Deb Bube

Listening to Deb Bube, Leadership Development and Director of Creative Arts at Glad Tidings Assembly, I am more and more impressed with the inner workings of Glad Tidings and the people that help bring everything together, and help Saturday evenings and Sunday mornings come to fruition. I enjoyed Deb’s simple yet very truthful lessons in working with volunteers, such truths that can and seem to be easily forgotten in the workings of ministry: “If people are going to be involved, it needs to be fun” and also “It can be spiritual and fun at the same time,” simple and yet so true. All to often and quickly can the volunteer job become just that: a job, and it loses its meaning and value, but keep it fun and spiritual, put those with gifts where they belong, and it will go such a long way.

I was also blown away by the amount of volunteers that are needed to ‘run the show.’ Around 150 are needed at Glad Tidings, in many, many different areas. One can understand such a high number with that greatness in number that attend, 2400, but in my world, 150 is a decent size church, let alone the group that volunteers for a church. Being from New England, we deal with a different ‘ball game,’ but while we may have less in attendance, the truths that Deb Bube presented on volunteering can work with any church, and size. Keep it fun, and keep is Spiritual.