My hours this week were:
Tuesday 9am-2pm
Wednesday 9am-2pm
Thursday 8:30am-2pm
Total for the week is 15.5 hours
Total hours is 46 hours.
Busy week for us here at WGM! I have loved working on the internship promotional stuff. I have made an “at a glance” sheet for each of the 5 internships and am currently working on internship packets for each. It is fun to be working on something that all needs to fit and flow together. I think it’ll be awesome when it is finished! Tuesday I also worked on another story for the web page. It as about a robbery that happened to a missionary family in Argentina. I wrote a rough draft of the story off of the information I had and then e-mailed the missionary for the details to fill in the gaps.
I was pleasantly surprised Wednesday morning that the missionary in Argentina had already written me back. I spent some time finishing the story, sent it in, had edits sent to me, I made then edits and sent it to the final editor. So that was a fast fun story- when it gets posted I’ll try to remember to put the link on here! Other than that on Wednesday I did a lot of work on the packets- they were all so different and had nothing holding them together as a series.
Thursday was just…entertaining. I did some odd assignments and finished the writing for the intern material and started doing some of the design stuff with Liz, but mostly I started my first Heroes of the Faith story. The retired missionary’s name is LeRoy Lindahl and he and his wife (deceased) were missionaries in the jungles of Bolivia for 30 years. I spent hours today going through all of their files- medical forms, applications, prayer letters, pictures, ect ect…and I still have a lot more to go through! It is SO awesome to be reading what they wrote while on the field. Even reading about their upbringings in Wisconsin made me think a lot about how youth haven’t really changed that much from then to today in terms of walking with God. I am excited to get to interview LeRoy and write his story. But just for your enjoyment here is my favorite 2 quotes from Mrs. Lindalh’s application back in the 1950s. She was sharing her life sketch, “That summer led to dates. He was in love—I prayed—He wasn’t tall dark or handsome. But God spoke and I said, ‘Yes, Lord.’ We were married.” This just made me laugh. Another question was do sing? And her answer was “In emergencies.” That made me chuckle as well.
Over all this week has been productive and, more importantly, fun. So I’ll keep researching and writing and tell you my favorite stories :D
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Thursday, May 19, 2011
week 2
My hours this week were:
Tuesday 9am-2pm
Wednesday 9am-2pm
Thursday 8:30am-3pm
Total for the week is 16.5 hours
Total hours is 30.5 hours.
Tuesday started my second week at WGM. The morning began with realizing my desktop computer here was fried and no longer worked. It was probably over 10 years old. Luckily WGM is getting new computers in the main offices and so I got one of the old computers that was being replaced- but is still much newer than the one I had been using!
The other summer intern, Liz, started today! She will be doing writing and some graphic design and photography. I have been informed I have to have a “photo shoot” so that my picture can go on the WGM website- oh dear! Today started out with e-mailing Dan Heineman, the man I wrote my story about. Last week after writing my story I had to send it to him so he could make sure all the fact and everything were correct. I had an e-mail from him this morning with about 4 things he wanted changes, mostly adding in other people’s names and a quote modification. I made those changes and sent it back for approval. After that we had chapel and prayed for all the missionaries of WGM. Each table had a different country represented. Then I worked on e-mailing more contact people about updating their ministry information on the WGM website. Still waiting to hear back from all of them.
Wednesday started out with one last e-mail to Bob. Liz and I got briefed on one of our project- to redo all the internship information for WGM. They offer 5 internships but their promotional material is very out dated. Liz and I spent time evaluating the material and talking through what we want it to look like. We are writing and designing it. I spent a lot of time today on this. The other thing I did today was learn about the living tributes that I will be writing about retired missionaries. This will be really interesting! I get to research and go through old archives of articles missionaries have written and prayer letters and photos. I even get to go through their original applications to WGM. So I will be writing bout missionaries who are a little over 80 years old. Once I have researched I will interview them and then write 600-700 word tributes about their lives that will be posted on the WGM website.
Thursday was prayer time and then we had three people’s offices we switched around. It was a team effort and took the most of the morning. I put down my writing pencil and picked up a hammer and nails to hang pictures :D It was really fun and a great way to get to know everyone better! After that Liz and I kept working on the internship packet information. We designed a writing logo which was fun. Neither of us are all that great at graphic design but we are learning!
So this week I have done a lot of different things! I got my first story into my editor and started in on this whole internship information project which will be really fun!
Tuesday 9am-2pm
Wednesday 9am-2pm
Thursday 8:30am-3pm
Total for the week is 16.5 hours
Total hours is 30.5 hours.
Tuesday started my second week at WGM. The morning began with realizing my desktop computer here was fried and no longer worked. It was probably over 10 years old. Luckily WGM is getting new computers in the main offices and so I got one of the old computers that was being replaced- but is still much newer than the one I had been using!
The other summer intern, Liz, started today! She will be doing writing and some graphic design and photography. I have been informed I have to have a “photo shoot” so that my picture can go on the WGM website- oh dear! Today started out with e-mailing Dan Heineman, the man I wrote my story about. Last week after writing my story I had to send it to him so he could make sure all the fact and everything were correct. I had an e-mail from him this morning with about 4 things he wanted changes, mostly adding in other people’s names and a quote modification. I made those changes and sent it back for approval. After that we had chapel and prayed for all the missionaries of WGM. Each table had a different country represented. Then I worked on e-mailing more contact people about updating their ministry information on the WGM website. Still waiting to hear back from all of them.
