Dream Team

Every great vision and dream requires several things to make it become a reality. I believe that one of the most vital is a team. On the local church level we usually call people on this team a volunteer. It takes a team (bunch of volunteers) to make the dream become a reality.

With the opening of our new facility at the church, with launching our fall programming, with kicking our student ministry back off, and with re-organizing all of our teams — this is the time when we assimilate tons of new volunteers/team-members. I love this time. My favorite thing to do is to be around and work with volunteers.

Here are a few highlights I’ve had with our volunteers lately…

• At Leadership Summit I watched one of our vols (who I never knew of as much of a “worshipper”) standing off to the side of the auditorium where she couldn’t be seen with her hands raised/eyes closed, singing with all she had. Keep in mind, she’d been there for at least 2 solid days serving others to enhance their experience. She’s tired. But she got it. God is alive in her.
• Over the last couple of weeks we’ve had vol teams doing EVERYTHING at the church. Vaccuming, building, moving, loading, unloading, etc. Things that are in & out of their gift mix. All doing it with JOY.
• I think of Mike. He’s a guy I met 2 days ago. He’s had a rough few weeks I think. He’s the best guy. Serving, smiling, humble, cool. Loving God, connecting to the church. Today he showed me some new things he’d done in the student center w/o me asking. He’s a champ. Thanks Mike! You made my day so much better.

Ephesians tells us as ministers that our job description is: “To equip the saints (volunteers) to do the ministry”. There is NOTHING about doing my job that gives me more pleasure. I LOVE our dream teamers at the Creek and I can’t wait to see what God does IN them and THROUGH them!

Creekers…thanks for letting me be a part of your lives.