Haha… okie I am trying to keep this blog alive!! so I am going to share what I’ve learnt from my overlook.
I am doing logis on saturday. Rather Trinity was the actual logis personnel for the service and I got to know on the day itself in the morning. I was told that I can no need to go down since she is doing logis but still I choose to go down. So I text Trinity that I will be coming down late as I need to send things to Methodist Girls’ School before coming down to church.
I was kinda glad when Khoon Fai called me and tell me that he will be late for about 5mins. Then I remember that he was the understudy for the day (not knowing that that day’s logis is ONLY Trinity). So thinking that Khoon Fai will be reaching soon and that support should be ok but I was shocked after I received a call. ( I shun go into details for that as I don’t think is very nice/fair)
After getting my things settled, I rushed back to church asap. To my surprise, Khoon Fai came to me and say he not logis today. No wonder when I ask Trinity where is Khoon Fai, she don’t really know where he is too.
Anyway, we carried with out duty and all. Everything was ok. I was there to just oversee her duty. Basically, I let her run the service herself.
Closing, we did the closing together . I even checked her closing count and helped her changed too as she miss out something.
So what was I looking at and what did I do?
I was looking at the figures for our communion elements. And I even helped her to change the closing count figure as she may have forgotten that we had already done 500 for dialect church. So from 1903, I changed it to 1403! And that’s the figure that we are left with for Svc 4!!!
I actually looked at that figure a number of times BUT this thing just did not come to my mind at that point of time. What is it?? It is WE MAY NOT HAVE ENOUGH TO SUPPORT FOR SVC 4!! Why it did not come to my mind?? cause I was thinking, Svc 4 forecast is always 1.4K (forgotten that JJ did sound out that we are facing shortage already) So I leave it as it is. Svc 4 elements 1.4K.
BUT!!! This question came to me when I was traveling to church on Sunday morning for duty! I don’t think I will have enough for svc 4 later, at the back of my mind thinking of what will happen every month! So I quickly text Solomon (expo logis on duty) that I need to reserve 300 elements from his side as I may not have enough for svc later or even top up for Dialect church if we were to touch on it.
True enough, we touched on it and we do not have enough to support Dialect Church if I did not ask for 300 more to be send down from expo!
What am I telling you all these? For me like what mentioned in the title, it was an lesson learnt. It never come to my mind that 1.4k is totally not enough to support Svc4. Add on to the fact that I am Svc4 usher, I should know the attend and the forecast for a normal Sun Svc 4. This resulted in us, having to ask expo side to send us the extra elements and it was 95 who sent in down today. It was kinda bad.
Lesson learnt: Always check with Svc 4 personnel to see if the amount left over for them will it be enough to cover the whole svc? If not, Yonghui needs to be notify ASAP so that he can provide us with a better suggestion. If he can’t be reach, can call me. Why did I say ASAP? Reason being, svc ends at 530pm, recycling ends latest at 630pm. Expo service, they end their service at around 830pm? So if we were to alert our leaders early,at least we have 2 hours to let expo side to know that we are in lack of elements for the next service so that we can know if we will be supported for the next svc.
If we report in on the day itself, notice time is very short and what happen if, on that day itself, no one is available to send down to JW or there is not enough elements to help support us?
So from now onwards, let us all up our level of C-ness especially when it comes to figures and you think it will affect the next service!
Let’s all run and grow this ministry to another higher level together! =)
