Team Time!

Hello, friends!

One of my top goals as Regional Coordinator for Ministry Partnership Development (MPD) is to develop a positive MPD culture in our Region. It is common among staff to keep the MPD part of our ministry lives separate from the campus part, especially from our staff partners. Partnership can be a tricky subject and yet, if we don't talk about it, the harder it is to do. My hope is that in our Region, we'll be able to talk about our MPD in a healthy way, which means doing MPD in community.

The Region includes 4 states, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, and Missouri, so seeing each other in person isn't something we can do all that often. Thankfully, we have the wonders of technology to help in the process...

Welcome to MPD TEAM TIME!!!

My premise is simple: MPD is easier to do when you do it with people. However, not everyone can always be in the same physical space in order to do MPD. The solution is video calls. Every Thursday, I post a link to a video call on our Regional Facebook page. Then anyone who wants to do their MPD "with people" can hop on and see other folk from the Region hard at work. It's a way for us to be a team without having to be in the same place.

So far, I've been doing MPD Team Time for a few weeks now and the results have been great, although not in the way you might think. So far, only one out of state staff has taken advantage of Team Time. That's not great. BUT, what is great is that the IV staff here in Omaha have decided that MPD Team Time is a great opportunity to do MPD together... like actually together... in the same space...

Here's a photo of our lovely MPD Team Time from a few weeks back.

Don't we look happy?!

I'm not sure if we'll do MPD Team Time beyond this semester. We may turn it into something else. The important thing is that I'm looking for new ways for our Region to see MPD as a communal endeavor, not a burden to be taken on alone. 

Have an excellent day! 

~Adam