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Cultivate Your Calling in Each Stage of Life

Angie Ward discusses cultivating leadership amid ever-changing responsibilities.

Angie Ward, author of the recently published I Am a Leader, has 30 years of leadership experience in diverse roles in ministry. I was excited to talk with Angie about how our calling shifts through the various seasons of life.

How can a woman’s calling change over the course of her life?

Sometimes we think as young women that we have one calling, and that’s it. We just have to find it, and we put so much weight on that one thing. But for most people, it changes how it looks and how it’s lived out based on seasons of life and age. Our calling can also change because we change. Who we are, our gifts, our passions. And that’s okay.

For me, I started out in youth ministry, but then God expanded it. It didn’t shift entirely. It was still vocational/occupational ministry, but it went to more broad ministry—leadership and to leadership development. When I was 22, just out of college, I didn’t have the experience or the wisdom to train other leaders. I was just working with students who were sometimes only four years younger than me. The Holy Spirit moves and flows. Working with kids in children’s ministry at your church may make you aware of the needs of foster kids. It opens a door to a whole new thing.

How can we discover what our calling is today?

Cultivate an ear for the Holy Spirit—a heart and a mind that's receptive, that knows the Shepherd's voice, and a heart that's obedient and responsive to whatever it is during that season. A lot of times we get focused on the wrong question: What is it? We focus on trying to figure out the it. Instead, the real focus should be on cultivating our relationship with Jesus and walking with him. We want steps to cling to. If I ...

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What Is Calling?

Defining this “super-spiritual” word

I can’t remember when I first heard the term calling. I just know that by the time I got to seminary at age twenty-four, I was using the word to describe why I was there and why I picked the particular seminary I attended.

Why did I come to this seminary? Simple. “God called me here,” I replied, to knowing nods and murmurs.

By then, I had marinated in Christian subculture for long enough that I think the word had just seeped into my vocabulary. Growing up in church, I heard missionaries talk about how they were called to specific countries and people groups. I heard my pastors talk about how they had been called to (or away from) our church. In college, I probably heard chapel speakers talk about the importance of following God’s call. I also talked with friends who had been dumped by a boyfriend or girlfriend who felt God “telling” them to do it. (Of the validity of that last “calling,” I was often skeptical.)

As a Christian, calling definitely seemed like a super-spiritual word. A “call” from God implied a close relationship with him. Who wouldn’t want to hear from God directly? Plus, using the word calling raised the speaker and his or her behavior above dispute. How do you argue with someone who claims to act on the voice of the Lord?

As I continued through seminary and then into vocational ministry, I heard and used calling frequently. I heard it used in so many ways, however, that I wasn’t actually sure what it meant. And as I progressed through different stages of my own life, I continued to wrestle with calling: both what it was in general and what mine was.

So, what is calling, really? Can it be defined?

Defining Calling

In Scripture, calling is a ...

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When Your Calling Is Challenged

As hardships come, you have 1 of 3 options.

This was not how things were supposed to work out.

Every night for a year, my husband and I had prayed that God would direct us to the right place in his right timing. Based on our own prayers as well as confirmation from others, it seemed that the “right place” would be a church where Dave could serve as senior pastor, giving him more opportunities to exercise his gifts of preaching and shepherding. Now that we had two little boys, we also desired to be closer to family. We told God that we would go anywhere he led us (and we meant it!), but that we would love to end up somewhere in the southeastern United States, ideally within three hours of Dave’s parents.

We explored options around the country. We prayed, waited, and sought counsel from wise and mature believers. We continued to serve faithfully in our current ministries. We prayed and waited some more.

Twelve months later, our little family made the 1,200-mile journey from Minnesota to our new church in North Carolina—just two and a half hours from our sons’ beloved Nana and Papa—where Dave would serve as lead pastor. We felt God had clearly answered our earnest prayers, as evidenced by all sorts of confirmations that seemed like way more than coincidence. I mean, at the boarding gate for our flight home from our interview weekend, we discovered that our pilot “happened” to be a friend who first came up to Dave a year earlier and said he felt God was preparing my husband for a lead pastoral role!

We were over-the-moon excited. We felt we had come home, and we thought we’d be at that church and in that city for life.

Yet three years in, our dream situation had turned to a nightmare. Our church was slowly dying, our marriage ...

