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Excerpt from ChristianityToday.com
Daniel Hill holds a steady part-time job
working one or two shifts a week at Starbucks. It’s hardly a
career-track position, and it’s not that he needs the extra cash or
battles a secret caffeine addiction.
It’s the people.
Purple hair, belly-button rings, tattoos, black-painted fingernails—those people.
For Hill, whose day job is ministering on staff with
Willow Creek Community Church’s Axis outreach, Starbucks provides a
context to build meaningful relationships with postmodern, Gen-Next
twentysomethings who are far from God.
"Nothing has been more transforming for me than working at Starbucks," says Hill, "These people matter to me."
But the moonlighting gig isn’t a free pass to easy
evangelism. His coffee colleagues are like a good cup of triple
espresso—plenty of steam, a little bitter, and enough kick to knock you
on your backside if you aren’t careful.
Exhibit A: "The first day Debbie worked at
Starbucks, one of the shift supervisors points at me and asks her, ‘Did
you hear what his real job is?’ After she hears I work at a church,
Debbie freaks out. She says, ‘Three years ago my 16-year-old daughter
was raped and murdered. Tell me, what kind of God would let that
happen? I believe in God. I just have a real problem with him.’"
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Thanks for writing this.
Lovey 10.29.08 @ 10:04 amhello, I didn’t write this, just cross posted, this article belong to Brett Lawrence and was posted in ChristianityToday.com, but nice to know you like the post. =D
dbaa 02.11.09 @ 1:26 am