{"id":657,"date":"2011-02-04T16:00:37","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T21:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.fbclafayette.org\/?p=657"},"modified":"2011-12-12T09:28:30","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T14:28:30","slug":"three-cheers-for-the-snow-guys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.faithlafayette.org\/church\/three-cheers-for-the-snow-guys\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Cheers for the Snow Guys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-660\" style=\"margin-left: 6px; margin-bottom: 6px;\" title=\"Snow\" src=\"https:\/\/faith-blog-assets.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/20170523133753\/Snow.jpg\" alt=\"Snow being cleared from parking lot\" width=\"200\" height=\"143\" \/>God highly values every person in His family.\u00a0 We see evidence of that throughout the Bible.\u00a0\u00a0Each time we come\u00a0across\u00a0one of those long lists of men and women\u00a0with unusual sounding names, we are reminded that God cares about individual people.\u00a0 The same is true at the end of many of the New Testament letters where time is devoted to talking about the activities of various members of the team or\u00a0requests to greet men and women who are serving Jesus together.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Ministry in the storm<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>This week brought another snow and ice storm to our corner of God&#8217;s world.\u00a0 The winds blew and the storm raged, so most of us us found a warm\u00a0place to get out of the weather.\u00a0 But not Tony Costa and Andrew King.<!--more--> They oversee our maintenance department here at Faith.\u00a0 Tony and Andrew\u00a0have done a wonderful job at keeping the parking lots and sidewalks cleaned off and ready for the many ministries that take place on our campus.\u00a0 Three cheers for the snow guys.\u00a0 None of the rest of us could do our work without them.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Faithful servants behind the scenes everywhere you look<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>I was stuck this week with how much of ministry goes on behind the scenes.\u00a0 For every person who sings a solo, teaches a class, or preaches a sermon, there are dozens and dozens of men and women just like the snow guys.\u00a0 They clean the building and greet the guests.\u00a0 They watch the babies and tune the piano.\u00a0 They make the coffee and turn off the lights.\u00a0 And many of them do the same thing over and over with very little recognition or praise.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Let&#8217;s cheer them today and everyday<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>I am going to try to do a better job at slowing down and thinking about all the people who serve God faithfully behind the scenes.\u00a0 Would you like to join me in that endeavor?\u00a0 Let&#8217;s thank them for their work.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s acknowledge\u00a0\u00a0the importance of their place on the team.\u00a0 Because it is probably go to snow again sometime in the future.\u00a0 And I don&#8217;t want to contemplate life without the snow guys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God highly values every person in His family.\u00a0 We see evidence of that throughout the Bible.\u00a0\u00a0Each time we come\u00a0across\u00a0one of those long lists of men and women\u00a0with unusual sounding names, we are reminded that God cares about individual people.\u00a0 The same is true at the end of many of the New Testament letters where time&#8230; 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