Growth Project

It isn’t often that Mike can talk about the work that he does -- given the fact that it is mostly reactive work about personnel issues. However, over the last year, Mike has been working on a proactive project.

The project is crafting a training for everyone who is a supervisor in Cru to be better prepared for managing their people. As a ministry, our focus is to fulfill the Great Commission through Win (evangelism), Build (Discipleship), and Send (doing ministry). Sometimes the skills of being a good supervisor and team leader are missed in favor of doing more effective ministry.

The team that Mike has been working with has been crafting a training course to help supervisors understand their role and responsibility for the people they steward on their teams.

This training would be provided to just over 1,800 staff who are supervisors in all of Cru. Hopefully, it will enable us as a ministry to have a more unified approach to how we care and correct.

Recently, a film crew was brought in to finish the final videos needed to complete the curriculum. Our approach is to live out our value of growth. While we want and, in many cases, need certain things to change, we invite our people into a process focused on growth.

A series of role plays were recorded to show how the process looks and what happens if growth doesn’t occur. Our aim is always restoration, which we see as a Biblical mandate. But also, as an employer, there are times that the restoration just cannot be done with us. Whether someone stays or someone goes, it is our desire that we have pointed them to Jesus.

PRAYER REQUESTS:

• Pray for Leslie as the role she serves with our staff conference in the summer of 2025 is beginning to pick up. Pray for balance in the variety of work she is responsible for.
• Pray for the completion of the training this newsletter references.
• Pray for Mike to have wisdom in each of the personnel cases he works on — to be able to balance grace and truth. Mike always seeks that each appointment results in the individual(s) being pointed to Jesus.