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Name: Jason
Gender: Male
Interests: Well, unfortunately school, right now...listening to music, playing my guitar, playing with the worship team at church...hanging out at Starbucks (sorry Elena) or Tabocchis (not pronounced Tabokis) or Palapas since everyone I know seems to work there (or wants to work there)...
Expertise: What does this mean? When people need to count money, I can do it fast, 'cause I work at a bank...
Occupation: Student
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Member Since:
1/14/2005
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| It was an amazing, powerful story. 29-year-old pastor Michael Guglielmucci, who
had been suffering from cancer for the past 2 years, steps out onto the stage
at the Hillsong conference in Australia. With oxygen tank at his side, he leads the
congregation in a song has written believing that God will heal him:
“You hold my every moment
You calm my raging seas
You walk with me through fire
And heal all my disease
I trust in You
I believe You’re my Healer
I believe You are all I need
I believe You're my Portion
I believe You're more than enough for me
Jesus You're all I need
Nothing is impossible for You
Nothing is impossible for You
Nothing is impossible for You
You hold my world in Your hands”
It’s the most powerful moment of
the conference. The congregation is left
weeping, inspired by the courage of this man to boldly proclaim his faith. The song “Healer”, becomes a huge hit. It’s the centerpiece of Hillsong’s new album
“This is our God”; the video clip of Guglielmucci singing gets millions of
views on YouTube; the song becomes a resource for the church; Chris Tomlin puts
the song on his iTunes playlist, saying it’s one of the most incredible stories
he’s ever heard.
One problem: The story’s not
true. Guglielmucci never had
cancer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wqRAJrl0eA
The story broke a couple weeks
ago, and left his family, his church and his fans in total shock. At an interview, he states that he told the
cancer lie to cover up the fact that he has been addicted to pornography for
the past 16 years.
This is an incredibly disturbing
story. It’s good to see Guglielmucci
finally telling the truth, seeking help and pledging to return all the money
donated to his medical bills. This is
one messed up guy, but hopefully he can get the help he needs.
One question remains, what to we
do with the song? Hillsong has recalled
copies of the CD, and removed the song from future versions of the CD and
DVD. YouTube has removed the clip of him
singing, and all online resources and songbooks have removed the charts and
sheet music for the song.
This is a difficult question,
because not only is it a beautiful song, but if you look at the lyrics, it is
full of truth. I was actually about to
give this song to our music pastor just before I found out about the
story. We have many people in our church
suffering from cancer, and I felt that the song would be an inspiration. The problem is, when I remember the clip: the
oxygen mask, the congregation weeping, everyone admiring this man…
As a worship leader, I can’t sing
this song right now. Guglielmucci has
gotten too much fame, praise and attention for this song, and the fact that he
so brazenly based it on a lie…I don’t know.
This is a unique situation. Never
has a congregational worship song been tainted in such a way. As worship leader
Vicky Beeching puts it, you hate to “throw the baby away with the bathwater”,
but in this case, I don’t think we need to give Guglielmucci the man or any of
his works’ any attention so he can get the help he needs in peace.
Your thoughts? | | |
| So as of July 31st, my position at Wachovia, Assistant Financial Center Manager, was eliminated, and I was officially let go at the job I've been at for eight years. (I guess that's what happens when a company loses 9 billion dollars in three months...)
I was on a leave of absence, and not sure what I was going to do next, but I was actually planning on coming back in the fall to raise some money for an internship down in Orange County that I'm hoping to get accepted in.
Now, this throws my plans out the window, as well as makes me mad when I think about how much I've done for that company over the past years, and all the great friends I've made there...
There's a severence package that they're sending me, and thankfully it looks like they're going to do the old World Savings merger severence, and not the Wachovia one (which is only TWO WEEKS!!) So, once I look at that, I might breathe easier...
It's crazy to think I won't be there anymore, but this completely opens the door for me to do something else (and no offense to anyone who's still there, but leaving this company kinda feels like escaping from the Titanic....) | | |
| Wow, it's been almost 6 months since I've been on here. Crazy. Hope people still read this. Although I noticed they changed Xanga a lot since I've been on here, it now looks like a mixture of Myspace and Facebook, coincidence? So anyway, as many of you know, I'm on my leave of absence from work. It's already been a month almost, that's pretty insane. I've been getting a lot of things done, going to the gym, and doing some songwriting, but I'm still nervous about what's gonna happen when the summer's over. I'm going to post my resume online (once it gets a little more polished), and I'm in contact with a missions organization to see about some overseas trips. Otherwise, I'm just really involved with my church and trying to keep busy. So, yeah, I'm really behind on pictures, but I wanted to post some of my last day at work, my friends threw a goodbye party for me at Palapas. It was a lot of fun, and it meant a lot that they all went, we took over the outside section  . 
This is me and Lindsay, we went to high school together and she started at the bank the day before me, so we've known each other a long time. 
Me and Marie, teller manager at my old branch in Aptos. Okay, so the whole night everyone was saying "Jason, I want to take a shot with you", "Jason, we have to take a shot together" and I knew that I wanted to um, well, remember the night, so I said, "why don't we all take a shot together" which we did, and they turned it into a toast to me, it was really cool, and meant a lot. 
Of course, then the night got going and my friend Nickos (who threw the party) wanted me and him to down a pitcher of cadillac margaritas, and since I had reached the limit of what I wanted to have, I just pretended to drink it lol  
 Me with Maureen, the manager of the San Jose branch and the first person I trained that ended up becoming a branch manager (Nickos was the second). So proud, sniff... 
Me with Liz, my old manager at Aptos and now a financial specialist in Hollister (and now Nickos' girlfriend lol) After, we went over to the Med in Aptos (a total and complete dive), but me, Nickos and our friend Zach played pool and Jordan took some cool pics (although he's in the third one, so I'm not sure who took that one): 
And then of course, my trusty designated driver haha  
Overall, it was a really fun night, and it made me realize how much I was going to miss everyone at the bank. I mean, it was eight years of my life you know? It really made me kinda sad how the bank merger turned out, I thought it was going to be my career but I guess God has different plans. However, I would like just a hint of an idea of what He has planned....can I just peek through the door?? | | |
| ..except that Magic Mountain was closed on Sunday 'cause of the weather, which never happens..so we've got 9 tickets to use sometime this year, so we're gonna go back, and if anyone wants to join us, let's pack the cars for a big ol' six flags road trip...
Also, Garth Brooks played in L.A. right across from where we were (so the weekend that we were there was L.A. in 1998, apparently...just kidding :) Seriously way too many cowboy hats, kinda frightening... I'll post pictures soon, except now I have to put it on here, myspace, facebook..can't we just stick to one? (I still think it's funny that Xanga wants people to still pay for premium...I think there's what 5 people on Xanga now?) | | |
| ...has to be a better year than 2007, a year I was not too sad to see come and go, have to say.... If you want to see what my New Years Eve ("Eve") was like, just check out Barbara's Xanga (www.xanga.com/bzpsalm139). It was awesome actually having a New Years Eve for once. We had a blast with some friends and family over, and how the Wii is the most addicting thing of the century (We almost missed midnight. Seriously.) Also, made a BIG decision about work this year. Some of you might know, ('cause I'm just so bad at not letting things out, right guys?) but I don't want to say anything 'till it's official, but I'm EXCITED... Man, do I have you in suspense or what?! P.S. OK, I thought Myspace was confusing at first, but I've had a Facebook now for a couple weeks and I HAVE NO FREAKIN IDEA ON WHAT TO DOOOOO.... | | |
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