Hoo boy. That's a
lot of potential new fundies...
http://www.mercurynews.com/top-stories/ci_16255021And then there are those who gather each week in a small room in a converted industrial building just off the freeway in Mountain View. For them, it's only a slight exaggeration to say that they feel like maybe a prayer is the only thing they do have....
Hill, whose title is director of prayer and visitation, oversees the megachurch's weekly PrayerWorks meetings. It's a group for the downsized and the outsourced, for the weary and the wary, for those who devoutly power their job search with a higher power that has nothing to do with Monster, LinkedIn or CareerBuilder....
Last week, about a dozen people sat in a circle of chairs in one room in the vast building that serves as Abundant Life's worship hall. They were a sampling of the misery that the downturn has delivered: Ray Guzman, a 63-year-old trucking dispatcher who was laid off two years ago after 18 years on the job; Alfred Kennedy, who's worked some, but mostly looked for work for the past nine years; Tony Waller, who is praying to find forgiveness for the employer that dumped him; Tina Beauchamp, who is intent on leaving her old career behind and starting anew....
"You will get a job," she says. "God said to Adam and Eve, 'You gotta get out of here. No more free lunches. You have to work.' ":puke: :puke: :puke: