I grew up in this area, but spent the last 20 years in minstry, mainly as a missionary in Rio de Janeiro.The last two months I was a seasonal hire at Costco while I got reaquainted with life in Texas (and out of full time ministry).I am researching the possibility (with Career Counselors and Coaches) of a job in Commercial Real Estate Development and Ivestment....

My goal is to become a renaissance woman of sorts with interests in real estate, social research, Christian ministry, and education (in no particular order because I'd actually like to do them all at once--call me crazy!).

In fact, when we moved to southern California from northern California, we rented out rooms in our 4600 sq. ft. house and 2100 sq. ft. guest house on 20 acres, to 14 college aged girls from around the world, that were students in a ministry school.

But for years now, it has been a dream of mine and my husband's to give away 50% of our income to ministries at our church and other causes we care about, such as orphan care.

Maybe introduce them to Dave Ramsey or Crown Ministries.  

I'm majoring in Bible: Pastoral Ministries at Fruitland Baptist Bible Institute in Hendersonville, NC.

If your income is low enough, you may even qualify for Medicaid, and your kids may qualify for CHIP.2) There are healthcare sharing ministries, such as Liberty Healthshare, that you may want to research if your earn significantly more than $100k. 

I just moved back here after completing ministry school in norther california and living abroad for 8+ years in Taipei, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Beijing, China where I started a successful (but small) cloud computing ERP/IT company.  

Then starts talking about "being in the ministry."

He’s going to wire me $7 million that he embezzled from his oil ministry account, all I had to do was give him my bank account information.