Team? What is Team?

As mentioned before, I am a volunteer youth missionary. I'm part of an organization known as the Youth Mission Team. So, usually, instead of telling people that 'I'm on the Youth Mission Team', I tell them 'I'm on team'. Now, the Youth Mission Team (YMT) is a self supporting charitable organization, which runs off donations. Can anyone spot irony in that sentience?
Well, let me explain it. There are two key elements to being a volunteer on YMT. One of them is the lifestyle. The other is the ministry. Now, the lifestyle we life includes a curfew (10pm weekdays, and midnight on weekends, just so we can party hard), earning $25 a week for personal use, single vision (which means celibacy. Which means being single in heart and in action. So no dating, no relationships, and no 'hooking up' or 'one night stands' or whatever you call that sort of stuff), respect for authoritative figures (I don't mean Julia Gillard), being a part of a Covenant Community, living in a brother/sisterhood, and having part time work. Just so you know, the money that us volunteers earn during part time work DOES NOT become personal money. That money gets pooled in to our household, and we run the households through that money. Thus, we are self supporting. HOWEVER, the second element on YMT, which is the ministry, does not have any stable form of income, so in order to financially maintain the ministry aspect, the YMT needs to rely on donations. Ministry days involve running youth groups, camps, and reflection days, as well as mentoring kids.


Now, you see those people in the picture above? You can click the picture to enlarge it. Anyway, they are the people I volunteer with. Well, to an extent. The oriental has been replaced, as he had to do national service in Singapore. And the woman on the top of the pyramid (I wont say her name for privacy's sake, but for the time being, we'll call her Robby) is our paid manager and isn't actually a volunteer.
Oh, and here's just a fun fact. You know on Sam French's Blog Post,  where he mentions about his youth group and how 'Originally it was run by a girl from the parish that unfortunately had to move away for study', well that girl was Robby. Same person. Small world, eh?