Very important prayer requests for Dan and Karin!!!
First, please pray for Karin’s suitcase full of quilts. These quilts were lost on her way back from Canada! One lost bag arrived and the one with the quilts is missing. She worked so hard on them and we can’t sell them until we have them back!
Second, please pray for my sudden and upcoming on-campus job interview Tuesday, March 24! It’s in the media center of the library, and it deals with circulation of DVDs and CDs, video and still cameras and projectors, as well as the hard part – being knowledgeable about the software and it’s uses. We have a “media arts in ministry” concentration here at the school, so this isn’t just a few dusty cameras in the corner. It sounds a little daunting. So this is a job, and there’s about 7-10 people going for it (I saw the resume pile). Please pray that I am up to the task and that they pick me!
The bigger deal is that this is the job – the only job I can get. This is the first job since the hiring freeze. The year is almost at a close.
Without this job, our Plan A:
• sublease the apartment (may still pay part of the rent)
• drive our clunky car all the way to Canada (pay to fix it up first?)
• find a place to live (therefore potentially paying 1½ rents)
• find a summer job
• quit the job
• transfer $CDN to $US (lose over 20%)
• move back to school
• hope that this whole process produces some savings
• repeat 3 times
Well, I was just talking to someone in Canada who said that the jobs that only students would take are now going to out of work adults who need to feed the kids and pay the mortgage. There may really not be many summer jobs for us.
With this job – Plan B:
• keep media center job for three full years (most likely)
• I can take summer courses!
• we will not have to move 6 times
• no subleasing
• we can get more involved at church (summer missions, etc.)
• no exchange rates, international moving, or extra rent eating our savings
• I can see my work out of our apartment window
• more $$$ than Plan A
• Fundraising is easier to plan on a fixed income
We do trust the Lord to meet our needs, but without this job we face a difficult task in the job and the fundraising categories, to the point that we’ll either (1) have to raise quite a bit more than last year or (2) not come back to DTS until we save some more money. The Tuesday interview is our only chance at Plan B.
We humbly believe that seminary is the direction in which God wants us to take. Therefore when Jesus promises, “Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son…” that this applies to our work here. Please pray ‘in His name’ that we might be able to stay here and bring glory to the Father for what he is doing through us. We do want to support ourselves as much as possible and I loathe to press too hard for financial support. Thank you to for taking this to heart and praying just a few times for us. It is a critical time in our lives. On Tuesday it’s all over and we’ll let you know ASAP who is hired.
Love,
Dan and Karin
