I’ll be darned. There was pod racing in Star Wars: Attack of the Clones!

The job I interviewed for was not Sunday School Teacher or Coordinator, but Pastor of Adult Ministries for an 800 member church. I would be in charge of 4 adult Sunday School classes and 25 Growth Groups. I wouldn’t run them but I would shepherd the leaders of these groups, about 50 people or so. I would also develope the curriculum for the Sunday school classes and teach the teachers.

I left the interview shaken. I was thinking “This is beyond me. I can’t do this.” Stopped at Starbucks to drownd my sorrows in a grande cap. By the time I got home, I was planning the first meeting with the teachers, I’d figured out the goal of the programs I would lead and started figuring out what the curriculum would be. I also figured out what special projects we would adopt. I’d gone from Eeyor gloomy to Tigger optimistic. I didn’t sleep the other night because I was conducting the training meeting in my head.

I interviewed with the Executive Pastor who has already spoken to 5 other guys and has a list of folks from Trinity (the seminary) to talk to. We going to go to church there tomorrow to decide if this is the kind of place we could work in. If so, I’m going to send a letter to the Exec Pastor and tell him I am very interested.

On the ‘home’ front… We’ve been approved for a $150K mortgage and some fantastic saints have agreed to loan us $45K for 5 years (that doesn’t mean $200K it means about $160 to $170K) and we still can’t find a home! The market here is so high.

Oh yea, and we go home Monday.

Anyone who reads this, please pray for me. I have an interview at a church tomorrow at 5 PM. If I can get hired full time at a church my tuition would be half and I would have a job all in one shot. Not only that but I meet with the mortgage broker tomorrow and should get a list of properties from the Realtor today. Yowza

I’m in Illinois looking for a house and a job, more house than job right now. Few prospects so far in my price range. However, I did see Spider-man with my wife and we both liked it. How’s that?

Well what do you know. Part 4 of Tristan Emanual’s two part series on Christian baptism has been published over at RazorMouth.com. What is really funny is that Tristan has apparently forgotten that he is a paedobaptist:

Rather, I am arguing that they [circumcision and baptism] are an outward, visible testimony and guarantee of an inward, spiritual truth.

But that is the Baptist argument for believers-only baptism! We baptize when we see evidence of that “inward, spiritual truth” not based upon lineage. Yea, I’ll be writing another paper to respond to this. Tristan and RazorMouth seem to have ignored my last one.

This is kind of creepy so I thought I’d blog it. I was riding my bike to work the other day. I cut across an open field on the way, it isn’t deep desert or anything, its only about 20 yards from some houses. Ahead of me on the trail is a crow hoping around and making a lot of noise. No big deal, those flying rats are everywhere. When I get closer, this small coyote stands up and looks at me. I could have reached over and patted it on the head. Something didn’t look right about it. Not mean, but scared and…wrong. If it had been dangerous, the crow wouldn’t have been making so much noise. As I peddled past I figured that the coyote was dying and the crow was asking it to hurry up. Crows usually get road kill rabbit but this fresh coyote would be a treat, I’m sure. Here was life and death playing it self out in front of me. Just like “Lion King” its the great circle of life.

Microsoft again. Sha! They crack me up. The Register is reporting on their new licensing system for schools. When counting up how many licenses you’re going to pay for, you have to count all PCs and Macs. “But Tim, Windows doesn’t run on an Apple computer!” I hear you say. True, true but Microsoft Office does and what Microsoft is making schools pay for is software packages. Here, I’ll let John Lettice explain it to you:

In School Agreement 3.0, you take your number of eligible PCs (inc Macs, of course), then you select at least one product which you license for all eligible PCs. One of these packages is presumably the most popular, as it’s the Desktop Package, which “Includes Office, Core CAL & Windows Upgrades,” and offers discounts beyond what you’d get if you bought the components individually. So that’s how you wind up buying Windows upgrades for Macs in the States.

See? Schools get to pay the same price for Office on their Macs as they do for Windows Upgrades and other software on the PCs. All I can say is that it is a good thing that Apple is the leader in supply computers to education. And at this rate, I don’t think that position will be challanged any time soon.

Then when I get home from work I find that the extra 256MB of memory and my cell phones have arrived. The hardest part of putting in the memory was finding my small phillips jewler’s screwdriver. The iBook is complete. 384MB of memory and an Airport card. On top of all of that, the Elders meeting finished at 10 PM. We usually go till midnight.

The new iBook is here! Yipee. I had to install OS X on it but that’s okay, it came with it. The entire thing is totally cool. Very small, very light, no dead pixels. I’m one happy Mac geek. :)

iBook update: I ordered the iBook and an Airport card at the same time. The Airport card shipped from CA but the iBook had to come from UT. Not a problem since I only had to pay tax on the Airport card. The card arrived this AM but not the iBook. In other words, I have nothing to plug the card in to. I doubt that the iBook will be here today so that means Monday. No word on the extra 256MB of memory yet. So close yet so far. :( Feel my pain!