Teams
Be accountable
Swarmish, decentralized, relational, peer-led networks and partnerships depend on the balance between failure and accountability. Swarms demand that we experiment–that we try, try again–yet also that we are accountable, so that we don’t consistently repeat the same mistakes. Here’s an excellent post on accountability.
Be accountable
Swarmish, decentralized, relational, peer-led networks and partnerships depend on the balance between failure and accountability. Swarms demand that we experiment–that we try, try again–yet also that we are accountable, so that we don’t consistently repeat the same mistakes. Here’s an excellent post on accountability.
7 essentials
…for new initiatives in mission: called individuals, visionary
leaders, missional churches, appropriate training, flexible structures,
sustainable finances, and powerful prayer. Read more from Howard Brant.
Coaching Workers
“I haven’t told this to anyone, but I’m thinking of leaving the field and going to work for my dad back in Europe,” confided Jeffrey*, a team leader based in Bangladesh. Jeffrey and I met at a conference. When he found out I coached leaders and had least-reached people groups (LPGs) field experience he shared [...]
Pictures of the Goal: what a pioneer team looks like
What does a pioneer team capable of impacting 100,000 people look like, and what does it do?
Aiming for 50,000 teams
It’s hard to believe Ethne06 was held a year ago. I wrote recently about the quandary we face: quite simply, we are losing ground when we consider the task of reaching the unreached.
Although this has been known for some time, it was driven home in January 2007. For the last two decades, the International Bulletin [...]
Coaching Workers
“I haven’t told this to anyone, but I’m thinking of leaving the field and going to work for my dad back in Europe,” confided Jeffrey*, a team leader based in Bangladesh. Jeffrey and I met at a conference. When he found out I coached leaders and had least-reached people groups (LPGs) field experience he shared [...]
The Harbor of Hope
The Harbor of Hope has been established in Dakar, Senegal to help missionaries thrive in their pursuit of what God has called them to do in this part of the world. As missionaries with Barnabas International, my wife and I see our ministry as helping missionaries in North and West Africa. We have been in [...]
Mobile Member Care
The Mobile Member Care Team (MMCT) is a cooperative, inter-agency service that provides training, consultation, counseling, referral and direct crisis response for missionaries. The first team, of what is hoped to eventually be several teams across the world, is located in Ghana and serves West Africa.
Traumatic events such as evacuation, civil war, kidnapping, carjacking, armed [...]
The Multi-cultural team, Money, and the Glory of God
The question flutters through the office like a butterfly, landing on each shoulder and whispering its wisdom into the ears of the staff, They should have told him: you don’t do that here!
That was bargaining. They were American ministry leaders. He was a Chinese member of the team who transplanted the culturally-rooted practice of bargaining [...]
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