This is where Kip and Katy will post some of our missiological writings, insights, book reviews, reflections, and other things you may or may not want to read. Of course, that is, if we find time to post them!
1. To continue leadership training through a third year of classes at the Turkana Bible Training Institute. There will be 18 week-long classes taught at TBTI in 2007.
2. To support and encourage all church leaders by planning and leading two church leader seminars/retreats during the year. One of these events will be focused on Christian marriage.
3. To assist Turkana church leaders in planting at least two new churches.
4. To raise sufficient funds for the ongoing needs of the 5 CMF clinics in Turkana, the ongoing ministry of TBTI, construction of church buildings, and the clean water project.
"But the one quality I do want to highlight here is this: a leader must devote himself to nurturing his team members and enabling them to function at their maximum.
What often happens on the mission field is that the assigned leader of a team is burdened down with his own job responsibilities, and has inadequate time and energy to spend time nurturing his teammates. The teammates, meanwhile, begin to sense that their leader has put his own work before that of the team as a whole—which may or may not be true, yet it is so perceived. Thus the team members gradually lose their loyalty to the leader. The problem for the leader is how to demonstrate servanthood and self-effacement even in the midst of busyness and pressure. If the servant spirit is truly there, it ought to come through no matter how busy the leader is. However, where possible, it is better to choose people as leaders who aren’t so busy with some specific job that they have no time to lead." (Hale 219)
10) You are wealthy beyond comprehension.
If you are sitting in this room today, then you have a wealth that is unparalleled in most of the world. This may be hard for you to believe now, but most of the world uses many fewer resources each day than even students at Emmanuel do. Imagine a wealth that can call an airplane out of the sky to carry your family away in a few hours notice. Imagine a wealth that could take a month of resources for an entire Turkana family and pour it into the fuel tank of your truck for one day of driving—and maybe just for pleasure. Our wealth often became a barrier, and we found ourselves inadvertently preaching the gospel of health and wealth, just by the stuff that we had. Our wealth is always a tension in Africa.