This morning during chapel, Wayne talked about service. If you check an earlier post from today, our FLAME friend Mark Wilson quoted something very similar. One of the aspects of FLAME are the servants behind the scenes. They don’t do it for the recognition. They cook and feed anywhere between 50 and 300 students depending on the conference; they take out the trash; they wash the dishes; they sweep and clean. FLAME is dependent on those faithful servants. Some of those faithful servants are even students attending FLAME that help out, without being asked. Tonight’s photo essay is a tribute to some of the servants of FLAME.

Even servants need a break from time to time. Joe (above) is a layperson who drove his pastor here and volunteers in the kitchen. Hub (below) is a volunteer as well and is related to our cooks.

MaryLou and Barb — Mary is one of our two cooks. But they are much more than cooks. They love on the students and pray for them and they are very good with names and make each one of us feel important. Barb is faithful volunteer serving at several FLAME a year with her husband Hub.

David — the other of our two cooks — again a wonderful servant’s heart and a great cook. Also famous for his “Davidisms,” great little sayings that make us smile.

Pastors like Al come back to reinvest in FLAME. It is this servant spirit and reinvestment that makes FLAME possible.

Sometimes even children of FLAME students get into the act. It’s all part of the “ministry of tables” that gets the job done, so that students and professors can concentrate on their part.