One of the things TIMO gets to be a part of by being within the AIM International family, is participating in international meetings where leadership comes together to discuss important topics that impact the entire organization. Sometimes that can be directors, or executive leadership and sometimes it can be personnel, or human resources, leadership. In late April, we had the privilege of joining several other humar resource and personnel leaders from around the world to discuss issues of retention, member care, emerging issues, and evaluating ourselves and others. It was a huge success as we got to hear and appreciate better the concerns of our Mobilizing (or Sending)
Regions around the globe as we helped them to understand some of our difficulties as well. We all came away with a greater appreciation for what it takes to bring people from initial contact to preparing them to go, to sending them, receiving them, and developing them as members within our organization. Additionally, we heard from speakers outside of our organization some excellent information regarding what is important for helping people to thrive cross-culturally, evaluate and debrief members well, and coming to grips with the “emerging church.” Really good.
Some material was new during the week and some was an encouraging reinforcement to what we are doing with the TIMO program, but it was all valuable.
Finally, what made it particularly fun once again, was getting the opportunity to attend the meetings in Bristol, England where AIM’s internatinoal headquarters are. Bristol is a very historic and picturesque city and just beautiful in the Spring. We felt like this just added icing to the cake of a week full of important and helpful meetings.
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