The Operations Crew: Is A Spreadsheet Ministry?
The Damascus Podcast
Most people picture ministry as a stage, a microphone, and a room full of teenagers crying. So what do you do if your Monday is a bank reconciliation, a vendor invoice, and four hours of email? Four members of the Damascus operations and finance team sat down to answer that — and the answer is not the polite one. AJ, Conor, Anthony and Adam left engineering jobs, corporate accounting and a comfortable career track to build the back end of a missionary movement. In this conversation they take apart the lie that frontline ministry counts and everything else is support: why a spreadsheet can be a step toward sainthood, why the person preaching from stage might be less present to God than the guy doing year-end close, what actually changed when they stopped treating profit as the point, and the four building blocks they'd hand to anyone stuck in a job that feels like it doesn't matter. There is also a genuinely unhinged eight-minute detour into tungsten cubes, a proposal to replace the capital campaign with one, and a full accounting of Friday Thunder. If you have ever apologized for the work you do, this one is for you. Send it to somebody whose job you think of as ordinary. The Damascus Podcast — where encounter meets mission. The Damascus Podcast – where encounter meets mission. Subscribe today. -- Damascus’ mission is to awaken, empower, and equip a generation to live the adventure of the Catholic faith. To learn more about our camps, retreats, events, missionary programs, giving opportunities, and more, visit damascus.net. Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/damascusmission/ https://www.instagram.com/damascusworship/ https://www.instagram.com/damascussummercamp/ https://www.instagram.com/beyonddamascus/ Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DamascusCatholicMissionCampus/ https://www.facebook.com/people/Damascus-Worship/61555915569086/?_rdr https://www.facebook.com/damascussummercamp/ https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61565241435955 Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@damascusmission https://www.tiktok.com/@damascusworship https://www.tiktok.com/@damascussummercamp https://www.tiktok.com/@thedamascuspodcast