Getting Some Serving In!

Sunday, I had sanitized toys (blocks may be talked about as a category, but when wiping them down, they are many many individuals), worked in the nursery, and help set up and clean up the superbowl party. Tuesday, I helped get pictures and items for a class Vince is teaching. But that's little stuff! Most of those days were spent experiencing strip life.
But now that my friends have moved on, my days, especially yesterday, have had a bit more work to them.

Wednesday I met with a man from Canyon Ridge church who assured me that he would pass my information to the missions committee, which meets on the 20th. I also met with someone from The Crossing, who also said that he would pass my story on but didn't think that The Crossing was interested in taking on another missionary. After these engagements I waited from 3 til 6, alone at the Venue (my housemate and ride had to go to work). I was given the task to cut out 20 large hearts from red cardstock. I did this one at a time so that it would take up a lot of time and keep me busy. Student Ministry was a 6 and I was interviewed by the students, who, like most people, were astound that there are 6,909 languages in the world with 5% having the Bible, who, like most people, took that they had English Bibles for granted. So it was cool being able to bring their attention to that.


Thursday, I got to design the tickets for the Parent's Night Out on Friday. I copied, one by one, 20 copies of about 30-40 pages for Verve University. After that, I cut out 200 hundred of my tickets one at a time. (and this time, one at a time was a necessary evil and not done for the sake of consuming more time). With the tickets, which were printed on cardstock, the cardstock kept jamming the printer. so I'd pull a page from the printer, go cut it while the printer warmed up and tried again, then get up and walk back to the printed to pull the next page out and so the cycle repeated.

See, this work isn't little stuff like sitting with children for an hour. This work is the kind where you think it's little but you come in at 8:30am and the one or two little task(s) doesn't stop until 4:30 pm. This is the serving I came to do. The mindless, hated jobs that consume one's life and prohibit them from making phone calls and meeting with people to do real ministry.

I did get a chance to do more touristy things Thursday night. Vince and his family took me to The Rio Buffet. He said it was big and good. And it was. It made me think of a Golden Corral. Then we went to the Bellagio, when I saw the conservatory in the Chinese New Year theme and then two of the fountain shows which has water choreographed to the music. It was really cool but hard to express in words. Then we drove down the strip and the noteworthy casinos were pointed out to me. It was a good time.