Welcome! Well, the new class is here and are getting acclimated to life at McLean Bible Church. We’ll be doing a series of blogs to help you better get to know the Future Leader Class of 2010. Today we’re highlighting Jeana Pe, who works with Kid’s Quest, McLean Bible Church’s Children’s Ministry. Jeana was already a member of the McLean Bible Church staff when she was asked to participate in the Future Leaders Program.

I like to say, “I am the Future Leader that was rejected.”

Instability, purposelessness, and uncertainty are tear-jerking emotions for me. When I went 12 hours away from home to Liberty University, I cried for two weeks. When I went to Tennessee to sell books door-to-door for a summer, I cried for three weeks. When I graduated with a women’s ministry major, a major that God directed me to but I had no job direction. I struggled for a year. I tried graduate school, but God shut the door. I tried the DC job market, but God shut the door. In 2008, I tried the Future Leader Program. After the phone interviews, Rich Hurst called to say, “I’m sorry… but I will pass your resume around the church.” My mental response was, “Sure. Whatever. He’s just trying to be nice. But seriously, when will God open the door?” About a month later, my resume was passed to Kid’s Quest. A job that exactly fit my strengths was open. In His timing, God opened the door.

So what have I learned? This summer, I got married, I bought a townhouse and I became a Staff Future Leader. The “happiest” time in my life initiated the tear-jerking emotions again. What is a godly wife? How many bills are there? How do I handle more responsibility at work? I struggle constantly with those questions, but may God let me struggle! Yesterday, Todd Phillips said “Sometimes, God doesn’t change the circumstances, rather He changes us on the inside.” Let the change happen then! Until the day I die, sanctify me.