Tonight I begin training my successor as treasurer and church bookkeeper.
I remember 5 years ago when I was the rookie, the one in training. I began what I believed was a mutual love/hate relationship with Simply Accounting (which I can honestly say I now love much more than hate) and began the journey into bookkeeping. I had no formal training, the church I was then employed by took the risk on a kid like me and we learned together.
When I made the difficult decision to resign that position, taking the leap of faith moving to Medicine Hat, I was hired just a few months later as the church bookkeeper. Again I was the trainee, but this time it was much less stressful having at least a little bit of a sniff of what I was doing! This time I was writing cheques and entering data on my "own time", not as part of my 8-5 work day. It proved to have it's challenges, scheduling this between dating the love of my life and hockey and then wedding planning... and more hockey... but we have made it fit.
And now as I stand on the edge of this new season , I can honestly say that although I have enjoyed it, I am looking forward to closing this chapter. I`m looking forward to being free of the deadlines and not taking work with me on road trips :) It will certainly be a change getting to the middle of the month and not writing payroll cheques, but nonetheless it`s a change that I embrace.
I have been very blessed to serve two congregations doing the administrative work that I love...Who knows, maybe at some point in the future an opportunity to serve in this capacity will be made available to me again. So on that note I won`t end this chapter with a final ``good-bye``, but rather ``until next time``...
