Table-of-Contents

I.   Locations & Schools
II.  My Family
III. My Christian Walk
IV.  Programming Experience
V.   Where I've Worked

Locations & Schools

I have lived in Kansas my entire life before college. I was born in Topeka, Kansas but my first memory is from Lawrence, Kansas. There I developed a love for KU (which is in Lawrence). I moved to Wichita, Kansas in the 3rd grade. I attended Wichita Public schools until 8th grade I switched over to Andover Public Schools (which are much better).

I liked Andover High School a lot. It is definitely one of the best in the Wichita area. Andover is a suburb of Wichita and has a fairly wealthy makeup. They take pride in their extra curricular activities and do very well in both sports and academic things like Band. I played Football two years, Track three years, and Band four years. What I miss most about high school is actually probably marching band.

While attending high school I received 33 credit hours at Butler County Community College. While I can't recommend the school (the classes are no harder than high school), I do recommend getting classes out of the way at a community college during high school or before college. It is cheaper and easier for the classes that don't matter. I took several classes for my own pleasure (programming) and they didn't really help me, especially after I switched over to Missions/Pastoral Theology major.

After graduating from high school, I left Kansas to go to Trinity Baptist College in Jacksonville, Florida. I recently graducated from college there with a degree in Missions and Pastoral Theology. I liked the Trinity a lot. They taught good doctrine, the staff cared about you, and you can actually get to know the teachers and students since it is a small atmosphere. They have a good education and pastoral major. They have a strong emphasis on church planting too. I wouldn't recommend them for missions major but it isn't bad either. The missions major is basically an easier pastoral major with a missions trip required. While they are slightly Pharisaical, they do treat you much more like a person and give you more trust than other colleges like it (such as Pensacola Christian College, not that it is a bad college). The best part of Trinity is its affiliation with the church. The college is a ministry of Trinity Baptist Church. The best experience your going to get is from working in a ministry at the church (which is required). In the past I said that if could have choosen any college again that I would have chosen Piedmont Baptist College. The funny thing is God knew I was going to be a church planter and not a foreign missionary so He sent me to a really good college; its Funny how that works out. I met some of the staff of Piedmont when I traveled NBT. From everything I know of it they have a strong foreign missions emphasis which includes a school in aviation. Since I was planing to be a foreign missionary in Japan, I would have liked a college with more foreign missions emphasis but God knew better.

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My Family

I.   Dad: Gregg Hanenkamp
II.  Mom: Rhonda Hanenkamp
III. Bro: Andrew Hanenkamp
IV.  Sis: Laura Hanenkamp
V.   About the Hanenkamps

Dad: Gregg Hanenkamp

My dad is Gregg Hanenkamp. He is a member of one of the world's largest drug syndicates ever. Ok, he sells pharmaceutical drugs for GlaxoSmithKline. He recently recovered from lymphoma (cancer of the lymph nodes) and he is doing okay. He had phase 1 of non-hodgekins, B-cell, low-grade lymphoma. He had a full recovery and we have faith that Lord cured him completely (if not then the Lord's will be done). He is a deacon at my home church (Messiah Baptist Church) not that the position means anything. He also teaches Sunday School at church and is a greeter.

Mom: Rhonda Hanenkamp

My mom is Rhonda Hanenkamp. She does not work but she does volunteer much of her time. Right now she is helping at Choices Medial Clinic helping pregnant woman with counsel and medial tests. They offer these services free in exchange for witnessing to them and helping them make the right choice (like avoiding abortion which is dangerous, traumatizing for the mother, and murder). My mom is a wonderful mom and wife. She also helps as a greeter and is in the choir.

Bro: Andrew Hanenkamp

My older brother is Andrew a.k.a. Sterling. He is four years older than me. He graduated with a B.S. and Master's in CS. Right now he maintains some computers at K-State, where he graduated. Right now he is with his first wife, Terri (only wife too). He helps out with techo-crap at his church but I don't know much other than that. He is the reason I got into programming. He has actually influenced me more than he knows. Visit his website andrew.hanenkamp.com.

