{"id":1473,"date":"2014-07-09T00:29:28","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T00:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/bge\/?p=1473"},"modified":"2014-07-09T00:29:28","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T00:29:28","slug":"social-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/bge\/2014\/07\/09\/social-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Julie Jane Capel serves as secretary of Advocates for Covenant Clergy Women ministerium board. She is a recent seminary graduate of North Park Theological Seminary and hopes to use her MDiv. as an associate or solo parish pastor in the near future. Currently she is working as a chaplain at a trauma one hospital on the west side of Chicago \u2013 where she sees the Holy Spirit show up every time she walks into a new hospital room.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In Detroit, fifty-three weeks ago I sat in the lobby of the hotel that the 128th Annual Meeting was held at. My roommate\u2019s flight had been delayed and I was unable to get into our shared room. So I sat in the lobby in a relatively comfortable, overstuffed chair with my bags at my feet \u2013 unsure what my next move should be.<\/p>\n<p>A few Covenant men and women (an assumption made because of their nametags) saw me and waved me over to their restaurant table. I vaguely recognized only 10% of the people but I still sat down. At their invitation, I told them about myself, my pastoral call and where I would hope to minister. Only after my monologue did I realize this was a gathering of the Covenant Executive Board \u2013 the women and men who cast mission, vision and action for our denomination as our elected officials. (Explained in <a href=\"http:\/\/covchurch.tv\/am2013-ex-board\/\">http:\/\/covchurch.tv\/am2013-ex-board\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward a year and a few days to the Gather14 (129 Annual Meeting) when a woman came up to me and asked, \u201cdo you remember me?\u201d I exclaimed, \u201cOf course!\u201d Here was the woman who had invited me to the table. She again asked where I was in the pastoral search and promised to be my advocate throughout the rest of the annual meeting. I laughed. But she meant business.<\/p>\n<p>Over the next few days, she and another man from the Executive Board, made it their personal mission to introduce me to people I would otherwise not have had access to. They used their social capital to vouch for me because they believed in me, in North Park Seminary\u2019s training, and in the Covenant pastoral call process. In my opinion, these Executive Board members enacted out the mission of the Commission for Biblical Gender Equality.<\/p>\n<p>As I have reflected further I realize that this is what Jesus does for us. Jesus brings us to the Father and uses his social capital (as the Son) to vouches for us. (1 John 2:1) He advocates for us and sets an example for us to advocate for each other. I am deeply grateful that our Executive Board has done that for me. Will you follow suit, and use your social capital for someone else?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/bge?moderation_action=report_form&#038;object_type=post&#038;object_id=1473&#038;width=250&#038;height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julie Jane Capel serves as secretary of Advocates for Covenant Clergy Women ministerium board. 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