Fish Where the Fish Are

14 March 2009 by Gail Carter.

Is there anyone not affected by the economic downturn??  If you’re looking for a new job, or just afraid you’re about to lose your current one, I’ve found some really helpful websites to investigate!  Are you in a technical field?  Try krop.com or dice.com.  How about available executive positions? Go to theladders.com, 6figurejobs.com, or vault.com.  If you have a finance background, there’s careerbank.com and efinancialcareers.com.  The health care industry posts jobs on biospace.com and healthcareerweb.com.  Not into the 9-5 grind?  Hourly jobsare listed at snagajob.com and employmentguide.com.  Other sites include idealist.org (non-profs), jobing.com (regional opportunities), workinretail.com (obvious), and vetjobs.com (veteran’s skill sets desired).   If all else fails, try findarecruiter.com, i-recruit.com, or onlinerecruitersdirectory.com.  They’re all worth a shot!!  Good luck

If you’re hearing a “call” to serve on a new Glen Mar team, consider the Finance area!  Don Lee is our new chair of Stewardship and would certainly be happy to hear from you.  There are a couple of new finance areas also:  Planned Giving/Endowment Fund and Alternative Fund Raising.  Jeff Carter will be implementing these two very important facets of our ministry base soon and is currently looking for folks to serve.  Please consider giving Jeff a call at 410-531-6563 if these areas are of interest to you.  The Church Endowment Fund will provide opportunities for expressions of gratitude and discipleship and is established to provide permanent financial support to expand Glen Mar’s mission statement.  The Alternative Fund Raising ministry will coordinate timing/rollout of alternative fund raising venues and explore grant-writing options for Glen Mar. 

Speaking of jobs - - we’re all going to find it hard to say goodbye to John Nupp at the end of June; however, we do have the joy of welcoming Mary Ka Kanahan (yes, “Ka” is spelled correctly - but sounds like “Kay”!!!) into our midst on July 1.  Mary Ka will be our new Associate Pastor, taking John’s place.  She is currently at Pleasant Grove UMC in Reisterstown where she serves as pastor.  She actually began her ministry journey at Bethany UMC  as Lay Ministry Coordinator, helping members of that congregation identify their spiritual gifts and guiding them into laity service.  Following that assignment, she led a coaching ministry in Ellicott City where she specialized in growing spiritual leadership in individuals and organizations by helping them define their ministry and stewardship goals.  Her most recent assignment, before Pleasant Grove, was at Asbury UMC in Washington, DC .   Mary Ka has two sons, one (Brian) at Howard Community College and the other (Matthew) at Mt. Hebron High School.  She will celebrate her commissioning to the Baltimore Washington Conference this coming June.  Her qualifications are a perfect match to the requests we outlined to the Bishop earlier this year.

And in other news……………if you’re looking for some funny church stuff, check out Rev. Dean Snyder (pastor of Foundry UMC in DC) on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.  His appearance was in conjunction with the BWConference’s welcoming campaign surrounding the inauguration of President Obama, and his report on the First Family’s search for a new church.  Find it at thedailyshow.com - -  - click on “videos”, then select “Jan. 28, 2009″ in the timeline. 

Keep your eye out for upcoming Glen Mar University offerings!!!  One of them is going to be a Sign Language Class.  WooHoo!  Really looking forward to that.  Continue to check out the entire website for program updates and what else is going on around GMC.

Peace to all of you during this Lenten Season!

Gail Carter, Lay Leader

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