We've been at CIT (www.cit-online.org) for the past two weeks. It has been an amazing experience to be around mission-minded people and live in community with them. Most them have families with children and are planning, as we are, to pack it up and move to another culture. It has been great getting to know them and listening to their journey.
The training session has been Dynamic Teams. It is all about how to help foster effective teams while doing missions. Some say most missionaries leave the field due to conflicts among their own teammates. Sessions have included ideas related to leading a team, following a leader, resolving conflicts, and entering a team. The facilitators have been very thoughtful and thought provoking. Many ideas were pulled from scripture and it has helped me interpret some passages from an entirely different perspective.
Here are a few of my favorite quotes/ideas:
- Africa saying: the last elephant to the watering hole backs in. Think about it!
- Interdependence: mutual effort, mutual understanding, mutual accountability, mutual trust.
- Goal of the Trinity: Inclusion. Seeks to draw us within the circle.
- St. Francis: seek to understand, not be understood
- Apart from God, we have all been inadequately loved
- Hurt people hurt people
- A leader is a person with God given capacity and with God given responsibility, who is influencing specific groups of God's people toward God's purposes for the group.
- Pray you will become all God had in mind when He created you.
- Ministry flows out of being and results in doing.
- Getting a group heading generally west.
- Tim Keller: Words are not the currency of forgiveness, pain is.
- When I am unforgiving, I am disconnected from the gospel.
- Ken Sande: Every time you encounter a conflict, you will inevitably show your view of God.
- Breathe grace.
- Don't shutdown... embrace the pain.
- I should be proactively involved in God's process in my life.
- Preach the gospel to yourself EVERYDAY!
- Let your life be contagious.
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