We serve in other ways

At the end of January, our church served a pot luck lunch that was to be a prelude to learning how to serve the church.  It is specifically for jobs that are related to during the service.  I've often felt selfish, but I've just never been thrilled to serve our church in those ways.  My husband is on church council, and we are both part of the Christian Ed committee, but we generally speaking do not volunteer in roles during the service itself.  Yesterday, I realized we are still doing our part, and we are doing okay.

Andrew went early during Sunday School in order to be the Sunday School volunteer.  I did it twice in January, and will do it again next weekend.  All three kids were in the basement putting together submarine sandwiches as a youth group fundraiser.  Thomas was going to work the powerpoint, but Andrew agreed to do it for him since he was needed for the sub assembly.  I was the adult nursery volunteer, but both teen girls were there so I just needed to check in and relieve them briefly so they could partake in Communion.  It's a good thing I was sitting near Andrew at power point because Pastor decided to install this year's church council members so I needed to keep the power point going in his absence.

I was laughing to Andrew later.  I try to be very good about not judging others, but sometimes I need to show that same patience and understanding with myself.  We may not be serving front and center at the altar, but we serve in other ways!