Goals towards our Vision.
This is a combination page.
It is about the Goals we have to work towards our Vision as we present this to our friends.
It is also a worksheet for you, as a YWAMer, to strategize from your Vision a set Goals to help you achieve it.
One of our Goals towards the Vison of Thriving is to produce meaningful Worksheets to enable others to have a well-thought-out Vision. Here are the Goals for this Vision, and on the next page, Steps to those Goals.
First, a problem.
The needs of life will often pressure us into short-term actions that negate our having a tangible Vision, let alone a set of Goals to achieve that Vision.
The needs of any given base or ministry can enlist people to participate in a vision and set of goals that are not their own, which is fueled by the visionary, who has to keep topping up everyone else’s tank.
We all need to become the owners of the Vision and Goals that are currently motivating us to work.
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Goals around Training Trainers.
Creating High-Level Purpose Verses Just Getting the Job Done.
Amid your work, do you know why you are doing what you are doing?
In seeking to train trainers, we have seen young people in YWAM encouraged to work based more on the work needing to be done and on a Vision being fulfilled.
To be fair, these same people are often captivated by someone else’s presentation of their vision, and this is a good starting point.
However, if a leader’s vision does not get re-engineered in the workers’ lives unless the leader is constantly topping up people’s Vision Tank, people will burn out.
Creating Goals people can get behind.
What causes burnout?
Financial struggles are a high reason for this, but I think they mask a bigger problem.
The lack of long-term partnerships with others not involved in the work or ministry is a far bigger reason for burnout; it is just not so obvious.
We all need perspective from others, and if we are too focused on seeing the other as a potential solution to our financial needs, we can quickly lose those relationships through donor fatigue.
Vision-Based Verses Need-Based.
So much of what I am presenting here is about helping people learn to create Vision-Based Prayer-based relationships first, not need-based or financial-based.
If we genuinely believe that we operate on prayer more than dollars or pesos or euros, then we need to be creating a prayer base far more than a financial base,
As a result of our NEEDS being ever before us, specially if rent is due next week, it is hard to transition our activities from need to vision, but we must if we are to survive long term.
This included the presenting our God needs in the work we do that does not sound like a clandestine call for money.
An example for us.
- We have a prayer need for visas. No amount of money from anyone will make that happen.
- We have a need for a favor in Asia.
- We are building out these worksheets into a set of training courses and converting the training courses into in-person seminars.
- We have been letting people know that we are available in the Philippines and even Southeast Asia from September to December 2024.
- Now, we need to find the people and locations that would like to host us. We do not charge for the course, but we do need accommodation.
- With this goal, no amount of a ‘donation’ can make this happen.
- We invite people to prayer.
- We want them to hear from God.
- And to let us know both what God has said and what they think.
- Near the end of Loren Cunningham’s life, he made a comment that we like.
God had encouraged him not to create itineraries that saved God’s money but to create itineraries that Saved God’s man.
We need to find flights that will not exhaust us. We are not 20 anymore, and sleeping on the floor of an airport is not an option. We need to find flights that will save God’s man and God’s woman.
There are three things we need prayer for. Not “God bless them prayers,” but prayers where people might say:
- Hey, have you ever looked into retirement visas to the Philippines?
- I know some people in Thiland that might want your seminar, let me reach out to them.
- Want me to proofread your material?
- What if I took your course to see if it made sense to me?
- I just did some reaseqarch in to flights in the area you are travelling have you looked in to this airline….
Who is reading this page?
This is both a worksheet and a real call.
To the YWAMer, are you getting ideas as to how better you could shape your communications to move from Need-Base presentations to Vision-Based presentations?
To my friends, can you connect with us for prayer and conversations that can refine what we do and work for in our Vision and Goals?
To the YWAMer, use the worksheet that goes along with this page, and build out your own Goals page. Do you have a website with me?
To my friends, what more could we do to be better communicators?
So, in these worksheets and the training, we are focusing on helping people realign their thinking, lead with their vision and not their needs, and develop goals that help engage people because the goals lead with the need for prayer and are not finance-focused. Of the three goals above, Visa, Seminar, and Flights, only one had a financial quantum.
To the YWAMer, consider how your next newsletter could focus on creating vision-based prayer in your circle of friends.
There is a whole worksheet on how to create your next Newsletter. We want to turn the Newsletter in to a place of joy not drigery.
The Engine and the Fuel.
As part of my steps to ward the VIsion I believe God has for us, we have been looking at where we have got discipleship and calling around the wrong way.
A calling is like fuel.
And we, the disciple, are the engine that is to consume that calling.
Another way to look at this is that you have the church and the Church.
The Church is seen as the buildings, services, programs, positions, titles, committees, pageants, and activities.
And the church is the people.
Originally, that was all church meant, the called-out ones, the congregation.
All the things of the Church are temporal; they will fade away and be gone. There is no Pope in heaven. No ministers, pastors, or ordained priests. We all already are priests, now and into eternity.
The church is the bride, is the people and is eternal.
In eternity you will not be known as a function of your calling, what you did, but who you became.
We are called to do, but we have an even greater calling on us to be.
The Switch
The Church has morphed into the engine.
The church, the people have become the fuel to feed the engine.
Programs have become more important than people.
Buildings that no one lives in that do not contain the Holy Spirit are now called sacred, and the people that do contain the Holy Spirit, who are sacred, have become fuel to service the needs of titles, programs, services, and agendas.
The temporal obviousness and needs of building and programs begin to over shadow the eternal natures of the people, this is especially try when a dissection is drawn between laity and clergy, between staff and students, long-term and short-term.
Is it any wonder that people join a Church or YWAM and leave after only a few years, feeling burnt out and ejected?
The Switch is insidious, slow to happen but easy to occur.
The Switch happens when a program has to happen. The show must go on. The Christmas pageant, needs you. If a thing is never allowed to die because of a lack of workers, and more load is put on the same people or fewer people, then you are seeing the Switch in progress.
People become fuel for the Program. A service has to happen, people are squeezed like lubricant in to this engine, to make it happen.
We use people like lubricants and fuel, and wonder why they react poorly.
Avoiding the Switch.
We are built to help.
We like to assist others.
A Vision is appealing.
Someone else’s Vision does give purpose for a while.
However, purpose in and of itself will transform you from driving a Vision to being driven by a Vision.
Purpose will leave you focused on the doing and not developing the being.
It is good to work in someone else field for a while. However, you will become the fuel if you do not also have autonomy and mastery.
A good leader creates room for others to grow.
Even if that means they get eclipsed.
A good leader allows others to have autonomy.
- The staff member gets to try to do what they have been given their way.
- They get given room to fail.
- They get given room to succeed.
A good leader allows others to gain mastery.
- Staff are encouraged to spend time to gain new skills to work smarter, not harder.
- This means not as much of the task might get done as the mastery is learnt.
- Mastery can cause the task to change, the Vision is still served, just differently.
That Which Hinders
From the worksheet you will be outlining the things that hinder.
This is not easy, but you will find things that you are currently doing that you do not want to do.
You may find things you like but they do not align with your Vision.
You may have to learn how to say NO to things that are good,that are being asked of you, but God is not saying yes to them.
The needs of YWAM, Ministires, CHurches will awlays fill the available time till there is not time left.
WHat we have done in the past we will keep doing into the future, sometimes with out consideration fi that thing still needs to be done.
Without the resurrection, anything we do is merely rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
I do not do good works to get God favour, I do good works because I already have Gods favour.