What does a church secretary do anyway?

Jobs within the church are a bit nebulous. Besides Sunday morning duties, nobody knows for sure what the staff does. The secretary... what does she do all week?

Last week was my last week as a church secretary. Of course it is bittersweet, but also a relief to be free to move on to the next phase of life. I've greatly enjoyed working for my church for over 6 years.

Here are a few stats to commemorate my resignation:

• I have personally folded over 31,000 Sunday bulletins!
• I have answered the phone "Hello. Faith Community Church. How can I help you?" approximately 500 times.
• I have created and printed promotional documents for church events, to the tune of 5,000 printed pieces.
• I have attended staff meetings with our church pastors for well over 200 hours, as we've discussed, planned and prayed.
• I have been responsible for purchasing thousands of dollars worth of office supplies, Christian Education materials, ink and toner cartridges, stamps, etc.
• One job I won't miss at all - licking envelopes for mailings! I have likely licked over 2,000 envelopes for numerous mailings over the years! Ewwww!
  
• Week after week I have organized 10-15 "quiet pack" boxes that our youngsters use during the worship service (they contain crayons, blank paper, some stencils, some small books, coloring pages, etc). 10 boxes organized every week for 6 years means I handled those boxes over 3,000 times!
  
• I have printed hundreds of visitor letters - as a follow-up for every person/family that has visited our church and left contact information.