Hey friend welcome to the mere Christians podcast. I'm Jordan Rayner. How does the

gospel influence the work of mere Christians?

Those of us who aren't pastors or religious professionals,

but who work as pharmacy aides, factory workers,

and energy brokers.

That's the question we explore every week and today I'm posing it to Candice Lavert.

She's an IT operations manager in a large software company who recently joined me to talk about the impact

of knowing that God cares about the work itself and not just how you spend your lunch break at work.

We talked about how to use show and tell for grownups

to move from the surface to the serious,

to the spiritual with your coworkers and finally we talked about how to

practically make people feel valued beyond their productivity within your

office I think you guys are going to love this conversation with my

friend Candice Lavert.

Candice Lavert.

Long-time listener first-time caller, welcome to the mere

Christians podcast. Thanks so much Jordan. So you told me before we start recording

you've listened to every episode of the show, which boggles my mind. I can't listen to myself talk for more than a few minutes

at it's I can't imagine like when people tell me they listen to me read audio books I'm like that sounds

exhausting all right let's talk about your work, Candace.

You're an operations manager, an IT operations manager.

You work at a really large software company.

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