone about my plans/needs/prayers. I do intend to send hard copy snail mail as well. I haven't given up on the good ol' U.S. Postal Service, but the initial forum I intend to use is this blog.
Essentially...I'm asking for donations. The Emmanuel School of Missions is run by the Emmanuel Community, and funded I assume in large part by donations and private benefactors, but it cannot fund the school independently. The school, which Stephen and I intend to go to, costs $700 per month--for 9 months...which isn't a lot considering that $700 covers all food, lodgings, travel, and activities while we're there. Plane tickets to and from are of course extra--but the bulk of the nine months there is covered by that $700. So it's really not too much money, but money nonetheless, which I'm trying to raise.
Why do I want to go? Well, aside from changing the world...I want to discover how God wants me to use the gifts and talents He's given me in order to glorify Him. I am an artist. I'm an actress and a director and I know He wants to use me in that area. Since being in Rome last month I really felt called to pursue going to this school so that I could form myself in the knowledge of the Catholic faith, discipline myself through prayer and activity in the Church, to eventually come back to the United States where I would want to begin a similar type of school here in New York City. Back here, we'd focus on evangelization through performance...and maybe not necessarily through explicitly Catholic theatre or missions, but simply by studying the faith and incorporating that in to studying theatre; acting, directing, music--so the product could be a group of fully informed artists who continually seek the truth and live the truth in their daily lives--as actors, directors, musicians, writers, businessmen, doctors, etc...
If this sounds like something of interest to you. please contact me. If this sounds like a project you'd like to support, please contact me. If this sounds like something you'd at least like to prayerfully support, please do so.
I will be continually adding to this page...and once I figure out how to post photos I'll do that too.
I look forward to hearing from anyone and everyone. If you have questions, shout them out.
Peace & Joy!

posted by Mish @ 15:23