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"The nearest thing to pastoring a church", according to Brother Hyles.
That's the line I heard and believed until experience taught me otherwise. I was a bus captain for 2 years, and I have been a pastor for 3 years (5 years a youth pastor before that). Pastoring and Bus ministry are light-years apart from each other.
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Boomer said:RAIDER said:RAIDER said:
"The nearest thing to pastoring a church", according to Brother Hyles.
That's the line I heard and believed until experience taught me otherwise. I was a bus captain for 2 years, and I have been a pastor for 3 years (5 years a youth pastor before that). Pastoring and Bus ministry are light-years apart from each other.
I agree. I know what he meant as far as caring for and loving a group of people, but in the big picture it is night and day.
I have to smile when I remember my first summer "job" at a church. The pastor was a HAC graduate whose church was about an hour from my home. He asked me if I would consider helping him on Saturdays and Sundays. He would put me up and feed me. I thought it would be great experience.
On Saturday we started about 9:00 and bus called for about 2 hours. After lunch we did church visits for part of the afternoon. By 4:00 we were done for the day. There may have been a youth activity or two in the evening.
On Sunday I went to the church at 8:30. We picked up kids for Sunday School which started at 9:30. After church we took the kids home and I was eating lunch at the pastor's house at 1:00. I was wondering what great spiritual thing we would do on Sunday afternoon. After lunch the pastor said to me, "I know at HAC you are use to going non-stop on Sunday afternoon. Around here we take a nap. The couch is yours." It was a classic moment.
A 1 year qualifying factor for graduation from HAC.RAIDER said:
Hey Quickdraw....I was correcting it.....slowly I guess.RAIDER said:
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Please be warned! Being a part of this ministry does not necessarily mean you are right with God. if you leave for your bus route after 5:45am on Sunday and return before 1:00am you are not necessarily a part of the real bus ministry.
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Where you can be a Male Bus Worker or even Female Bus Worker and have no idea what a clutch is, where it is, or what it does.
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Because bus workers were on their routes all day on Saturday and all day on Sunday they were allowed to pick up a "sack lunch". The items I remember being in the bag were Vintners chips, a PB&J sandwich (with about a 1/4 inch of butter on the bread), carrot or celery sticks (or maybe a pickle), a desert cake with about a 1/2" of cinnamon on top. It seems like we also picked up a can of pop. Because the bus routes were visited on foot, we normally ate the sack lunch on the drive to Chicago.
