So the mission team leader told you to plan a BBQ and to work with the locals.
Here's your plan. COMMITTEES!!
It has always worked for you. Class Committees, Youth Ministry, OCS, Campus Outreaches, Church Boards.
"Accountability is important! We need to make sure everyone is engaged and someone is supervising them and pushing them! The budget needs to be submitted!The deadline to be drawn and adhered to! Who's doing the publicity??!!"
The problem here is not respecting local organisational and social structure. We readily import our versions of how things should work most efficiently and effectively. We are not interested in how they have done things.
"Failure to appreciate fully the fact that God has worked in and through may different social patterns-not only in the history of the church but in the wide varieties of present day churches- has accounted for some of our ethnocentric blindness..."
Take a moment to ask the locals instead : How would you like to do this?
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