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September 2015 Australia 1 Challenging South Pacific Region Member Care Marion Knell Worth Keeping Member Care helps missionaries to grow spiritually expand their resilience and durability maintain their physical and emotional health build effective ministry teams encourage and care f ID: 327030

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Light at the end of the tunnel

September 2015

Australia

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Challenging

South Pacific Region Member Care

Marion KnellSlide3

Worth Keeping

“Member Care helps missionaries to grow spiritually, expand their resilience and durability, maintain their physical and emotional health, build effective ministry teams, encourage and care for each other, communicate effectively, develop a consultative leadership style, and develop flexibility to adjust to every-changing needs and challenges”

September 2015AustraliaSlide4

Challenges to MC

Lack

of understanding what it is‘Shame‘culture/organisational reputationLeadership lack of modelling self-careStoicism – sacrifice is acceptableMC is fragmented/no process/systemsTask v. person orientationFinancial cost versus intangible rewards

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Challenges to MC

Building a culture of trust

Individualism/being helped is unacceptableAwareness of issues in the local churchNot viewed as integral or priorityAggressive MC providersGenerational perspectivesOrganisational history and culture changeChangeover of staff

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Lacking Skills and Resources

Diversity , people doing different

things – need a templateEffective planning/proactive not reactiveTraining availability and standards/professionalismPurpose statement/MoU/contractDiffering skills, role clarificationLack of church engagement and skillsLack of skilled

personnelSeptember 2015Australia6Slide7

Lacking Skills and Resources

Spiritual direction/coaching/mentoring

Theology of suffering/grey areasMoneyTimeIneffective communicationRemote locationsRecruiting younger generation MC providers September 2015

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Challenges, communication & delivery

Crisis management, fatigue, inconsistency, continuity, lack of personnel, resources

Risk aversion, leadership support, history, politics, resistance to change, sizeExpectations, gaps, confusion, lack pf felt need, sense of entitlementMoUs, finance priorities, tyranny of the urgent, confidentiality, narrow focusSeptember 2015

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Practices

Outsourcing, pre-field training, holistic

Personal development, team building on location, resources awarenessSpiritual formation, retreats, prayer, theology of suffering, independent pastorsClear policies, MoUs, empowering management, risk assessmentPysch test, coaching, Skype calls, care of Mcers, care for parents, podcasts

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What next?

As part of a Global Member Care Network

As individualsAs a Regional Network

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The Challenges

New generation of workers – different values, perspectives needs:

Entitlement perspectiveStrong resistance to negative feedbackFacebook image craftingSocial networking

New areas of ministry – refugee, migrant, persecuted church, disasters, national believersNew paradigms of care, new models

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The Challenges

Who are we delivering to?

Gen y and Gen alphaBAM/TentmakersEarly retireesShort-termersMulti-cultural teamsTraditional career missionariesSeptember 2015

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A Changing World

Dangerous

UncertainUnpredictableHostile to ChristiansDivided

Needy

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How do we respond?

Make the message positive

Member Care builds and enhances resilienceOperations are more effective when people care is prioritisedBuild trust :

Not what you are NOT doingWhat you can doHow can we help you?

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How do we respond?

Keep it simple

Define member careWhy are we doing it?What do we hope to achieve?

Produce a basic flow chart What When Who

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How do we respond?

Take small steps

Develop partnershipsInitiate trainingPlan ahead

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Plan Ahead

Politicians plan with the next election in mind.

Statesmen plan with the next generation in mind

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What next Globally?

Invest people and time in networking

Use and contribute to the GMCN website: www.globalmembercare.com

Access useful sites:TWR: www.membercareradio.orgMobile member www.mmct.orgwww.relationshipskills.com SYISwww.missionarycare.com

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What next Globally?

Involve the new generationReach out to refugee

workers etcFacilitate trainingExpanding MA hubs – South Africa, IndiaNext Global Conference 2018 S America?September 2015

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What Next Personally?

Where do I fit in?

What are my skills? What training/resources do I need?Where/how can I find them?

Who do I already know to help me?Who can mentor me/whom can I mentor?Think of 3 steps you want to take as a result of this conference

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What next South Pacific Region?

Member Care Australia

QLD: 80s-2000 MIFT(Missionaries in Fellowship Together, + re-entry and debriefing. Formal network August 2008NSW: 1987 MC Network Donovan and Myers, retreats into 2000, wider network from 2000VIC: Re-entry days 90s, MC network started 2000National Australian Network started November 2008

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What next Pacific Region?

Member Care Australia

Member Care New ZealandMissions Interlink track 20114 students on MA 2012 - present

This conference 90+Launch of MA Australia Feb 2016

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Mark 14:3-9

A Prophetic Act

A Kairos Moment

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Mark 14:3-9

Leave her alone,” said Jesus. “Why are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful thing to me. The poor you will always have ith

youy and you can help them any time you want. But you will not always have me. She did what she could she poured perfume on my body beforehand to prepare for my burial. I tell you the truth, wherever the gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her.”

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A Prophetic ActA Kairos Moment

“She poured perfume on my body beforehand for burial

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A Prophetic Act

She listened to God

She acted upon what she heardShe sent a message to those watching

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A Prophetic Act

Are we those who

Listen to himRespond to his wordsCommunicate his heart to others

Demonstrate his messageIs there a prophetic role for Member Care?

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A Prophetic Act

Is there a role for Tentmaker Member Care providers?

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Member Care in the Muslim World

Our soldiers fighting the hottest part of the battle and getting wounded by direct, fierce and frequent satanic attack must have the care they need. I speak of pastoring. But a special kind of pastoring…. What does appear to be the answer, based on their (tentmakers’) own pleadings, is trained, informed, pastoral, gifted tentmakers who are in a specific supporting relationship with these tentmakers” Gary Taylor

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A Prophetic Role

Are we called to go more to missionaries wherever they may be?

Should we suffer with rather than take care to?Are we called to go to national believers, the persecuted, the NGOs?Are we called to missionaries who have decided to stick it out, where it might not be safe to take a team?

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A Kairos Moment

A defining moment in time

An opportunity to exploitA risk to be taken

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A Kairos Moment

Chronos

Time

You always have the poor with you

Kairos Moment

You will not always have me

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A Kairos Moment

Opportunities need to be seized

Risks need to be takenNeed for investmentNeed for intentionality

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A Kairos Moment

What challenges face the South Pacific Region?

What would you like to do?Draw up a wish list of 3 things within the next year

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A Kairos Moment

Do you sense God’s timing here?

Dare you exploit the opportunity?

Are you willing to take the risks?Are you ready to seize the moment – God’s moment?

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Challenging

South Pacific Region Member Care

Marion KnellSlide37

Questions

What are the main challenges facing the South Pacific Region (people, places, sending base, church engagement)

What are the priorities for the regional/global MC work-force?What 3 steps would you like the South Pacific Region to take next?How can you help?

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