Willing to Learn and Serve

My second week at Lifeline is completed. The week actually started on Sunday. Me and the host family that I was staying with traveled to Troy which is near Dayton to a food packing event. They were having a strawberry festival there and one of the churches there set up a food packing event as one of the tents. As people came by, we would tell them what the food was and why we were packing it. They were also given the opportunity to pack food for a while and/or donate funds. Many people stopped and learned more and a lot of them were really surprised at finding out how great the need really was. Many people were introduced to Lifeline and its ministries and the need to Haiti that never had before, some of whom weren’t even Christians. The rest of the week has seen me doing a lot of duties around the office. I have helped copy many things (including 2,000 charts for the clinic in Grand Goave!), taken mail to the post office, organized work team forms, planned VBS material that I will be representing next week, answered phones, packed sponsored gifts, and other things I am sure I can’t remember now! This week has really taught me flexibility and the importance of being willing to help with whatever needs to be done. Schedules are made but they often have to be changed because there are always things that need to be done. I have been able to help many of my co-workers with tasks that needed to be done and were time consuming but that they couldn’t get to, with all the rest they had to do. Offering a helping hand can go a long way. Whether you have the skills or not, there is always something that you can do to brighten someone’s day as long as you are willing to learn and serve. You can literary lighten someone’s ever increasing load. The tasks might not be fun or glorious but they all have to be done. One of my co-workers, who is an assistant to the founders, talked about it. She said that she doesn’t mind doing what she had to do because it enables them to be able to do their job. If they had to pay attention to every little detail they couldn’t do what they need to. That is a good way of looking at it. I am enjoying the variety of tasks. I am also enjoying getting to know my fellow workers. I have gotten to know them a lot better this week as I have been bouncing all over the office and am staying at my second host family.