Mission
Help students grow closer to God: by sharing Christ, teaching them to become like Him, and helping them influence their world to do the same.
In order to target this mission we focus on the following values and measure our effectiveness by asking the questions for each value. Without questions a mission statement is just a slogan or at best a suggestion.
Values
1. Collaboration - Who am I working with and through?
Bottom line: The work is far too big for just one person to run after. Collaboration demands that I utilize the strength and gifts of others. As a director of a ministry or even a leader of a short term project I have to focus on reproducing my leadership, allowing people to take ownership, checking my ego at the door, delegating with structure while at the same time allowing the diversity of the team around me to bring the best solution possible.
2. Relationships - How am I making this community stronger?
Bottom line: Every leader must value chasing after kids seeing them the way Jesus sees them and loving them the way God has commanded us to. Not just students but leaders must love and treat each other with humility and a servants heart. Matthew 18 is the means to resolve conflict and it is everybody's business on this team to hold each other accountable and push each other toward Biblical community. We cannot ask the students to do what we are not willing to do ourselves and we must always remember that God is no respecter of persons. It is for freedom that Christ died.
3. Potential - Am I giving the best of myself to what I do?
Bottom line: God tells us that whatever we do we must do it for Him. He demands our best and if collaboration is being modeled potential can be measured with love and trust in others. Pressing toward potential will embrace effective change and celebrate what GOD is doing as the best is always His to own and is outside of ourselves. It will require belief that there is no such word as impossible as well as taking ownership of any outcome with honesty and learning.
4. Growth - What direction am I going?
Bottom Line: Every leader needs to have a hunger to follow Christ and to feed on His every Word. When seasons and complexity diminish that hunger we owe it to each other to be honest and ask for help or offer admittance. Grace and truth in love will demand that we encourage each other and grow together in our walk toward where God is at. Not just spiritually but also positionally we must seek to grow in our area of responsibility seeking to learn from others and stretch our leadership capacity whether through reading, podcasts, or training. There is no limit to growth other than what we allow ourselves to set for us.
The mission will always stay stagnant however the values can change or see addition as seasons or opportunity presents the need. For now however we could only do four things well it would be these four things. When these things are modeled it creates the best environment for us to move the mission forward.
What are leadership questions you ask yourself and your team? What values does it take for your team to create an environment that runs after the mission?
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