It's been awhile since I've written. 64 days to be exact. And it's strange because so much has happened during those 64 days that one would think many a new post would have been delivered, but I find the more things that happen the less likely I am write.
As many of you may already know I have accepted a new job. I will be taking the position as Executive Director of a pregnancy center called REACH.
I'm super excited about the opportunity to help implement infrastructure, as well as develop a center that will not only help many women, but be instrumental in saving the lives of children. I'm thankful for the chance to take my passion for the prolife movement and utilize it in an influential manner to affect the Northern New York region.
Is there a lot of responibility? A ton.
Is there much faith trusted in me by the board? Massive amounts.
Is there great expectation for the work I'll do? There is.
Yet the daunting task ahead of me does not dissuade me, but rather, it excites and energizes me – driving me to push myself to new realms of understanding and creativity.
The weeks and months ahead prove to be busy, demanding, and full of excitement and vigor. I will do my best to post as often as I can, but not a promise I will make.
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With the acceptance of a new job this means my time at church is going to come to an end. I have worked here since February 2012 – two years and eight months. During much of my time here, whether visibly displayed or internally, I was discontent with where I was at, wishing to leave, to move, to not be working at church. It has only been the last three months or so that I have really enjoyed being here and finally in my heart, been content.
And of course it's right at the moment of contentment, finally being ok and comfortable, that the Lord opens up a new door and moves me.
There is a sadness at the thought that I will be leaving my work at CFC. I care greatly for the local church and its success. I have loved doing all I can to make it a more efficient place and setting up processes that would allow for greater growth and expansion.
To think I'll be leaving this place, the chair, the desk, the girl I've worked next to for 2.8 years...
Big changes.
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If you think I have been an angel to work with throughout the last 2.8 years.... well... you'd be wrong. I wish I could say I came to CFC with energy, excitement, joy, a desire to build and stir up the people around me.
I began my job in a season where I was not doing well spiritually. And for whatever reason they still hired me. And it took several months, maybe even a year before I began to be a team builder.
Then even over the next year and half I was discontent. I wanted to leave.... always. I was here, but my heart was somewhere else, anywhere else.
Yet the leadership, the pastors, they continued to invest in me, to love me, to have patience and speak words of kindness. I personally would have fired me. But for some reason they didn't. And for this I owe a great debt of gratitude to them.
But it wouldn't be fitting to write about my time and soon departure from CFC without acknowledging the patience, grace, forgiveness, mercy, kindness, compassion, and love of the girl who sat three feet away from me for the last 2.8 years. She put up with more than most people ever have to deal with at a job. I think she probably saw her dad more from meetings she had to schedule because of me than she did just normally.
Anyways, she might disagree about all the compassion and caring, and maybe she would think it wasn't always executed perfectly, but I know how both spiritually and emotionally distraught I have been at times, and she was there through it all.
So if she acts a little crazy, or a lot crazy, and does things that causes you to raise an eyebrow, or posts a bajillion selfies – just smile and realize that it was probably me that caused this type of behavior.
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So all this to say, I'm here in the North Country for this next season. Not sure how long it will be, but this I know, I don't want a day to go by where my heart longs to be somewhere else. This is where the Lord has me and I want to be here 100%.
As many of you may already know I have accepted a new job. I will be taking the position as Executive Director of a pregnancy center called REACH.
I'm super excited about the opportunity to help implement infrastructure, as well as develop a center that will not only help many women, but be instrumental in saving the lives of children. I'm thankful for the chance to take my passion for the prolife movement and utilize it in an influential manner to affect the Northern New York region.
Is there a lot of responibility? A ton.
Is there much faith trusted in me by the board? Massive amounts.
Is there great expectation for the work I'll do? There is.
Yet the daunting task ahead of me does not dissuade me, but rather, it excites and energizes me – driving me to push myself to new realms of understanding and creativity.
The weeks and months ahead prove to be busy, demanding, and full of excitement and vigor. I will do my best to post as often as I can, but not a promise I will make.
------
With the acceptance of a new job this means my time at church is going to come to an end. I have worked here since February 2012 – two years and eight months. During much of my time here, whether visibly displayed or internally, I was discontent with where I was at, wishing to leave, to move, to not be working at church. It has only been the last three months or so that I have really enjoyed being here and finally in my heart, been content.
And of course it's right at the moment of contentment, finally being ok and comfortable, that the Lord opens up a new door and moves me.
There is a sadness at the thought that I will be leaving my work at CFC. I care greatly for the local church and its success. I have loved doing all I can to make it a more efficient place and setting up processes that would allow for greater growth and expansion.
To think I'll be leaving this place, the chair, the desk, the girl I've worked next to for 2.8 years...
Big changes.
------
If you think I have been an angel to work with throughout the last 2.8 years.... well... you'd be wrong. I wish I could say I came to CFC with energy, excitement, joy, a desire to build and stir up the people around me.
I began my job in a season where I was not doing well spiritually. And for whatever reason they still hired me. And it took several months, maybe even a year before I began to be a team builder.
Then even over the next year and half I was discontent. I wanted to leave.... always. I was here, but my heart was somewhere else, anywhere else.
Yet the leadership, the pastors, they continued to invest in me, to love me, to have patience and speak words of kindness. I personally would have fired me. But for some reason they didn't. And for this I owe a great debt of gratitude to them.
But it wouldn't be fitting to write about my time and soon departure from CFC without acknowledging the patience, grace, forgiveness, mercy, kindness, compassion, and love of the girl who sat three feet away from me for the last 2.8 years. She put up with more than most people ever have to deal with at a job. I think she probably saw her dad more from meetings she had to schedule because of me than she did just normally.
Anyways, she might disagree about all the compassion and caring, and maybe she would think it wasn't always executed perfectly, but I know how both spiritually and emotionally distraught I have been at times, and she was there through it all.
So if she acts a little crazy, or a lot crazy, and does things that causes you to raise an eyebrow, or posts a bajillion selfies – just smile and realize that it was probably me that caused this type of behavior.
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So all this to say, I'm here in the North Country for this next season. Not sure how long it will be, but this I know, I don't want a day to go by where my heart longs to be somewhere else. This is where the Lord has me and I want to be here 100%.
