NBFamilies: It takes more than a team

On Good Friday our son had a high school baseball tournament in Seminole. Kenny plays for Meeker High School. They had lost their first game on Thursday. It was a double elimination tourney, so the next game could have been their last. It was not. They kept on winning, getting to the last game of the evening against Cleveland. About three innings in to the game, it began to rain, thunder and lightning. The people in the stands left, as did Monica and me, however, we stayed underneath the bleachers to see if the rain would stop. What I saw next I just had to get on video. The host Seminole High School team players ran to role the tarp onto the field. Their was only about 6 or 7. It was taking them some work to get that tarp out there, then we see the Cleveland and the Meeker players come sprinting out of their dry dugouts to help the Seminole players to get the tarp rolled out. I really wish I could have gotten the video of them all pulling the tarp across the field together, but you can still see from the video below all of them working together in the rain and having a blast doing it.You can even see one Cleveland player at the end of the video, to the left, sliding on the wet tarp like it was a slip and slide.

It was a perfect picture of three different teams, from three different communities, coming together to help one another for a cause. In this case, the cause was to help keep the field dry, so they might be able to play the next day.

I thought it was a great picture of what happened at New Beginnings on Easter Sunday. The church hosted over 1200 adults and another 200 plus children. It took multiple teams of people to help with two services that morning for both Children and Adults.

We had volunteers all over the building, both inside and out, greeting, directing, leading in worship, and preaching the Word of God. There were volunteers in the Preschool area helping with birth through Kindergarten children. There were volunteers greeting families with children in the Chapel and helping Pastor Travis with the two Children's services that morning. We had volunteers greeting people at every door. We had ushers both inside and outside the Worship Center to greet and help seat people. We had volunteers outside helping direct cars. We had volunteers who practiced for weeks prior to Easter who were in the Choir and the band. We had people behind the scenes who helped with stage design, sound and lighting in both the Chapel for the Children's services, as well as, the Worship Center. We even had volunteers serving the volunteers by fixing breakfast and coffee, and providing many lunches for the Choir practices the weeks prior to Easter.

And in the afternoon, there were a group of young adults who took their Easter afternoon to REACH OUT by going to a local shelter for women and children. They set up a blow up slide, had hot dogs and put on an Easter egg hunt for the kids.

We may serve on different teams, with different ages, different gifts and different passions, within our church body we call New Beginnings, but we come together for one cause. The cause of Jesus Christ; to love Him, by loving others and to spread the Gospel, as Jesus commanded us.

It was a great day of celebrating our risen Savior, Easter Sunday. It was a great day to witness the church body we call New Beginnings serving together as a community for the cause of Christ.