Volunteer Servants.

In our morning staff devotions, Pastor Terry Weyand, our Director of Men's Services, spoke about the difference between serving and volunteering. Serving is focused on serving Christ by and through serving others. A true servant does not look for praise or commendation; a true servant serves no audience but the audience of the One. Volunteers may serve for a variety of reason - many of them good - but a servant will serve selflessly.

At the Mission, we have individuals and groups that provide more than 29,000 hours of volunteer service annually. We call them "volunteers" but they have the heart of servants. They could be called "volunteer servants."
They serve for the joy of serving if it is convenient or not. It's difficult to image life at the Mission without this faithful group of individuals, organizations, and churches who serve Christ by serving people. Thank you for all you do. Remember that "in the Lord, your labor is not in vain" (1 Cor. 15:58)