My DREAM job...

OK, so I have worked part time at our church for 5.5 years. It has been amazing, wonderful, challenging and grown me more as a leader than I have in my entire life! I started working there only 12 hours a week as the fill in Receptionist back in December 2007 when Ezekiel was 18 months old, then shortly after that, took on the role of Office Manager working 20 hours a week which I did until May of 2012.

This last year I transitioned out of the OM role to working with CPLC which is our Leadership College for students aged 18-30ish. I absolutely LOVED it! It was my DREAM job! I got to work with this amazing group of students every week!

 

Aren't they so cute?! I told them they looked very 90210 in this picture and thankfully they knew what I was talking about!

 

I love doing administration and ministry and this was the perfect combo. I also got to work with the awesome Pastor Danette Matty who was so fun to work with and she was so kind to put up with my pregnancy emotions this past year! Here are a few more pics of us and our CPLC Team throughout the year:

  

 

CPLC Team 2012-13

"WE ARE CALLED TO SERVE, EQUIPPED TO LEAD"

 

Rep'ing CPLC at our booth...please note that I am very pregnant here :)

Working the Everett festival

 

Graduation April 2013

My girls...how I love them so dearly

 

So proud of each of these students and how they have grown this past year. Part of my end of the year grad speech said "Here at the end of CPLC I feel like when you return home after a missions trip. When you went your intensions were to bless and serve others and make a tangible difference in other people’s lives. When you return home you realized you gained far more and were so much more blessed than what you felt like you gave. Thank you all for loving me and my family and for challenging me to grow this past year by the examples you led, I will miss you all so very much."

 

This WAS my dream job...UNTIL...

 

I was home on maternity leave and realized how much I loved being home with my new little baby...I thought that I might feel this way, but I wasn't sure because I really did love what I did at church too. I prayed, and cried and talked with my husband, prayed, talked with my parents, prayed some more, cried a little more and essentially drove my husband NUTS deciding what to do. But I knew the answer the moment I looked at this sweet face...

 

 

 

It was time to stay home. God really confirmed it and spoke to my heart about this as well. I also knew it would be so great to be home starting this summer to spend more time with Ezekiel.

 

 

This week was my first week home! It was so sad to say goodbye to my friends and co-workers at CP, but I know I will still get to see them. I so have enjoyed this week with these two little monkeys:

 

 

So thankful to God for granting me the desires of my heart and allowing me to continue to have my DREAM job...a Mommy :)