My vision is to figure out a way that a person with a calling can contact someone whose job it is to help find money that’s out there.
I was able to complete my seminary training without incurring any institutional debt. I dipped into my personal savings to finance part of it. I didn’t take out any loans, but it cost me altogether about $110,000.
At my home parish of St. James on the Big Island, parishioners were quite surprised when I explained that I was responsible for financing my education. The assumption was that the national church was going to take care of that.
Eventually, I would like to do parish ministry. In Hawaii, many churches want to hire experienced rectors. The way I was able to come home (to Hawaii) was to take a chaplaincy at a school, because I was already a teacher. |
