30 hour road trip + intense interview = exhaustion

Well, we're back. Actually, we got back four days ago, but I am just now catching up enough on life to actually sit for a moment and write. Kentucky was a good experience. They were good, loving people, and we really enjoyed the trip. Look how beautiful Kentucky is:


Interviewing for a preaching job is an extremely intense and stressful process. Here is a quick run down of how this interview went:

• Saturday afternoon: arrive and play games with the youth group.
• Saturday evening: have dinner with about twenty people who make up the hiring committee and participate in a small group prayer time.
• Sunday morning: BJ did the Bible class for all adults, and , of course, he delivered the sermon.
• Sunday lunch: we ate with about 50 of the members who had not had the opportunity to meet us yet.
• Sunday evening: instead of the regular service, they set up two microphones: one for BJ and myself and the other for the current minister. Church this night was just one big interview in front of the whole congregation.
  
• Sunday evening after church: we went to Dairy Queen with several of the people we had gotten to know the best. It was really nice.

So if you ever are thinking about going into ministry, here's what you have to look forward to. It is extremely challenging, but also very rewarding when things go well. We always end up learning a little about ourselves and about God's church.

After thirty hours on the road in 4 days, we are pretty much exhausted. As always, pictures of our dogs speak more clearly that I can. This is Gus and Sienna as we pulled out of Frisco Thursday afternoon:

And this is Gus and Sienna around the time we crossed the Texas border Monday night:

Yep. That pretty much sums it up.