Networking

Networking.

If you went to school for any sort of business management, you've heard this word a hundred times. A thousand times. Maybe even a million times.

When you're in school, it becomes a dirty word. Something you HAVE to do to get a job, to get ahead in life, to even survive. When you're in school, it's an awkward, awful process of going to "events" where recruiters from different companies drink a lot and hand out business cards and do little else.

But now, as I try to get my feet underneath me as a college missionary, I absolutely love the process known as "networking." It should be obvious to everyone that this looks a lot differently for me than it does for a senior in college that's scrambling for a job. But it's still networking.

And it's going to take a lot of networking for me to reach my goal of getting back on campus by this fall. The average GCM missionary needs to get in contact with around 900 people in order to get fully-supported. My list of people to get in touch with is right at 250 currently. So I have a long way to go.

But luckily, I know I serve a God that provides. Even if I don't get back to campus by my goal date of August 21st, 2014, I know God is going to get me there eventually. I know that if it takes longer, it's because God wants to show me something through this process that is going to take longer than the next couple of months.

But anyways. Networking. It really is a cool thing. So for those of you out there still in college, try to actually pay attention to that. And for those of you not in college anymore, I really would love to connect.

Thanks.