Sis: Laura Hanenkamp

My last and also least family member (in age) is my sister Laura. She is six years younger than I. She was being home schooled but now I think she is going to be attending Central Christian Academy. My sister is unusual in one aspect. She is literally obsessed with Orcas (check out her website laura.hanenkamp.com if you don't believe me). Orcas are killer whales. Not that pretty if you ask me but she loves them. She can identify them by their dorsale fins and eye patches. I don't see how.

About the Hanenkamps

I don't know a lot about our history. Hanenkamp is a German name. I am mostly German from my father's side and English from my mother's side. I forget what the name means but I have heard it is derived from Hendercompf which means "Cock Fight." That probably isn't true but I don't know any better. There are almost no Hanenkamp's in the United States. There are a few in German (check out hanenkamp.de).

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My Christian Walk

I.    Forward
II.   Pre-Messiah Baptist Church
III.  Messiah Baptist Church
IV.   After Salvation
V.    Trinity Baptist College/Church
VI.   Testimony (short version)
VII.  Future Plans

Forward

First I wanted to say that the reason I named named the sections like I did is because before I went to Messiah Baptist Church, I was not a Christian. I was just a person going to church. Also, I named them this because the churches before Messiah were either ok or good churches. Messiah is at least twice as good as any of these other churches and I don't think there is another like it in Kansas. There is probably only a few churches in the US that I would say are as good of a church as Messiah. It has many exceptional qualities and I highly recommend it to anyone who is looking for a church or just looking to try out a church.

Pre-Messiah Baptist Church

Before I went to Messiah, I had visited and joined several churches. The first church I remember is New Life Christian Church. When we first started going there, the people there were really friendly and they had a good pastor. I don't remember much of this time except it was here that I was originally baptized (Before I really understood what it meant and was saved). Later on, our pastor left and we got a new one. The new pastor was good at first but eventually he started preaching the same sermons over and misquoted the Bible. Eventually most of the elders left the church left but we stayed trying to make a difference. Finally, after my dad was nominated for deacon and they did not put him on the ballot, which was required by the churches bylaws, we left that church.

Many of the people who left New Life ended up going to Riverlawn Christian Church. This was a fairly friendly church and it did have a lot of good people in it. I started 8th grade here and I was 1 of like 6 people who regularly attended Sunday School. This was weird since every other class had like 20. I hated this at first since none of the 8th graders were like me and I had no friends. The only thing I liked about Riverlawn was the Teen Church we had every other Sunday. In teen church we would sing up-beat worship songs and then Phil Wheece, the youth minister, would give a sermon. I didn't really like Riverlawn until I made some friends at Prairie View Christian Camp, which happens to be the same camp I went to at New Life.

At Camp I got to know Adam Higerd and Peter Blomgren who I liked a lot. Every year before, I hadn't really like camp but this year I liked it a lot because I made new friends and because the two deans (Phil and the youth minister from some other church) had made it a lot of fun. Also, they had the same songs we played in Teen Church so I liked it a lot. After camp I started to hang around them at church and I started to like Riverlawn. After going there for around 2 to 3 years, my parents didn't want to go to a church so far away so we started to look for a closer church.

My two best friends at Andover, Joseph Haynes and Michael Marlen, went to Metro East Baptist Church (a satellite church of Metropolitan Baptist) so I wanted to try the church out. We ended up joining this church because my parents liked the minister (He was the minister at Metropolitan Baptist) and since I had friends there they thought that I would become active in the youth group. After a little while, the Metropolitan minister left so we could find our own minister. The pastor we found was Todd Pruit who was the Youth Minister at some other church. He is a pretty good pastor although he has no experience with running a church so naturally he would make some mistakes. My parents didn't really like this church because it was run by the core group of people who started the church. My parents tried to get involved but they didn't really let them so they decided to leave. After my parents left and started church shopping again, I kept going to Metro East.

