Memoir

Michael Vanderhooft

To start off, my dad has been an unemployed pastor for over a year now.  Emden CRC in Renville, minnesota, was the church where he was, but they couldn't afford to keep a full time pastor, so he lost his job.  But the church did allow us to stay in the church parsonage until the end of May.

But throughout the course of the year my dad has interviewed at several churches in Canada and also here in the States, But all of them have turned him down.  But recently he has been offered a one-year internship job at Willmar CRC because their pastor was called to a different church in Iowa.  So as of next Sunday my dad will be an interim pastor at Willmar CRC.  Then we will move into the church's parsonage in early June and we will live there for up to a year or until my dad finds a job at a different church.  But, also if Willmar finds a new pastor we would have two months to move out of the parsonage.  

At the same time though my dad is interviewing at Hope Church in Montevideo.  He had an interview with them last week Sunday and he said that it went really well and that he is very excited about it and hopes that something will become of it.    To be honest I really hope we move there too because that would mean that there would be a possibility that I would be able to go to Central Minnesota Christian School.  But also I would have the chance to meet new people and make even more friends.  It also would be a million times better than moving out of state because I would only live a half hour from friends at this school and that would be great especially if my parents would choose the public school system there.  To be honest again, though, that would be one of the downsides to moving to Montevideo to me.  I really hope that my parents would choose to continue sending me to this school if my dad does get/accept a call to Montevideo.  

But even though God has been working slowly through all of this he has definitely been there.  I can definitely say that I don't want to move though I absolutely hate packing up our house and putting it all into boxes.  On the contrary, though, I know that my dad needs a job and for that to happen we need to move.  So even though I don't want to I know that a move is necessary.