Oct08 :: What is a Skill Set?

As we continue to build Christ-centered laborers and plant movements in our quest to see every student know someone who truly follows Jesus, we need to build the skills that are necessary to help accomplish this goal. Hence, this semester’s Ministry Skill Set Training conferences.

This fall, our region has been spending time with the campus staff at these smaller training times to sharpen the skills we already have within the ministry. We are also collaborating with each other to learn new skills, which will prayerfully help us to be more fruitful in reaching out to students in the Great Lakes region and around the world.

My team has also felt that this is a great time to let our field staff know how we can help them. We wanted to personally inform our fellow staff that we can do creative work for them and help them solve their technological problems. Whether they need a flyer for their next outreach or a new website for their ministry, even giving tech support when needed, our team is a great resource.

This invitation to take advantage of my team has been met with great enthusiasm from our field staff with a new realization of what we are able to do for them. This is not a new service that we are providing, but many of our field staff have thought that the regional design team only supported the regional office and conferences. We decided to change that perception. For our local level to know that we are able to effectively help them accomplish many of these creative needs in a real way has breathed life into their ministries.

We have been attending each skill set to personally introduce ourselves and share our expertise with our local teams. What better place to do this than at a skill set training? Sometimes it’s a problem we can fix right there, like a tech problem with a laptop or “I just can’t get my email.” Another staff member came up to me and asked, “We have a lot of ideas for a web presence for our ministry, can you help us?” I am so excited about the opportunity to help our teams throughout the region answer questions just like these.

Our current team is small, but our hope is that the more the local teams realize and value what we do to serve their ministries, the better they can inform and recruit students with these gifts to continue maximizing the ministry in the field.

Ephesians: 3:21-22
“Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power at work within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus, throughout all generations, forever and ever – Amen!”

Please Pray

> For the skill set training’s to be prosperous for the Gospel that every student would hear it.

> For Ryan’s team to trust in the Lord to accomplish all they desire as we team up with the our field staff.

> For Braden’s continued growth and health.