Posted on February 17, 2012 by wtdavid
It’s always an encouragement when people engage right away with an idea that has been launched. 
One World Team member wrote this after receiving the invitation to read King’s Cross: “I want to personally thank you for recommending Keller’s book to the World Team family. I just downloaded it into my Kindle and look forward to digging into it and the discussion. I have been using Keller’s materials with our Skype guys in our Area for several years – A rich feast for all of us and now this.”
I’ve heard from several others that they have already downloaded the book to their Kindle!
Look forward to having you join us as a World Team community in reading this year, King’s Cross, by Dr. Timothy Keller [http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kings-Cross-Story-World-Jesus/dp/1444702130/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1329136272&sr=1-1]
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Posted on June 5, 2011 by wtdavid
We leave tonight to participate with our workers in Asia at the Mission11: Vision Forward conference.
The key elements of these Area conferences are prayer, vision and community.
Pray that each worker would deeply experience each one of these elements and leave refreshed and en-couraged (given fresh courage) to serve in His harvest.
We’ll give updates from our time there.
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Posted on November 2, 2010 by wtdavid
Posted on June 2, 2010 by wtdavid
It’s funny how the Lord can keep bringing up in conversation a topic on which you have been reflecting for some time. Talking with some fellow colleagues last night, we got on the subject of what needs new workers were voicing after their initial years in ministry. What they were hearing as they traveled around was that new workers desired community and mentoring. Many felt alone in ministry; launched out, if you will, on an exciting adventure, yet with no one to share with or talk through the joys and struggles. Many longed for spiritual input from experienced workers that would help them better navigate the journey of life and ministry.
A Mobilization Project plan is a good thing to spur us all on to praying and working towards mobilizing more workers into God’s harvest. However, that is only one of the shifts that need to occur within our World Team culture. We must re-establish community as a lived out core value, and give of our time to mentor new workers stepping into ministry. An outgrowth would be community whereby mutual mentoring would begin to occur between new and experienced workers. Maybe then, we would create a model of community more easily multiplied.
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Posted on May 27, 2010 by wtdavid
Wow, stay away from one’s blog for a few days and you can quickly lose track of the discussion. Rebecca and I just returned from the States where I stumbled on an article which piqued my interest. Normally, when I think about mentoring, I think of it in a one directional sense. A recent post from blogs.bnet.co.uk talked about more multi-directional mentoring described as:“reverse mentoring” and “group mentoring”.
In reverse mentoring, the dynamic is changed by allowing the newer member to mentor or help the more senior leader. The more senior leader gains access to information and training that might not otherwise have been available to him/her, and the newer member gains an opportunity to be immediately valued as well as to have immediate impact in the organization. In group mentoring, several upcoming leaders can be mentored at one time, and the group then serves as a community to encourage and challenge one another in leadership development. It would be interesting to hear what this looks like or might look like for some of us.
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Posted on May 10, 2010 by wtdavid
Is mentoring or coaching really that important? I remember attending a Leaderlink conference in the US a few years ago. One of the presenters shared this thought: “If a catalytic event (that is, a major conference or seminar) is not followed by small group processing, and then by one on one mentoring or coaching, then the impact of the catalytic event will quickly be lost in the life of the participant.” If this is true, then some how that one on one mentoring or coaching needs to be part of our outcomes from any training opportunity. I am wondering what that might look like in our WT community context, or how it ought to be worked out in practice?
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Thoughts Along The Journey 