Your Call
This week at camp we’re going through talking about the students call on their lives to not just change their own lives but to be a change agent in lives around them.
We are called to change culture in one way shape or form. Whether in the forground or background. I figured I would take a second to share a bit of my calling.
In college I wrestled with my faith. I was a Christian, I was involved in highschool but in college I got burned out. I just wanted to sit on the sidelines, I was goin to heaven that was good enough.
After I graduated I landed a good job at a Christian organization. By this time I wasn’t quite as apathetic but was still indifferent in my walk, until the church I was visiting’s worship pastor came to me and told me that I needed to start running sound for them at least at a saturday night service.
I was heasantent because I knew I had never done anything like that before. Little did I know my world was about to be rocked for the next two years. The worship pastor poured into our friendship. I became so involved I was basically working my full time job and volunteering full time at church simultaneously. I lived for it and something changed in me. I became uncomfortable at work (I already didn’t like it but this was different) I felt such a strong call on my life to go work in church tech ministry that I about up and quit right when it happened. I met with kent the worship pastor and wanted to work at my church. That never happened but God was growing me. He wanted to make sure I was committed regardless of a paycheck.
After the two years of my job in a Christian ministry being completely miserable and not able to take any more I prayed hard about setting a date and moving forward that something would come open. I didn’t look back I set a date a month or so away and the day came and I didn’t have a new job yet but I gave my notice anyways. It was the most liberating feeling.
Within about two or three months I had several interviews with some church in Texas and already had a restaurant job in Ohio. Before I knew it this “some church in Texas” hired me full time to do youth technical production. I can’t say there has been a day Ive regretted this move or leap. It is exactly where God wanted me and has created and called me for. I wouldn’t rather be doing any thing else.
What’s your call?
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Denny Weinman Has Written 12 Articles For Us!
twitter.com/audiojunky I work at #sugarcreek. Twitter aficionado and creative geek. I like all forms of creative expression, video, audio, graphic design, stage design. I hope to share a little bit of my journey in all of that with you.
