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I'm the lead pastor of a great and very unconventional church - Church At The Movies, with campuses in Ronkonkoma and Mastic, NY - and I love doing what I do. We have hundreds of fellow radicals in our congregations who, like me, are committed to doing church for the unchurched. Totally apart from my church involvement, I work a few hours a week as a Weight Loss Consultant for Weight Watchers, which I thoroughly enjoy.

Friday, December 09, 2005

Mr. Supercool

It's Friday and it's that time again - time to make noble mention of a person or persons worthy of the coveted title Supercool Person of The Week.

As the tension builds once again, you will have gathered by the headline that today we are looking at one person and at the male of the species.

You know there are a whole lot of people for whom Sunday mornings really are work, but they don't seem to look at it that way. While some people walk out into the sunlight when service is over, ready to enjoy the rest of the day, there are others who are ready for intravenous coffee and a nap (and believe me for some of us those two are not mutually exclusive!).

This guy is always one of the last to leave on Sunday mornings and if you look around you'll see why - because he is looking around, to make sure everything in the movie theater is left just the way it ought to be.

Yes folks, our Supercool Person of The Week is John Leone. As our head usher he oversees our greeters and ushers, but he does a lot more than that, John keeps an eye on 101 things that are happening around the theater so that the pastors just need to focus on the service. He's there early to make sure everyone and everything is in place and you'll generally see him wandering around as we get near to the kicking out time of 11.30 with a dustpan and broom in his hand picking up the last traces of the crowd that has left.

If he doesn't nap on Sunday afternoons, he deserves to. He's another example of the fact that it takes teamwork to make the dream work. John, you get a free bagel and coffee on Sunday morning, you're our Supercool Person of The Week!