Update - Hunter

Where are you working?

I am working for the Environmental Engineering firm Hazen & Sawyer in Raleigh, NC. Hazen & Sawyer specializes in designing Drinking Water Treatment Plants and Wastewater Treatment Plants. I have mostly been working with the wastewater treatment plants. I am working 20 hours per week with Hazen & Sawyer and I am also working on a Master’s Degree in Environmental Engineering at North Carolina State University.


What are your plans for next year?

I will finish my Master’s degree next summer (2011). I will be done with classes in May, but will still need to finish my Thesis project. After that I am planning on staying on with Hazen & Sawyer and continuing to live in Raleigh, NC (that is assuming they offer me a full time position).


What is something significant the Lord has taught you in the past 6 months?

I think the Lord has been teaching me a lot about taking responsibility for decisions. Deciding to move to North Carolina was basically the first “real” decision I’ve ever made and I think I’ve second guessed myself a lot of the time about that decision. I’m learning a lot about faith, and trusting that God is in fact in control of not only my life, but the entire universe; past, present, and future.


How have you been serving in the local church?

The Lord has blessed me with an awesome church, Treasuring Christ Church. The name says it all, the church has been teaching me to treasure Christ more and more. I have been serving in the community with the church. Raleigh has a pretty sizable homeless population and we try to get out on Saturday mornings to hand out warm drinks or soup and to meet the people and to try and point them to Jesus and to invite them to our church. I am also involved in a community group and will start serving in the nursery on a once every month or two rotation.

Any other personal life updates?


My church is going on a vision trip to Chile at the end of April. I can’t go with them, but it sounds like their goal is to send a church planting team to Chile within the next 3 to 4 years. I feel like I’d happily move to Chile tomorrow if asked, but I definitely need to be seeking the Lord in this, and I think I have a lot of growing up to do before I could or should go into overseas missions / church planting. I have been very encouraged by my churches vision for church planting. They are particularly interested in engineers and businessmen that can start a business as well as planting churches throughout the world. This gets me very excited!


Any ways that we can pray for you?

That in all things I would work as though working for the Lord. I’m struggling with the practical application of living out my faith at work. Pray that God would place other Christian men in my life that can model this for me. A relationship with other Christians at my work place would be really neat also.

Also pray that I would be placing my hope in the position I have in Jesus Christ (ie. Adoption into the family of God. I am now a child of God that has been reconciled to him.) rather than my dreams for my future or even more trivial things such as Chicago sports…