Mark Hepner Mark Hepner (M.A.B.S.-N.T., ATS) is with Wycliffe Bible Translators in Papua, New Guinea. This paper presents a preliminary statement of the author’s personal theology of ministry. “Waiting tables” refers to one of the basic senses of the primary “ministry” word group utilized throughout the books of the New Testament (diakoneō ‘to serve’, diakonia ‘service’, and diakonos ‘servant’)1 and this concept ‘serves’