Asked him to come back. Nd arablesed to have carol estes and jim hopkins. Welcome back. Good morning. Thank you. You were so dynamic, ace sai, both of you, that we were on youtube for the first time. Wow. And youtube celebrated the 1h Year Anniversary last week. So or last month, and therefore thy celebrated by having us on ther. I didnt get any word we wenl yet, though. Right. So i know a lot of people knw a lot about easter at that time because of what you folks hear and so hopefully, they will feel will feel the same after hearint pentecost. But before we do that, carol, tell us a little about your background and your ministry. Okay. I am a native San Francisco, very proud to have bn born and raised here in the city. And grew up in the hate ash bury district and close to golden gate park. And, graduated graduated from the graduate thel union in berkeley. I serve as a chaplain for the palliative cart at cares and also the Senior Pastor at elmhurst United Methodist church in east oakl
Easter. I had two guests who told us a lot about easter and i was so inspired, i asked them to come back. We are blessed to have carol estes and jim hopkins, welcome back. Thank you. You were so dynamic, that we were on youtube for the first time. And youtube celebrated its 10th anniversary last month and therefore they celebrated by having us. I didnt get the word we went viral. So i know a lot of people knew a lot about easter at that time. Because of what you folks shared. So hopefully theyll feel the same after hearing about pentecost. Before we do that, carol, tell us a little bit about your background and your ministry. Im a nature it have of San Francisco. Very proud to have been born and raised here in the city. Growing up in the close to golden gate park. Graduated from the Theological Union in berkeley. I serve as a chaplain for the paltive Care Department at kiser and also the Senior Pastor at elmhurst United Methodist church in oakland. I was born in salt lake city, grew up
For 25 years. Its that one is responsible for ones thoughts and feels. If anything happens to us or we engage in any type of activity, we are responsible for the outcome of what happens. And this this is something that the asian people say that we are our own enemy. Okay. We are our own enemy. And sometimes its much easier to finger point and blame somebody. For example, we are driving and something happens and then we are going to blame the people that designed the iphone. Thats a good point. The attitudinal connection in oakland, we use creativity and we work to empower individuals to be selfaware, inspired through the arts. So we use drumming, Fashion Design, as well as visual arts as a medium for healing, bringing healing to the community. So its for individuals and groups and organizations currently. Were working with kinds of hospitals on their wellness, their staff. Their staff comes to the center and they drum for an hour as a means of focusing on creating healing. We also use
Pastor who bounded that church in 1944. Its still active and very alive and a colleague of mine and friend, reverend dr. Dorothy blake is the pastor since the nineties. Great to see you, dorothy. Thank you, and thank you for inviting me. Glad to have you. I want to tell you how much i aappreciate your work not only as a pastor but a host for mosaic for 11 years. Thank you. Thank you for your commitment and the invitation to being here. You know, we went to School Together 40 years ago. Whats been your journey to let people know who dont know you . On fad yaition from the pack school of religion, i worked as the assistant to the president of the at that time. The unfortunate of alabama was not integrated in are it of facility except for the scoofl business in terps black foafntle there was an evident for the chairman of the department to integrate and they were looking for somebody to do that you might recall bishop herseff who was was alabama and worked in tux tuscaloosa and who was a
Application of spiritual about 30 years ago, and the way we do it is through a multiplicity of programming. For example, we have drumming, and drumming is a way for collaboration and communication, and leadership. Also now we have it in schools where the kids are using drumming as a way of bringing about balance and e quill equilibrium. Every year for the past 50 years we host reading and sound worship for people to come and learn tow to apply the forces, that is who we are as humans and a lot of time we take it for granted. For example our inner drum, which is our heart, we get into feel mode, the the heart immediately pap pates and send messages. As well as when we are happy the heart immediately sends out to all systems of the body that this is the essence of who we are. And the drumming kind of calms that. I love your drumming at the beginning of Martin Luther king services. We probably had a different kind of opening. Your drumming is known throughout the bay area, and aisha your