Back in the saddle

Well, it has been a really long time since I posted on here. My last post was on August 7, 2006 as I was getting on a plane for my first travel assignment with Amdocs. A whole lot has changed in my life since then, so let me see if I can catch everyone up:

For those of you who are new readers to this blog, "The Quest" was my very long struggle with trying to find my calling in life (if you are interested you can read the archives). If you read the few posts prior to this one, you will see that I quit my job at CGI-AMS which was my first job after college and where I worked for 5.5 years and I took a new job with another IT Consulting firm called Amdocs. My reasoning for the change was to determine if I was sick of consulting or if I was sick of CGI-AMS. Well, God answered my question real quick.

4 weeks into my new travel job with Amdocs, I got a call out of the blue from Chuck. Chuck is the Executive Director of the Care and Counseling Center of Georgia, which is a nonprofit located in Decatur, GA. He asked me to interview for a new job he was creating. This was the answer to my years of struggle and prayer. Long story short, I took the job in October of 2006 and have been the Director of Finance and Business Operations ever since.

This career shift wasn't easy. It meant a big paycut and it meant limiting Morgan's job search to the ATL area. However, with much prayer and consultation, Morgan and I both agreed that this was what God was calling me to do.

It all happened so fast that I kind of felt that my "Quest" was over and so I stopped blogging. So to those of you that I know used to wake up every morning looking for a new post from me, I apologize.

Well, since October of 2006 I have really lived into this new calling. And this past January of 2008 I started a masters program at GSU to further this career calling. I am seeking an MPA (Masters of Public Administration) with a Nonprofit Management concentration. Taking classes part-time while I continue to work at CCCG full-time I hope to complete the degree sometime in 2010.

To catch you up with Morgan, she graduated from Columbia Theological Seminary with a Masters of Divinity in May 2007. She then accepted a call to St Andrews Presbyterian Church in Tucker, GA as the Associate Pastor for Youth. She has been working there ever since July 2007. In August of 2007 we moved from Decatur to Tucker so as to be closer to the church.

So, that should catch everyone up with what is going on in our lives. Several of our friends started blogs and that encouraged me to shake the dust off this old blog and get it going again. It was very therapeutic for me during a tough time in my career and so I am hoping that it can continue to be therapeutic and a good place for me to goof off (along with Facebook).

Peace Out,

-Robert