February 27, 2006

• EDIT: American Idol
  So, the game is on. Christy and I are voting separately. Brenna was far too idiotic tonight, she’s definately going home. The second was a little bit harder to figure out, but I’m going to have to go with Heather Cox, mostly based on the fact that she hasn’t had as much exposure to America. I don’t think we’ve had a chance, or wanted a chance, to love her. I don’t think she has a big fan base out there voting her through, and her song wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t fantastic either. Yeah, I don’t think anyone else will be singing a Mariah song for a while…
  

  
  

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  I GOT A JOB!
  

  
  Praise the Lord!

  So the job hunt has been an ongoing saga in our lives for the last several months. We started looking into employment opportunities as soon as we told our Pastor that we were leaving Midway, so counting back–Daniel looks at the calendar–that’s exactly 17 weeks ago (approx. 4 months). Wow. Yeah, we dropped the bomb to Pastor Baize on Halloween, and he asked us to take a couple weeks to pray about it and make sure before we announced it to everyone else. I can’t believe we’ve been looking for a job for that long!

  Well, we’ve looked at churches galore, a credit union, a temp agency, three different jobs at APU, and several other things that I can’t even remember right now. After a million interviews and appointments with all of the above places, I finally got somewhere with the registrar’s office at APU. I had a couple of interviews that were cool and after a couple of weeks of figuring stuff out on their end, the boss called and offered me the job today! Yahoo! I am now officially the Articulations Administrator at Azusa Pacific University. I cannot tell you how excited I am!
  
  Quick side note: it is obvious to us that God has been working in this situation to guide us and lead us to this place. It’s hard to explain, but looking back at the events as they unfolded, even in the past week, we can see how the timing has worked out perfectly so that I am completely confident that this is the right thing to do. Thanks for all of your prayers!

  So…what does the Articulations Administrator do? You mean, what am I going to be doing at APU? Well, this is a brand new position that they are creating, and have wanted to create for around twenty years. I will be working in the office of the registrar, and will be in charge of…oh, you know what? Just take a look here…so much easier…

  
  Other News:
  Since we love ministering to people through music and worship, we will also be looking into a few different part-time church positions. There is one job right now that we are looking into at the church where Christy grew up and her parents still attend. There is a music assistant position open; that person would be in charge of leading worship at their video venue, a worship environment geared towards those college types…and it sounds like it would be really cool. In addition, they are desperately looking for someone to take over their kids choir–which is a really big deal to the church. It’s the same kids choir that Christy grew up in and they have had the same director for 25 years (her same director). This lady had to retire from doing it because of health reasons, and it’s actually a pretty sad situation, but what a huge thing if one of this lady’s kids  choir members stepped in to carry on the ministry. I think it would be the tops, honestly. No better situation to come into…let’s be praying for that to happen!

  Ok, we’re just finishing up here in Twain Harte, and then back to LA. Oh–I start APU on March 15th. AND I rocked the next Starbucks Crossword puzzle, except I had to phone-a-friend for the final question. It was hard! Thanks Uncle Lee!

  Also-I’m going to rock the American Idol competition, so watch out bloggers! Read Mike’s entry if you’re not up to speed…

  I got a job! I’m jumping for joy! Man, who knew it would take so long?
  Thanks to all of your who have been supporting us and praying for us!
  

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