Bri K

Just thought i’d update you quickly on the job hunt. Basically I’ve been focusing on jobs in Higher Ed and will still be keeping my eye on non-profit opportunities too. Pursuing TFA really prompted a desire to be in a new part of the country and experience a new culture and a new church culture…namely middle-America, but I’d love to be in the sunshine! So, I have a list of all the colleges in all 50 states and have been working my way through the list! So…the Carolina’s, Tennessee, Texas, Georgia, Kentucky, but also Mass, California, Rhode Island and Colorado. I’ve only applied to two jobs since TFA as there really isn’t a lot out there. But the good news is this…I’ve applied for a job that actually gets me really excited-more excited than anything so far! And interesting enough, it’s in San Antonio, which is a place that I started thinking about through TFA. So here’s the DL…

It’s at St. Mary’s University, a Catholic school and the job is the Assistant Director of the Service Learning Center. Service Learning is basically the idea of utilizing community service and civic engagement for learning and development. Some of my absolute favorite ministry experiences have been starting, facilitating and leading the ministry teams to Los Angeles and New Orleans. I LOVE facilitating people’s engagement in the city, training around issues of justice etc. and empowering people to learn through experience. So it sounds to me like that is what this job is, but from a secular standpoint. Basically I would be working with students to empower their learning and provide opportunities for them with non-profits in the city. So I think this includes training and recruitment as well as individual coaching for students. AND the external component is networking and building relationships with a lot of non-profits in the city to know their needs and to match students with them as volunteers. SO SO SO FUN!! Honestly, I get really excited when I think and talk about it!

So I’ve applied but the job doesn’t close until May 31st and I shouldn’t expect to hear anything until 2 to 3 weeks after that. So I’d love your prayers for this job! I’ll continue to look for and apply for other positions in the mean time! We’ll see what the Lord does, but it feels so good to be excited about something and from what I know right now I think that this would be a really amazing opportunity and something that would release me into some of my passions and gifts that I wasn’t utilizing at Multnomah as well as some that I were!!! I hope I hope!! Thanks for all of your support everyone–it’s meant so much to know you are standing with me!!