Messiah Baptist Church

Well, my parents tried the church that just moved near our house, Messiah Baptist Church. We had tried it a year or two earlier in the old building, it was good but very crowed and distant. My parents immediately liked they church and they tried to get me to come there instead of Metro East. I didn't want to but the Lord changed my heart or something and I ended up trying it. I started only going to Sunday School and Church. The youth group there was very friendly and so I decided I would go there because they were nice and my parents wanted me to. During this time, I was going taking Butler County Community College classes in Rosehill (since I enrolled late and Andover filled up) and I didn't get done until 6:40 to 7:00 and it was a 25 minute drive from Rose Hill to Messiah, so I didn't go to Wednesday night service because it started at 7:00. One day during Sunday School, Keenan Poore, the youth minister at Messiah, personally invited me to come to Wednesday night service. I told him I had college and he told me to still come and just be late.

So I started to come to Wednesday night service and I really liked it because Keenan and a lot of the other youth workers were very enthusiastic that I was coming. One day late September when Keenan was done with whatever his topic was that day, he asked for anyone who was not sure that they were going to heaven to raise their hand while everyone had their head bowed and eyes closed. I didn't want to raise my hand but I knew in my heart that I needed to and I eventually raise my hand after two other people did and my arm felt like a million bricks. After that we stood up and he said that if anyone wants to know how they can go to heaven today, all you had to do was come forward. It took me a second but I eventually did come forward and David Enegren led me into the Junior High room. All he told me was the basic steps to salvation which I had heard many times but never really thought about them or put anything into. Then he asked me to pray a prayer asking Jesus into my like and to be my Lord and Savior. This whole time I was shaking pretty bad but I finally got thought it and then I felt really good.

After Salvation

From this point on, my life started to go thought major changes. The first changes that the Lord convicted me with was mainly simple things, that I was listening to worldly music and that I sped and was impatient. So then I scoped listening to T-95, a worldly radio station, and also deleted all my worldly MP3's. From then on, I only listened to "christian" MP3s and listened to Z-91, an upbeat christian radio station that played "christian" music and Light 99, a softer christian radio station. Also, at the same time I stopped speeding which was hard at first because it took longer for me to get to school and work and I was late more often until I started leaving earlier.

The next step in my christian faith was on October 28, 2000 during Judgment House (which also happened to be my birthday). I was working security and they put me in the parking lot directing traffic. This might not sound like a very good job but I am glad I did it because it gave me a lot of time alone with God. During this time I did a lot of praying and some bible reading and during this time the Lord convicted me that my plans to go to K-State that I had since the beginning of my Junior year, where my plans and not his. Then I thought of other colleges that I could go to (I didn't want to go to MCC or OCC in my area) so I decided I would probably go to Pensacola Christian College in Florida. Because of this I went down and visited PCC with my church's youth group. My first impression of PCC was good and I liked it, but the more I got to know their Computer Science department and their regulations, the less I liked it. After I came home, I started to pray about going to PCC some more. Now God laid on my heart that my major, Computer Science, was not necessarily the major he wanted me in. So then I prayed some more and I came to the conclusion that he wanted me to be a missionary. After this point, the more I thought and prayed about being a missionary, the more sure this is where the Lord was leading me.

After deciding to be a missionary, I talked to my pastor, youth minister, and a few other people and it seemed like they all recommended Trinity Baptist College. My pastor was of the opinion that the college here was not necessarily the best, but it had a very good church and that I would learn most of what I needed from the Church anyway. He also said that the church is the closest church I could find to Messiah Baptist. Then I got an application to Trinity but it took them a while to accept me. First, I sent in all of what I thought I needed but they did not receive the pastoral recommendation so I had to get another one and then send it in again. After they did not accept me a while after that, I found out they needed my Butler County Community College transcript before they would accept me. I sent that in and they still didn't accept me for a while and they had not received it. I had Butler send it again and they FINALLY accepted me about a month or less before I had to leave.

