The Crew

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about this group of people…  The crew.  It has now been over four years since I stood with them as leader of the volunteer ministry they participated in.  Some were techies, some weren’t.  But no matter. Most importantlym, all were friends. 

In the ensuing years, many have moved on to other ministries, other churches.

I have as well.

But here, at a going-away party, a snapshot tells a story that words cannot.  Perhaps my smile gives more insight than mere words are able.  What does it say?…

Here is a group of people that I loved. 

They are the threads that wove through the tapestry of my time at Prestonwood.  A time that, overall, I greatly enjoyed.

The picture tells a truth about that time, that moment in which it was taken in, but it also lulls me into false perception that nothing has changed since then.  And yet, as I recall the stories of these volunteers’ trials over the year’s since the photo, I know that much has changed.

But that is the beauty of the picture.  It remains. It remains forever, unchanging.  I can look at it and remember the good times, forgetting the bad.  And there were many, many good times.

And in that moment I am there again with them.

The Prestonwood Media Team