I have to admit I'm not a huge fan of the idea of "going into the office." I mean my days of sitting behind a desk and listening to people's problems are over, no?
I pulled into the parking lot and saw the fleet of 18 wheelers ... and I was proud. I work here!
It's the first full week of the year and it's spiritual emphasis week, therefore we had a morning chapel / prayer service. The offices emptied and met in the "training room" where we discussed something you wouldn't normally discuss in the corporate world, "staying in the vine." I'll post my notes, it's good stuff! We were then asked to get into our teams and pray for a few moments for the upcoming year so... we did!
After chapel, Matt took me around and introduced me to everyone in the building, some people weren't at their desks because they were in meetings in Washington DC about how to better serve our nation. Then there was the office where someone was speaking Spanish to our partners in Latin America about our feeding programs there. In the donor area they were on the phone with Coca Cola, who is evidently a HUGE donor for Convoy! How cool is that? My high school BFF works for Coca Cola, it's my favorite drink, and they're making the world a better place (as well as a bigger place, but ....) Then we didn't disturb the two ladies in one office who were joined together in prayer. When we got to the disaster relief area they were sitting in front of a couple of big screens of the world with all the current disasters marked watching them closely to see if response is needed on our part, the weather channel was playing in the background as well. On the way to our offices we dodged the fork lift drivers in the warehouse moving product to load trucks!
A pretty cool first day indeed!
