During a recent visit to Hong Kong, Mark invited me to attend a short seminar with him. Each speaker was given fifteen minutes to talk about the topic they had been assigned. One of the speakers spoke on character and competence. Fifteen minutes was not a long time to discuss such a deep issue, but it was fifteen minutes well worth my time.
Most nonprofit agencies do a good job of training their people in the character skills needed to serve in such a ministry. We, in World Team, have been traditionally strong on the area of character. We have worked through our smaller communities as well as large gatherings to demonstrate how the Gospel works its way deep into our hearts to change the way we relate to and work with others.
However, most agencies are weak in the area of competence. In other words, most agencies do not have a well defined body of knowledge and skills that need to be called upon by a worker to be able to do his/her job. This is the developmental piece – knowledge, skills and abilities – that is often neglected. So, in the case of World Team, we may send out a worker to start new communities of believers, but he/she does not have the skills or capacity to do what we are asking them to do. They lack the competence needed.
In the coming months, we will be working towards this goal: Each worker/leader partnering with World Team Global will be able to give voice to ‘who we are’ and ‘what we do’
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