Believers in Christ

I work at the Osthoff hotel and resort as a banquet server, so working there brings in all different kinds of people each week. Sometimes we have weddings, business groups, or high schools. This past weekend we had a religious group. The group that was there were the Believers in Christ. They have come to the Osthoff on this church retreat for thirteen years.

The group was completely made up off all women, specifically two hundred African American women. The women were very respectful and many of them proper. They are extremely religious and express it in many ways. The main way this past weekend was in church service. These ladies’s were preaching, singing, and dance to become one with the lord. Some things they did were very unique and interesting to watch, such as the flag twirling. While other things frighten me a little, I think because I’m not a very religious person.

Being a banquet server, we served them many meals throughout the weekend. Each meal was set up and given in the buffet style. This allowed the women to go through as many times as they like and take as much as they wanted. As I started to clean up plates, I came to realized how wasteful the women were being. I didn’t clear one completely empty plate the whole weekend.

After watching the women waste so much food, I began to think. These women are suppose to be extremely religious and caring, but they had no care in the world of how much food waste was happening. I found it to be very interesting that being all proper that they would waste as much as they did, along with how involved and how deep they getting into praying and becoming one with god.