How did you get connected with Beautiful Day?About a month after I moved to California and began attending WestGate, I met Jon Talbert. We had lunch a few weeks later and he floated the idea of being a project manager, which I immediately agreed to. Eventually, Joanne Glen saw I'd filled in the member skills survey as a writer and tapped me to come on board for blogging and social media.
What does your role entail?
I'm here to tell stories, mostly. I'm a central point for content production on the various materials we use to educate people about Beautiful Day. This mostly means a lot of emails between Joanne and I, communication with Jon about tweets and retweets and, lastly, helping fellow members of the Core Team understand how Facebook and Twitter work.
Tell us what it's like being a part of the Core Team.
It's awesome. I am incredibly grateful to have been invited to join them, they're like a second Life Group for me. The dynamic is fantastic in meetings, we have fun and get stuff accomplished. It's miraculous how tight we've become in such a short time. I thank God for them every day.
Going forward, what would you like to see happen in our community as a result of Beautiful Day?
The unique appeal of Beautiful Day, what drew me in, is its all-encompassing nature. People and organizations from varied backgrounds take part: we have government agencies, local companies and faith communities pooling people and resources for the betterment of San Jose. Christ's message -- and the change it has created -- exemplifies how radical inclusiveness can shift paradigms in cultures of all kinds. The mission, the aggressive compassion we take to the streets, is infectious.
This is the future I see:
City leaders collaborate extensively with community leaders. High schoolers work alongside old schoolers. Large corporations become as involved as small businesses. Silicon Valley invests in itself and improves exponentially -- not just for a weekend or a month or a year, but decades. People notice. Events happen all over the country and projects go on without ceasing. It turns into a lifestyle, a way for handfuls of committed people to be the catalyst for positive outcomes in others' lives and then, suddenly, every day is a Beautiful Day.
Jason Eichacker writes for Beautiful Day and is the proud uncle of two beautiful nieces. He moved to California from Kansas eight months ago, walked into his home church the following Sunday and has since become quite happy to have Winter without snow. He loves music, reads all the time and craves the smell of ocean air. For his habit of running to the location of Core Team meetings, he has been dubbed the Duke of Gump.
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