Fresh Fenway Faces

On Monday we had our first Fenway Area team meeting in which our new hires joined the existing staff (see photo at left). I suppose that between all the time we’ve spent this past year recruiting people and reading applications, conducting interviews and making offers, I’ve been aware that our team is experiencing a growth spurt. But somehow it didn’t really hit me until I looked around the room on Monday just how generous God has been to us.

Given the increase we’ve been experiencing in overall student numbers, we knew coming into this year that we’d need several new staff to sustain this rate of growth. It felt like Jesus’ words were aimed straight at us: “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.”

Well, ask and you shall receive, I guess—heading into next year, we’ll supervise three new interns, one of this year’s interns will come on full-time, and two other full-time staff will join our team!

Of all the staff we supervise, I can’t tell what’s more amazing… Is it the former students we’ve worked with for years, seeing them mature before our eyes into gifted leaders who we’re now proud to call colleagues? Or is it the people we never knew existed even while we were praying for people JUST like them?

I guess it doesn’t really matter; I’ll just be amazed be the Lord of the harvest!

Paul