Life after college

Life after college. Those might be three of the mosting daunting words to think about right now...life after college. It's really easy to get caught up in the hoopla of "the rest of your life", but I don't think that's how we should be understanding it.



We have decided to both persue jobs at this point. Seminary is by no means out of the picture for me, but now is not the right time. I kept asking God to show me something that would allow me to know this to clear up the murky water. I had an application for Western Theological Seminary sitting on my desk and both Erica and I loved our visit there. The people were great, they had a fantastic community, and the housing even included a dishwasher:) Everything seemed to fit in place so nicely, but I just couldn't fill out the application. It would sit on my desk and I would sit down to write, but the words wouldn't come. I couldn't do it. I got to thinking about this, as I have for the last 5 years or so now, and I realized that I had all kinds of external confirmation for me to go to seminary, but I don't know that I ever decided it was what I am passionate about. I am a bit sick of school and I don't know that I can say that I would look forward to doing the research necessary to write sermons. I would rather take what I have learned thus far from far wiser people than myself and go put that into practice in the workplace for a while. I am gifted in ministry in many ways and I don't intend to stop working with youth, leading worship, and working with community development, and it could very easily take me back to seminary someday, but not right now. So for all those who I have disappointed, I am sorry, but if I go to seminary it has to be because I can't see any other reality for me than to be in seminary.



I am applying for a job at Group Publishing in Loveland, Co. I feel as though this job is a great fit for me as it combines marketing with youth ministry. The position is a Marketing Coordinator for the Youth Ministry division at Group. I am fired up about who Group is as an organization and am looking forward to the chance to possibly work there. Please continue to be in prayer that if this is what God has for us and for me, he would open the doors through interviews and jobs and that we would be able to continue to strive to be faithful to the passions God has given us and the abilities he has gifted us with.