In many of our Set Apart to Serve conversations, we’ve spoken with church workers about their experience becoming and serving as a church worker. Today we begin conversations from another perspective: you, the people in the pew, laity and lay leaders on the role of church workers in your lives and why encouraging your fellow brothers and sisters in Christ to consider church work is important to you. Mark Wolters and Debbie Larson join Andy and Sarah for our Set Apart to Serve series to talk about their lives and service to the church, their own experiences with lay leadership and encouraging young people to consider church work, how LWML women have a special role to play in encouraging future church workers, the analogy of farming and harvest in relation to church worker recruitment and formation, and the role of the layperson in encouraging those around them to consider church work vocations.Christ’s church will continue until He returns, and that church will continue to need church workers.Set Apart to Serve (SAS) is an initiative of the LCMS to recruit church workers. Together, we pray for workers for the Kingdom of God and encourage children to consider church work vocations.Here are three easy ways you can participate in SAS:1. Pray with your children for God to provide church workers.2. Talk to your children about becoming church workers.3. Thank God for the people who work in your congregation.To learn more about Set Apart to Serve, visit lcms.org/set-apart-to-serve.Have a topic you'd like to hear about on The Coffee Hour? Contact us at: [email protected].