Tactics
Cathy with Kim and Jenny Garrity of Kandern, Germany.
Reach The Heart
Active Level: Safe Relationships with Trust and Intimacy
We begin our on the field relationship by visiting with the missionary on their turf. Kim and Jenny Garrity have served with Greater Europe Mission for over three decades. We started a relationship at McKinney Bible Church in Fort Worth, Texas back in the seventies. They are all too acquainted with the issues missionaries face over the years. We spent a week together looking at the future of God's Kingdom and how we might serve one another in the coming years.
Our second objective is to establish active mentoring. We want to become a partner, disciple and coach. Over a week or two, we work to develop a meaningful, trust-based relationship with the entire family. This time spent walking alongside provides an opportunity to build intimate friendships.
We provide time for the missionary to reflect and to attentively explore their spiritual life. We take the missionary away for a time of personal reflection so that they can return refreshed and renewed. We work to refocus their spiritual life through pastoral care and close friendships that are safe.
Active Level: Safe Relationships with Trust and Intimacy
- I no longer call you servants, . . . Instead, I have called you friends. (John 15:15 NIV)
We begin our on the field relationship by visiting with the missionary on their turf. Kim and Jenny Garrity have served with Greater Europe Mission for over three decades. We started a relationship at McKinney Bible Church in Fort Worth, Texas back in the seventies. They are all too acquainted with the issues missionaries face over the years. We spent a week together looking at the future of God's Kingdom and how we might serve one another in the coming years.
Our second objective is to establish active mentoring. We want to become a partner, disciple and coach. Over a week or two, we work to develop a meaningful, trust-based relationship with the entire family. This time spent walking alongside provides an opportunity to build intimate friendships.
- We loved you so much that we shared with you not only God’s Good News but our own lives, too. 1 Thessalonians 2:8
We provide time for the missionary to reflect and to attentively explore their spiritual life. We take the missionary away for a time of personal reflection so that they can return refreshed and renewed. We work to refocus their spiritual life through pastoral care and close friendships that are safe.
- Annual spiritual life retreats should be scheduled that are not encumbered with business agendas. (O’Donnell and O’Donnell, Helping Missionaries Grow, p. 81)
A missionary retreat (2014) in Badplass, South Africa. It was an intimate, open, encouraging time with couples from several organizations who network to enhance His Kingdom.