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The merger with Capital First will drive home three years of growth at one go to IDFC Bank: Rajiv Lall




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Influence of Thermally-Induced Structural Transformations over Magnetic and Luminiscence Properties of Tartrate-based Chiral Lanthanide Organic-Frameworks

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0TC00736F, Paper
Uxua Huizi-Rayo, Andoni Zabala-Lekuona, Alessio Terenzi, Carlos M. Cruz, Juan Manuel Cuerva, Antonio Rodríguez Diéguez, José Ángel García, José M Seco, Eider San sebastian, Javier Cepeda
This work reports on the synthesis and characterization of five enantiomeric pairs of isostructural 3D metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) with the general formula {[Ln2(μ4-tar)2(μ-tar)(H2O)2]·xH2O}n [where Ln(III) = Tb (Tb-L and Tb-D),...
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All-inorganic 0D/3D Cs4Pb(IBr)6/CsPbI3-xBrx Mixed-dimensional Perovskite Solar Cells with Enhanced Efficiency and Stability

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0TC01832E, Paper
Zhenzhen Li, Xiaolong Liu, Jia Xu, Shujie Yang, Hang Zhao, Hui Huang, Shengzhong Liu, Jianxi Yao
The inorganic halide perovskite CsPbI3 has shown great promise in efficient solar cells. However, the α-phase CsPbI3 is thermodynamically unstable at room temperature, limiting its applications. Herein, we have successfully...
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Structure-property trends in a hollandite multiferroic by Fe doping: structural, magnetic and dielectric characterization of nanocrystalline BaMn3-xFexTi4O14+δ

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0TC00703J, Paper
Frederick Pearsall, Nasim Farahmand, Julien Lombardi, Sunil Dehipawala, Zheng Gai, Stephen O'Brien
BaMn3Ti4O14+δ (δ = 0.25, BMT-134), a recently discovered single-phase multiferroic complex oxide was doped with varying concentrations of Fe in order to assess the effect on magnetic and dielectric behavior....
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All-covalently-implanted FETs with ultrahigh solvent resistibility and exceptional electrical stability, and their applications for liver cancer biomarker detection

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0TC01385D, Paper
Congcong Zhang, Shanshan Cheng, Ke Si, Nannan Wang, Yong Wang, Penglei Chen, Huanli Dong, Wenping Hu
All covalent FETs of covalently-rooted source/drain electrodes and semiconductor layers are launched. The FETs exhibit ultrahigh solvent resistibility, exceptional electrical stability, and ultralong shelf life, facilitating their further treatments.
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A study on the effect of a pyridine secondary acceptor on the emission properties of thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0TC00318B, Paper
Sung Joon Yoon, Ho Jung Lee, Kyung Hyung Lee, Jun Yeob Lee
A new molecular design of thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) emitters having a pyridine derived secondary acceptor was developed.
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Asymmetric organic semiconductors for high performance single crystalline field-effect transistors with low activation energy

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0TC01122C, Communication
Fei Qiu, Yicai Dong, Jie Liu, Yanan Sun, Hua Geng, Hantang Zhang, Danlei Zhu, Xiaosong Shi, Jianghong Liu, Jing Zhang, Shiyun Ai, Lang Jiang
We synthesized three asymmetric anthracene derivatives, in which 2-phvA shows a high field-effect mobility of 10 cm2 V−1 s−1. This work demonstrates the potential advantages of asymmetric structures for high-performance organic semiconductors.
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Loss-favored ultrasensitive refractive index sensor based on directional scattering from a single all-dielectric nanosphere

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0TC00899K, Communication
Churong Ma, Ying Liu, Feng Zhao, Feng Xu, Jiahao Yan, Xiangping Li, Bai-Ou Guan, Guowei Yang, Kai Chen
An ultrasensitive refractive index sensor based on a lossy all-dielectric nanosphere.
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Electric-controlled half-metallicity in magnetic van der Waals heterobilayer

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0TC01541E, Paper
Cheng Tang, Lei Zhang, Stefano Sanvito, Aijun Du
Electric-field controlled half-metallic transport in CrI3–CrGeTe3 heterobilayers for spintronic applications.
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Temperature-responsive conversion of thermally activated delayed fluorescence and room-temperature phosphorescence of carbon dots in silica

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, 8,5744-5751
DOI: 10.1039/D0TC00507J, Paper
Yuqiong Sun, Jinkun Liu, Xiaoliang Pang, Xuejie Zhang, Jianle Zhuang, Haoran Zhang, Chaofan Hu, Mingtao Zheng, Bingfu Lei, Yingliang Liu
The unique temperature-responsive afterglow characteristics of CDs was reported for the first time, which can meet multiple potential applications in rapid fingerprint detection, temperature sensing, and advanced temperature-responsive anti-counterfeiting and encryption.
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All-organic flexible fabric antenna for wearable electronics

