Okay, so now we find ourselves in the spring of 2004. My new wife and I had just completed our move to our first home (a duplex in the lovely neighborhood of Haddon Heights). We have settled on attending Haddon Heights Baptist Church where I have been attending off and on for several months, and where some of the teens I had as campers at NLI in past years. I was already remotely involved with the youth group there, and anticipated getting very involved.
And involved we did get. We were involved in the youth group as well as helping out the couple who had started the college & career ministry with that group. Eventually we would also jump into the music ministry at HHBC with my wife playing the harp, my playing the keyboard, being involved in cantatas, specials, worship teams, etc.
After about a year of being married, I carried on my pursuit of full-time ministry. There was a remote possibility that down the road the position was going to open up at HHBC, but we also looked into other options. I did not have much success with any pursuits the more time went on, and as time passed the possibility for a full-time position at our church also began to develop even more. I couldn't help but thinking how neat that would be if God were to work in that direction in our lives. Not too many churches were interested in me, because my "paper credentials" were not very desirable. Well here was an opportunity for a church to actually know me more than just what was written on paper.
Well, the day came when we were officially approached and asked to consider the full-time position. We thought about it and both were crazy about the idea. Now came the time to enter into our first official candidating experience.
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