When I came to interview for this Public Relations/Event Coordinating/Church and Building Relationship Development or my "official" title (atleast for the time-being) of "Marketing Coordinator" for the future H.O.P.E. Center here in Warren, Michigan, I stayed with a wonderful couple and one of their daughters for 4 days and 4 nights.
The very first night that I stayed there (and I had been gone all day, so really they were just then getting to know me) Jon Kring told me that he and his wife Beth had been praying about me coming to live with them for an indefinite amount of time BEFORE they had met me and BEFORE I had even been offered the job, and he told me that God had responded with the "thumbs up."
I knew right then that if I were offered the job that Warren, Michigan was where I was supposed to be. In the past couple months my relationship with Christ has not been good. I would go the entire day and realize when I was going to bed that I hadn't even spoken to God even once and attempting to read my Bible was going worse than that, when just 3 months ago I couldn't get enough of reading Scripture. It was so obvious when I talked to the Kring Family that Christ lived in them and his spirit surrounds them.
Beth and Rachel even sat up with me and watched "Survivor" with me, without even knowing that watching it by myself would have probably been a depressing experience because I watched it with my own family every Thursday.
So without further delay...I will introduce you to the wonderful Kring Family...
Jon
Beth
Rachel - a fellow grad from Olivet and already wonderful friend that also likes to stay up late and talk all night.
The Hoxie's - Allen, Erin, and Skylar. If you can't tell by the family resemblance, Erin is the Kring of the family. I don't get to see them much yet, but what time I have spent with them, I know we'll have a lot of fun, especially gaming!
Thank you Krings for making me a part of your family!
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