The moral of the story...

Last week Erin challenged me to take over her role as a division leader. I was a little confused at first wondering how the weekly tasks would look any different. I had already been doing all the admin. stuff and making a lot of the phone calls. When I asked her how it'd be different all she could tell me was that it was somehow. Her answer wasn't vague, but one of challenge to me. She wanted me to discern what the differences would be.

I'm not sure how I did at discerning, but I think things went fairly well during the week. It was a rough week for us both, only because we lost out on a day of work and eliminated our day off. Knowing there was more to be done in such a short time I decided to work late and work early every day. At home I worked on all that I could after spending time after work painting a mural. I also went in at 7:30 every morning. With the summit this week, Erin and I ended up drained by Saturday...not a good way to enter the weekend.

I was also challenged to take on Erin's role for the weekend. Saturday went really well. I led huddle and went over all the safety procedures and expectations for our new volunteers. Tami, our coach in K.1 and I monitered the number of kids per group and assigned volunteers their color teams. We strategized ways to keep our groups at a good number without having three kids on one group and 30 on our gold team. And we even came up with back up plans on ways to manage if we ended up short on group leaders. Everything went great the whole night and with me leading, Erin was able to plug into different groups and help out.

In fact, things went so well on Saturday the thought occured to me that Sunday may include mass chaos of some sort. As Sunday morning rolled around I woke up in time to make it to church at 9. Let me just lay it out to you...I was supposed to be there at 7:30. When I got to church I discovered Erin had also overslept, but she made there in time at 8. I was thrown off for the service at 9 and have no idea what went on really. The 11:15 service was better, but it was hard to jump in and really lead things the way I did on Saturday.

But, even through all of that there's a moral to the story. It was definitly a good learning point for me...something I knew, but it was a practical reminder. Things went really well on Saturday, but it had nothing to do with the way I led things. And even though I overslept on Sunday, things went great both hours. Again...nothing to do with me. God doesn't need me to do things...He's got it covered. I'm just honored to be a part of it.