Most Rewarding Piece of this internship (to-date)

Just under three months into my internship, the most rewarding characteristics of my internship to date needs to be shared with you all.

I have thoroughly enjoyed serving as the production volunteer coordinator for the Tower Grove campus. Within the first month of my time here, I was delegated to serve as the Service Producer of the Reber Chapel (new name as of fall 2011). This service is for a selected number of Community Groups (or small groups) to gather together in a fellowship-hall/art gallery space and experience the Sunday morning service via video venue in a more intimate environment; different from the seeker-aware attractional style of the larger Tower Grove sanctuary service.

Like every other Journey campus, the Reber space requires three production volunteers to operate the equipment: Sound Engineer, Media Engineer, and Lighting/Service Producer. After I learned the equipment on a heightened fast track, I became responsible for the scheduling and training of our production volunteers. With brand new Community Groups attending the service as of October, I had to build a team of specially-trained volunteers to run the service.

This team-building, individual-empowering experience has been truly beneficial to my leadership development. My rate of growth is extreme; I remember the first time I dumped every detail on my first "trainee." He was overwhelmed and rightfully so. I buried him with information. The next time we met, I slowed way down and built upon a foundation, one lego at a time. There was a visual difference from the look on his face. I could tell he was grateful that I didn't dump a truck filled with bricks on him.

Since then, I've managed expectations and properly equipped groups of interested volunteers to achieve the service production needs.

Thank you for praying for me and for supporting me in this developmental process as I build my character and skill-sets for God's plan, for God's kingdom.