The Job Nobody Else Wants by Molly
Wherever Wonder Voyage teams serve, they go in with this attitude: ‘we want to do the jobs that no one else wants to do.’
Usually this offer gets met with a bit of skepticism. Today in New Orleans our Believers Fellowship team went the distance in ways that left the staff at New Orleans Mission astonished and begging us to come back again this week.
Our first clue that this would qualify for an episode of ‘Dirty Jobs’ was when our site supervisor said gloves, masks, and eye protection were necessary. He said we were going to clean a vacant lot…
Nothing really prepared us for the sights, smells, and crttters. It was a vacant lot alright, but it was a vacant lot that has been, until recently, used as a homeless encampment. Our job was to remove everything so that the lot could be mowed and turned into a park.
“Everything” included old appliances, clothing, household items, toys, tires, matresses, linens, food, bottles, garbage,lumber, and various unmentionable items. It was stinky, hot, distgusting, and difficult work, and yet not one person complained. The team’s amazing attitude was a witness to the staff of the Mission who definitely didn’t want to do the job alone.
Our board member, pastor Joe Morrone and the congregation at Believers Fellowship should be proud of these young people. They were amazing! They came, they saw, they conquered the job that nobody else wanted to do!