The Committee of Management (CoM) for 2024 kicked off last Wednesday night. It was a real joy to welcome two new, humble and hungry [1] members to the team. They posed refreshing questions and asked questions of clarification. I even heard they are willing to come back again (so we didn’t scare them off)!
I am loving the culture of our CoM. We have now shared some really challenging seasons together through the pandemic and flood. I sense the level of trust has grown through these trials and that is the commodity desperately needed to forge teams together and help to achieve goals in partnership with each other. Christian adult educationalists Karen and Rod Morris [2] suggest a group often experiences a ‘forming, norming, storming, performing’ pathway – I really sense we are now performing together.
Don’t get me wrong there are real challenges ahead, but with the commitment and cohesion of our CoM team and their competence, I believe we can reach the goals and challenges before us.
Stay tuned for the CoM Term 1 ministry reflection (which will be sent at the start of Term 2) as I’ll aim to outline some of the goals and challenges before us.
To finish, can I encourage you to scan the final chapter of Romans (Romans 16) to see how many fellow workers [3] the apostle Paul thanks the Lord for. I thank the Lord for our CoM and their eagerness, loyalty, hard work, and joy-driven service. Let me sign off with the closing verses of Romans 16…
25 Now to him who is able to establish you in accordance with my gospel, the message I proclaim about Jesus Christ, in keeping with the revelation of the mystery hidden for long ages past, 26 but now revealed and made known through the prophetic writings by the command of the eternal God, so that all the Gentiles might come to the obedience that comes from faith – 27 to the only wise God be glory forever through Jesus Christ! Amen.
SP
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[1] Craig Hamilton uses this language in recruiting to teams, from his book from Matthias Media called Wisdom in Leadership.
[2] They have an excellent resource through Sydney Anglican Youthworks publisher called Leading Better Bible Studies.
[3] From a quick count, I counted 27 people that the apostle named!
