What's Your Escape Velocity?

003 / Blaire Jenkins / "This isn't your only moment"

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ABOUT THIS EPISODE

Blaire Jenkins's passion is meeting people in their worst moments—a consistent theme in her work as an EMT first responder, a uniformed police officer, and a student ministry director relating to teenagers.


HIGHLIGHTS

1:52 - Career inspirations from TV Land

2:58 - Learning about God at a Christian youth group

4:30 - The decision to become a youth pastor

6:58 - Becoming an EMT

8:35 - Joining the police force

11:30 - Similarities between youth ministry and first responders

12:57 - Ministering to teenagers virtually in the COVID-19 era

14:12 - How teenagers think about the future

16:03 - How to know when you're in the right (or wrong) career

20:40 - The interplay of faith and authority

23:40 - Ministering to vulnerable people as an EMT


QUOTES

  • "I wanted to do for other teenagers what I felt like adults who weren't my parents, who chose to care about me [...] I wanted to do that for other people."
  • "I wanted to be there in someone's worst moment to remind them that it's not their only moment."
  • "As teenager, we try on identities; as adults, we try on careers."
  • "If you can stand the paperwork—the stuff that you really get paid to do—then you're probably in a good spot."
  • "I'm the type of person that, it's not enough for me to put a Band Aid on. I want to solve the problem."
  • "I wanted to help people with the reason they got there, not the symptoms."
  • "If I have context, I know how to move forward."
  • "It never felt like I was following orders so much as I was following a natural path that I may or may not have ended on eventually."
  • "I always saw the ministry opportunity, never as a [...] self-righteous person, but trying to see that as, 'What if I was sitting there?'"


    • RESOURCES

    TVLand - (television channel) - https://www.tvland.com/

    The A Team (show) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084967/

    Adam-12 (show) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062539/


    SOUNDTRACK

    Palms" by Text Me Records / Bobby Renz

    "Trip to Ganymed" by KieLoKaz

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