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, 8,5662-5667
DOI: 10.1039/D0TC00691B, Communication
Zongze Li, Sneh K. Sinha, Gregory M. Treich, Yifei Wang, Qiuwei Yang, Ajinkya A. Deshmukh, Gregory A. Sotzing, Yang Cao
An all-organic fabric patch antenna is realized with the help of nanotemplates-assisted PEDOT:PSS conductive phase segregation, paving a new way for clothing integrated wearable electronic networks.
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Small-molecular iridium complex based organic solar cells with improved photovoltaic performance through device optimization

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, 8,5761-5768
DOI: 10.1039/D0TC00779J, Paper
Tianjian Yang, Xuyu Gao, Yinming He, Huabin Wang, Youtian Tao
An optimized device with a PDCBT/TBzIr:PC71BM structure was fabricated to increase the power conversion efficiencies of iridium complex-based organic solar cells from 3.91% to 6.17%.
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Theoretical studies on full-color thermally activated delayed fluorescence molecules

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, 8,5839-5846
DOI: 10.1039/D0TC00279H, Paper
Lei Liu, Qi Wei, Yajuan Cheng, Huili Ma, Shiyun Xiong, Xiaohong Zhang
This work provides a detailed mechanism for exciton dynamics in D–π–A–π–D TADF molecules and strategies for further efficiency improvement.
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Benzonitrile and dicyanocarbazole derived electron transport type host materials for improved device lifetime in blue thermally activated delayed fluorescent organic light-emitting diodes

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, 8,5832-5838
DOI: 10.1039/C9TC06978J, Paper
Sung Yong Byeon, Kyung Hyung Lee, Jun Yeob Lee
The electron transport host materials derived from dibenzofuran, benzonitrile and dicyanocarbazole units showed high triplet energy above 3.0 eV, high efficiency over 20% and 31 h lifetime up to 75% of initial luminance at 500 cd m−2.
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Phonons and excitons in ZrSe2–ZrS2 alloys

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, 8,5732-5743
DOI: 10.1039/D0TC00731E, Paper
Sean M. Oliver, Joshua J. Fox, Arsalan Hashemi, Akshay Singh, Randal L. Cavalero, Sam Yee, David W. Snyder, R. Jaramillo, Hannu-Pekka Komsa, Patrick M. Vora
We combine experimental and theoretical methods to understand the impact of long-range Coulomb interactions on phonons and excitons in ZrSxSe2−x.
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Designing hierarchical structures of complex electronically conducting organic polymers via one-step electro-polymerization

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, 8,5934-5940
DOI: 10.1039/C9TC06945C, Paper
Tharindu A. Ranathunge, Duong T. Ngo, Dilan Karunarathilaka, Nuwan H. Attanayake, Indika Chandrasiri, Phillip Brogdon, Jared H. Delcamp, R. M. Gamini Rajapakse, Davita L. Watkins
Using electro-copolymerization as a versatile tool in synthesizing alternating and block copolymers, we have designed conjugation polymers with unique optical properties and excellent conductivities in comparison to conventional conjugated polymers.
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The effect of alkyl side chain length on the formation of two semi-crystalline phases in low band gap conjugated polymers

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, 8,5856-5867
DOI: 10.1039/D0TC00172D, Paper
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Mengmeng Li, Pieter J. Leenaers, Martijn M. Wienk, René A. J. Janssen
The length of solubilizing alkyl chains affects the formation, structure, and properties of two semi-crystalline phases in conjugated polymers.
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Additive-controlled synthesis of monodisperse single crystalline gold nanoparticles: interplay of shape and surface plasmon resonance

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0TC01748E, Paper
Felizitas Kirner, Pavel Potapov, Johannes Schultz, Jessica Geppert, Magdalena Müller, Guillermo Gonzalez, Sebastian Sturm, Axel Lubk, Elena V. Sturm (née Rosseeva)
We introduce a three-step seed-mediated synthesis for single crystalline gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) stabilized by hexadecylpyridinium chloride (CPC) in variable sizes with an adjustable ratio of the cubic and octahedral...
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Where is all my relation?: the poetics of Dave the Potter / edited by Michael A. Chaney

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Mocha Dick: la leyenda de la ballena blanca / Francisco Ortega, Gonzalo Martínez

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The changeling: a novel / Victor LaValle

