Eva-Genevieve!
06-01-2008, 08:27 PM
Greetings,
My name is Eva-Genevieve! Scarborough and I just wanted to introduce myself. I may sit back and not post very much fo a while until I get a feel for what is going on here in Soulforce, but I believe I have a lot to add and to learn here. My intentions in joining are in part to further my progress in my walk with the Lord and to progress in living my life to the full, openly before God and mankind with the intent to glorify God and show what wonders He can do in the life of one that loves Him and seeks to do His will.
A bit of background:
I am pre-op MtF transgender, 53 years old, 2 years on hormone thearapy and living full time as a woman. I am Christian and have been for 28 years, since May 4 1980. Since then I have always felt called to ministry, and have felt a personal ethos or "calling" to reach out to people that are troubled or in at risk lifestyles, but until I finally accepted myself as God made me - I.E. a woman with an outward male form - and accepted my need to transition I never seemed quite able to get a handle on this calling of mine. (Of course towing the Fundamentalist line did not help me to understand who I was or how I was to love my neighborts as myself). Now that all
seems to be changing since I have overcome many of my personal and indoctrinated prejudices and have in the process come full circle around from being a very active Fundamentalist Evangelical for the first 14 years of my Christian walk. In that organization I leaned to be a preacher on the streets of Los Angeles and Hollywood and as such pounding harshly on those I was one day to identify with and those I was actually meant to reach out to. Perhaps St. Paul would understand this extreme change in life-course, but I could not understand it until necessary changes broke in upon me and then upon accepting the truth about myself for the first time I became a woman in accordance with th way God knowingly created me.
As opportunity presents itself and as I am able, I try to get involved in GLBT circles and in Christian outreach work both because I feel so strongly called to TG Youth outreach and ministry to build Christian bridges - much as "American Family Outing" seems to be doing - and also because I feel very strongly that I have a need learn all I can about how this work is done so perhaps I can help to start youth outreach programs here, and work to inform the household of God at large here in the Inland Empire area of Southern California, that the we too (GLBTQ... folk) are family members too.
I have lived in this ares for most of the last 15 years and I know there is a void of help for many GLBT people out here - especially youth. I love to go out walking and making many friends. I meet many trans folk and others that are so trapped and alone because there is nothing out here for them - often they see me (it is still a bit obvious that I am transgender) and will approach me and we then often talk. Many are very poor, ill, mistreated by family and/or they have no access to help or information about local resources. Sadly even the PFLAG meetings I attended were very poorly attended and often there are no young people there at all. the few "Open and Affirming" Churches seem to do very little to encourage youth to come in, and I want very much to help change that. How will they hear unless someone tells them that there is love, hope, fullfilment in life available to them just as they are, and full access to God by faith regardless of what others have said to the contrary.
Since there seems to be almost no youth oriented work going on out here, for experience I have been turning to the Models of Pride Conferences through the LA City Schools "Friends of Project 10" as a volunteer, and am hoping to become involved with the G.L.I.D.E. speakers bureau in the next year or two. For the short term I am living in LA county - West Covina actually - so that I am better able to get to these resources and so I can do more volunteer work in the GLBT community at large. However I remain
very active in Inland Empire communities and transgender support groups.
I guess that is enough to start with.
Hugs,
Eva-Genevieve! Scarborough
My name is Eva-Genevieve! Scarborough and I just wanted to introduce myself. I may sit back and not post very much fo a while until I get a feel for what is going on here in Soulforce, but I believe I have a lot to add and to learn here. My intentions in joining are in part to further my progress in my walk with the Lord and to progress in living my life to the full, openly before God and mankind with the intent to glorify God and show what wonders He can do in the life of one that loves Him and seeks to do His will.
A bit of background:
I am pre-op MtF transgender, 53 years old, 2 years on hormone thearapy and living full time as a woman. I am Christian and have been for 28 years, since May 4 1980. Since then I have always felt called to ministry, and have felt a personal ethos or "calling" to reach out to people that are troubled or in at risk lifestyles, but until I finally accepted myself as God made me - I.E. a woman with an outward male form - and accepted my need to transition I never seemed quite able to get a handle on this calling of mine. (Of course towing the Fundamentalist line did not help me to understand who I was or how I was to love my neighborts as myself). Now that all
seems to be changing since I have overcome many of my personal and indoctrinated prejudices and have in the process come full circle around from being a very active Fundamentalist Evangelical for the first 14 years of my Christian walk. In that organization I leaned to be a preacher on the streets of Los Angeles and Hollywood and as such pounding harshly on those I was one day to identify with and those I was actually meant to reach out to. Perhaps St. Paul would understand this extreme change in life-course, but I could not understand it until necessary changes broke in upon me and then upon accepting the truth about myself for the first time I became a woman in accordance with th way God knowingly created me.
As opportunity presents itself and as I am able, I try to get involved in GLBT circles and in Christian outreach work both because I feel so strongly called to TG Youth outreach and ministry to build Christian bridges - much as "American Family Outing" seems to be doing - and also because I feel very strongly that I have a need learn all I can about how this work is done so perhaps I can help to start youth outreach programs here, and work to inform the household of God at large here in the Inland Empire area of Southern California, that the we too (GLBTQ... folk) are family members too.
I have lived in this ares for most of the last 15 years and I know there is a void of help for many GLBT people out here - especially youth. I love to go out walking and making many friends. I meet many trans folk and others that are so trapped and alone because there is nothing out here for them - often they see me (it is still a bit obvious that I am transgender) and will approach me and we then often talk. Many are very poor, ill, mistreated by family and/or they have no access to help or information about local resources. Sadly even the PFLAG meetings I attended were very poorly attended and often there are no young people there at all. the few "Open and Affirming" Churches seem to do very little to encourage youth to come in, and I want very much to help change that. How will they hear unless someone tells them that there is love, hope, fullfilment in life available to them just as they are, and full access to God by faith regardless of what others have said to the contrary.
Since there seems to be almost no youth oriented work going on out here, for experience I have been turning to the Models of Pride Conferences through the LA City Schools "Friends of Project 10" as a volunteer, and am hoping to become involved with the G.L.I.D.E. speakers bureau in the next year or two. For the short term I am living in LA county - West Covina actually - so that I am better able to get to these resources and so I can do more volunteer work in the GLBT community at large. However I remain
very active in Inland Empire communities and transgender support groups.
I guess that is enough to start with.
Hugs,
Eva-Genevieve! Scarborough