Pastor Leaving

Well the senior pastor is leaving our church to go to Roseburg Oregon. This presents some very exciting opportunities for me as well as some pretty scary options. I would love to be a youth pastor type forever but with the pastor leaving I will be taking care of a lot of the stuff that he would normally do. I this presents some interesting issues,

First I am only paid part time, and taking on more responsibility means that I will have to commit more time than I am currently getting paid for. I am ready for the challenge but I do have bills to pay and spending more time doing church stuff will mean that I will have to cut hours at my other part time job. Thus I will be making less money. But If it is in fact what God wants me to do I will be more than happy to do it and I trust that God will provide.

Second It is possible although not likely, that I could be hired on full time as the senior pastor. Something that I am not sure that I want.

Either way I have a lot of praying to do. And I would appreciate any and all prayers that you all (whoever you are) would pray for me.

Crazy last two weeks

Well the last couple of weeks have been nutso! Olivia and I went up to Walla Walla for my cousins graduation, and then the Tuesday after we got back I got a phone call from my dad saying that if I wanted to say goodbye to my Grandpa we had better get down to Fortuna ASAP.

We left Wednesday morning in an effort to get there in time to see him before he passed away. We arrived at like 8:45 pm. My mom met us in the parking lot and told us that he had died about 10 minutes earlier. :( The week ended up being filled with crazy stories about Grandpa and lots of crying. The Memorial Service was last Saturday afternoon at 4 pm. My grandmother wanted me to give the Eulogy, so I did, even though I had absolutly no idea how. (I told her that they don't teach those things in youth pastor school)

The next day (Sunday) We got up at 3 am and headed down to Angwin for Olivia's sister's graduation. We spent most of the day there and then went to Santa Rosa to see some friends. Then on Monday we went to San Francisco for the day and walked all over the waterfront. From the Ferry Terminal to Guiradeli Square and back again. the next day we drove the 11.5 hours back home.

Needless to say it was a crazy time! And I am glad that God was watching over us!