Is it ALREADY June 27?? This year is flying by.
THING 1
We’ll be out of town all next week, but hopefully we’ll have internet access to keep things going here. Unfortunately, I think that Monday’s chat is in jeopardy of being canceled.
Did you hear that?
That was the Internet groaning. Or breathing a sigh of relief; I can never tell. Anyway, please don’t hate us if we don’t chat on Monday night. It’s no fun being hated.
THING 2
Considering that our last two posts were about jobs, I figured it would be a good idea and mix things up and talk about… careers!
I’ve been seriously considering working for a church. I think that my technical background combined with dabs of creativity, interesting ideas, and humor would serve well somewhere. And I guess I should mention my earnest desire to honor Jesus with my life.
I’ve worked with many churches for side projects. This includes collaborating with youth, college, worship, and senior pastors. I feel like I have a good understanding of how things work, while also knowing that every church is different.
How many of you work for a church? Do you have any advice for someone coming from “secular” (i don’t like using that word, but i guess it fits here) employment?
Please leave your thoughts and advice!
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Hey, Cool Dad – I think it’s great that you’re considering vocational ministry! How cool (no pun intended) if God can use your change in employment now to put you in a position like that!
As for any advice….I don’t work for a church, but I work for a Christian company. (We are a for-profit corporation, but management and most employees are Christians.) I actually realized yesterday that even though that’s awesome, one drawback for me is that it gives me fewer opportunities for at-work ministry/witnessing. That would be different if my actual work was ministry, I guess. Just one thing that I’ve thought about…
I work for a church, but it’s very random how I ended up there. We get volunteers to do all our tech stuff. In my experience, only larger churches have a full time video/tech/graphics person.
Not sure that I’m much help in the “working at a church” department, but I’m more than a little curious about Thing #1 – going on vacation… not that visiting the metropolis we live is “vacation material” but if you’re in the area we’d love to see you!
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yah.
internet and tam are definitely groaning about monday. this will just not do.
I went from journalism to pastoring. I see it as the same line of work. Telling the truth to people.
Word of warning: don’t assume church work will be nice and heavenly. You still deal with people. And people can be messy. Even those ON the payroll.
photoqueen – good point! There are have been times when it seemed like we were surrounded by only Christians and they often seemed to be spiritually-stale times as well.
emily – maybe it will take some randomness (aka acts of God) to get me there if I’m supposed to be there.
elizabeth – sorry, no metropolis visiting this time around!
tam – many apologies to you and the Web! maybe i can sneak some chatting in here. we’ll see.
travis – yes, even as congregants, we’ve seen the messy side of church. we’re all humans after all.