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luvinmyguitar on 2/6/2008 1:13:01 AM |
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Missionary family needs help getting started... |
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Hello BRCC!
My name is Sarah Kaspar and I have been in Brazil for the last two years as a missionary. I have attended BRCC off and on for the last few years when I have come back to Texas to visit family and renew visas and such things. I have called BRCC my home church for some time now, even though I have not officially been here to participate in many activities.
I had the privilege and honor of participating in overseas missions work for over two years, but now God is moving my life in a different direction. While in Brazil, I met the love of my life and am getting married near Dallas in less than three weeks. I will just refer to him as “my husband“ instead of husband-to-be because that takes too long to type!
My husband and I have prayed over our future and feel God calling us to leave the mission field and settle here in the San Antonio area. We hope to cultivate our new family and participate in some of God’s projects right here in the local church in Texas. My husband and I will be looking for an apartment or smaller house to rent and jobs after the wedding and honeymoon travels, probably starting in late March or early April. We will be staying with my mother here in San Antonio until we can find our own little home.
I appreciate any help you all can give in finding a new home and finding work for myself and my husband. We are young but we are honest and dependable and hard working.
To let you know a little about us, I worked for five years with an audio visual company before I went into foreign missions. I had 2 years as a technician and then 3 years at a management level. I have experience in audio, video, and basic lighting, in a conference or hotel setting. I also had over a year of customer service prior to the audio visual company with a flower shop. In my two years of mission work I have done everything from dig fence holes, to a c-section on a llama (now that is a great story), run sound for the base, to basic cooking and cleaning, played guitar on live radio, made balloon animals for the local kids in the slums, and so much more.
I really enjoy working with people, but I do not know how to go back to a “desk job” after working in Brazil. I would love something at a coffee shop, or maybe in the audio visual world again. I am good with a camera and love the outdoors. I have played music for 16 years, speak fluent Portuguese and some Spanish, am good with computers, good with my hands, a fast learner, good with people, and extremely flexible.
My husband went straight from high school into missionary work, so his “work experience” has been growing up in Brazil and working as a missionary in Brazil. He can fix almost anything, is good with engines and basic home repair. He loves yard work and outdoors, he was in charge of the outdoor maintenance for the first base we worked at together (this included cutting grass, chopping trees, clearing brush, building benches and prayer areas, and building the orchard/garden areas). He prefers working with his hands and enjoys working outside. It would be wonderful if he could apprentice with someone in home repair, or small engine work, or any handy man, painting, roofing, construction, etd. field.
My husband is Brazilian and has just completed his immigration process to the US. He is a permanent resident and has all of his documentation to legally live and work here in the States. He is learning English, his first language is Portuguese, so he may not be ready for a customer service or phone oriented position yet. But he is learning quickly and is at conversational level English.
We are ready to start actively participating at BRCC and hope to see all of you there soon! We will be in the area for two weeks to answer any questions, look at housing, and check on possible job openings. We will be traveling for the wedding/honeymoon, and for him to meet my family from Feb. 17th until possibly the last week in March.
If you have any job or housing information please feel free to e-mail me at: jollyredgiant@hotmail.com
Thank you all and God bless!
Sarah and Diogo |
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