As I am listening to Barack Obama’s A Promised Land, now 31 hours into it out of 40 hours, he spends some time talking about the personal cost of serving as a staffer in the White House. He spells out the family separation, the long hours, the constant weight of the work, the consistent criticism…
Tag: leadership
Visionary leadership
I led our corps ministry department for 3.5 years and loved the role and the opportunity to influence the mission through strategy and program initiatives. It also was a time of great interaction with some excellent corps officers. We initiated round tables for indigenous leaders, for church planters, began a working group on rural ministry,…
Can you fix the sign?
We had just arrived at our new posting as Salvation Army officers and so I was anxious to get to know the community, take a look at our neighbourhood and see the building. As I looked about the building I noticed an exit sign upside down. Now I had it the practice in the early…
Hybrid Thoughts 