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| A New Endeavor |
| 15.3.05 |
I was asked by my boss about what I thought about my job. I work at a mental health facility. I responded, "well, to be honest, I think we are missing the most important component."
She asked, "What is that?"
"Jesus." I replied.
At this point I figured she would say, "Oh that's nice..." and change the subject. To my surprise, my boss said, "Tell me more." I went on to explain that our facility takes a humanistic approach and neglects (or even resists at some levels) the spiritual aspect- more specifically: Jesus. I told her of my vision to have a Christian mental health facility with inpatient and outpatient treatment, including prayer and strictly Biblical counseling and NO government funds. I want to "Faith-Based" funding from the federal government. That just tells a Christian programs that they like the success rate of our approach and want to fund us doing our work. Just one catch- no Jesus. It is designed to de-faith the faith based programs. I want no part of that.
My boss liked what she heard. The next week we spoke again and I mentioned my frustrations about treatment missing Jesus. She said, "So you're really serious about this?" I told her I was.
A few days later the subject again came up and she told me that she spoke to her lawyer (a Christian), an accountant (also a Christian) and some financial backers (Christians too). She even spoke to a Christian who is in a high level at the state Department of Family Services.
Since then, progress has been slow, but steady. I gave ideas for plans for the organizational approach and structure and a mission and vision statement. She told me that the lawyer developed it into a legal mission statement and that other things (which I cannot divulge at this time) were being worked on.
But now she is facing major attacks. Please pray for her. Just call her "Pete's boss" for now. We know that God is faithful (or as I say, "JESUS é fiel!!" or "JESUS is faithful!!"), and we are praying for His guidance in this. I have battled discouragement lately, but I am sticking to Him in this. Let His will be clear.
Please, if you have any suggestions, leave them in comments or email me. If you have an idea for a name for the facility, please email me or put it into the comments. And please pray for us! Jesus can help people who have mental illness more than Freud, Jung, Eriksson or Adler can. |
posted by pregador27 @ 23:55   |
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