A New Season

The past few days, we have been reminded of God's faithfulness in a huge way! On Friday, January 20th, Austin interviewed for a job at Health Connect America and received the job that same day! He will be a therapist (counselor) and will travel around the Dyersburg, TN area seeing clients in their homes. This is so exciting!  

When we got married in November 2010, neither of us had jobs (not something we recommend for newlyweds). Austin was in the midst of graduate classes for his Masters in Professional Counseling and I was adjusting to living in a completely new town as a new wife. During this time, we learned to trust the Lord in an entirely new way. In His provision, the Lord gave Austin a job at Union doing Safety and Security January of 2011. His supervisors knew that he was doing school and that he was ultimately looking for a job in his field, so they worked really hard to accommodate his school schedule, which we are very appreciative of. He worked first shift (7 am until 3 pm), which coordinated with his night classes perfectly. The only downside was that he had to work weekends. Because of this, we were not able to attend Sunday school and church on Sunday mornings together. 

About a month after Austin started his Safety and Security job, I began working at Union as well as the Office Coordinator for Campus Ministries (which I absolutely love and am still doing). These jobs were an answer to prayer and have given us what we've needed financially and more. However, the inability to be involved in the local body of believers as a couple has been frustrating these past several months. 

In addition to frustration about church involvement, getting the required number of practicum hours (in order to complete the masters) was proving difficult, despite Austin working with the Keystone program at Union (in addition to his regular workweek). In order for him to graduate in May, we knew he needed to get a counseling job so he could count his work hours as his practicum hours. We felt so close and yet so far away from that goal.

Now, Austin's new job at Health Connect will allow him to have a job (in his field- yay!) AND complete his practicum hours. May graduation here we come! God is so good! 

We are so excited about getting involved in church and being able to spend our weekends together :-) We are so thankful for God's provision and can't wait to see what He has in store for us in this new season. 

Elizabeth