Your ministry, the new staff member, and the volunteer Is responsible for a new staff member or volunteer making a successful transition into your ministry and host agency.

The positive reasons to compile a policy and procedure manual are:
That God’s work is of the highest value…
That the work is not mediocre…
That the work has excellence…
It ensures sustainability, protection, and professional credibility…
Creating P & P is one way of demonstrating that we are pursuing excellence in our stewardship of… Read more

Intervention means an activity or set of activities aimed at modifying a process, course of action, or sequence of events in order to change one or several of their characteristics, such as performance or expected outcome.

I’ve reached the point where the change I hope to see in others and the change that occurs in them has to be left to the counselee or client. I can lead them to the truth, but they have to take it and use it. So, I cannot lose sleep because they do not change at the rate I hope they would.

Commitment – I have a stronger sense of personal commitment.
Persistence – I have learned to perform more persistently and am less likely to quit when facing difficulties.
Creativity – I am more creative and more likely to come up with novel ideas and solutions.

Intrinsic motivation is an inner drive that propels a person to pursue an activity, not for external rewards, but because the action itself is enjoyable. In other words, a person is motivated by an activity’s fun, challenge, or satisfaction, not by an outside outcome, pressure, or reward.

As the church has mediated physical technologies, cultural expressions, and political social organization for its work as God’s community, never merely integrating them, so it must mediate the new “knowledge” constantly arising from the scientific method. Christians should not always let non-Christian ideas and assumptions set the agenda for… Read more

I have not done that research yet.

What surprises me from reading The Village of Juvenile Hall is that Anthropologists and missionaries conduct research methods central to knowing the world from the standpoint of its social relations (i.e., becoming familiar with a new people group). This research involves hands-on, on-the-scene learning — and it is relevant wherever people are… Read more

Strategic objectives establish the boundaries for what my organization’s effort must focus on. They create the top layer of my strategic plan’s framework, articulating what I’ll focus on to achieve my vision of success.

Not at this particular time…

A strategic objective is a purpose statement that helps create an overall vision and sets goals and measurable steps for an organization to help achieve the desired outcome. A strategic objective is most effective when it is quantifiable either by statistical results or observable data.

Strategic planning moves desires, burdens, and calling into feasible, measurable activities that accomplish vision and mission.

A mission statement defines the organization’s business, its objectives, and how it will reach these objectives—a vision statement details where the organization aspires to go.

A strategic plan keeps one “on track.” Strategic planning is a process used by organizations to identify their goals, the strategies necessary to accomplish those goals, and the internal performance management system used to monitor and evaluate progress.

1. Drug and alcohol abuse
2. Self-centeredness

Since I am not involved in correctional ministry, I cannot give a proper response to this question.