Latest Creations

I am speaking this month for my church's women's ministry!

The "F" word?!

You'll just have to come and find out, now won't you?

I love how this one came out!

. . . and more updates to follow soon!

So bad I can taste it!

I was thinking while driving my daily half hour commute home from work this afternoon about what I'd really like to do with my life. I have had so many ideas but I am not sure which will happen yet. What I was thinking is how much I would love to start my own boutique PR firm. I would be my own boss, set my own hours, and determine my own wages. I already have a few clients and I am sure I could turn them into steady, more regular clients if I had the time. I could charge a monthly base fee and have different packages to offer depending on their needs. I would be able to handle about 3 clients on a regular day to day basis by myself. When I begin to make more of a name for myself I would be able to charge more and take on more clientele and eventually rent office space and hire a receptionist. I would have a separate business account and have my bookkeeping outsourced because I can't very well sign my own paychecks, could I? Is that ethical? In the meantime I would have to file some paperwork to get started and come up with a name for my PR firm and do some PR publicizing myself. Is it a good idea to make my name "Kimberly Jones, PA" and just get a DBA of whatever I decide to call my PR firm?

Now for ideas for a name. . . Dolo Ave Boutique PR, The PR Chic, .. . . . . I don't know. Ideas?

This is going to take lots of time and lots of money and, of course, the clientele. God will provide if this is what He wants me to do. I was just thinking. . . I want to do PR for a full time living so bad! God will have to provide the opportunity, the money, the supporters backing me, and the clientele, and the office equipment, and the office space.

Yikes! Exciting. One day soon.

Can someone resuscitate my creativity?

Tomorrow I am taking a CPR class: Heartsaver AED so I can become an instructor in CPR at work. Work is going well. Definitely not what I ever thought I would be doing. . . .

. . but promotion comes from the Lord and I know this is the job that God gave me so I am just being faithful in what is in front of me for now.

In the meantime I have come home every night sooooo tired and I have lost all creativity. Tracy and Tse Tse and Ron and Jackie are all counting on me for different PR things and I sit in front of my computer with no inspiration. I just feel brain dead. I am a good writer! I am very creative. I have never been at such a loss. Not cool. Stressful.

New Procedure. New Policy.

Hello all,

I have found that since I now have a full time job (and a busy social life :P ) people have been coming out of the wood work asking me for random PR-related things lately. I am not complaining at all. I love what I do. It is just hard to keep up with all of it and the details and getting things done in a timely manner when people request things of me. To remedy this I have come up with a form that outlines the requested project for me and a deadline date and a signature. So it's like a contract, if you will.

Please use one of these forms for any and all requests from here on out or your project will most likely not get done for a variety of reasons (no deadline, lack of information/details to name a few). Please see attached form (& yes, that includes you Mom and Dad. I got to keep things straight).

Thanks for your cooperation,
Kim

If you need the form please comment and request one.

I charge by the hour based on the project.

One for the fans. .

I found out the other day I actually have a reader other than my mom!

Hi Barb! :)
Thanks for reading!

.. . .....and now back to the show.. .

I have a job now. I start next Monday! Thanks to all who prayed for me! I have been job-hunting since January. It's nice to not have to worry about how to pay my car payment this month for a change. God is good. It is going to be high paying, offer excellent benefits, and endless advancement opportunities (promoting from within)! Just what I needed!

I have been keeping pretty busy lately. Aside from spending all my free time with Exodus--well, actually I don't do much of anything else but that. . . Okay, rephrase. I am going to be extremely busy soon! I am starting a newjob next week and beginning in June I am going to be teaching a Sunday School class for young adults ages 18- 25 using Nooma curriculum by Rob Bell. I am excited. As things progress with this I will post more.

But man, when it rains it pours. Things are happening all at once for me now. I got a job, I am going to be teaching a class, and I have been asked for some freelance PR services -- a press release for a friend's business and a brochure for an independent contractor plus PR for a family festival at church. I am not complaining at all. I'll get paid for this stuff. :) Just busy.

Looking forward to the days ahead. I have been praying about some things lately. Can't talk about them openly just yet but I hope to soon be posting something positive! I wish so badly I could share my heart but I have learned the hard way how important it is to censor and withhold information especially when posting in an open forum. When I can I will share! It's exciting none the less.

Change is coming. Something good. I can feel it.

Updates to come.

Back to School

I miss school. I miss school so much in fact that I am so excited about the online class I am beginning tomorrow. I am taking an online class through Edison College to learn how to write grants.

I'll get a certificate of completion!

Yay!

Change of Heart

Participating in a social cause is 'in' right now. But I don't stand for things because they are popular by fad. I do it out of the conviction of my heart.

I have always wanted to obtain a Master's degree. Lately I have been leaning toward Social Work (MSW). I love the church. I love working freelance for my church. I have talent and I don't want to use my talent to line the pockets of the already $$rich$$. I want to utilize my talents to help people. Yes, Mom, Dad, I know there is no money in social work or ministry or non-profits. But I've never been able to envision myself working up a corporate ladder working for "the man."

A timeline of how my heart has slowly been changing. . .

March 2005:
I discovered the story of two missionaries named Tim and Will of Travel the Road, who literally travel to the ends of the earth preaching to tribes and people where the Gospel has never before been. Their story impacted me. Tim had a college degree. He was smart and wanted to be a stock broker on Wall Street. God called him to the mission field. He sold everything he owned and left for the cause of Christ.

Something stirred within me.

January 2007:
Then one year ago I went to Winter Jam 07, annual Christian music festival. Steven Curtis Chapman, CCM legend, was the headliner. He promoted his non-profit organization, Shaohannah's Hope, named for his beautiful adopted Chinese daughter. They showed a video of the band Newsong in China visiting orphanages much like where Shaohannah came from of rooms filled with hundreds of unwanted, abandoned babies. I watched the video footage through blurred vision from the tears welling my eyes as the band members went through and prayed over each child and held them in their arms. One of the band members noted that the rooms were silent. He couldn't understand how this could be. Hundreds of babies and none crying at all? One of the workers answered that the children had cried all the tears they had for they realized that no one was coming for them.

My heart broke. I decided I am going to adopt a foreign child.

January - Present 2008:
Right now I am working on a conference for teenage girls called Chic in October 2008. The 2008 theme we have chosen is "Becoming." It is grassroots at it's finest and grant writing. I am not getting paid a cent for all the hours I am putting into this event but it is so gratifying to know I am doing something that is going to have a huge impact upon girls from all over Southwest Florida.

I want more. This is just the beginning. This is laying the groundwork.

March 2008:

I have recently become friends with a Russian ministry/rehabilitation program called Exodus. From hearing their individual harrowing stories of how they escaped death while on drugs and how they have come to know Christ just gets me. I hear about their pasts and see how far they have come and hear how expensive it is to keep the program running. These people are amazing though! I love them all and their friendship is such a blessing!

I want to get on board! How can I help? Where do I sign?

Everyone is passionate about something. I thought for so long what I wanted was to work in the Christian music arena and maybe I can still do that but I see a need far greater and one with which I know I am equipped. You see, God granted me with talents that are exclusive to me and a unique purpose to fulfill. Unfortunately I was not blessed with a beautiful singing voice or rhythm but I have something else--passion, compassion, a big heart, and the ability to write.
I can help these people. While others are worried about the planet and going green and being eco-friendly I am focused on more humanistic things.

People are my social cause.

That's my compassion for the planet.

The thing is I am not done yet.

It's a never-ending saga.