Worship Fertilizer From Ad Lib Music

https://adlibmusic.com/contact https://adlibmusic.com/217 I just learned the other day that one of the team members at one of my former churches took a break from the team and never came back. She’s at another church now. I was so sad to hear that. And even though I’m sure there were other reasons, I couldn’t help but think that if we had only had a better system, she wouldn’t have burned out. She was always cheerful to serve, did a great job, and volunteered to help if no one else was available. Yet, I knew inside that it stressed her to serve and that I wanted to care for her. I just didn’t have any accountability or intentionality in the way that I scheduled to make sure my people were serving at a livable pace for the long term. But I do remember serving somewhere that had great systems. It was 2008 and I look back on it with fondness, really: my thirteen months as a shift supervisor at Starbucks #13636, or as my friend Jeremy calls it “The Mermaid.” I’d most often ride my bicycle to work at 5:15 A