Paying bills, organizing receipts, budgeting expenses, doing taxes, organizing projects--these are tasks that most people (at least in developed industrialized nations) deal with. What seems like a tedious job for a single nuclear family becomes common work in community so that those who enjoy these tasks and are gifted in them can serve the community as a whole.
The Reba Services Office oversees the financial and organizational components of Reba Place Fellowship (RPF). The fellowship office or business office, as it is sometimes called, has been in existence nearly as long as the Fellowship. The office offers bookkeeping and accounting services, pays bills, administers payroll, and keeps records for the Fellowship and other non-profit organizations affiliated in some way with Reba.
The office is open during "normal business hours" Monday through Friday each week. David Johnson, a former member of Reba Place who now lives in Kansas, is our accountant. He accesses our computer system by modem and also visits regularly to help us keep our finances legal and functioning with integrity. David Janzen is the business manager and also works here as director of Reba Place Development Corporation (RPDC). Charlotte Oda handles deposits and writes checks for RPDC, Reba Place Church (RPC), and Living Water Community Church and several other service organizations. Jeanne Howe is our office manager who also answers many miscellaneous phone calls from Fellowship members and neighbors in need.
On any work day you might see 20-25 individuals mosey in and out of the Services Office to make photocopies, send a fax, pick up a check, or empty their fellowship mailbox. The Fellowship conference room hosts committee meetings as well as the RPF intern and apprentice library. Needless to say, the Reba Services office is an important organizing center of our common life and work.
