Sunday, February 28, 2010

Professional Management in Church Planting - Engage India

We had a smashing time with Joseph Abraham leading training sessions for our senior evangelists and their leadership teams from the 24th – 26th February. 35 leaders from 6 different mission fields attended the workshop held in Jharkhand state. His focus was on improving the performance of the church planters. We spoke on topics on team building, planning, time management, and goal setting. The first day of the training was a family picnic for all the leaders. The following two days were intensive training sessions. Joseph is a professional no-nonsense, much focussed person who ran through the sessions with a purpose to get the people trained in the intended topics. The entire event was focussed on knowledge and skill building. 85% of the participants were oral learners and they got the value for their money. The training sessions were very interactive and skill based. Each session was started with illustrations, concepts and creamed with activities. Every single person gave a positive feedback at the end of the workshop. It was fun.

Some body would ask me what the marriage of Professional mamagement has with church planting. I would be surprised if this is not a priority in every ministry. Our ministry has taken to this because excellence matters to us. And we want to be the best and most successful with the task that our Lord has given us. Some times complacency and not taking responsibility for errors puts ministry on the back foot.

It has been three days of great learning and thanks to Joseph Abraham for the wonderful job. Our Oral Church planters were greatly blessed by it. He will review their performance every 3 months. I will report back in 3 months on the developments and evaluate the progress of the gospel in the unreached areas. I pray through all of this we are able to take the gospel farer, deeper and wider and may the coming of our Lord be soon.


Daniel Ponraj

For Engage India, Training wing

visit www.engageindia.in for info, write me daniel@engageindia.in

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