Hospitality Hostess

For the first time in a long while, I accepted a leadership position.  It didn't come easy.  You see, I consistently score so low on leadership for personality tests that it's not even worth the while to figure my total.  The few times that I've tried to take up a leader role, it has miserably failed.  Groups disbanding, not ever even starting outside of me and my ideas.   So I did not go lightly into the venture of accepting a leading role for MOPS next year.  I prayed and felt convicted that serving for hospitality would be something that I could do.

MOPS--mothers of preschoolers.  It has been my link to nearly every person I know in Grand Island outside of family.  I love going, it's a wonderful time to connect with other women, and the kids are in their own little rooms, much like Sunday school.  Every year I have been asked if I'd be willing to help serve, and every year the response was 'no thanks I just want to come and enjoy, I'm not much of a leader anyways'.

What changed?  Certainly not me.  I'm still just as much as a follower as ever.  Just my perspective on what leading can look like.  Which is why hospitality is the perfect place for me to lead.  Because it's not really leading, it's serving.  I will be in charge of arranging who is bringing brunch, setting up the meeting room, and tearing it down each time.  There isn't any public speaking.  No one will be looking to me for answers or guidance.  Our little branch of MOPS won't collapse (hopefully!) just because I'm 'leading'.

I will get to make the room be what everyone has always seen.  Set up, organized, decorated, welcoming.  All ready for them to come and enjoy.  Do you see what I am getting at?  It's behind the scenes work.  A place to give back, but not in a very obvious way.  It's a job that people don't think about, because it is done when they are away.  And that's the way I like it.  I love working in the background where no one notices.  It's the perfect place for this follower, and I'm excited to give back to an organization that has brought so many positive people and experiences into my life.