Church is made of people whom are at different points in their life.

June 5, 2010

I’ve been working at Whitehouse for about nine months now and am digging deeper at helping tend each of its ministries. There is a man in the church; we’ll call him G-money, who selflessly helps out in several of said ministries. It’s important to know that at this point there is a lot of momentum building in Whitehouse over all: New members are joining, more children are showing up to Bible classes, the minister and deaconess are running all sorts of classes during the week, it’s the season for summer cook-outs, etc.

Meanwhile, Jonny, the head youth director, and I are trying to start up a new young adult course in efforts to invite the missing 17-25 age bracket back into the church. And so in going along planning for what all we needed we also discovered there was a need for the right people to be present as mentors. Immediately G-money came to mind. He’s spiritually wise and has a good amount of life experience and yet isn’t too old that he wouldn’t be able to relate to the young adults. He’d be perfect! And so, with positive outlook, we went on to discuss this with the minister whom informed us that although she saw where we were coming from, She was actually to soon have discussion with G-money (and his dynamic wife who we’ll call Sheryl) about their overall involvement with Whitehouse in general. Because they do help so much, the minister didn’t want them to get burned out. This put the brakes on our planning high, but brought a valid lesson that I wanted to share with you. Sometimes you get so deep in projects and dates and deadlines that you lose sight of the bigger picture. Even with the purest intensions in work, we need to also respect that people on the job have lives outside work too (including ourselves).