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Unpacking a Week of Strategizing

Sep 6th, 2008 by Nathan | 2

CFCI-Nicaragua just wrapped up a week of strategizing, organizing, visioncasting, planning for 2009.  We packed a ton of information into a short period of time (three days), but I think we were all satisfied with the results.  Here are the topics we covered:

  • Personal highs and lows of 2008
  • Team homeruns, singles, and strikeouts of ‘08
  • STM Guessing Game: home many short-term mission teams did we host this year?
  • The Team Machine: how to make CFCI-Nicaragua run like a well-oiled machine
  • The Flower Exercise (from “What Color is Your Parachute?”): personal job assessment
  • Recasting CFCI-Nicaragua’s Vision
  • Setting meaningful goals for 2009, developing action plans, and anticipating obstacles
  • Dream Teams: with no restraints or limitations, what’s the short-term mission team of your dreams?
  • Cultivating Partners: improving our church partnerships in the U.S. and Nicaragua
  • Dissecting and Reconstructing the STM Process
  • Scheduling 2009 STMs

As you can see, we were busy!

Once I recovered from the meeting overload hangover, I stepped back, looked at the vision and the plan for 2009, and decided…

That I cannot wait to serve with the CFCI-Nicaragua team for another year!

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