today pastor Dinah talked about lateral leadership :) think it's not the first time i received a teaching about lateral leadership.. pastor ben taught about it previously in one of the combined team meetings too.
but it was different today :) previously it was more of skills and attitudes, today pastor dinah addressed common misconceptions and the important of eq. hahaa.
think i was quite inspired to continue to drive the ministry. i have the vision of expanding the ministry to 4 teams (so tt each team does once a month), with 4 team leaders and at least 2 members in each team. currently, the capacity is at 3 teams with 2 team leaders and 6 members. yup. really thank God that He always sends in a leader with a great heart to serve and sends in more members when the time is ripe. the counter currently has an excess of females.. so God sent in 2 male members. yay. i'm waiting to see more pple from the uni grp though:)
really quite exciting to see where the counter can go.. think to many pple, or maybe it's just me.. the counter really seems like just something we do? some pple may think it's not as spiritual as the pastoral ministry (well, that was my impression in the past).. some may feel that there're more 'spiritual' ministries out there (e.g. choir or backup singing..)... the truth is that everything is important in the KOG.. and how 'spiritual' the ministry is depends on how 'spiritual' u want to make it to be.. it's all a matter of ur heart. the motives and the attitudes.
really hope to build up the pple in my ministry as well.. especially since we are so closely in touch with the finances of the church. need to constantly see the greater picture of the support these finances go to.. need to strive for an excellence in the service in the ministry (which we are STILL learning) such tt we can be an asset (literally and figuratively) to the church.
the kingdom of God deserves the best. not the leftovers.
yup. lateral leadership!:) we're creative pple!