Trinity Baptist College/Church

I will first talk about Trinity Baptist College because that is why I came here and experienced first. I was not sure about Trinity at first because I knew absolutely nothing about it except pastoral recommendations and I had never even seen it (I had an opportunity but I "knew" at that time that I was not going into the ministry). But anyway, I love Trinity a lot and it is a good college with a lot of good professors that care about the students. Also, most of the people here are good christian people but like any college there are the few bad apples. The women here are ok but I got the only good one :) and I am not biased, honest. The best thing about the college is that you have Trinity Baptist Church here too, which is an awesome church, and in several ways, it is even better than Messiah (but not missions). Trinity has a lot of really good ministries at their church and they make it easy to get involved with them. I am currently working the bus ministry here and it has been a great learning experience and a blessing too. Oh, and in case your wondering I am a Bible major with a dual concentration in Missions and Pastoral Theology (I am going to be a missionary somewhere in the Far East).

Testimony

Note: This needs to be updated with my improved NBT testimony.

I grew up in a Christian home and I have been going to church ever since I was little. I started to go to the Sunday School in third grade and that is where I first knew that believed in Jesus Christ. My teacher talked about what Jesus did for us and how to go to heaven but I did not understand. One thing I did understand was that you had to be baptized in the water tub in front of our church to be a member of the church and to take the grape juice and bread they severed during church so I asked my parents about it. My pastor asked me questions I did not understand but they thought I knew it by my incomplete answers because I was shy. Then I was baptized and for a long time I was not sure I was going to heaven but I convinced myself I was because I believed in Jesus was baptized. This worked until my Junior year in high school when God was really working on my heart telling me something was wrong.

During that summer I finally began to look at my life and I noticed that I did act like a Christian was supposed to do, and then I then realized that I never accepted Jesus into my heart and let go of my life. At the start of my Senior year I switched churches with my parents to one they liked better. On Wednesday night during a high school service, the youth pastor asked for anyone who didn't know for sure that they were going to heaven to raise their hand while no one was looking. I knew I needed to raise my hand but I did not want to. Finally, I did and it felt like my arm weighted 100 pounds. Then he said that if anyone wants to come forward he could show them how they could know they were going to heaven today. I then went down the aisle and one of the youth workers took me into a back room and explained to me about the bible basics. About how we all have sinned and cannot go to heaven by ourselves and that God is offering a free gift to go to heaven by believing in Jesus and by accepting him. Then I prayed a simple prayer thanking God for his gift of salvation and I asked Jesus to come into my heart and be Lord over my life.

After my salvation there was no sudden change but I slowly began to remove my bad habits. The first major change in my life was in the music I listened to. I used to listen to hard rock groups like Limp Bizkit but slowly I stopped listening to music for how it sounded but for its content, now I mostly listen to music that glorifies God and no longer listen to any bad music. Some other places my life I changed are my patience in driving and I stopped pirating computer games and listening to burnt CDs. If you would like to know more about Jesus or how to go to heaven please e-mail me or instant message me

Future Plans

Right now I am planning to be a church planter in the Western United States. I am currently planning on starting a church with a associate of mine in Las Vegas. From there I plan to either start my own church or stay there. Who knows (other than God that is), I may end up being a missionary to Japan like I originally planned. I would love to go back to Japan again (You can see some pictures from my first visit to Japan here.

Programming Experience

I.   Q-basic
II.  Visual basic
III. C/C++
IV.  HTML & JavaScript
V.   Misc. Others

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Q-basic

I really don't have very much experience in programming since I first started in the Winter semester of my freshman year in high school (January 1998). There I took Computer Programming 1 where I learned about Charles Babbage, Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instructional Code (basic) and the American Standard Code for Informational Interchange (ASCII). Well the history part was boring but the next part was a lot more fun.

after that I moved on to Q-basic. After learning that for about 2 weeks I started to play around with it on my own at home, trying to make my own game which consisted mainly of GoTo loops. After a while I started teaching myself Q-basic faster than I was learning it is school and for the rest of that year I didn't really learn anything in Programming 1. After a while Adam Higerd started helping me out. He is a friend from Riverlawn Christian Church, and was into programming also. He have me a program called play.bas which I eventually made into play4.bas (so I always refer to it as Play 4). It was a pretty neat game for a beginner (and by the end it was completely modified, I used it to learn how to do more advanced stuff) but Adam still considered it partly his.

