coaching
July 25th, 2005
Tis weekend has been pretty fruitful, productive. At nat’s cell my third visit saw some progress in Joyce’s discussion leading skills as i provide some close n specific coaching. She is gung-ho, dares to try, willing to learn and can develop well with more practice. saturday i shuttled between two meetings: the young adults where i spoke, and the Christian Beginnings course where i had to provide coaching for Alvin Lim.
i also had a productive meeting with Abe on Friday. we talked about how we need to see the vision percolate through the leaders to everyone n this means deliberate, intentional and constant communication of why we are doing what we are doing, n where everybody’s role contribute to the whole. Abe is a pragmatic, hands -on, and effective leader with lots of experience in church work n lots of respect from others. if we had MVP awards annually for lay leaders he would probably have a few in his cabinet, if he keeps them (but he doesn’t care much for such accolades). So he and i are focussed on developing leaders amongst the young emerging leaders in their 20s. in fact we just met yesterday. Spaghetti at 2 plus at my home. relaxed banter over the table followed by discussion about 10 things that effective leaders do. quite a useful session( well, at least it helped me) where we shared our weak areas of leadership skills (confidential!) and what we want to work on. i concentrate on spiritual formation,….the ‘ be-ing’ part of leadership, while Abe focuses on the ‘ do-ing’ part. this Mentoring Emerging Leaders (M.E.L.) group is gradually taking shape n form. i am hopeful we will, with God’s help, pass the baton to the next generation.
however i was feeling quite good about the service n the MEL until i received news at night that Jorris has to go for another biopsy. It just makes you cry out, O Lord ,….. again…?!! how come she has to go through so much? lifted her up to the Lord whose love and power is worthy of our trust. Father we do not understand why this is so, but we trust you to work out all things for good.
New word i coined: BLOGGERCESSSOR: n someone who reads blogs not out of inquisitiveness but in order to pray and intercede.ha ha
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