Living the Dream
Once upon a time (starting in 2010 and running for a little over a year) Ben put in a lot of hours on a blog named “Assume The Best.”
It chronicled his life as a full-time staff member of Campus Crusade for Christ, attempting to make light of and encourage specifically around the process of raising financial support.
We had left staff at that point, and this writing is an interesting look into his process of grieving that loss, with an eye toward “becoming a writer.”
Here, in the order they were released, are those posts.
One time I drove to a support appointment in my dad’s brand new Dodge Charger.
Because nothing says, “I need money” like a $25,000 muscle car with heated leather seats, a sunroof, and a HEMI. Continue reading “About iPhones, Extreme Sports, and The Mishclaimer.”
Im terribly inefficient at doing math problems in my head. I am just mentally finishing with the first “carry the one” when someone across the room blurts out the answer. So, when I would tell people that we were at 64% of our support-raising goal and we had about $2900 per month left to raise, I never expected that people would do the math in their head. I thought I was giving them the uncrackable code that assured I’d be able to communicate our remaining need without divulging the total that we had to raise. Continue reading “About Math Teachers, Pygmy Goat Farmers, and the Bottom Line.”
We have a friend in ministry who, when her parents found out she was going into college ministry, was forced to move out of their house and cut off from all financial support.
And that turned a giant spotlight onto the contrast with our families. Continue reading “Thankful Thursday: Family Support.”
One time I gave our entire support spiel to another family’s dog.
Ok, not really, but he was the only one home, and though he seemed more interested in sniffing my crotch than Continue reading “About Pets, Empty Garages, and the Need to Call Ahead.”
I put a custom-coded “most popular posts” widget in the sidebar of this site, but it’s lying to you. It says most popular, but what it means is “most commented on” as that’s the metric it is really judging by.
Thanks to Google analytics, I can tell you which posts are Continue reading “October’s Top 5.”