Assistant Director of the Learning Assistance Center
I really do. So please, if you are prayin’ folk, PRAY! I think I would have a lot to offer the Center and Xavier. I also think it would be a good growing experience for me. It’s a leadership position that, according to the Director (who I met today), is 80% people/20% task. That is SO me. I would love working with college students, I am eager to get to know the Catholic (Xavier is a Jesuit school) side of the Christian family, and it is about a half mile from here! I think it would be a great ministry and service opportunity.
The president (who is a priest) of the university has this to say – “Xavier University is dedicated to engaging and forming students intellectually, morally and spiritually, with rigor and compassion, toward lives of solidarity and service. … We also place great emphasis on the spiritual development of our students.”
I think this job would stretch me and grow me and provide lots of great connections and opportunities. I think it would also provide enough financially for Sarah to stay home with Cloey (which is what we’ve been hoping for). Xavier (unlike Fuller!) offers FULL Tuition Remission for full-time employees and 90% remission to spouses and children after the first year of working there. I could take classes to finish my Fuller degree at Xavier (they also offer a MA in Theology) and Sarah could do a masters or art stuff or whatever as well!
I really think this would be a great opportunity. My understanding of the process is that it has to make it through a committee of faculty, staff, and students first, then to the Director of the Learning Center (Ann Dinan) – who I met and felt like I connected with today, and then there would be several interviews (even with a VP). So pray that it makes it through this first hurdle (the committee screening) next week and in general just pray that if this is the position that God has for me that everything would fall into place quickly (we’re getting low on funds).
