Arrived into work today to find a volunteer application for a new volunteer on my desk. Hurrah. Contacted them instantly & booked an interview with them on Thursday. Good start to Monday morning.
This was followed by discovering a new J Gen guy in brotherhood who'd come in after hearing about our volunteer shortages to do a GIG shift in cafe. He's doing a training year with us. (Note to self suggest to Church Growth folk that volunteering at the Jesus Centre should surely be a compulsory part of a training year?) Completed his application form and interview after brotherhood.
One of the things I love about my job (some days the only thing!) is meeting new people, who I otherwise wouldn't meet and helping them to find their ministry at the Jesus Centre.
Good prayer time at lunch time. Heard there were several new people in Step Up including a couple of people who seem to have been met during Saturday's evangelism on Abington street. Very grateful for the team leader who'd come in to cover at short notice otherwise we would have had to close. Average age of the team nearly 70 years old! Not sure that's really good if we're looking to the future of NJC. Prayed in faith for more young people to find ways to get released to volunteer during the day.
Not so good thing about today... not able to open the cafe kitchen due to the regular chef being on holiday and no one being willing or available to cover. anyone a trained Chef can help out covering holidays & sickness?
Other not so good things which make the start to the week difficult... one team leader dropped out at short notice. Step Up virtually covered all week but 5 vacancies on Info desk Wed, Thurs, Fri am. Prayed a prayer of agreement that they would all get sorted even though I have no idea how!
Also believing for some volunteers who've gone on hold as well as new volunteer applications to come in as a result of the strong entreaties there have been this week to leaders and the congregation about owning their Jesus Centre and supporting it in whatever way they can to be open and available to share the love of Jesus in practical ways to those in need... it's easy to sing about it on Sundays but it's what people do on Monday's that is the real test of what their faith means to them...
good idea about the training year :)
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