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“I'm not sure. On the one hand, I do not want..."
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Title (Dublin Core)
“I'm not sure. On the one hand, I do not want..."
Religion 101 Oral History #41, 2020/04
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Description (Dublin Core)
“I'm not sure. On the one hand, I do not want to be run or ruled by fear over the unseen or things that I cannot control. If for some reason myself or anyone in my family were to get covid and passed from it, as upsetting and sad as it is, it is a part of life and it is how the world works and sometimes bad things happen to good people. But I feel like the biggest thing is I just don’t want to be run by fear over something that may or may not be as big of a deal as most media persons are making it out to be.”
Recording Date (Dublin Core)
April 1, 2020
Contributor (Dublin Core)
Tom Beazley
Event Identifier (Dublin Core)
REL101
Partner (Dublin Core)
Arizona State University
Type (Dublin Core)
Oral History
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Religion
English
Community & Community Organizations
English
Emotion
English
Technology
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
Awana
fear
elder
accountability
community
online
church
Collection (Dublin Core)
Religion
Curatorial Notes (Dublin Core)
Curated by Contributor. Interviews were conducted on an unknown date in Spring of 2020. 04/01/2020 chosen as an arbitrary date. Verbal Permission Omitted in Public File but Original File and Student Creator's Name Kept Private. 07/15/2020. Tom Beazley.
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
05/12/2020
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
07/15/2020
10/22/2020
12/7/2020
05/20/2021
07/02/2021
05/06/2022
05/10/2022
06/20/2022
07/06/2022
06/15/2023
Format (Dublin Core)
audio
Language (Dublin Core)
English
Duration (Omeka Classic)
00h:05m:29s
abstract (Bibliographic Ontology)
Speaker 2 talks about how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected with faith and beliefs. They also talk about how their interaction with their religious community have changed and what community service activated the community is engaged in. There is also a discussion on how they have maintained their relationship with God through the pandemic while bit being able to attend church.
Transcription (Omeka Classic)
Speaker 1 0:00
How would, how has COVID-19 affecting your faith or beliefs?
Speaker 2 0:17
Not sure. On the one hand I do not want to be, I do not want to be run or ruled by fear over the unseen, or things that I cannot control. If for some reason myself or anyone in my family were to take COVID and pass from it, as upsetting, as sad as it is, it is a part of life. And it is how the world works. And sometimes things, bad things happen to good people. But I think that's just the biggest thing is I just don't want to be run by fear over something that may or may not be as big of a deal as most media sources are making it out to be.
Speaker 1 1:14
Okay, and then the next question I have is: is your religious community still gathering currently? And how has COVID-19 affected your participation in your religious community?
Speaker 2 1:27
Religious community is not currently gathering. However, they are live streaming their sermons. and we have many electronic ways of keeping in touch with our group. I volunteer with our Awana ministry, which is our children’s ministry that meets on Wednesdays, and of course we're not meeting. But everything is done online. Parents do the work sections with their kids and then they email their leaders, let them know, “Hey, they've done this, this and this,” and that way they can go get their rewards, awards at the end of the year. Otherwise, what was the second part of that?
Speaker 1 2:09
How has COVID-19 affected your participation in a religious community?
Speaker 2 2:17
Okay, the only other thing, the other part of it is that we do have much older members of our community and that both of us that are able to reach out, have reached out to them to pray with them as well as asked if their needs are being met, or if there's anything that we can do or get for them as they may or may not be more high-risk in the population right now.
Speaker 1 2:49
Alright. And then my last question for you is, is your religious community supplying or engaging any kind of community service in an attempt to help alleviate issues caused by the pandemic? And if so, what are those efforts?
Speaker 2 3:08
I know that we have created a drive, a social distancing drive, of supplies that a lot of people in the community are lacking, especially those in the medical field, whether they're lacking paper towels, toilet paper, masks, gloves. If anyone was able to supply them, they brought them and dropped them off in a box outside the front door, and then a couple people took them to different medical facilities around the, around the city. And then other church members, calling on others to find out how they're doing and what they need.
Speaker 1 3:51
Okay, alight. Well, do you have any other last-minute comments or anything else you'd like to add?
