Friday, April 12, 2013

Hijacked Miracles: Part 1

It was a Thursday morning, and I was in the kitchen getting our lunches ready when I heard Derrick's voice from the bedroom...

"Allen just texted to see what'd I'd think about working at Hope Community."

"It'd be fun to work with Allen!" I quickly said. Allen is one of our best friends. He and his wonderful wife Sara live half a mile from us, and we get together with them almost weekly. Allen's been working for the past six months or so in Hope Community Church's video ministry. 

We soon found out that the possibility wouldn't be for Derrick to work with Allen, it would be Derrick taking Allen's place. 

Last fall, around the same time that Derrick turned down a job at Centerline Media because we felt God had other plans for us, Allen had been applying to church video jobs. He applied to one at Newspring in South Carolina and one at Hope Community. The Newspring job didn't work out at that time, and Allen happily took his position at Hope. 

Time passed and a few weeks ago, Allen randomly felt led to email his contact at Newspring - "...keep me in mind if you ever have a job opening...". He was happy at Hope, but still had dreams of working in ministry at an even bigger church. Quickly, he heard back. They were hiring, and they had a position they felt Allen would be perfect for. 

That same week Allen and Sara made the trip down to Spartanburg, SC to visit the church. Allen interviewed, got the position, and they were pumped. By the end of the week - without even putting their home on the market yet - their house sold. Everything was falling into place perfectly and God's hand was more than obvious in the whole thing. 

So...now Allen and Sara are seeing God's plan unfold. A plan they never expected. And, when he went to let his boss at Hope know about this new opportunity, Allen handed in a single resume as his recommendation for someone to take his position...

Derrick's. 

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