9 Year Intern

So most of you know that i have been working with AIA for quite sometime. In fact, mike sharon and I figured out that this summer will be my 10th year of directing AIA camps in B.C. After i graduated univeristy I began to increase my role to more of an all year round position . Part time during the university coaching season, and full time during the spring/summer camp season. This set up has led to some interesting contractual situations. Recently, my supervisor Chris Weins informed me that i haves basically been a glorified intern for the past 9 years and urged me to become an associate staff. After looking up the definition of an intern, ("a student or a recent graduate undergoing supervised practical training'), I realizing that he was right. I am neither a "student",a "recent graduate", or a person in"training" and so, as of last Wednesday Im officially now an associate staff member with Power To Change. And with this official partnership comes some official duties such as officially raising support.

Considering that i have been a 9 year intern with AIA, my training in support raising has been very minimal. The support i have been receiving for my ministry has come from mostly me, by means of other employment such as coaching. Now, associate staff lets me keep these other jobs, but they will no longer support both my ministry,personal,and family life style. Thus, i take on the battle of support raising. A battle that up until now has mostly taken place in the trenches of procrastination and ideation. Trenches are of course, safer and less scary then the battlefield. But as Donald Miller has reminded me lately, all stories that are worth reading, watching or living, are wraught with unsafe, scary, and difficult times.

Lord, i pray that you give me the strength, passion, and courage in this time of support raising. I pray that you would protect me from the enemy, and that i would remain in your word and spirit to hear the truth you would have me hear.