Thursday, May 15, 2008
Would you like a cookie???
Last night was great! Tons of students, hearing a great message with some good worship, a great experience. They were also flippin nuts. Like, please, next week just smoke some pot before you come. Thats not true, please dont (unless your a regular (ok another joke within joke)) Anyways! At the end of the night i had a volunteer come up to me and tell me they had taken care of a problem with excitement in their voice. This was probably the least of my concerns, a problem that carried little weight in the scope of the night. Moving our leader check-in booth one of the castors got stuck and dragged a black line down the whole hallway. Problem, black line down hallway. Solution, we have a cleaning company come every wednesday night. Amount of concern in my life...NONE. As i was dealing with some other problems i noticed this volunteer taking a paper towell and cleaning this black line on his hands and knees. When he was done with this he went and personally talked to the cleaning crew to make sure they would pay special attention to the black line. After this whole endeavor "Volunteer" came up to me with literal excitement letting me know that he had taken care of the black line! As i looked back at him, i gave him a big smile and said thanks. I'd like to think it was convincing, but im not sure it was. The Bible says that when we are faithful with small things, we have the opportunity to be faithful with large things. Flip that a bit, i tend to thank people for being faithful with large things, but offer no real reward for the simple things. Our volunteers pour out their hearts to serve students on wed. nights, to the point of wiping up the most insignificant black mark on the floor. They're here to serve whole-heartedly...can i even appreciate that?
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oh the joys of youth ministry...i liked your joke within the joke!
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