Stories From the Klos Family

It’s official. We’re employed. And pregnant.

As of Monday, September 8, Monica and I are employees of Zondervan. The events leading up to this are long and detailed, but what’s important is God has answered our prayers. We are so blessed to have the opportunity to work for the Christian publisher and to do God’s work in a way that can potentially reach millions of people. The Lord has been so good to us over the past several months despite the tragedies we’ve faced and despite the tough economic times. We patiently waited, prayed and trusted that He would provide for us, and He did. The funny thing is, at the beginning of the month I had a conversation with Monica and I told her, “I don’t know how long we can keep going like this. If we don’t have some full time paying work by the end of the month I’m going to have to start really look for something.” Here it is September and we are both employed.

But the blessings don’t stop there. We are so happy to announce that next May we are expecting another child! We found out last Friday, the day after we signed our offer letters with Zondervan. God is so good and His timing is perfect. Great things are coming in the months ahead. We will be sure to keep the blog updated with our baby's progress, and as we do, we would like to ask for your prayers for a healthy pregnancy as we go forward. Our first doctors appointment will be at the end of September / early October. We are especially excited to see our baby's heartbeat and are looking forward to getting an official due date.

Thank you to everyone who has been praying for us about our work situations and about having another baby. We are so grateful to have so many people praying on our behalf. Is all this news is a testament to God’s goodness and faithfulness or what?! Praise God that our prayers do not go unheard!

Incase you're wondering what exactly we'll be doing at Zondervan, you can watch this YouTube video about Symtio. Symtio is the first multi-channel digital media platform for retail. That's a mouthful and in layman's terms what this means is that Symtio is a platform that will allow Christian book stores and other retailers to sell e-books, audio books and other digital media online. As art director Monica will be designing all the marketing materials for the sales team, book stores, retailers and the website. As senior editor I will be writing copy for everything that Monica creates.