The Track Team on the Mission Field
This entry is part 4 of 7 in the series Types of mission teamsIn a previous post, we talked about the three main types of teams found in our mission organization. When new missionaries think about teaming, they are generally thinking about what we have called a basketball team. Basketball teams work together closely and interact frequently with each other about their various ministries.
But many of our mission teams are more like track teams than basketball teams. Track teams have a common purpose and team members support one another, but each person on the team works independently. They generally do not do ministry together. For many of our track teams, each team member works in a different church, a different ministry project, or even in a different town. While they are geographically close enough to one another to make it feasible to meet together regularly, team meetings are relatively… Read the whole post