A Story of Redemption and Restoration

Sorry it's taken me a few days to write this, but I did want to share with you the faithfulness of the God I serve!

First, I'd like to thank those of you who have prayed for me, or sent me job postings or let me use you as a reference--I truly appreciate your support during this time of my life. Thank you!!

For those of you who aren't aware, Rebecca P and some other friends and I volunteered at Metropolitan Ministries during their ginormous holiday event. Once the New Year came, Becca and I decided we wanted to volunteer throughout the year.

So we went in. One of the first people we met was Scott [my new boss]. We hit it off wonderfully, and he told me to look at the job openings they had. At the time, they didn't have anything that would fit what I was looking for.

I started volunteering regularly, several times a week, in the Outreach department or in the kitchen. I've done a little bit of everything: washed and seasoned 40lbs of frozen chicken, helping with the front desk, typing up thousands of prayer requests from our clients, manned the phones, stock the shelves with food, sorted the bread and pastry deliveries, sat in to learn counseling....

You name it, I've probably done it.

I've cried over some of the situations I've seen with our clients.

I've been blessed by some of our clients, stressed by others.

I've received many marriage proposals from clients.

[clients = families in need, the homeless, etc]

I've laughed and cried and prayed and come home with sore feet and tired body...and it's been so wonderful.

So anyway....I applied for a volunteer coordinator position--but it was only part-time. The pay would have been less than my unemployment, consequently and I didn't have peace.

I turned it down.

So a few days later, Scott asks me if I'd be interested in working with the residential teens (we have 40+ families living on campus--these are families who became homeless for any number of reasons). I said, "Sure."

The next day, I talked to Patrick (my other new boss) very informally about working with the teen program. He said he wasn't sure about hiring 2 part-time people and had to propose it to the financial department.

I figured this would take a while.

The very next day, HR called me to offer me a job: 20 hours a week with Scott in Volunteer Coordinating, and 20 hours a week with Patrick with the teen program.

I felt peace.

These wonderful people custom-made a job for me and put it together and hired me with a few short days. Everyone was ecstatic for me. All the staff and volunteers in Outreach were hugging and congratulating me.

I talked to Scott on Wednesday, he had me talk to Patrick on Thursday. On Friday they offered me the job, and I started on Monday, May 11th at 7:45am!!

God is faithful. I thank and praise God for allowing me this opportunity to work with a company I love...with staff I love...doing things I love to help the hurting. Their mission is to continue the ministry of Jesus Christ in helping the needy.

I love that.

I'm a part of that [officially] now.

& it's exciting.

After the way my last job tossed me out with the trash, to be welcomed with such love and jubilation...well, I cried. And laughed. And then cried and laughed.

So check out my bio on the Metro Min website!