What do you do when the phone rings?
At my house, you check the caller-ID and determine if you want to
answer or not. I hear a lot of stories about how people feel that
they have been "called upon" to do something for the
church, but I had not experienced such a feeling. When the symbolic
phone rang, it was a call for volunteers to explore the possibility
of putting a mission team together at our church. I have to be
honest, I checked the caller-ID and decided to not answer, it was
Haiti calling and all that I knew about Haiti was that it was hot,
and I am not a big fan of the heat.
I do not know why, but I answered the
phone and decided to go to the first meeting. Curiosity was
certainly a factor, but it was probably more to find an opportunity
for my son to experience what many people have described as a life
changing trip.
Butch Huffman explained what it would
be like to go on a mission trip to the Ryan Epps Home for Children and told us that he had an opening the first week in August. (My
first thought was, August? Really?) At the end of the meeting, we
talked about who was interested in going, at this point I was all-in.
My point to this entry is to remind
people that there are a multitude of opportunities to volunteer or to
represent the church in some way, but you do have to answer the phone
when it rings.