This week’s internship activities
felt a lot like the past couple of weeks – I spent my time typing up my
scrapbook’s metadata. The exciting news, I’m almost finished with my metadata!!
Check back next week and I’ll have a new adventure to report about. But, until
then, here’s some takeaways from this week:
1. It’s important to
transcribe items as they are, mistakes and all.
One
interesting thing I have noticed with my scrapbook is that the article
clippings in it have a surprising amount of typos and errors. Granted, the
errors are minor – often times I’ll find a word used twice. But still, the
scrapbook is full of minor errors like this. So, while my computer’s
autocorrect would like to fix all of these errors, it’s important to type them
in as they are, because even typos can tell a story. For example, while I am
used to living in an age of computers, it’s important to remember that
computers were not common in 1979. Thus, many of the print articles in the
scrapbook were likely created using a typewriter. As a result, it’s possible
that with the amount of articles being printed by the church, minor typos were
ignored because it would be too much work to go back and re-type.
2. Sometimes I feel
like an investigative reporter.
One article
I transcribed this week talked about a church break-in. According to the
article, Monday morning church staff found the offices ransacked. Yet, because
nothing was missing, the church believed that the robbers were looking for
tithing money but could not find it, given that the Sunday offering is not kept
on the church premises. As I read this, I couldn’t help but think that most
church members were aware that the Sunday offering was not kept on the church
premises. Any church I have attended, I have always been made aware of the fact
that the tithes and offerings are deposited immediately after the service. With
this in mind, I couldn’t help but imagine that the people who broke into First
Baptist Winter Park did not know this and were not church members. Reading stories
like this and thinking about my personal experiences makes me feel like an
investigative reporter as I imagine the way the puzzle pieces might fit
together.
3. Speaking of
personal experiences, there is always something in the scrapbook that relates
to me!
This is one
fact I have been both surprised and intrigued by. Each week, as I am
transcribing my scrapbook, I find something that relates to my life personally.
For example, this week I read an article about the church hiring a new
intern. The new intern, Tim Benson, was
a graduate of Winter Park High School where he was an active member in the
student ministry, Campus Crusade for Christ. Furthermore, he was active in the
college ministry Intervarsity Christian Fellowship during his time at the University
of Florida. This article caught my attention given that I have been involved
with the Campus Crusade for Christ ministry here at UCF and then have several
friends involved with UCF’s Intervarsity Christian Fellowship.
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