Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Let's Do Lunch

I'm not exactly sure how this started, but it's been going on for years. I frequently took responsibility for determining where we went to lunch after Kairos. We used to go to sit down places like Chili's, TGIFriday's, Bennigan's, etc. Then a demographic shift occurred and some people could not afford to eat frequently at those places so for quite some time we have been going instead to places like Arby's, Wendy's and the occasional Five Guys.

This week, perhaps owing to a shift in scheduling as a result of Phase 3, JenVare took the initiative and has distributed a lunch schedule to Kairos. It seems that the mantle of lunch commander has passed. For this I am thankful.

In case you missed the Kairos e-mail:

Join us for lunch every Sunday after the 11:15am service!
(Meet around 12:45pm at the eatery)

Date Place Location
6/15/2008 Arby's Rte. 202 N
6/22/2008 Brandywine State Park - BBQ Rte. 202 N - Restaurant Row
6/29/2008 Five Guys Rte. 202 S - Fairfax Shopping Center
7/6/2008 Lucky's Diner/Coffee Shop Rte. 202 N - past the Fire Station
7/13/2008 Moe's Rte. 202 N - near Target
7/20/2008 Season's Pizza take Rte. 202 S, 1st U-turn, then 202 N
7/27/2008 Arby's Rte. 202 N

2 comments:

jenvare said...

I'm sorry Steve, I didn't mean to take over your position as "lunch location leader" or "lunch commander". If you want the responsibility back, you are more than welcome to it. Although... it sounds like you're pretty happy not to have this added pressure and stress upon your shoulders any more.

So when can I put you down for hosting lunch again when our funds saved can go to the benevolence fund at church?

Steve Lamp said...

No apologies needed. And I should clarify it wasn't a responsibility in the sense of it being a pressure or stress; all I did was offer a suggestion or take suggestions, try to get a general consensus and then make an announcement.

The brown bag lunches didn't really work the way they were intended. The idea was that people would reallocate funds from dining out to the benevolence fund (like the H2 Project), but the majority of people were still buying their lunch from a restaurant but just getting it to go and bringing it to my apartment.

That's not to say that they weren't still giving; I'm sure they were. It just that the brown bag lunch was not serving as an effective mechanism to aid and increase our charity.