One of the most amazing things that I have been able to experience since we began this journey of starting JOURNEY, has been the development of our TEAM. One of the first questions I started getting from people who were either asking from curiosity or asking for accountability was, "so how many people do you have on your team?" I would always do my best to give them the information that they were looking for and then try to give them the backstory of how we got connected. That is the real story!
For sake of time and space, I am going to skip the backstory and just give some thoughts about how God puts together championship teams.
In the early planning stages, we began to think through all the things that we felt had to be in place before we actually started having church services. At every corner we were faced with this question, "how in the world are we gonna do all these things when we don't have people to help us?" Now I know that this is a planting 101 question but let me tell you - when you are in the middle of it, it is a test of faith. Thankfully, the Lord spoke to me and encouraged me to get concerned about what HE was concerned about and HE would give us the help we need. That has certainly been the case.
On Saturday night, we had our first BIGteam meeting with all of our volunteer team. As I looked around I realized that 6 months ago, I didn't know 95% of all these people. Now they have become some of our closest friends. We followed the pattern of Acts 2:32 and we have seen God build an incredible team. I have found that Championship teams do several things: 1. They eat together often 2. They pray together regularly 3. They work together for the common good 4. They play together.
I have found that our recruitment process is at times flawed, but HIS process is always perfect and he knows the type of team it takes to win!
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