You Know You Work With a Church Plant If...

So Trista and I were driving today and we were laughing at all of the STUFF I had in the back of my car. We decided we needed to post "You Know You Work With a Church Plant If..." Blog. Enjoy!

Here we go...

You know you work with a church plant if...

• It's not unusual to have nine 5 x 5 rugs, four 5 x7 carpets, two large plastic tubs, eight pool noodles, a broom, latex gloves, four yard signs with missing stands, and shopping lists scattered all around your car all at the same time.
• You go to Dillons and eat all their sample food for lunch (ex. cheese cubes, small roast beef sandwich, and canteloupe)
• You max the credit card out all the time
• You make the people at your printing place despise you because after the third time of re-filling the black ink, they're completely out of stock and you're not done yet
• One of the four-year old's that is a child of one of your launch team members runs around saying, "Hello everyone, I'm stressed out."
• You live in a basement and use rafters as your closet
• You and ONE other person can canvas (put flyers on cars) in an entire Wal-Mart parking lot in twenty minutes
• You're an EXPERT at rolling up a moon bounce
• You run out of milk and realize you have to make your macaroni with water. Then it tastes nasty, but you eat it anyway cause you're hungry
• You and your fellow intern have to split one muffin for breakfast
• You wear the same shirt at least four times a week
• You clean one house a week for some extra cash and get REALLY excited about twenty bucks
• You go to the movie theatre for church--not a movie because you can't afford it
• Going to Wal-Mart weekly is in your job description
• You really want to eat the church's ice cream out in the freezer, but you can't cause it's the church's
• Your pastor's garage is church storage
• A trailer takes residence in your driveway
• You can't even take a nap for twenty minutes because all you can think/talk about are the things you need to get done. The worst part is, when twenty minutes is up, you realize that you meant to take a nap.
• It's exciting to organize your portable church into color-coded tubs that are labeled with PINK duct tape
• You're writing this blog and you think it's funny
• You REALLY, REALLY, TRULY, love God and see Him move on a daily basis and realize that you wouldn't trade anything for the experience that you've had