The Operations Crew: Is A Spreadsheet Ministry?

The Operations Crew: Is A Spreadsheet Ministry?

Author: Damascus September 17, 2026 Duration: 1:08:29

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

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