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.