Our worship team decided to put on a production on Good Friday depicting the passion of Christ using the Gospel of Matthew account as a script. We have had several rehearsals and more to come. One of those rehearsals was scheduled for Sunday. The plan – everyone involved was to grab a quick lunch on their own and return to the church by 1:00 PM.
Since the one of the local Subway’s is just across the street from the church, several of us decided that would be the most convenient place for lunch. It took a few minutes for our group to get through the line – in large part because we were talking and not paying attention to the servers. One by one we placed our orders and found places to sit. Five tables of people from Northpoint.
Through all of the bantering as we went through the line, the servers learned that we were all from one church. As the last of our group went through the line and received his food and receipt, he noticed something written on the back. When he sat down at his table he read his receipt. The back had the names of the three servers and a list of prayer requests for each one – physical needs, spiritual needs, and emotional needs. They wanted our church to pray for them and we did.
There is yet another piece to the story. During the Sunday morning sermon I had stressed the importance of market-place ministry – of being aware of opportunities to represent the Lord where we work and where we do business. Here was a case where our people didn’t have to look for ministry opportunities, the Lord simply thrust the opportunity on us. It was great to see the Lord at work.
I’m sure several of our people will frequent the local Subway for more opportunities for ministry.
