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Light at the end of the tunnel
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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”
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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