Praise God for His goodness and grace ! What a mighty and awesome God we serve !!! To Him be the glory forever and ever !
Thank you everyone for your prayers ! I could certainly feel them : the interview was much more lax than anticipated and guess what... the committee wasn't out to get the interviewee, haha. They may like cookies but they're certainly no monster. For the next week and a half, we the appointed (15 in total : 5 singles and 5 couples) were introduced to the staff of WorldVenture, their roles and the tools available to us and snacked; we worked on a short speech disigned for those times we're asked to tell about us and the country we work in and the people we work with and the ministry we're involved in during a two minute window and snacked; we worked with our ministry mentors to learn what our roles are to each other and snacked; we learned what our growth goals are, what additional training is required and snacked; we were given our financial packages and snacked; and just enjoyed getting to know one another and...
What I'll be doing in France is inter-cultural leadership developpement at Mission OIKOS where I speant these past two years. Whereas I was an intern before, I will now be on the other side of things, managing the house and the interns (French and international). This will include getting them settled in and acquainted to the OIKOS house and other interns, helping them integrate into the community of OIKOS, church community and broader French community. I will be aiding with language and cultural acquisition and guiding them in plugging into social activities and ministries. In general helping them become effective inter-cultural Christian workers from anywhere to anywhere. In doing all this, I will be contributing to our goals to develop cross-cultural leaders, to facilitate global and local service projects and to send new missionaries into the French-speaking world.
From this point I begin working on my growth goals (books, training etc.) and partner developpement, which will require around 30hrs/week in addition to my job at the hospital. Thankfully it is only a prn (as needed) position and thus allows me to essentially work as little or as much as I want/can. Again,praise God for His perfect provision ! His faithfulness in that is what I will be clinging to as I search for the $4,404.36/month and $21,500 (one-time outgoing) support required and the solid, faithful, passionate prayer partners God brings alongside me in His work so that I can return to France nextautomne (2011).
Are you one of these individuals ? Would you please pray about what your part in this work is : to pray, to give, both, something else... ? Should God lead you to partner with me please let me know how. If it is through financial support you can click here to make a commitment or here to make a one-time gift. Should God lead you to partner with me in prayer please
email me at
disciplededieu@hotmail.com.
Should you want to become part of a community in this venture with me I have created a facebook page which you will find on the righthand side of this page. I also have made a groupe under the same name, have made an RSS feed to this blog available towards to top right, have made following the blog available under followers also found on the righthand side and am on twitter under the username : disciplededieu.
Prayer Requests : 1. A car for traveling 2. People to partner with me financially 3. A prayer groupe which is two times as numerous, two times as deep, two times as faithful and two times as passionate as my financial partner groupe 4. An automne 2011 return to France 5. Faithfulness in all my duties 6.A broken and humble heart that fears God
Praises : 1. ACCEPTANCE to WorldVenture !!! 2. A place to stay for almost free (my parents house) 3. A super flexable job 4. Clarity and peace about my job in France 5. The support of my blood and church families 6. God's provision for every need
That's great news Seth!
ReplyDeleteSnacks rock. So glad to hear God's working in your life. We will pray with you.
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