My First day as a Mess Coordinator at UTC

My Day started off at 6 am on January 7th the Sunday 2007. At the regular time i.e.7:30 am we started the mess and surprisingly had many students coming for breakfast. Anyway it was fun serving and was very exciting to see all our friends coming back to college after a month's vacation. It has been UTCians tradition to greet each other with a hug and pat on each other's backs when meeting friends, probably one could identify a pastor/theologian as a UTCian if they happen to do it I suppose. Don't you think it is an easy way to recognize a person as UTCian? Even as the greeting, meeting and eating was going on there was lot of stress and strain on our minds as to whether the food would be sufficient or not. While one of my friends was appreciating me for preparing nice food, another enquired (rather sarcastically) whether I myself prepared the food. So in the midst of those tense moments there was some time to laugh and have fun which I felt was good. There are lots of decisions to be made on the spot while being a coordinator which is a challenge and since it is the first day it was a bit nervous and I am learning to make decisions.

You might be wondering how was the lunch. Well I am in fact coming to that; by God’s grace we did had delicious food.

The college has a tradition of beginning each term with Principal’s Tea during which time I was asked to join the singing group and we led the community members into singing some choruses. It is always a great experience to be part of singing and praising God even in the midst of busy schedule as a Mess coordinator. Soon after the Principal's Tea we had Covenant Service for the community in which the Principal preached and the Registrar led the service. It was rather a long service because we had communion for the community which is quiet ideal for some of us as some of our friends would not have had the opportunity to take part in the breaking of bread in their local congregations because of their local preaching assignments.

Soon after the Covenant service it was followed by Dinner and since it was the beginning of a new term and also New Year we thought that it would be fantastic to begin with a Bang so we prepared Briyani. (Hyderabad is famous for Biryani) It was an exciting dinner because even the Principal and the Registrar's family joined us for dinner and I happened to serve them. In closing my experience as a Mess coordinator has in fact taught me to depend on God for every small thing just as a child would depend on his/her parents. It was absolutely a wonderful experience for me to mangage and orgainze so many things with in a short span of time.