Amazing Team Work

I am blessed, oh so blessed, to work with an amazing team here at Thrive Africa. In the last two weeks since I have been on “blog hiatus” I have been working with our amazing team to bind the 5,000 Break the Silence curriculums, collated the week before, which will be used with our Leadership Summit students next year.

The task was huge (punching holes with machines that could only do 5 sheets at a time in 5000 books 37 sheets long, and adding the comb binding), and with not much time left in the year, everyone agreed to go above and beyond and give some of their free time to bind books. A sign up sheet, asking for 6 interns and/or staff to sign up for 3 to 4 hour times blocks at nights and on the weekends quickly filled up within the first day, actually it was nearly full within the first hour. Tears weld up in my eyes as I was overcome by their willingness to give.

Throughout the various shifts (eating candy, watching movies, jammin’ out to songs, laughing and sharing stories) everyone had a great attitude and it quickly became a competition to see which group could get the most done. I got to write this e-mail to our entire team when we were only 5 shifts in:

“Above and beyond, working hard, enduring sore muscles, arm cramps, and much more, we, as a team, have FINISHED the collating, binding, stacking, organizing, putting together of all the Break the Silence books for Leadership Summit students to use next year! Days before the schedule deadline you have finished what seemed like an overwhelming and daunting task – nothing is too difficult when we come together, join forces, and work for God and His Kingdom!!”

Amazing, absolutely Amazing. I am so blessed to work with an amazing team!