coffee

Well there used to be Coffee Stations at the Rockbridge Alum Springs Dining Hall. I liked them! When there was a need you just walked over with cup in hand pulled a lever and you had instant fresh coffee (wait not 'Instant Coffee', as in Taster's Choice, but roasted coffee quickly). Sometimes a line would form but that would just allow you to build community with the other coffee folk.

This Spring the kitchen staff took the coffee stations away! I was shocked at first! WHY? Who did this? I couldn't believe it. What would we do now?

In a casual conversation with some of the kitchen staff I found out. Once again Young Life is the winner!

"So, hey Why'd you take the Coffee Stations away?"

"When High School kids came to camp, we want them to have an EXCELLENT resort experience! We just started to think that, Is it really serving High Schoolers if we have them standing in line to get a cup of Coffee? Why don't we bring the coffee to them, literally serve them with Carafes of Coffee. We'll wait on them. When does anyone in our society honor High Schoolers by serving them?"

"You are kidding?"

"No, we realized that so many High Schoolers were waiting in line for a cup of coffee, for almost a third of the meal. If we brought coffee to them then it would give their leaders that much more time to hang out with them and deepen their relationship with them, to share Christ with them!"

Plus incarnationally if Christ came to serve and to give His life away as a ransom for many can't we do the same with a pot of coffee?