Finding Ministry in Cafeteria Duty

From: Momentum | Date: February 1, 2007| Author: Cooper, Kenneth P | Copyright information

Does cafeteria duty prove that God has a sense of humor?

Lunchtime at St. John's College High School in Washington, D.C. Eleven hundred students will march in, sit down, get fed and then march out over the course of four 45-minute periods.

Like military movements, the troops must be moved with precision. And, like military movements, effectiveness and efficiency depend upon coordination. That can come about only through planning and discipline-in other words, generalship. In St....

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