Meeting With The President

"An Epic Adventure in the Making," for those of you that don't know, that's the name of my other blog. There's one main reason why I chose that blog title and that's because once I decided to go into full time ministry, life has suddenly become one epic adventure. Although I may have traveled the world, it doesn't even come close to the adventure of living a life for God.

Little did I know that committing to serving God will lead to traveling far more then I had ever imagined (and more frequently at that), and also putting me in situations I thought I would never be in as well. For example what happened today...well I guess to give some background information this story began about two weeks ago. 

About two weeks ago, I drove to the hospital. My visit wasn't because I was struggling with a health issue and I wasn't visiting a sick patient either, I was there for an entirely different reason. The Sonora Regional Hospital is the only hospital in this entire county, so it's pretty well known and popular. It's so popular that it took me several minutes just to find a parking spot. 

After I found a spot, I grabbed my computer bag and headed toward the entrance. Meanwhile this dialogue (or I guess monologue) was running through my head: "Lord, I have no idea where I'm going, I've never been to this hospital and I really don't know where anything is. I'm not even sure where I'm supposed to find this guy." I glanced at the different entrances in attempt to figure out which way I should actually go. "Emergency entrance, nope, that's probably not it." For the record this hospital is pretty huge and they do have several entrances. I finally noticed the doors that said "main entrance" and proceeded inside. 

I walked up to the reception counter and started making casual conversation with the workers. Then I told them the reason why I was there, I wanted to talk to Andy Jahn, the President of the hospital. Without hesitation one of the workers took me through a bunch of "staff only" doors and led me down to the main offices in the hospital. In my mind I'm thinking "Lord, this is crazy, is this really happening right now? You literally just had me, a 22 year old kid walk into the hospital like I own the place asking to speak to the President. Lord, please give me the words to say." Something that I learned from being a colporteur is to name drop, say things confidently, pray like crazy, and let God take care of everything else.  God got me in some places most colporteurs normally don't go in while canvassing such as wedding receptions and operating rooms (both of those are completely different stories). And well that day it was talking to the President of the Sonora Regional Hospital. Although I didn't actually talk with him that day I did get an appointment (after all as you could expect hospital Presidents have several things they have to do). 

That leads me to today. At two o'clock I had a meeting with both the President and Vice President of the hospital. It still felt weird walking through the staff only doors cause this time I didn't have anyone escorting me. I actually almost got lost cause it's seriously like a maze down there. I met with the President's assistant and waited in the waiting room until I got called into the Vice President's office. 

I chatted with the Vice President until the President walked in and then I proceeded to tell them the reason I came. As I mentioned in a previous blog post our church is planning a health seminar to reach the community physically with the ultimate goal of reaching them spiritually. The thought came to my mind "why not partner with the hospital in getting people to come to our health seminar?" The purpose of that meeting was to ask the hospital to advertise for us and help get the word out there. People seem to trust their doctors and are more likely to listen to them then a 22 year old kid, so if the hospital and the doctors are supporting our health seminar...they'll be more likely to come. And ultimately we are using this health seminar to bridge over to the Revelation seminar coming up in March.

The President was more then pleased to partner with us and offered to take care of all of our advertising through the hospital. Not only are they going to take care of printing flyers for us, but they are also notifying all of the employees as well as putting our flyer on all their digital screens throughout the hospital. Oh and they're doing all that for free, praise the Lord!

And my God shall supply all your needs according to 

His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

Philippians 4:19