The Beautiful Conundrum!!

Here's the detail (prepare for an essay)...

I have an interview for a role in Bromsgrove (near Birmingham) working as a "Church Community Worker", which basically means that I'd be living in a house provided by the local church on an estate and working to forge relationships with the local community with the aim of sharing the love of God in practical ways. All very exciting, and closer to my family in Birmingham, so that's good too. I'm still not sure how "rough" the estate is, and have a few concerns about our kids (obviously) and how it would be for them if we're surrounded by vulnerable people for a lot of the time. However, the job does excite (and scare) me. The interviews for that role are next Wednesday evening and 10am on Thursday morning with a panel (including the Arch Deacon of Dudley).

I've also got an interview for the role of "Director of Coventry YFC". This is another one of those roles that excites and scares me. All YFC centres have their issues and having worked closely with several YFC centre directors I think it's fair to say that it's no 9-5 role. And I know Coventry's a big place which probably means spreading yourself very thinly between lots of churches, or working closely with just a few and going from there. It's also good that Coventry is right between my family in Birmingham and our good friends in Rugby. That interview is early on Saturday morning.

And I have been invited for an interview with National YFC in Halesowen for a role that fits my gifts and experience well, and doesn't even have a job spec yet. I'm really excited by this role -  partly cos I love the idea of staying connected to YFC, partly because it's 5 minutes from all my family, and partly because it's in an area of work I know fairly well now. However, the down side is that I'd need to raise 50% of my salary myself, and I have, let's say, limited idea how I'd do that. The other thing is, that that interview's on Thursday too, which makes life kinda busy. And I wouldn't be allowed (I think) to start until I'd raised the financial support, so how do you accept that job and not the others without any certainty of a start date?

The other interview is at Beverley Minster, which looks like an amazing church, but it's a long way from our friends and family, and the interviews aren't until July, so no panic on that one yet. It's good though that they shorlisted me, seeing as I didn't apply til after the closing date.

Oh, and there's also possibly another role in the pipeline, but I have no idea how much I'm allowed to say about that as at present it's anything but a done deal, so watch this space.

Anyway, as you can see, I have an interesting week ahead, and not a lot of sleep to look forward to.

Do I just take the first thing I'm offered? 

Do I risk the National YFC role even without the security of finance (that'd be a real "God" thing)?

Should the location thing be an issue when I always say that God calls us to purposes before places?

Any wise thoughts (or just loads of prayer) would be much appreciated.