64 job applications, rejections, and no-responses later I still hadn't found a job. When we were still in Israel, I did see one job at a place called Agape (CRU in the USA). It was literally my dream job, everything I wanted to do and not do was in it. Just one big downside to this job was that it was paid by partnership funding. Meaning: I needed to find partners to support me financially. I didn't know what it meant completely, but it didn't really feel like something that was 'for me'. But now, a few months later, it was a Friday night and I needed to apply for one more job that week, so I checked the website, hoping they now had a job that was 'normally' paid. They didn't, but my dream job was still online. So Ramon and I prayed and said: 'God, if this is what you want, we'll go for it, but it's really scaring us. Within a week after sending my letter of application, I was in their office for a job interview and another week later I got the call I was hired. I could start right away with filling in someone's pregnancy leave and they would pay me 'normally' for that. That gave me a little bit of space to start figuring out how the whole partnership-system worked. I really felt in my soul that God wanted me to work at Agape, to train me more. And so He did, in so many more ways then I could ever imagine.
When I started working at Agape I told God I had one condition to working there. If ever the day would come that I wasn't able to buy food for our baby, I would quit my job immediately and find something else. A few months later Jeremiah was born. Financially speaking, things were tight, but okay. Until a big setback came, we had no more reserves and ran out of money. We had just €12,68 on our bank account, 12 days until the next paycheck came in and we needed to buy new formula for Jeremiah. That morning we prayed: God, today is that day we spoke about. If today before 5pm there hasn't been a miracle, I'll call my team leader and quit my job. Two hours later we got a phone call from a neighbor in our building. She had had a lot of groceries from a friend, but since she was alone it was way too much for her. She asked if we could use it? The groceries were literally everything we needed for ourselves for 12 days and we could use our money for buying formula for Jeremiah. Another couple of days later, Ramon found a job and our money problems were solved. Those groceries-packages later turned out to be a favorite in God's way of helping us. A week or two after our first package, someone from our church posted a message that she had leftover-grocery packages for interested people. We are still very thankfully using those packages. Every Tuesday is another party and Jeremiah and Ziva call it 'Blessing Time'.