The dawning of a new era.

Well,
Its been a little under two years since I wrote about what my plans were after college. As I said in that post, I did move home after graduating from Shorter College, now Shorter University. Once I got home I began applying for jobs and eventually got hired on at Lifeway Christian Stores in Augusta. I must say that Lifeway was one of the best work environments that I have ever worked in.

Throughout my time back home I made a couple of different trips up to Wake Forest, North Carolina to visit the campus of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. While I had checked out several other different seminaries I had many friends who went to Southeastern so I thought that I would check it out and see what it was all about. So I set up a trip to visit on a preview weekend, when I did I absolutely loved it, but had at that point begun to get rooted back into my home church and had started helping out with several ministries and did not want to leave.

Then one day I had lunch with one of my best friends and a guy I look to as a mentor, David Walker, you should check out his blog at davidwalkerblog , while at lunch he asked me what it was that was keeping me from going to seminary, at that point I didn't really have a straight answer for him, but as I began to think of it the only thing that I was able to think of was that I did not have the funds to go. While not having the funds is and still is a big issue I still decided that God was sovereign and if I was supposed to get into seminary, then I would and God would provide for me, so I applied to SEBTS for this fall really just to see if I could get in, considering it took me five and a half years to graduate college and because it did I my GPA was not the greatest, so I didn't really think I would get in. However, God surprised me once again and I got in and accepted and as of August 19th am officially a student at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.

While the next step that God has become clear there are still a lot of things that I am unsure of, but I am sure that God has called me to this point for this time and if he take care of the birds he will take care of me. While I know that God has called me here it would be irresponsible for me to assume that he will make money appear out of thin air so that I am able to continue to study here, with that being said I am currently looking for jobs around town and in the Raleigh area, hopefully I will find something that will be able to cover my expenses and be able to give me a little spending money.

PS. I want to say thank you to my home church First Baptist Thomson for the financial assistance that they are giving me by way of a seminary scholarship that the church has set up. It will be put to great use.