One of our projects for our Core team staff retreat yesterday was to list three parts of our job we absolutely love the most. I love my job on a whole bunch of levels, so it was hard to choose! I shared these three things with the team, thought I would toss them online for you to see, too. Here’s some of my favorite things to do:

Creating - I love to brainstorm and generate ideas that could connect a student to the message of Jesus. I like coming up with new ideas, I love to search for innovation. I love programming! Creating something is so fun for me.

Crafting – I love preparing a message to give to students. I love starting with a white board and a blank document and struggling through what God would have us say. I love looking at a series from a distance and shaping the arc it will follow, or even crafting the arc of a specific talk or lesson. I definitely like speaking, too, but love crafting the most.

Seeing - I think I might be a fixer. I love seeing holes in our ministry, and figuring out a plan to fill them. I love seeing our discipleship process strengths and weaknesses and devising a plan to make it work as it should again. I love leading a team and figuring out shapes and looking for volunteers and student leaders to lead the charge wherever needed. I love spending time with a student seeing where they are at and pushing them to the next step. I love jumping into a conversation with a volunteer and looking for ways to build them into more.

What parts of your job do you love the most?

JG