Quality Ice Cream!
posted by on 04/2/08
Recently I took a trip to Tuttle, OK with some friends to visit the Braum’s Farm. I was amazed at the quality in every step of the dairy producing process.
They start by growing crops to feed their cows in the healthiest, hormone-free way. Because the milking is done right next to the processing plant, the products can be made, packaged and loaded into their trucks to be delivered to the stores in record time. Their milk arrives only 48 hours after it has been milked from the cow! During the tour we tasted some incredibly smooth and delicious ice cream samples. Yum!
It was encouraging to hear that these entrepreneurs passed on the vision to their children so they can still say it is a family-owned and operated business.
Braum’s can offer the freshest products because all of it’s stores are close enough to the farm for their trucks to deliver every other day. They can offer very fresh dairy products in contrast to other types of stores across the nation.
I see an analogy between the focus Braum’s has on quality and the focus we need to keep in ministry. Serving the Lord looses its effectiveness if we focus on expansion instead of meeting people’s deeper needs. A broad ministry with a shallow message will collapse. A broad ministry will spring naturally from a deeper message that meets people’s real needs. You may not be able to reach all the needs you see, but whatever you do, make it top quality.
I appreciate this message. It reminds me of the saying to ‘bloom where you’re planted.’
Furthermore, it brings me back to a recent study we did at church on Colossians 3: 23. After inserting the meaning of the Greek words into the passage it could read, Prepare, acquire, fashion, author, and perform all your individual and tasks as a whole with spirit and life unto the Lord.. Simply put, this is Enthusiasm (in God). God will transform communities when the needs of others are met with top quality for the glory of our Lord. Praise be to God!!
Braum’s is really good ice cream. Regretfully they don’t have one anywhere near us. I guess it helps my family & I appreciate it more the few times we do get to have it.
I like your analogy.
That’s a great admonition Esther. Just the other day when I realized that there wasn’t time for writing lesson plans, I decided not to “throw something together” but wait for the Lord’s timing and make it better quality. Looking back I’m really glad I did. In Taiwan there was a farm we saw that was proud of its fresh ice cream too. As mass-production reaches the corners of the world, fresh, quality, all-natural products only increase in value. May we each value and enjoy what we have around us and not long too much for the “silk of China”.
Thanks again for your analogy!
Here in the GA Dept. we readily agree that quality is better than quantity. But it takes time. That’s why we must redeem the time; that way we can have quantity of quality!
Hey Esther!!!!
But ya,like everyone else said, good analogy. 
I didn’t even think of that when i was there. I guess i had no reason to, but that was really creative. (we’re teaching creativity right now 
) But anyway, keep up the good work on the website!! talk to you soon!! ~Amanda C.
Well, I finally got on your family’s website and got to read alot of the stuff on here. Yes, Braum’s was definitely one of the better tours I’ve been on…especially because of the samples they handed out.