Get a Job...

Thought I'd post a bit on employment here in Indianapolis. Give us today our daily bread, we're taking as relying on the Lord for our day-to-day items. Namely our bread, and beans. We've decided 'tent making' to pay some our expenses is important to our missionary way of life.

Hence Substitute teaching...

However, others are involved in nursing, waitressing tables, sub-contracting, teaching dance and voice lessons, mowing lawns, nannying and I stuffed envelopes for a while.


Mary and Naomi went to St Marys and U of Portland for nursing and took their Boards at the end of the summer. After passing and applying for jobs they now both work for IU Hospital. Naomi in an Oncology Unit and Mary in a Bone Marrow Transplant Unit.

We've all been brainstorming how to make this work with missionary schedules. We want to be free to spend as much time as we'd like doing mission work and so decided to work 10 hrs/week (except the RNs who have full-time jobs). However, we also figured we'd need jobs that pay about $12/hr. Which got us thinking what can we offer.


Ellen is teaching dance and had her first class today. She's working with her former dance teacher from Servant Branch to formulate a lesson plan and working with Indy branch kids. Molly just got a job at a local private school teaching choir classes. Apparently there were only 2 students signed up for the class initially, but when one of the gals in the branch who attends this school realized Molly was teaching rounded up her friends and assembled 15 students to give up lunch time for choir class with Molly. Praise God.

Hannah and I have both been doing substitute teaching, though we now have better paying jobs and are looking at other options. Hannah waitresses at Bistro Chopstix downtown and I sub-contract for Carl Horlander, member of the branch.

I just ended work at a Direct Mailing company, Proto-Type - stuffing envelops and helping to reorganize the warehouse, though I still cut the lawn (which I'll be doing tomorrow morning). It was great, I could get up and get to work at 6AM, by walking across the street and they'd break at 7:30 so I'd still get to eat breakfast back with the household. Here you can see the blue warehouse from my desk. Amazing glimpse into life in the Kingdom.

Ah, and I must finally inform that the beard has been downsized. I could no longer afford to pay it's salary and was forced to let it go.