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Friends, Cadance Tyler and Katrina Brooks,
sent by Virginia Baptists, help in the kitchen |
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CBF Heartland coordinator emeritus,
Harold Phillips, washing bowls. |
"Sister, sister, I know you!" I heard these words this summer as we served with a team in a small village in northeast Romania. The young man was waving at me from the driver's seat of a van. He said, "Yes, I do know you. You're the dishwasher at the Ruth School." It took a moment for me to understand. Me? Dishwasher? What? Then recognition came as I realized this young church leader attends our Gypsy Smith Leadership School (GSS). Three times a year these young leaders come for a week of classes. While at the school we house them and feed them. It's a busy time in the kitchen as they cook lunch for 200 Ruth School students, provide three meals a day for 25 GSS students, make sandwiches for 30 afterschool kids, and fix snack bags for the 50 sports program participants. During these weeks I help out by washing dishes. Gladly, I, along with others at Project Ruth, rework our days to do what has to be done to serve the community.
At the bottom of any good job description one usually finds a sentence similar to "And other duties as assigned." As CBF field personnel ministering in Romania it's a regular occurrence to do the unexpected, unanticipated, or unplanned. Wonderful interruptions in ministry that allow us opportunities to serve God in unusual ways. So when the young man said, "You're the dishwasher..." My reply? "That's me!"
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