…my Carmex! Okay, if you don’t know about Carmex, what cave are you living in? It is the best lip balm ever (well, in my opinion anyway). I have one in my pocketbook, desk drawer, computer case, bed side table, van, and, well, I can’t share all my secrets.
One secret I will share is that I like to think I have the best job ever. I know some of you feel the same way about your jobs. What I most love is that I get to help churches lead people to Christ. I have the opportunity to learn from churches how they minister and what they need to meet their goals. Then we build software to make it happen.
While helping churches evangelize is our ultimate goal, on a daily basis, it’s not quite that simple. There are deadlines, technical issues, and personal matters. We get caught up in the next design meeting, story point estimates, new technology, sprint review… the list goes on.
But just remember that what we do makes a serious impact. And, sometimes, not for the best. We are human and have introduced problems to our churches with some of our releases. Yes, we are not perfect. That’s when it’s even more important to remember that our aim is the same as that of our churches: helping God’s people.
If we do that, the positive effects will far outweigh the negatives. When we remember that common purpose in everything we do, our users will feel about our software the way I do about my Carmex. They’ll say, “I don’t know what I would do without it.”
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March 14th, 2011 - 3:11 pm
Darci, Great reminder to those “behind the scenes”… are the things we are doing making ministry work better or making the already hard job more difficult and complex.
I am glad to have a vendor on our team who realizes what impact (positive and negative) you have on ministry.
Thanks for being salve to dry cracked lips.