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As you may have read from this post here I came home from Skegness via London to go for an interview at Holy Trinity Brompton (HTB). Here are my thoughts and a kind of prayer request;

My interview had been arranged while I was at Spring Harvest, I’d originally put my CV in but not expected to hear anything. So, was a little shocked when I got a call in the first place with the final details been confirmed while I was away.

For, those of you who don’t know HTB is a large (2000 congregation) Church in central London with a sister church St. Paul’s in Onslow Square and I’d applied for a job in the Technology department. So no surprises there.

When I got there I found out that one interview was actually two. Round 1 was with the head of the technology department, and was exactly as I expected it, apart from the slightly more random question “Can you give ten examples of ways you’d protect a light switch?” Most creative answer to this in the comments will get a mention in a future post!

Round 2 was with someone from HR (Human Resources) and was a lot more random. Yes! That is possible. It seems that it’s very easy to be typecast in your own Church, but HTB were seeing me with fresh eyes. So things got quite random. I foolishly mentioned that I’m a TEFL teacher who enjoys youth work and, occasionally, preaching. And was asked “Have you thought about ordination?” Again, not perhaps something you expect at an interview.

So, where do things go from here? Well there is a a third round, that as I type now, I haven’t heard if I’m through to that. If I should get it, would I take it? Well, that entirely depends. It would be an amazing opportunity  but in my heart I know there is much more I could do at Arun. This however could be a call, that perhaps I’m trying to ignore, from God. And perhaps I should be obedient to that.

So, there’s the update.