At our Annual Conference for the board members and executive staff of our ministry partners, our presenter – Dr. Kathryn Tyler Scott – uttered this memorable, poetic challenge to take service on a nonprofit board seriously. “It is your job,” she began… “…to preserve your organization for a time you will not see, and for…
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Called to Serve
In the Bible two types of people follow Jesus: 1) those who are inadequate, and 2) those who are inadequate but don’t know it (yet). The first group – people like Zacchaeus, blind Bartimaeus, the Roman centurion with an ill servant, and others – are aware of their inability to help themselves and come looking…
“Born Again”?
Yesterday we met with one of our ministry partners, an established agency founded more than 100 years ago. Over the past few months this agency has been in turmoil, experiencing 80% turnover on its board and the sudden resignation of the executive director. Time to panic? No, on the contrary. The two board members we…
