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I just got the call a while ago, InterVarsity is offering me a position on staff!!!!

So the interview went well.

Basically I had an interview with the Area Director, and the Regional Director, both of whom I’ve met before, and one of whom I’ve known for a while, and who is a personal hero of mine. So at the very least, I was comfortable during the interview. On the other hand, Mr. Hero has also known me for a while, so he definitely knows some of my weaknesses.

So we sit down in a room ajoining Mr. Hero’s office (he will be very amused that I’m calling him this) and for about the next hour and a half to two hours they ask me questions. The questions mostly come from things that were put in the application and references. If they found things that seemed to contradict (like my wierd introversion/extroversion schizophrenia) or just things they needed clarification on, then they would ask me about it. Other questions dealt with the nature of working with InterVarsity, as well as some of the issues that InterVarsity faces (and once I get the email regarding IV’s bloggin policy, then I might talk about some of that. Even though I’m not an employee of theirs yet, no need to start out on the wrong foot).

They seemed to react well to what I said, and to my application. It was my goal during this interview to try to be honest about the things that I feel would be an area to work on, optimistically honest, but honest nontheless. Quite frankly, I want IV’s mission to work more than I want the job myself, so if there are some weaknesses that would make me unsuitable, then I’ll keep working at my current job, and try again in a couple of years, when hopefully I’ve worked on those faults. That being said, I’m really, really exited about working with InterVarsity, I should find out their decision in a couple of days. I’ll let you know.

I’m going to have my interview at 3:30, please pray for me.

When I look back on my past couple of years, I wonder how I have been such a know-it-all. How I was so confident that I knew exactly how this God and Ministry thing worked. I mean, I was even confident that I knew it all about not being a know it all, and would snicker at know-it-all 22-year-olds. Oh how mistaken I was in my self confidence. Part of it is that it took a VBS, in which the young adult class was done in a way I definitely wouldn’t have done it, and having it reach me in a powerful way.

So right now I’m at a big pause moment. I’ve sent off the application forms, and now it’s waiting until I have the interview. Waiting and stewing. In some (some, hah try a lot of)ways I’m more comfortable doing than waiting. I’ll attempt to be constructive. I have a gift certificate for Northwestern Bookstores, so I’ll be hitting that up soon and I have IVPs Being White. It’s a book about what it means to be white in the USA. Even though I don’t know where I’ll be, I should become more prepared for Cross Cultural ministry, and as you may have guessed by now (if you don’t know me personally) I’m not white in the USA, so I need to figure that out.