Unemployment Chronicles, Day 3: World Vision

As a side note, we left a window open downstairs last night, and when I got up this morning it was 63 degrees in the house.  This is what we in the Pacific Northwest call "summer."  By the end of this month, "summer" will be over and it will start to rain again.

The contract I was hired for is with World Vision, a big Christian charity that fights hunger around the world by encouraging people to sponsor a child via monthly payments.  It's a good cause, and based on a quick browse through the Internet, I don't see much controversy related to the group.

The project is to build a single set of financial statements for World Vision International, which is a separate entity from the US organization World Vison.  World Vision International is a sort of federation of different organizations in different countries, with separate financials, and they have never tried to create a single set of financials before.  So we have no blueprint, financial statements in different languages that may have been assembled using different rules, and people to contact all over the world.  Shoud be fun.  This is actually a great project for my abilities.

One thing this project is NOT, it is not an opportunity to work my way into fulltime employment.  If you look at careers on the World Vision website, you will quickly see that that they are looking for committed Christians.  As a condition of employment, you have to agree to their statement of faith, or to the Apostles' Creed.  I think even some Christians might have a problem with the statement of faith, the part about the Bible being the infallible, authoritative word of God.  The Apostles' Creed is more benign, one of those things I remember repeating often in church.

I won't be agreeing to either of those things.  But for a couple of months, it's a good opportunity.