Wednesday started out with one last e-mail to Bob. Liz and I got briefed on one of our project- to redo all the internship information for WGM. They offer 5 internships but their promotional material is very out dated. Liz and I spent time evaluating the material and talking through what we want it to look like. We are writing and designing it. I spent a lot of time today on this. The other thing I did today was learn about the living tributes that I will be writing about retired missionaries. This will be really interesting! I get to research and go through old archives of articles missionaries have written and prayer letters and photos. I even get to go through their original applications to WGM. So I will be writing bout missionaries who are a little over 80 years old. Once I have researched I will interview them and then write 600-700 word tributes about their lives that will be posted on the WGM website.
Thursday was prayer time and then we had three people’s offices we switched around. It was a team effort and took the most of the morning. I put down my writing pencil and picked up a hammer and nails to hang pictures :D It was really fun and a great way to get to know everyone better! After that Liz and I kept working on the internship packet information. We designed a writing logo which was fun. Neither of us are all that great at graphic design but we are learning!
So this week I have done a lot of different things! I got my first story into my editor and started in on this whole internship information project which will be really fun!
Friday, May 13, 2011
week 1
Well I am finishing up my first week at WGM! It has been pretty exciting!
My hours this week were:
Tuesday 10:30am-2pm
Wednesday 9am-2pm
Thursday 8:30am-2pm
Total for the week is 14 hours
Total hours is 14 hours.
On Tuesday I spent my time doing some orientation things. Tuesdays at 10:30am is the WGM chapel so I started with that. Then I watched a video about WGM and joined everyone for lunch. After that it was a little bit of paperwork, learning about the WGM e-mail and ActiveCollab systems, and reading through the latest issue of The Call to see the format and writing style for the magazine.
Wednesday I checked out WGM's social media tools and saw how they all work together and I explored the website. My first assignment was given to me. I had to write a story for the upcoming issue of The Call. It is a 400 word piece titled "Do you believe in transformed lives?" I had to call a man named Bob Heineman from Brookhaven and set up an interview time. Luckily he was available later that day. I prepared for the phone interview by writing out all the questions I wanted to make sure I asked. Another assignment of mine right now is to update ministry information on the website. On Wednesday I worked on The Taylor Community Center in Texas near the Mexico border. I had to review the information, write questions that I needed answered so I could update the information, and sent the email to the appropriate contact people. Then after lunch I went ahead and had my interview with Bob. It went really well and I was able to take a lot of notes.
Thursday morning is department prayer morning so I joined in on that. After prayer I wrote my first story! Then after writing the first version of the story I wrote a second for the same story just because I still wasn't totally sure of the way it would work best in the magazine. Then I submitted them to Tracy, my supervisor, and she told me her favorite and that was that!
So, this week has been productive and exciting! It will be fun to hear back from the Taylor Community Center people and get that all updated. It is awesome to be writing for an organization that is doing so much in the world, but needs these writings in order to get the manpower to keep up the work!
My hours this week were:
Tuesday 10:30am-2pm
Wednesday 9am-2pm
Thursday 8:30am-2pm
Total for the week is 14 hours
Total hours is 14 hours.
On Tuesday I spent my time doing some orientation things. Tuesdays at 10:30am is the WGM chapel so I started with that. Then I watched a video about WGM and joined everyone for lunch. After that it was a little bit of paperwork, learning about the WGM e-mail and ActiveCollab systems, and reading through the latest issue of The Call to see the format and writing style for the magazine.
Wednesday I checked out WGM's social media tools and saw how they all work together and I explored the website. My first assignment was given to me. I had to write a story for the upcoming issue of The Call. It is a 400 word piece titled "Do you believe in transformed lives?" I had to call a man named Bob Heineman from Brookhaven and set up an interview time. Luckily he was available later that day. I prepared for the phone interview by writing out all the questions I wanted to make sure I asked. Another assignment of mine right now is to update ministry information on the website. On Wednesday I worked on The Taylor Community Center in Texas near the Mexico border. I had to review the information, write questions that I needed answered so I could update the information, and sent the email to the appropriate contact people. Then after lunch I went ahead and had my interview with Bob. It went really well and I was able to take a lot of notes.
Thursday morning is department prayer morning so I joined in on that. After prayer I wrote my first story! Then after writing the first version of the story I wrote a second for the same story just because I still wasn't totally sure of the way it would work best in the magazine. Then I submitted them to Tracy, my supervisor, and she told me her favorite and that was that!
So, this week has been productive and exciting! It will be fun to hear back from the Taylor Community Center people and get that all updated. It is awesome to be writing for an organization that is doing so much in the world, but needs these writings in order to get the manpower to keep up the work!
Saturday, May 7, 2011
My Internship
Hey everyone! My name is Stacy Hall and this summer I am interning at World Gospel Mission in Marion, Indiana. I start this coming week (May 9th) and go thru mid August. I am excited to share my experiences with you and read all about your experiences too!
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