Can I Really Do This?
The following article comes from the May 2025 newsletter of Amanda Benson, a SEND missionary to the Philippines. Amanda has been a teacher at Faith Academy near Metro Manila. She is now being asked to transition into a leadership role as principal of the middle school. The article is used with permission of the author.
The Doubt Creeps In
A couple of weeks ago, I met with my principal from Faith Academy for a transition meeting. We’ve been meeting regularly for a little while now, but this meeting was specifically to plan for a six-hour leadership team planning meeting that we were going to lead. We ended up talking for over four hours, and as time went by, I started asking myself this question: Can I really do this?
A few days later, we had our planning meeting. The principal and I both led different parts of the meeting. It… Read the whole post
Amanda Benson