First blog entry

So here's a my first blog about being a Christian and doing Supports Coordination work.
Let me explain why I am blogging about working my day job as a Supports Coordinator by attempting to answer a few questions here:

Why blog about Supports Coordinating?
I think we need to connect with each other more. I take that title of "Supports Coordinating" seriously, and expect that if I signed up for this job and I have a shared responsibility to the people who I am assigned to support with others who support, then maybe we ought to get to know each other better and support each other doing this work. That takes communication.
There are a lot of communications out there:
Some come from Harrisburg's Office of Developmental Programs (ODP) in the form of bulletins with mandates, some come from e-mail groups too, like with Mentors for Self Determination. Some come in the form of trainings. Lots of information, lots of resources, and you are a resource, too. So let's talk. Let's blog. Let's comment. I'm using a blog as a bit more of a level playing field than a mandate or a training, we're sharing. The more we can share the closer we can work together.

What to blog about?
I want to tell the stories of coming into contact with people who are supported to live more than your your average everyday life, but really called to live an extraordinary life. I thank God for each person I'm asked to support and for their team, and I thank him all the more when I see people working together and not just "independently", people working out their problems and not just controlling them or being controlled themselves. People who come of out of confinement and into community. People brave enough to share their faith and their hope and then work towards the same. I don't plan on publishing names or details of people who don't want them published. Do I think that the state and services or even families and people's own self-determined-will can accomplish this? I trust God, God in Christ Jesus. But like I said, this is my day job and I believe Jesus is with me all day long.

So what do you think?
Supports Coordinators have a job to do. Maybe I came in contact initially with the people I work with who have labels of disabilities because I needed a job and they needed a Supports Coordinator to do a job. I can start from there, and I can do that job. Eventually, though, after meeting someone, the labels and titles aren't as important to me as wanting to know each other's names and something about each other's lives. What's your name? What do you want to share about your life?