Basic Missions
Posted on | August 30, 2007 | 1 Comment
My brother and his wife are remarkable people. Let’s name them Red and Tonka. They have seen some pretty tough times together but you would never suspect it. In fact they are so upbeat it would be easy to suspect that they were born with silver spoons in their mouths.
Vickie and I are constantly exchanging ideas with Red and Tonka and supporting one another. One of the little things we did was help them start a new web site, www.BasicMissions.com. There is nothing there now, it’s brand new; but I wanted to let you know why the site exists, what is going to happen there and why I thought of it tonight.
After taking care of their own needs, Red and Tonka spend the majority of their day trying to help other people. This has been going on for a very long time. In fact, Tonka decided at one time that this is what she wanted to do for the rest of her life. She planned and studied and rounded up support and started Basic Missions - an organization that helps and finds help for people; regardless of the need.
Red and Tonka found out there are an awful lot of people that honestly need help. Some need rent money, some need medicine, some need a ride to work. Some need a raincoat so they can stand out in the rain holding up the “eat pizza here” sign for $5 an hour. They also found out there are an awful lot of people that will spend all day trying to get something for free!
Well, you know where this is going to wind up. It really got out of hand. The network that homeless people and other needful people have will put the internet to shame!!! Tonka was overwhelmed with people at her door, on her cell phone, and just everywhere.
Well, Red and Tonka did not want to get out of the helping business – they just needed some relief. So now the daily meeting, calling, transporting and other things to help are carried out by many organizations, Red helps coordinate and Tonka signs checks!
OK. Finally here’s the part about www.BasicMissions.com. Red and Tonka are going to put info at the site that all these organizations can use to help people. Info that the average person would not know but info that would be known by someone that has had some hard times. You know – the basic stuff.
Where do you find a used tire for five dollars? Who really knows the social security maze? Where can you get hired for a day’s work? And who will donate a pair of work gloves or steel-toed boots so I can work? What about that raincoat?
I got a call from Atlanta Georgia today. A really nice guy wanting my thoughts on the direction he might go in the field services business. We talked for quite a while. I found myself explaining and suggesting things that are “the basics” to me. He asked me to pause in the conversation a few times “so I can write this down”. It hit me pretty hard that plenty I take for granted might not be so basic to others.
I’m going to try to start my own Basic Missions here. I will continue to talk about my day in the field; or my occasional day in the office, but on occasion I will have some real basic stuff to go over.
Tomorrow we’ll start with a few of the things that you need to look for at a company’s web site.
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September 1st, 2007 @ 12:02 pm
Outside of the stuff we do naturally (eating, breathing, sleeping) nothing is ‘basic’. You do something over and over enough times it becomes almost automatic. You don’t think about it anymore, you don’t have to. However, enter a new arena and it’s all brand new to you. Enter a new arena and anxiety moves to new highs (or it can). We are about to move to a new level of field services and my wife is moving to new levels of anxiety. I look at my present job, I now do things that 2 years ago I either didn’t know to do, forgot to do or was timid when I had to do them – no more. I now tutor new people in the company I work for and occasionally see parts of me, two years ago, in them. I have a mentor who helped me when I was a newbie and he always said, to pay him back, just be there when they send a newbie my way (which I try to do). New situations can be scary, just ask me – although 90% of the time, it’s because we work it up that way in our minds.