Well God is Awesome! For this semester he has provided just about enough money to attend Talbot full-time at 9 hours. He did this through scholarship money through the support of friends and family. Our family is truly blessed. I had to make some hard decisions on which classes to take but in the end all of these things worked out the best for our schedule.
Melodie is continuing to work at Ambassador Church as the Office Administrator and her schedule and hours worked fit pretty seamlessly with mine. The majority of mornings I will be home with the kids and enjoying poopy diapers and runny noses while trying to work on school stuff during nap time.
I am also happy to announce that I have been accepted into the Institute of Spiritual Formation (ISF) at Talbot. I’ll be working on the Masters of Arts in Spiritual Formation along with the Masters in Arts in Theology that I have already completed about 3/4 the required courses. This is definitely a God thing!
As many of you know I am searching for direction in life and keeping myself open to God’s plan for my calling to ministry. I share a heart with the ISF program’s study of Spiritual Formation ( a new and fancy term for the doctrine of Sanctification) and I am pretty thrilled to be in on what I believe to be the next big wave in Seminary studies. I am unique in that ISF has allowed me to pursue this M.A. along with the one I was currently working on in Theology.
9 hours will be a lot different than the 14-15 hours I have been taking a semester but I feel that God is wanting me to be part of something else in my “spare” time. What that will be remains to be seen. Remember we did not take student loans this semester and relied on God to faithfully provide the funds needed for school. And to top it all off I got straight As last semster bringing my current GPA to 3.8! It was hard and insane but God got us through. I am excited about my classes this semester. Spiritual Formation in Pauline Thought, Contemporary Theology, and History and Traditions of Christian Spirituality.
