Based in Managua, reaching out to Nicaragua: Christ for the City International.
I could probably come up with a list of 100, but here’s 10 off the top of my head:
1. Always be honest, transparent, and approachable.
2. Lead by example, don’t just supervise.
3. Another way of stating #2: serve in the trenches with your team.
4. “Lead with a Limp” - don’t just admit to your weaknesses as [...]
Today’s the day we wrap-up the series on the book Serving with Eyes Wide Open: Doing Short-Term Missions with Cultural Intelligence by David A. Livermore. I hope you’ve enjoyed some of the posts over the last three weeks. Today I’m going to finish with some concluding thoughts from the book’s final chapter — and some [...]
Read full post...One part of my job as a missionary that I really enjoy is strategizing.
How can we more effectively serve in the areas where God is leading us? How do we expand our reach? How do we use our resources wisely (especially our most precious one…us, the workers!)? What do we change? [...]
1. Pride
(And now 14 more ways to say “pride”…)
2. Allowing busyness or disinterest to prevent you from learning anything about the host country or culture before the trip
3. Believing that the American way is the “best way” or the “only way”
4. Being critical of local customs, beliefs, or traditions
5. Being inflexible when (not if) challenges, [...]
This post falls into the “dusting off old notes and found something interesting” category. I scribbled some pointers from a podcast called the One-Minute How-To that I listened to several months ago. The specific episode is called “How to Manage Projects Like a Rock Star,” contributed by Chris Brogan.
This is a good refresher for [...]
I was reading through some old blog entries and I found an interesting quote from a post I did on the book Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell:
“Missions then is less about the transportation of God from one place to another and more about the identification of a God who is already there. It is [...]