Speaker 2 4:01
I think something I have noticed is that, and I saw this come on Facebook at one point, is that a lot of people don't have a real relationship with God and that they're just very addicted to church. There's no church to go to right now, no one can go anywhere, and all they can do is sit at home and whether they decide to actually pursue a relationship with God and Jesus, then they, that's clearly something that they have a problem with and that's what they need to work on. But they can't do that alone, and they require a lot of prayer and guidance. And even for myself, it's hard. It's hard with two small children to find the time. But everyone has the same amount of 24 hours in a day and it's just a matter of making the time. And part of doing that for me was being able to reach out to a good friend of mine said “Hey, I need accountability. Will you do a study with me?” and so she and I have been doing that since 6:30 in the morning and I’m like “Oh yay, I'm not a morning person, but okay.” It was very eye opening to realize that a lot of people unless they're in church don't really open the Bible or participate in having that relationship with God.
Speaker 1 5:21
All right. Well, thank you so much. I appreciate you participating in this interview for me.
Speaker 2 5:28
You’re welcome.
How would, how has COVID-19 affecting your faith or beliefs?
Speaker 2 0:17
Not sure. On the one hand I do not want to be, I do not want to be run or ruled by fear over the unseen, or things that I cannot control. If for some reason myself or anyone in my family were to take COVID and pass from it, as upsetting, as sad as it is, it is a part of life. And it is how the world works. And sometimes things, bad things happen to good people. But I think that's just the biggest thing is I just don't want to be run by fear over something that may or may not be as big of a deal as most media sources are making it out to be.
Speaker 1 1:14
Okay, and then the next question I have is: is your religious community still gathering currently? And how has COVID-19 affected your participation in your religious community?
Speaker 2 1:27
Religious community is not currently gathering. However, they are live streaming their sermons. and we have many electronic ways of keeping in touch with our group. I volunteer with our Awana ministry, which is our children’s ministry that meets on Wednesdays, and of course we're not meeting. But everything is done online. Parents do the work sections with their kids and then they email their leaders, let them know, “Hey, they've done this, this and this,” and that way they can go get their rewards, awards at the end of the year. Otherwise, what was the second part of that?
Speaker 1 2:09
How has COVID-19 affected your participation in a religious community?
Speaker 2 2:17
Okay, the only other thing, the other part of it is that we do have much older members of our community and that both of us that are able to reach out, have reached out to them to pray with them as well as asked if their needs are being met, or if there's anything that we can do or get for them as they may or may not be more high-risk in the population right now.
Speaker 1 2:49
Alright. And then my last question for you is, is your religious community supplying or engaging any kind of community service in an attempt to help alleviate issues caused by the pandemic? And if so, what are those efforts?
Speaker 2 3:08
I know that we have created a drive, a social distancing drive, of supplies that a lot of people in the community are lacking, especially those in the medical field, whether they're lacking paper towels, toilet paper, masks, gloves. If anyone was able to supply them, they brought them and dropped them off in a box outside the front door, and then a couple people took them to different medical facilities around the, around the city. And then other church members, calling on others to find out how they're doing and what they need.
Speaker 1 3:51
Okay, alight. Well, do you have any other last-minute comments or anything else you'd like to add?
Speaker 2 4:01
I think something I have noticed is that, and I saw this come on Facebook at one point, is that a lot of people don't have a real relationship with God and that they're just very addicted to church. There's no church to go to right now, no one can go anywhere, and all they can do is sit at home and whether they decide to actually pursue a relationship with God and Jesus, then they, that's clearly something that they have a problem with and that's what they need to work on. But they can't do that alone, and they require a lot of prayer and guidance. And even for myself, it's hard. It's hard with two small children to find the time. But everyone has the same amount of 24 hours in a day and it's just a matter of making the time. And part of doing that for me was being able to reach out to a good friend of mine said “Hey, I need accountability. Will you do a study with me?” and so she and I have been doing that since 6:30 in the morning and I’m like “Oh yay, I'm not a morning person, but okay.” It was very eye opening to realize that a lot of people unless they're in church don't really open the Bible or participate in having that relationship with God.
Speaker 1 5:21
All right. Well, thank you so much. I appreciate you participating in this interview for me.
Speaker 2 5:28
You’re welcome.
Accrual Method (Dublin Core)
4054