Trisha Adams Music

Epiphany Email Marketing Associate Resume Documents

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Epiphany:

Prior to our life in Thailand, I had six years of cumulative experience in two marketing departments. Both were non-profits; One was a startup that is still running and successful today, and the other is a multi-million dollar operation, that is also still doing well around the world, despite Covid setbacks. I learned many skills, but my favorite of all is storytelling. I was the ghostwriter for several campaigns for recruiting and fundraising, writing articles, mini-books, flyers, end-of-year reports, Christmas mailers from the president, and anything else that involved publishing in almost every department, including email campaigns. I have edited newsletters and worked with in house and independent printing services. I have experience with different database management systems with imbedded email platforms such as Constant Contact, Emma, Salesforce, and MailChimp, and I am confident that I can learn and adapt to whichever system suits your needs. I’ve written drip campaigns, weekly and monthly updates, included similar pages as this one into the email’s click bait, and drafted for recruiting and advancement departments (emails, flyers, handouts, booklets, training tools, instruction manuals, annual donor updates, and more), which is similar to sales in many ways. I also have experience with graphic design, and design websites on the side for fun, which has been advantageous in the marketing and messaging of important information for different companies.

Ambitions:

At the outset of this adventure, my husband and I prayerfully considered it and jumped in. In truth, I (usually) am at peace with the idea that I don’t know what God has planned for the duration or postlude to this degree. I am not presently inclined to one-on-one counseling in the traditional sense; I tend to be more organization and larger ministry minded, a gatherer of people in person and online spaces, and a storyteller. My experience in leadership in the church and our experiences with family members who are missionaries has left in me a deep desire to care for the workers of the harvest; this road is long and hard, and we need help. We need each other, we need to be connected to one another. This is where I want to enter in. I want to seek them out, and love, listen, and connect them to the care they need. I long to comfort and reassure their souls of the goodness and sovereignty and love and steadfastness of God. In the same breath, I am passionate that their stories (the ones they approve of) need to be shared and told too. The faithfulness of God needs to be told throughout the Body, throughout the world, to the generations and saints and future saints.

I have wanted to go to seminary since I was a little girl. My favorite books of the Bible are Ecclesiastes, Matthew, James, and Proverbs, and worship is one my most treasured and favorite experiences in life. I waited for over ten years before deciding to study Christian counseling at RTS. I researched various programs along the way, including public university programs, I took a class at Fuller Seminary out of California, looked into MAC programs at RTS-Jackson (counseling programs that are directed toward state and government licensing to practice counseling an LPC of an MFC), considered worship arts degrees and general theology degrees before finally deciding on the Christian counseling route.

I began this degree in the summer of 2021. It is designed so that students can study full time, or, like me, they can take the counseling classes as summer and winter intensives in person for counseling training, and take the rest of the necessary classes at any other campus or online, with the idea that they can continue in their ongoing vocations and commitments while gaining an education for the benefit of the Body. As of August 29, I completed all of my counseling courses, and this winter (January 2023) I will begin my counseling practicums, which I hope to complete all three by the end of summer 2023, and finish my degree and be tri-certified by December 2024.

He is faithful:

In college I went through the typical questioning, doubting, and anarchistic experience of what I now affectionately refer to as, “coming into a faith of your own.” The many perilous and often debauchery-infused nights spent arguing with Him (or rather, myself), trying to make sense of the mysteries of God and faith, now makes me both ashamed of my actions, and even more resolute in my convictions that He not only exists, but is intricately involved in all the details of our lives. Toward the end of these wandering rebellious years, I was given a copy of renowned atheist and Darwinian Richard Dawkin’s “The Selfish Gene” by a boyfriend sympathetic to my mental anguish. By the end of chapter 3, God had shown himself to be absolutely real through Dawkin’s explanations of the world, and I left Oklahoma and a scarred world of filial hurts and college wreckage behind, with only the knowledge of where I was physically headed (Colorado for grad school) and clinging to, at the very least, the truth that God existed. 

In Colorado I started working in a PCA church through human coincidence and divine appointment as the church drummer. Six months in I applied to be the music director in a vacant position that I maintained for the subsequent 9 years. Thus began my introduction to liturgy with weekly meetings with the pastor, the meaning, the history, the significance, the application, the why behind it all, and the development and creation of liturgies and application of gifts and musical arts to worship services and the gathering of God’s people. This was also my introduction to reformed theology.

In summary, I have known God since I was 5. In childlike wonder, he was my best friend. And, to that end, He still has never left me, and we are still besties, though now with more distinguished reverence and awe. Even in my wandering years, He has held and continues to hold me fast by His willing Spirit, because I am His, and He is steadfast. “I am my beloved’s and his desire is for me.” In both the metaphysical and worldly interpretations of this verse, I find truth. Joy. Hope. Belonging. Fulfillment. Desire. History. Depth. Love. Life. He is mine, forever, and I am His for eternity; and this gift is not for me alone, but meant for His kingdom come, on earth as it is in heaven.