Near the end of the school year, a small group of us got together to make a Q-basic game. Joseph Haynes, Alex Roberts and I only went thought Programming 1 and we went over to Michael Marlen's house (who I didn't know at that time) and he had gone through Programming 2. Well that day mainly consisted at laughing at Mike's pathetic Kill (UNMENTIONED PERSON) program which you typed in a number and it had 50 different ways to kill that person.

After that day Mike and I started getting together to work on the program since Joe and Alex didn't really know enough to really help. By this time I was a moderate Q-basic programmer since I had learned a lot from the Play 4 program. We weren't creative so we decided to call this program War. We worked on this program for probably a little over a year (Spring 1998-Summer 1999). By the time we moved onto our next program Visual basic, our program was a pretty cool game for Q-basic, but you still couldn't do very much in it. We lost our most recent version of it where you could get into a pathetic fight with a monster (I think you were guaranteed to die), and also fixed other bugs like the room of no return (none of the exits worked for some reason). This made Adam jealous and he came back with, well you had two people working on it :)

Visual basic

By this time my brother had given me his older version of Visual basic 5.0 and I had been spending some time learning it. (since I already knew Q-basic I didn't really want to spend time learning a COMPLETELY different language, I mean you hardly EVER use LOOPS! Well Mike and I decided to make a game, and being the unoriginal people we are, we called it ... VISUAL WAR! It had several pathetic versions that best not be remembered before we came to our current version which it still pathetic. It is basically the picture of a person on my Trans Pic control. It had an arrow that changed directions based (cardinal and diagonals) on the location of the mouse by some formula that I figured out. Also it scrolled the map behind it made from the Map Editor (Versions 1 & 2) program I made. WOW!

After a while we got tired of that we got tired of it and we have not really worked on a game together since. Mainly we helped each other with other programs like the infamous Dr. Pepper program (the version I have is harmless, Mike's modified version apparently can take down the computer network at my school and has been blamed for many things it cannot do) and also a little bit of Mike's Client/Host program which was later modified to be the Trojan program (later named to the Messiah Trojan after my church?!¿!?) We also made the Snow Wars game which we modeled after Snow Craft (a silly but entertaining snow ball fighting game) and we gave up after about 2 weeks.

Oh and did I forget to mention the Joe Programs? We made a few different Joe programs during different times of our VB career, later classified into Old, Better, and Best Joe Program. The first (Old Joe Program) is actually the first Visual basic program Mike and I made together. At this time Mike knew nothing and I barely knew more. It is just a message that slowly moves down and says Joe, are you good at programming? and had three buttons, [Yes] [No] [Yes]. It only showed two at a time and if you moved the mouse over one yes then that one disappeared and the other one showed up. if you clicked No is said I didn't think so. If you clicked the [x] button or closed it window by Alt-F4 or by another means, it said Are you trying to avoid the question? with one button [Yes, as a matter of fact I am].

The next Joe program never was completed in the form we wanted. The first part we did finish, it was just a splash screen (Joe Program) with a little Joe busy icon. Then it showed up as Joe Program is the task bar with a little animated Joe icon. It also included a laughing sound and another taunt from Age of Empires if you tried to close the program. We were then going to add little messages that flashed across the screen and a fake background, but we didn't know how to take a picture of the screen without hitting Print Screen (and that is the only key SendKeys won't emulate) and it would be too much work for the flashing messages so it ended up being the first part.

The next Joe program (Better Joe), I finished it, but not until AFTER we already showed it to him when it didn't work. He never let us run it again (I wonder why). We rushed to get it to work but didn't have enough time. It was a program that used Dir to find all the files on his computer and say that it is deleting them. Instead of deleting them we made it hide them, and keep a record of those files. I later added an undo but the version we gave him didn't have a working one :).

