Drew Powell

Robbie said something in his message Sunday that got me thinking. He talked about how our carpets at Beachside are stained and messy and it will always be that way. It marks the difference between a club and a mission station. A club is well manicure and caters to the “members”. A mission station is not worried about how the facility looks over the people that are in need of rescue. Although, a mission station still has to be organized to be sure that it can effectively accomplish the mission, the whole mindset is different.

Here are some other fundamental differences;

Mission Station

• shows wear and tear of past rescue missions
• people have battle scars, leaders carry the weight of failed missions and future mission
• they don’t try to clean people up before the enter the station.
• interested in turning people into future rescuers based on their experience of being rescued.
• willingness and patience to rehabilitate people that have been hurt

Clubs

• for members only/ caters to members
• have to meet the criteria to join/ jump through the hoops
• Once your “in” you can feel good about yourself
• great benefits for members/ VIP treatment
• your proud of your club facility, not because of it’s history of helping people but because it’s well kept and hangs the trophies of the clubs successes.
• focus internally, working hard to stay exclusive. members feel that if more people are included it will change and ruin the way things have always been done and they’ll lose their personal benefits.

I hope well always have coffee stains on the carpet and surf/skate boards laying around and wetsuits hanging up and so on.

which category do you lean towards and why? what are some other differences between a mission station and club?