A common theme you'll probably hear about from many of us at Fellowship Tech is how we desire to use our talents and skills for a purpose. Not just any purpose will do, either. We want that purpose to ultimately be God's purpose for our lives.
I just want to give a short expression of that passion from a developer's perspective. Development is a wonderful thing. It's a bit frustrating having a mindset that is always breaking things down, analyzing scenarios, and trying to come up with better ways of doing things - such as why, with all of our vast technology, traffic lights still stop you at 1am when you're the only person on the road. I bet most people don't think long and hard about how to improve the flow through a buffet line either.
While it has its downsides, there are also a lot of benefits. The greatest and most enjoyable for me is the creative aspect. You start with nothing, and you create - something, something that does something. Hopefully that something is useful, beneficial, and improves someone's life. It's even better if it leads people to the Lord or meets people's practical needs, just like He does. I'm glad the Lord is using my skills to help His church. While I have the common developer's desire to create something elegant and useful, I also have the greater desire to reflect the glory of God and be used by Him.
I feel blessed to be able to do both, and humbled by the fact that both are still very much a process.