Since being back in Spain over the past few days, it's also been a time for "deliberating" - praying and making ministry decisions for 2013. Last Thursday and Friday, we had two very positive days with our Alhaurin staff team, where we prayed together and put together a calendar of the different seminars, retreats and training courses that we'll be holding at Villa Rehoboth leadership retreat centre next year. As we considered our different leadership responsibilities around the globe, we realised that most of us felt we could/should commit 50% of our time to the local/international ministry in Alhaurin, and 50% to our other regional/international roles in the mission.
For me, that other 50% includes my roles in King's Kids International, and with the College of Education in the University of the Nations. This morning I met over Skype with my colleagues in Switzerland to make a decision about whether we should run another PLC (a four week course for prospective PCYM school leaders) in Switzerland next February. In the end, we decided that we probably didn't have sufficient committed staff to run the course well. (Many of our people have other commitments for 2013.) Instead of running a training course, we decided that we'll seek to coach and mentor these future school leaders in other ways, while we continue to consider the broader question of how to be most effective and strategic in our training initiatives for the 21st century.
