{"id":131,"date":"2017-11-07T20:22:58","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T20:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globaltc.org\/?p=131"},"modified":"2020-09-14T18:14:29","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T18:14:29","slug":"forging-our-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.globaltc.org\/forging-our-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Forging Our Future"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\"View\n\tThe KEY to any organization\u2019s success is its people.  People are an organization\u2019s greatest asset.  So many leaders forget this or don\u2019t seem to recognize this fact. Some leaders hire people for their \u201chands\u201d and ask them to leave their minds at the door.  BIG Mistake. The KEY to any organization\u2019s success is its people.  People are an organization\u2019s greatest asset.  So many leaders forget this or don\u2019t seem to recognize this fact. Some leaders hire people for their \u201chands\u201d and ask them to leave their minds at the door.  BIG Mistake.
\nThey want laborers, not thinkers. They want bodies, not contributors. Teen Challenge wants and needs thinkers, contributors – individuals who feel called to this ministry and want their program to be the best in the world.
\nAs a leader, I know that I want individuals working with me who will help change things that need to be changed. I want people who will help identify and throw out parts of the program that are not working. I want them to be creative in fundraising, creative in program development, and insightful regarding the needs of today\u2019s students – individuals with a passion for Christ and a desire to give their everything to Him.
\nEach and every one of our staff, students, and volunteers matter. You matter! Your input to this organization matters! We need you! We need people with servant hearts who have a love for God and people on the team.
\nWe need you to know the call of God on your life, to embody the values of this organization, and to have a yearning in your heart to learn.
\nI used the words \u201cForging our Future\u201d as the heading for my writing this month.
\nForge: noun means – \u201ca workplace where metal is worked by heating and hammering.
\nThink about that. To emerge is like forging metal- heat and hammering. This process causes change. This process seems to include: pain, time, heat, pounding, more heat, more pounding, more change, more character change, heat, pounding, and time until you emerge into what God wants.
\nUsed as a verb, forge means – \u201cto move ahead steadily\u201d to go, move on, advance, progress, pass on, march on.\u201d  \u201cTo move ahead steadily\u201d suggests that it\u2019s a process of steady momentum – pressing on toward the prize of the high calling of Christ.
\nToward What? The Future! Meaning<strong>, \u201cA time yet to come.\u201d
\nGrowing in God is a process. As you press into His word, His work, His way, His life, and His will, you will begin your journey of freedom – freedom from past bondages, freedom to grow, freedom to know.
\nThree important parts of your role in forging the Future:
\nK – Know Your Call
\nE – Embody the Values
\nY \u2013 Yearn To Learn
\nIn Matthew 16:19, Jesus said: \u201cI will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven\u201d.
\nHe talked about prayer – binding and loosening.
\nThe key to Teen Challenge\u2019s future will be determined by the number of students and staff who emerge into great leaders.
\nHow do you emerge into a leader? Glad you asked.
\nI Know Your Calling
\nPhilippians 2:13 \u201cFor it is God who works in you, both to will and do <em>His<\/em> good pleasure\u201d. Can I repeat that? \u201cFor it is God\u2026\u201d
\nHow do you know God\u2019s will? As I attended college, I prayed, fasted and waited for His voice. Although I felt I had nothing to offer, I sensed His presence during a Chapel time and He called me into full-time ministry.
\nIt is vital that you, as an individual, hear from God about His will for <u>your<\/u> life. Get on your face before Him and pray. You must know His will for your life.
\nSome Secrets to Knowing God\u2019s Will God speaks to those who listen. \u201cBe still and know.\u201dGod generally just shares the first step with you. God speaks through His Word. Those who daily consume the Word hear Him speak through His Word. l God can put mail in your mailbox. God may confirm His will through others but rarely uses others to tell you His will stay busy serving, and He will speak. Be patient when it seems the heavens are brass. What He tells you to do, do it. Do it now. Do it with all your heart. Do it as unto the Lord. Paul Yonggi Cho said, \u201cNever trust a man who doesn\u2019t walk with a limp.\u201d  That statement speaks of being broken, having experienced a difficult situation in life and survived. It speaks of a quality in a person\u2019s character that is developed through pain.
\nLeaders must often endure some difficult challenges to their dreams. Sometimes, it may seem that your vision or dream has died before God comes on the scene and brings it to life.
\nII. Embody the Values
\nWhat is a value? My definition of <strong>value<\/strong> is: a belief or system of beliefs that are owned by the organization and the team of individuals who administrate the organization.
\nTo embody the values – means to own the values, live the values, to walk the values, and to breathe the values.
\nDoes every organization have core values? Yes! Whether they define them or not, they have them. They either believe in customer service or not. They live that value out every day as customers walk in and out of their doors.
\nWhen someone comes through the front door of TC, how do you greet them? This is a value. When a new student comes in, what happens? Your values should guide your actions.
\nWe who are a part of the organization, create and live out the values of the organization.  Our values guide our actions.
\nIntegrity – Living and working with excellence
\nCompassion – Embracing hope, love, and reconciliation
\nCommunity – Living and working together
\nVision – Seeing beyond the present
\nStewardship – Managing God\u2019s will and resources
\nFaith – Believing God for the impossible
\nServanthood – Committing ourselves to the success of others.
\nIII. Yearn to Learn
\nProverbs 9:8-9 \u201cInstruct a wise man and he will be wiser still; teach a righteous man and he will add to his learning.\u201d
\nLeaders are learners.  Learners are listeners.
\nGreat Leaders are: Always learning. Seeking out new ways to better the organization. Looking for new tools to better the quality of the program. Always recruiting the right people for their team. Growing personally. If you will embrace your role in leadership and give your best effort, you will grow more that you could ever imagine. If you will commit yourself to learning and growing in the gifts God has given you, I know you will experience God\u2019s best in your life and leadership.
\nTeen Challenge is looking for people who want to learn. Global Teen Challenge is committing time, resources, and people to this effort to provide training to TC leaders globally. We are investing in those who want to lead. We are investing in those leaders who are choosing to let their lives make a difference.
\nWe need people like you to buy into the dream we have of reaching hundreds, even thousands for Christ. We pray God will put a burden in your soul to <em>put hope within reach of every addict in your country.
\nMany leaders in Teen Challenge are getting older. Yes, they will be replaced one day, some sooner than others. So, it is up to you to fill in the gaps and to take us forward. We need you to take the baton and run with it. We need you to dream, to envision the future, and go for it.
\nWe all play a key role in the Teen Challenge family, and we each own some responsibility to grow ourselves, raise up others, and to do everything we can to make this the best program on Earth for those suffering in addiction. We can do it with your help.
\nIt will be painful. Forging our Future – Some hammering comes first, some heat comes, some painful steps, but the end result is amazing.
\nYou can be confident of this: GTC is committed to developing leaders because we want to be our best, and we also want you to be your best.\nPutting Hope Within Reach,
\nJerry Nance PhDPresidentGlobal Teen Challenge\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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