Camp HappyBadFun!

The guy we have been looking at is former druggie named Aaron. He’s in his mid 20’s and is totally on fire for God. I believe this because he’s sustained his fire over the last year and it’s only gotten bigger. Now, Aaron has had a rough life…..broken family, alcoholic dad…..the works. Aaron’s dad died a few years ago leaving Aaron the drug head with about 250 grand……you can guess where the money went. Anyways….the guy looked to Jesus and got his life turned around and has been doing great. He got custody of his two small children and he’s involved with everything at church. We had been searching for someone to run the day to day operations of the station for a couple months and one day in conversation with Aaron it came out that he was unhappy with his job, data entry, and that he wanted to get into something more hands on where he could share his faith. We at the station talked and decided that Aaron was a natural fit and we contacted him to meet with us. Understand, we need somebody like right now because it’s time to go public with the station. During the meeting, Aaron shared with us that there were some things in his past that he hadn’t been able to take care of yet. He told us he had no driver’s license. He had a warrant out for his arrest for failure to appear in court for two counts of driving without a license. Big problem. To work at the station he would have to drive a lot during the day so it looked like hiring Aaron was out of the question. Not only this, but Aaron is going with us to the Philippines on a mission trip in January and he sure can’t get a passport with an outstanding warrant.

All of this stuff happened about 2 ½ years ago and Aaron had desperately wanted to get it taken care of but it was going to cost about 2000 dollars and that’s hard for a single dad to come up with. We finished our meeting with him and after he left we stayed around to talk about what we were going to do. We told Aaron to check into things and see how long it would take to get his license and get this thing taken care of. We figured the best case scenario would be that Aaron would get a court date in a couple of months and that he might be able to get his license by the end of the year and possibly have to do a few days in jail. We don’t have a couple months….don’t have a couple weeks for that matter. We thought we were back to square one and actually starting trying to come up with names for the position. This meeting was last Friday. Monday, Aaron calls to check into things and then calls us. The warrant had been dropped for some reason. He could get his license as soon as he could get to the court house. Also, Monday, Aaron received a tax refund check that he wasn’t expecting because he got custody of his kids but hadn’t claimed them as dependants……a little over 2 grand. Things like this just don’t happen. We all know how the court system is…..how the federal govt is with tax stuff. Needless to say, we were blown away.