I have
worked at Blu Moon Café for over six years and have learned so much about the
culinary arts and the amazing healthy food choices that are out there. This
summer I have the amazing opportunity to be a family ministry intern for
Waterline church that is a church plant that has been going strong for four
years. Last week when I was washing dishes at the café the Lord showed me how
much working in a small business has prepared me for working a church plant and
a church in general. So I decided to make a list below:
1. The
owners or the pastors work harder than anyone else. I have never seen two people give so much time, energy and passion than pastors at Waterline and my
bosses at Blu Moon.
2. Sometimes
you have to suck it up and do the things that you really don’t enjoy.
For example, spending hours washing a mountain of dishes or scrubbing the floors after a long day of
catering. Or at church you might have to scrub some toilets or change some
really dirty diapers. But with every act there is a greater impact than you can
even see.
3. The
experience really matters. The atmosphere, love and service people receive is very
important
4. You do a
lot of work to set things up just to close it down twelve hours later. Blu moon
we come in at 6am make all the food, set up the whole sandwich and make everything fresh just to close everything down by 6pm.Waterline we get there
at 8:30am and unload all the stuff out of the closet just to pack everything up
by 8:30 pm that same day. It is a lot of work to make one day run so smoothly
but we need all that time and energy to make the day successful
5. It is all
about working together. In a kitchen everyone works as a team, same with a
church staff and volunteers everyone has to catch the vision and work together to accomplish
it. This doesn’t mean that everyone works the same, it means
that everyone works through their differences to accomplish the same goal.
6. There is
always something new to be learned everyday which is one reason why I love both
of these possessions. Every day I come into the church office or spend a Sunday
doing ministry all day and I learn something new about leadership or loving
people. Also, every day I show up to work in the kitchen I learn something either about a
food that I have never heard about or a new culinary technique that will make my life easier. In both environments it is good to be a sponge and take in wisdom whenever you get it.
It is just amazing how I have realized how much God has prepared me for what I am doing this summer and for interning in a church plant. Just one reason why I have no doubt that this is where He wants me (:
