When the new General Superintendent, George O. Wood, came into office, he stated five core values that would enable the Assemblies of God to fulfill their mission. The results of these five Core Values would be that we are "Serving Christ's Cause with Effectiveness and Excellence."
One of those core values is stated this way, "Skillfully resource our constituency." Always being underfunded and having a philosophy of scarcity, though it sounds very spiritual, will not accomplish what we are called to do. "Our picture of a successful district must change from how well the district is doing to how well the local churches are doing and how the district is helping those churches do well." In this district we have done a couple of significant things to help us to assist the churches. 1) Constitution and Bylaw changes that allowed decisions to be made by the Presbytery more readily. 2) The creation of the Ministry Development Fund (MDF) which has already put thousands of dollars into the ministry of this district. But, we cannot stop there!
We need to rethink what constitutes a successful district. We can no longer only be about crisis management and credentials. We have to step up and do our best to resource our ministries. To be legitimate in ministry we must resource ministry.
I believe we have to find ways to become the head and not the tail, be progressive, and find ways to equip the next generation. Other than that it is a piece of cake!
[Portions quoted from: Core Values, George O. Wood, with Randy Hurst, Gospel Publishing House, 2007.]
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We are living is some ecciting times! Press on.
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