At a church meeting for representatives of small Anglican Churches, they met to discuss ways that churches can grow. One of the things that emerged from that meeting was how hard it is for small churches to do all the things that could be done, with the small resource base they have. Most Churches reported that they'd had to limit the range of their ministry focus so they could cope with the workload without wearing out their members. It's a common problem isn't it? In fact most of us are overworked in one way or another. It's a reality of the Christian life that none of us has the resources to do everything that needs to be done. Even those things we are doing, we probably feel inadequate to do. In the passage before us today we find two such instances, when the disciples were faced with situations that were beyond their capacity to cope and we see how the intervention of Jesus changes things.