Traveling around to our various regions, I regularly hear comments like the following: “We need to make sure the home office is aware of this information,” or “who is the person in the home office that I need to talk to about this issue?” I will inevitably respond by asking: Which home office do you mean? Now I know what office the person is referring to. He/she is talking about the US Ministry Support Center, or to put it more simply, the US office. However, World Team has ‘home offices’ in Australia, Canada and the US.
We are global.
I realize that we could chalk this up to a simple oversight on our part, given that a large portion of our workers come from the United States. However, the reality is that we are now mobilizing workers from a variety of different locations. Should other Sending Countries be established, which is a live option in the coming year, the pool from which workers could be mobilized would further increase.
We are global.
Several of our Team Leaders, Field Leaders and Area Staff are non North American.
We are global.
The World Team International board is discussing a proposal to create a global alliance where selected members of each Sending Country would participate together in the oversight of global ministries. In this scenario, a global alliance would be made up of an equal number of Australian, Canadian and US representatives plus a number of other international representatives.
We are global.
It’s a small change, but it would signal a step forward towards becoming more international, towards becoming WT Global. Instead of saying ‘home office’ with the understanding that ‘home office’ equals ‘US office’, let’s specify which office we are referring to: the Australian office, the Canadian office or the US office. Try it out! Encourage others in this ‘name change.’
We are global.
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