工作新闻

不久前，我告诉了您关于我的查寻第2个工作。 我想要第2个工作，以便我在Missio Dei预算方面可以牵制金钱免受我的薪金入其他材料。 大多数预算是从我上升了的资金，并且它是短期资助和是越来越少的几乎一年现在。

我在考虑得到一个工作邻里在咖啡店或某事。 得到一个简单的地方工作听起来真正地吸引人对我，但不幸地，我的妻子和I拥有我们与其他5人分享)的一个家(，并且我比我可以可及咖啡店或餐馆需要挣更多金钱。 并且真正地没有工作的许多其他类型可利用在西岸中。

在过去月或如此，我追求一个真正地好机会在圣地温床： 行政助理的位置对操作的中心的副总统和教务长变形领导。 工作只付给理想的薪水(关于$14/hr)并且有充分的好处，但是24个小时每星期。 工作将提供我机会与我已经知道并且爱的一群人一起使用。 它也将给我能力有在给形状的一个角色温床的未来。 它也将给我一好opportunit从VP/Dean学会，是一位非常强和幻想领导(虽然我不同意他关于许多事，我有对博士的很多尊敬。 Bourgond)。 Since one of my long term goals is to help shape future leaders, and encourage them to rethink leadership and the nature of the Church, I thought it would be a great foot in the door. I’m already slotted to begin doing adjunct teaching there this Spring, and this role would have given me even more influence at the Seminary.

I was moving full speed ahead with the job at the Seminary (I even bought a really nice suit for my interview). Until this morning, I was one of several people (thinned down from over a dozen applicants) being considered. And I’d say my chances were dang good. But now I’ve taken myself out of consideration for that position. So what happened?

About 3 weeks ago, I was approached
by the Twin Cities Metro Director for InterVarsity, Mark Paulson. He proposed that I come
on staff at InterVarsity and start a West Bank chapter. Since Missio Dei, is committed to ministering on the West
Bank, and since I respect the ministry of InterVarsity very much, I have been
trying to find ways to work with them on ministry projects on the West Bank
(there is virtually no campus ministry activity among West Bank students). Their proposal came as a surprise, since they don?t
want me merely to come on staff; they want me to start a West Bank chapter that is co-affiliated with InterVarsity and Missio Dei. They are willing to let the line between parachurch and church
get fuzzy so that this ministry can be an authentic expression of Missio Dei.

They don’t even care if we call the ministry "InterVarsity!" Working with InterVarsity would allow me to focus more energy on the West Bank, and in a way that complements the ministry of
Missio Dei. It would give us connections with the student population, opening up new possibilities for ministry.

Since working with InterVarsity will require me to be a fundraiser (something I
dislike immensely), I had initially decided to turn them down. But as we’ve prayed about it at Missio Dei, and as I’ve discussed it with folks, I realize two things: 1) I really get more excited about the possibility of working with InterVarsity as time goes by and 2) that my commitment to Missio Dei and the West Bank trumps any other job possibilities. I’m beginging to feel like this was something God orchestrated. And while I’m not looking forward to raising money, I take some comfort in the reality that fund raising for a campus ministry is MUCH EASIER than fund raising for a church. InterVarsity is well known and well-respected. I think I am up to the challenge.

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