Ta U' Wah Training 2018
- Adam
- Dec 28, 2018
- 2 min read
The biggest and busiest time of our year has come and gone in the form of our annual Relief Team Leadership and Ethnic Unity Training. This is a 2 1/2 month training designed to equip new ethnic relief team members with the tangible and intangible skills necessary to help with FBR relief missions. This year we trained a total of 137 new basic students and 40 returning advanced students comprising 28 different teams. 9 different organizations and 6 different ethnic groups were represented amongst the students.
The only requirements of the students are that: you have to be able to read and write, don't run if the people you are helping can't run and love your people and your team. The training pushes them mentally, physically and spiritually. Mentally, in that they are required to become proficient in 19 different skillsets attending classes 8 hours a day. Physically, in that they participate in physical fitness training twice a day. Spiritually, in that we challenge them to ask questions about what is truth? Why do they believe what they believe?
Aimee and I served as instructors and administrators during the training. My primary role was partnering with our senior ethnic leaders and acting as a consultant developing and improving the training. Aimee is one of our head Good Life Club and English teachers. She organized English classes for mothers and pre-schoolers as well as implemented a children's Sunday School program with help from volunteers.
Lessons learned this year. God brought me (Adam) back to the importance of relationships. So many times I get caught up with quantifiable accomplishments. How much can I get done and how efficiently. Then when the distractions or obstacles occur I look upon them in frustration and exasperation. Little interruptions that derail my locomotive of productivity. The very people I love and am here to help become annoyances, they become the obstacles. The things that inhibit me from accomplishing as much as I could if they could just stop interfering.
This is a slippery slope because in the end most of us are working towards helping others and creating a better world. There's something off about that prickly anti-social workaholic screaming at the world to leave him alone and get out of the way so he can help it. I've been reminded that if I make the work about things, then it's nothing. If it's about people, then that's Kingdom work. If I have not love, I have nothing.
Bottom line, God rescued me from this nasty little place and restored me to one of peace and love. Reminding me that out of Kingdom relationships come an outpouring of amazing things.
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