Great Joy to Serve these Leaders from 25 Nations!

Thanks very much for praying for me as well as Shannon and the kids while I was gone.  After about 28 hours of straight travel, I returned home Sunday night.

Enjoy these photos from the conference.  I really wish I could personally introduce you to each of these people I met. They are all missionaries with Campus Crusade and have come to Christ in their own countries – many through the ministry of Campus Crusade.  Now each of them serves in operations roles – helping every team in their country increase capacity to reach people for Jesus.  Often they accomplish so much with very few resources.  All by the grace of God.  It was a joy just to listen to them share their stories.  To me, they truly seem similar to some the people the writer of Hebrews mentions as those of whom the world wasn’t worthy.

At the conference we heard an inspiring devotion from our South East Asia Team Leader – Tom Roxas.  The title was “Idol Maker or Idol Breaker” about the...

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Quick update on David’s trip to Canada:

Thank you so much for praying.  I had a very fruitful time.  Shannon and the kids managed well while I was gone but as always it’s much better to be back under one roof.

Here are a few photos from the conference at Columbia Bible College – in British Columbia, that is   Directly below is the Canadian “Ops Team” – about nine full time staff devoted to providing operational excellence for all of their campus missionaries.  In total, Campus for Christ Canada has about 160 staff on campus.

Joshua Wong is one of the trainers on the Ops Team.  He facilitated several excellent seminars on Social Media, Team Collaboration and Digital Basics.

We learned so much!!  The teams in Canada are trusting the Lord for huge things.  It was great to see them so eager to share ideas.  They’ve really created a good learning environment for their teams.

Want to hear some of their secrets? I made a short list of their good habits – very simple stuff which could help any team!  ...

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In this short video, you can get feel for how the Canadian campus staff do their operations training.

Russ Martin – director of campus operations in Canada – talks about some very simple habits his staff have developed:

• For a team to function well, there must be smooth, well defined modes of communication.
• Sharing ideas – even sharing failures – is a must for collaboration.
• One team can learn so much from other teams.  Ideas should not be hidden.  Wheels should not be re-invented.
• A threaded conversation (such as a message board or Facebook wall posts) is often most effective for sharing ideas.
• Russ trains his staff to use a threaded conversation rather than email in most cases.
• Canadian teams have common resource pools online where they can all share documents.
• Using online documents such as Google Docs provides a great solution for saving meeting notes.
• Rather than emailing a document as an attachment, the Canadians upload the document to a common resource pool and then share the link.  Subtle but po...

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