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A Frank O'Hara notebook / by Bill Berkson ; introduction by Ron Padgett, afterword by Constance M. Lewallen

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The chef: a very tasty thriller / by James Patterson and Max DiLallo

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Wallace Stevens: The Making of the Poem / Frank Doggett

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All this could be yours / Jami Attenberg

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Booth Tarkington: novels & stories / Booth Tarkington ; Thomas Mallon, editor

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Like falling through a cloud: a lyrical memoir of coping with forgetfulness, confusion, and a dreaded diagnosis / Eugenia Zukerman

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The Oxford handbook of Edgar Allan Poe / edited by Scott Peeples and Gerald Kennedy

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Himalaya - L'enfance d'un chef de Eric Valli (Bande annonce)

Un village perdu du Dolpo, dans l’Himalaya, à cinq mille mètres d’altitude. Le vieux chef Tinlé refuse de laisser la conduite de la caravane de yacks au jeune Karma, qu’il accuse d’être responsable de la mort de son fils.

Karma, ignorant les oracles et la colère du chef, lève la caravane avant la date rituelle, entraînant avec lui les jeunes du village.

Au jour fixé par les dieux, Tinlé, avec l’aide de son second fils Norbou, de son petit-fils Passang et de ses vieux compagnons, décide d’emmener une seconde caravane sur la route semée de dangers. S’engage alors, entre la montagne, les deux caravanes et les dieux, une course impitoyable pour la vie…




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Risks and security of internet and systems: 14th International Conference, CRiSIS 2019, Hammamet, Tunisia, October 29-31, 2019, Proceedings / Slim Kallel, Frédéric Cuppens, Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, Ahmed Hadj Kacem (Eds.)

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Stochastically Forced Compressible Fluid Flows / Dominic Breit, Eduard Feireisl, Martina Hofmanová

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Local representation theory and simple groups / Radha Kessar, Gunter Malle, Donna Testerman, editors

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Statistical inference for engineers and data scientists / Pierre Moulin (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Venugopal V. Veeravalli (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

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Complex analysis: the hitch hiker's guide to the plane / Ian Stewart, David Tall

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Introduction to the theory of optimization in Euclidean space / Samia Challal

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Landfillharmonic / Vimeo and Meetai Films present in association with Bella Voce Films, Eureka Productions, and Hidden Village Films ; directed by Brad Allgood, Graham Townsley ; produced by Juliana Peñaranda-Loftus

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Lullaby of Birdland: the Shearing touch / produced and directed by Jill Marshall

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Rain / chorégraphie = choreography, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker ; music, Music for eighteen musicians by Steve Reich; Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris ; Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker ; ARTE France, L'Opera national de Paris, Idéale

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Tatiana / a ballet by John Neumeier ; after "Eugene Onegin" by Alexander Pushkin ; music by Lera Auerbach ; choreography, staging, sets, lighting, John Neumeier ; Hamburg Ballet-John Neumeier ; a co-production by Hamburgische Staatsoper GmbH/Ha

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Turandot: dramma lirico in tre atti e cinque quadri / libretto di Giuseppe Adami e Renato Simoni ; musica di Giacomo Puccini ; completamento del terzo atto di Luciano Berio ; RAI, Teatro alla Scala presentano La Scala per Expo dal Teatro alla Scala di Mil

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Frankenstein / choreography, Liam Scarlett ; music, Lowell Liebermann ; designer, John Macfarlane ; lighting designer, David Finn ; executive producer, Tony Followell ; directed for the screen by Ross MacGibbon ; co-production between the Royal Ballet an

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American epic / a production of BBC Arena, Lo-Max Films Ltd., Wildwood Enterprises, and Thirteen Productions LLC for WNET ; directed by Bernard MacMahon ; story by Bernard MacMahon & Allison McGourty & Duke Erikson ; telescript by William Morgan

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Akram Khan's Giselle / English National Ballet ; direction and choreography, Akram Khan ; directed for the screen by Ross MacGibbon

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[ASAP] 100th Anniversary of Macromolecular Science Viewpoint: Modeling and Simulation of Macromolecules with Hydrogen Bonds: Challenges, Successes, and Opportunities

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[ASAP] Low-Bandgap n-Type Polymer Based on a Fused-DAD-Type Heptacyclic Ring for All-Polymer Solar Cell Application with a Power Conversion Efficiency of 10.7%

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[ASAP] Catalytic Control of Plastic Flow in Siloxane-Based Liquid Crystalline Elastomer Networks

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