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If I just get that title. If I just get | you the happiness you think they will. | and yet I felt hollowed out, like someone had used one of those |\n| that relationship. If I just get out Yet there I was, last Novem- |  |  | cantaloupe scoopers (that I have |\n| of that job. If I just get out of ber, grim, depressed, filled with |  |  | no space for in my New York |\n| that relationship—then my life gloom, emptiness, and despair. |  |  | City kitchen) on my insides. |\n| would be different.Then I would Why? There was no external |  |  | What had happened? |\n| be better off. Then I would have trauma, no immediate press- |  |  | Unknowingly, I had done the |\n| the comfort and security and ing problems of life bearing |  |  | very thing I teach, and preach, |\n| validation I need to live the life down on me. I had, in fact, just |  |  | and speak against every week. I |\n| I want. received my PhD in compu- |  |  | had placed my significance, I had |\n| As humans we connect our tational linguistics of histori- |  |  | put my hopes and value into a |\n| circumstances to our [happiness. cal](happiness. cal) theology a few weeks earli- |  |  | “thing.”The “thing” for me was |\n| We can’t help it. As a minister, er after a successful defense of |  |  | the PhD that was going to vin- |\n| you would think I wouldn’t just my dissertation. Eight years of |  |  | dicate and legitimize my person- |\n| know this truth, but I would work, countless hours of prepa- |  |  | hood. I had been chasing it for |\n| be so aware of it so that I was ration, using every last second of |  |  | eight long years and during those |\n| inoculated against its effects. free time while working full-time |  |  | years, the true meaning behind |\n| You would think that I would in college ministry and planting |  |  | its usefulness gradually became |\n| have seen the detrimental effects Redeemer Lincoln Square had |  |  | unfocused. Receiving that de- |\n| of trying to find your signifi - finally paid off. The congratu- |  |  | gree became an identity marker |\n| cance in things that won’t bring latory praise was all around me, H FNY AFFILIATE: G IFTED HANDS |  |  | (Continued on page 5) |\n\nSophia Miller grew up in St.James,Jamaica and came to New York a few years ago. It wasn’t long after moving here, though, that she and her two daughters ended up homeless. Sophia struggled to find work and started to lose hope all together. Then she met Dustee, the founder of Gifted Hands, a Hope for New York affiliate that provides educational art programs to build self-esteem and teach new skills.  \nBelow, Sophia shares her story of how God used Dustee and Gifted Hands to restore her hope and introduce her to a new church family that supports and loves her and her two girls.  \nGrowing  \nbut it  \nup, we were poor, wasn’t much of a  \ndifference because everyone was in that same situation. We didn’t have much, but we were happy.  \nWe went to church every week growing up, and my mother was  \nalways telling me about God.  \nBefore coming here, I had worked at a bank for 17 years. I  \nwas self sufficient. Then, in 2014 , I moved to New York to marry a man I met here. But I haven’t seen him from six months into (Continued on page 5)  \n2  \nciTy To ciTy europe conFerence  \n\n|  |  |  |  |  | by sTphan pues |  |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| At | the end of October church planters and lead- |  | and Europe lacks the resources and support that churches have |  | years European church planters have traveled to New York City |  |\n| ers from all over Europe gath- |  |  | in other parts of the world. So |  | for training.) CTCE will also |  |\n| ered in Krakow, Poland for |  |  | the conference also gives leaders |  | begin a network of coaches and |  |\n| the sixth City To City Europe |  |  | a time of shared fellowship and |  | a formal faith and work learn- |","cbCaijuqwLNyR5vu","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijuqwLNyR5vu","pdf",520043,"English","# The Emptiness of Getting What You Want\n## Chasing identity through achievement\n# Sophia Miller’s Story: Growing but Restored\n## Hope through Gifted Hands\n# City To City Europe Conference\n## Movements of the Gospel and leader networking","[{\"question\":\"Why does the author feel hollowed out after receiving what he pursued?\",\"answer\":\"He expected a title, job, and related validation to bring lasting happiness, but instead experienced emptiness and despair. He concludes he unknowingly tied his significance to an outcome, which left him unfocused afterward.\"},{\"question\":\"How did Gifted Hands help Sophia Miller?\",\"answer\":\"Sophia credits Dustee and Gifted Hands with restoring her hope through educational art programs that build self-esteem and teach new skills. She also describes how this led her into a new church family that supports and loves her.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the City To City Europe (CTCE) conference focused on?\",\"answer\":\"CTCE gathers church planters and leaders across many European countries for fellowship, training, and community building. The talks and sessions emphasize gospel-centered movements and how city life and culture shape urban church planting.\"}]","Redeemer Newsletter - March 2019 | PDF",15]