Archive for July 20th, 2009

Yes, I got a job! Here’s an email I sent to my friends and family (and now to the blogosphere).

Hello Everyone,

As of Saturday, I accepted a full-time position at Philadelphia Biblical University as their Resident Director. I will be working as part of the Student Life Department and will be interacting with and assisting the Resident Assistants at the off-campus housing. This is wonderful news on a number of levels:

1) My 9-month full-time occupation drought has ended.

2) Amanda and I were concerned about finding a place to live even after I found a job. However, PBU will be giving us an apartment on campus to assist in my duties as Resident Director.

3) Since we decided to help plant a church in Bristol, I hoped to find a job near Bristol and a place to live in Bristol. Langhorne is not very far from Bristol so it’s almost as good as it gets!

4) I was hoping to find a job where I would be able to work with people regularly, and this job is as people-oriented as it gets.

I will be finishing up my two part-time jobs this week, and next week we’ll be on a much-needed vacation in North Carolina. Both jobs were sad to see me go but understood. I will no longer be getting free coffee and discounts since I won’t be working at Starbucks, and I won’t be bored to tears because I will no longer be working at Bisco.

I’m completely grateful to all of you for your prayers and support. Thanks so, so much.

With love,
Evan, Amanda, and Giselle

“While the poor of the world continue knocking on the doors of the rich, the world of affluence runs the risk of no longer hearing those knocks, on account of a conscience that can no longer distinguish what is human.”

- Pope Benedict XVI, from his 2009 encyclical, Caritas in Veritate

Let’s be sure to listen for and hear those knocks.