Pundayschool · Episode 4 companion

Someone Should: a devotional for church's unpaid staff member

A quick devotional for busy people: 3 to 5 minutes, start to finish. Read it or listen to it, whichever fits your morning: a coffee break, a commute, or the two minutes before the rest of the house wakes up. When you reach the bottom, you have done today's devotional.

3 to 5 minutes · read or listen · Galatians 6:10 · goes with the short "Someone Should"

A wall of nine framed photos above a small welcome desk, eight of them holding a cheerful round mascot portrait and the center frame left completely blank.
Eight faces on the wall. One frame left blank, for Someone.
In short

This devotional, from Pundayschool Episode 4, "Someone Should", is about the imaginary volunteer every church seems to have: Someone. No interview, no safeguarding form, endless availability. Its verse is Galatians 6:10: "As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith" (KJV). Someone does not actually exist. The rescue is not a program or a new sign-up sheet, it is you, taking the next small kind step in front of you today.

Clocking in: watch the short

Pundayschool · EP 04 · under a minute

Someone Should

No interview. No safeguarding form. Endless availability.

Starting soon

The short has not started its shift yet. The day it goes live at @pundayschool, the video will play right here. The devotional below stands on its own, so read on.

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The job description: reading Galatians 6:9-10

"Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers."

Galatians 6:10, NIV

Prefer to listen?

Galatians 6:7 to 10, read aloud in the King James Version. About 30 seconds.

Every church has an unpaid staff member called Someone. No interview. No safeguarding form. Somehow, endless availability.

A precarious tower of stacked chairs balanced above a cluttered welcome cupboard stuffed with an apron, a red toolbox, folders, a kettle, a tea box, and a tin of biscuits.
Someone's actual job description: hospitality, maintenance, pastoral care, refreshments, and emergency chair theology.

Someone should welcome them. Someone should clean that. Someone should help with setup. Somewhere along the way, Someone ended up on hospitality, maintenance, pastoral care, refreshments, and whatever counts as emergency chair theology. We keep adding to Someone's job description like they are paid in leftover biscuits.

At this point, Someone needs either a raise or a rescue.

Here is the twist nobody built into the joke: Someone does not exist. Look for them and you find an empty picture frame on the volunteer wall and a blank ID badge on a hook. Every task attributed to Someone was actually done by a real person who simply never got named. Somebody carried the cables. Somebody stacked the chairs. Somebody stayed behind to lock up. We just never said their name out loud, so the job quietly got filed under Someone instead.

That is where Paul's short line to the Galatians lands, and it lands gently. He does not say organize a program. He does not say recruit a committee. He says something smaller and much more doable: as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people. Not all the tasks. Not forever. Just the good that is already in front of us, the next time we have the chance to do it.

Someone is you. Grace starts small.

The honest performance review

No manager, no clipboard. Just three quiet questions, between us and God.

A close-up of the one blank picture frame on the volunteer photo wall, with an empty laminated name badge on a blue lanyard hanging from a small brass hook below it.
The frame with no face. The badge with no name. Someone, waiting to be claimed.

A quiet word before your shift

Pray it slowly, in these words or your own.

Father, thank you that grace does not wait for a program or a perfect plan. It just asks us to do the good already in front of us. Forgive me for walking past the small thing because it felt too small to count, and for waiting on Someone else to go first. Open my eyes to the next kind step, whatever it is: a welcome, a clean cup, a listening ear, a chair put away. Give me the courage to be Someone today. Amen.

Three round mascot characters at a wooden welcome desk, each doing one ordinary job at once: one lifting a chair off a tall stack, one carrying a pot, and one folding a towel.
Nobody rescues Someone with one big program. Three people, three small jobs, at the same time.

The next shift: one step for today

Someone's shift has not ended. There is a whole day left today, and it needs exactly one thing from you.

Do one specific good thing for one specific person, today. Nothing grand. Nothing that needs a plan, a budget, or anyone's permission. Notice the next opportunity, whatever size it comes in, and take it before you talk yourself out of it.

And if you are the one already carrying five of Someone's jobs, your step runs the other way. Name one task out loud and ask a real person, by name, if they will take it. Handing over a job is not quitting on your church. It is how somebody finally gets to stop being Someone and start being themselves.

Clocking out

That is the whole devotional. No extra reading, no follow-up task, nothing to sign up for. If one line stuck with you, say it back to God once more before the day picks up speed. That counts. You have done today's devotional.

Questions people ask

What does Galatians 6:10 mean?

Paul closes his letter to the Galatians with a plain instruction: whenever we have the chance, do good to everyone, and especially to fellow believers. It is not a call to fix every need in the world. It is a call to notice the opportunity actually in front of us, right now, and act on it instead of waiting for a bigger or more official moment.

Who is "Someone" in Pundayschool's Episode 4?

Someone is the imaginary volunteer every church quietly leans on: the one who welcomes people, makes the coffee, stacks the chairs, and handles whatever nobody else claims. Someone never had an interview and never signed anything, because Someone does not exist. Every task credited to Someone was actually done by a real, unnamed person, which is the whole point of the joke.

What if I do not have time to do good for everyone?

Galatians 6:10 does not ask for everyone, it asks for "as we have opportunity." That is a promise in disguise: you are only responsible for the good that is genuinely within your reach today, not the whole world's need at once. One specific kind act for one specific person is a full and faithful answer to this verse.

What if I am already doing everyone's job at church?

Then this devotional is for you from the other side. Carrying five roles quietly is not extra faithfulness, it is often just an unclaimed task nobody has been asked to take. Naming a job and handing it to someone else by name is not letting your church down. It is how another person finally gets the chance to stop being Someone and start serving as themselves.

Where can I watch "Someone Should"?

Episode 4 goes live soon at @pundayschool on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook, and the video will be embedded at the top of this page the day it posts. Bookmark this page or follow @pundayschool to catch it first.