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On a regular Sunday morning back in January, I sat in church and watched as our Children’s Minister Linda walked up on stage.
She grabbed the offered mic from our pastor, and brought it to her mouth. As she scanned the crowd and offered that jubilant smile that she always does, she began to share with the congregation a significant need:
Hi, good morning everyone! As many of you know, we have been using these little black pagers to let the parents know when their child needs them.
Taking a breath she continued:
What many of you may not realize, is that we only have sixty of these little guys, and we need about a hundred more.
I looked around at the audience, who was only half listening at the time. I can remember that it bummed me out to see people pay such a small amount of attention to someone serving “behind the scenes.” I know from being a preachers kid all my life, that Linda and her volunteers are the very people who we as a body need to love and support the most.
The unfortunate thing is that these pagers cost us about ninety dollars a piece, and so we are trying to figure out what to do.
And it was at about this moment that a proverbial “light bulb” went off in my head. Maybe it was divine inspiration, or maybe it was just the Sunday morning coffee kicking in, whatever it was, I knew instantly that I was being given a solution.
And more importantly, I knew that I had the skill set to make it work.
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