EVICTION AND A TICKET

The period of time that this took place was between 2002 and 2005. We had just built our house, and had just moved in August 8, and my husband came home to tell me that he had been illegally fired from his job of over 9 years. Actually, 1/4 of the store got illegally fired, and some of them could afford to take the company to court over it. The company didn't just fire him, they lied to the labor board and the government. They lied about the circimstances of his firing, to deny his unemployment benefits and about the dispersal of his pension fund. They said that he already had it, when in fact we weren't due to get it until the following January. We were deemed inelegible for any public assistance or for unemployment. It took a while to get 2 parttime, minimum wage jobs that didn't even add up to 40 hours, and yet I had 2 tickets to go on a domestic mission trip, for both myself and our son. We discussed whether I ought to just cancel the trip. We prayed about it and just kept hearing-"Go." So we went. After 6 months, both jobs fired both of their work crews and hired students at a lesser wage. It took longer for him to get another job. It was a good paying job and he was told that after 90 days he would be permanent. 90 days came and went, and they kept giving explanations as to why he wasn't yet permanent. In the meantime I had gotten 2 other tickets for a European mission trip. Just before Christmas, he was 'laid off' and told him that they would call him back when they had work. They did, for one day, then a week later for 2 days, then 1 1/2 weeks later 3 days. He got unemployment this time and got a temporary job, refusing to work for them until they had more steady work. Then they called him back fulltime and tried to get the unemployment back from him by telling the labor board that he either quit or was fired, when in fact he was working for them. He won this time, got put on permanent and we went on the missiontrip.