The final Joe program (Best Joe) we now call the Dr. Pepper program (mentioned above). This was an awesome idea. We decided it would be funny if we made a program that a picture of a Dr. Pepper can on the window. so what we did, is we first took my digital camera and took the picture of a Dr. Pepper can and then cut out the picture of the can by hand. We then made it the picture of the form and then added a few features to it.

1. The can was always on top of the screen
2. The program could not be closed (except by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F9)
3. The program was removed from the task list (Ctrl-Alt-Delete)
4. You could move the can by clicking on it and dragging
5. It had a cool little Dr. Pepper Icon
6. *It added itself to the startup in the registry* 
7. *It opened/closed your Cd-Rom Drive*
8. *It shut down the computer*
* Comments in asterisks were commented (or REMed) because they were too mean *

Mike later took that program as one of this Independent study programs (Programming 5) and adapted it to do mean things. He make it so it flashed little shapes on the screen in different colors. He made it shut down the computer after so long. In the final version, it gave a run time error something or other when you ran it. 10 minutes later, all of a sudden you would hear someone yelling MIKE! It was SO funny, it just laid dormant for 10 minutes and then did what it did before. Mike was always getting in trouble with the programs he was writing (He worked on Client/host, Dr. Pepper Program, and many other "screw up the computer" type programs. I thought it was funny that every time Mrs. Coblentz would approve these programs (Why did she?) and then he would get in trouble for it. He almost got suspended after the server started messing up, which I am not sure was even Mike. Then he gets suspended for sending messages over the school network... but that is a completely different and hilarious story.

C and C++

I do not really have very much experience in C and C++. My brother tried to teach me Turbo Pascal and C when I was younger but at that time I did not want to learn and I did not see what could possibly be fun about it. Later I took a C programming class when many of the programming class made an "exodus" out of Programming 4 & 6 to take a dual credit computer class at Butler County Community College. I had a lot of fun in this class and I did learn a lot about the basics of DOS programming but it never made me want to start learning it on my own.

That summer, I took a C++ programming class which was for the most part completely worthless. I learned only the differences in the basic libraries and the C++ class went at a slower pace than the C class. It went over the same exact things that the C class did only using cin and cout instead of printf.

HTML and JavaScript

I took a Javascript class that first semester of my senior year. The first two weeks we really just learned how to write HTML and about the very basics of JavaScript. After that we started going into the JavaScript. What I really liked about this class was it was project oriented which is unusual for a freshman level class. The whole grade of our class was in two projects we had to make, one for the midterm, and one for the final. What I did was make a Tic-Tac-Toe program for the midterm and then I took the same program and added cookies in it for my final. The teacher, who was the head of the computer department at Butler was very impressed in the quality of the projects, and I learned a lot from that class about HTML and JavaScript (and is probably the only reason I put any effort into my website).

Misc. Others

I also know a little bit in some other languages like Turbo Pascal, TI-86 Basic, and the Structure of Java. I learned the basics of Turbo Pascal in the first week of programming 3 before we convinced the teacher to switch it over to Visual Basic (which was now 1 & 2, we had taken Q-Basic instead) because Turbo Pascal was outdated not useful at all to know. I don't remember anything about it anymore except that it is similar to C.

I self taught myself Ti-86 Basic by playing around with the various functions and reading the booklet to figure out things I couldn't by playing with it. By the time I finished Calculus I became very good at it and had made several semi-difficult programs. I made programs that do time consuming processes on the calculator fast and easy (but I probably did not save any time because of writing the program). I made programs like a Game Menu, a program to calculate and graph residuals of a function to estimate data, made programs that estimate the area under a curve using 6 different methods (including the built in FnInt), a probability program, and started to make a program to do all the work for me in calculating things for Vector Marketing (selling Cutco).

