photo page 5: Tim and a few friends in the Caribbean
photo page 6: Tim wears many hats to mentor, coach,
and train leaders around the world. photo page 7: Hats
are displayed as an object lesson in Mozambique.
The important thing is knowing what
hat to wear at the right time. For example, during a trip to Mozambique, I
wore my trainer hat in three equipping
events. I shared a “lesson of the hats”
module at each one. After we taught
about the ministry of each hat and when
to wear it, we turned the leaders loose
to practice the skills they’d just learned.
In conversations with leaders during
the training, I sometimes shared a story
from my own experience that I thought
might be helpful to them (mentor hat).
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Then, I’d invite the leader to share what
they heard from my story that might
apply in their own life (coach hat). I encouraged the leaders to remember that
in an ongoing ministry relationship,
there are times to wear a trainer hat …
or a mentor hat … or a coach hat, and
we depend on the guidance of the Holy
Spirit to wear the right hat at the right
time. On that trip, we equipped more
than 100 leaders who came from a
dozen nations, serving in over a dozen
ministries with coaching and mentoring
skills. The rippling effect will impact
hundreds and thousands more.
We wear many other kinds of ministry hats at OMS … all of them with
a passion to live out one of our signature values adopted by our cofounder
Charles Cowman, “The best way to
reach a nation is through the sons and
daughters of that nation.”
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