Now about Java, I have never actually wrote my own program but I have seen my brother do it and I know how Java works and such, I just never took the time to learn it myself. I even have Visual Age for Java (for both Windows and Linux) but I have never even used it, which is kind of a waste, but oh well.

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Where I've Worked

I.   Pizza Hut
II.  Vector Marketing
III. Pulte Homes
IV.  Neighborhood Bible Time
V.   Dominoes Pizza

Pizza Hut

I worked here for about 4 months at the end of my high school year. I worked here as a waiter (which means I wait and answer phones). I really enjoyed this job until one of my good friends left and we got a new manager shortly after that. I liked my old manager a lot, she was nice and friendly, but the new manager was very business-like and he didn't seem friendly to me at all. Well, I was going to camp during that summer and I forgot to say I was going to be gone two weeks before but I put a notice up one week before but I noticed I was already scheduled. My new manager was out of town until I was going to leave so I couldn't talk to him about it. I tried to get one of my coworkers to cover for me but he said he would think about it. I didn't care enough it try to give my new manager any more notice so I just left. When I got back, I was no longer on the schedule so I got the hint and I turned my clothes in (I never did ask if I was fired or anything).

Vector Marketing

I used to sell Cutco Cutlery (knives) but I stopped because I didn't really enjoy it and I was too lazy to much much money at it (make a lot of appointments). I made commission from selling them plus I was guaranteed $14.00 per visit (made up after 2 weeks if I made less than that on commission). Even though I did not like working for Vector too much, I got a lot of valuable sales experience that I can apply to soul winning (witnessing) which is selling Jesus to the lost people.

Pulte Homes

I just got a job here and I do miscellaneous office work that the realtors there don't want to do, don't have time to do, or don't know how to do. Mainly I print letters, database, filing, and make sure the signs are accurate, straight, and clean. It is a pretty easy and a fairly well paying job (but I don't get very many hours).

Neighborhood Bible Time

I traveled with an organization called Neighborhood Bible Time for the summer of 2002 and 2003. Both years I was called the Day-Teen Evangelist. I worked with the 7th grade through 12th grade at every church I went to.

My Summer started out in three weeks of training with the other 48 or so evangelists. In 2002 training was in Boulder, Colorado under the direction of Charles B. Homsher, the founder of Bible Time. In 2003, I had training in Paxton, Illinois under the direction of the new director Larry Koontz. It was the transition year from the 50 years under Charles Homsher also know as Boss to Larry Koontz. Both years were good and I saw the Lord bless in mighty ways. The two years were very different as might be expected because I witness the transition between the two directors.

My first year I spent three weeks in Maryland before spending one more week in training in Boulder. Then I went out again for two weeks in Tennessee and four weeks in Ohio. My second year I traveled three weeks in North Carolina and then came back for one week of training in Illinois followed by six more weeks traveling in Illinois.

Both year were awesome and the Lord blessed me. I knew it was God's will for me to travel each of these years. My first year I mainly learned how to talk to people, witness, lead people to the Lord, and other such activities. These were extremely valuable for me because I had no experience in these areas before. The experience I receive gave me confidence I needed and the ability to see myself as a missionary for the first time. My second year I gained some ability, mostly in experience in witnessing and learned how to preach with power. The main thing I got from my second year was I learned how to walk with God and I learned how to ask for things in faith and I learned how to depend on His strength.

If you attend a college that NBT recruits from (about 10 Fundamental Bible Colleges), I would highly recommend this because it is invaluable the experience you receive and as far as I know there is no other organization like it except for the one Pensacola Christian College made based off of Bible Time.

Domino's Pizza

My Sophomore year in college I needed a decent job for school and Domino's is the only place I could find that would hire me. I love the job except for the miles it puts on my car. It is easy, pays fairly well, and I have one of the best bosses. Really I have two bosses. One is the owner, he is ok, and the other is the manager Chris (who works under the owner) who is awesome. He is a nice guy and is not afraid to witness to people. He actually just left Dominos to become an evangelist (I knew when I met him God had something bigger for him). He quit after the vampire insident at work (more on this later).

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