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Earthquake and Tsunami Shakes Indonesia – UPDATE
Palu, Indonesia. On September 28, the people of Palu, Indonesia were beginning their weekend on the beach preparing for a festival. No one expected the 7.5 earthquake which triggered a tsunami that has killed over a thousand people.
Hundreds of families are still searching for their loved ones, and thousands have lost their homes. The survivors are being put up in tents awaiting provisions such as food and medicine. The local Nazarene congregations are awaiting news from missing family members.
Update:
Nazarene Disaster Response has been lending a helping a hand to the affected. Several weeks after the earthquake, they are still giving assistance. This week, Nazarene Compassionate Ministries provided health supplies and education for children. Children were given nail cuts, taught how to properly wash their hands, played games and sports, and were able to be mentored and eat healthy food.
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Korea District Celebrates 70th Anniversary
Seoul, Korea. This month was not just the 110th anniversary for the Church of the Nazarene, but also marked 70 years of the Church of the Nazarene in Korea. On October 9, 2018, Global and Regional leaders gathered in Korea to celebrate this event including General Superintendent Filimão Chambo, Regional Director Mark Louw, APNTS President Bruce Oldham, along with several District Superintendents and Field Strategy Coordinators from the Region.
The anniversary was held at Korean Nazarene University which provided a bazaar for the missionaries, concerts and even an orchestra. GS Chambo spoke the main message from Genesis 17:1 encouraging the attendees to continue to live in perfect holiness. He emphasized that like Abraham, Nazarenes should not only seek holiness through a relationship with God but also to be a blessing for all nations as well. The service was closed with a benediction from Rev. Kim Young Baek.
Here’s to another 70 years and more! Read More.
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Strengths Part 3: Powerful Partnerships and Teams
Cindy Schmelzenbach is back with part three of her series on Strengths! Understanding the dynamics and practices that make a team great can lead to experiencing more satisfaction and greater effectiveness, which leads to higher engagement. What is the best team experience you’ve ever had? What made it good? How can it be repeated? What was the outcome? Understanding the dynamics and practices that make a team great can lead to experiencing more satisfaction and greater effectiveness, which leads to higher engagement. Let’s take a look at what that means!Strengths-Based Team: What Is It?
“One of the more difficult concepts that [leaders]…struggle with is the ‘strengths-based team’. On the surface, it seems an easy idea. It’s a group of individuals who all use their talents and strengths to accomplish a common goal. Great! That does sound simple. It is, however, wrong. Not only is this incorrect but trying to operate like this can actually hurt a true team. A strengths-based team requires much more than everyone simply working on their strong points; it requires a deep knowledge of each team member’s strengths and weaknesses and, importantly, the orchestration of those strengths and weaknesses to fit the goals of the team. Without that orchestration, teams flounder, flail, and fight.”
(Gallup Learning and Development consultant, Ryan Darby)
A true Strengths-Based team not only is made of team members that know how to function from their own strengths, but is dynamically interacting together in awareness and co-creation with each other’s strengths. The result is powerful synergy and exponential effectiveness beyond what any group of individuals functioning on their own could ever achieve.
Why Does It Matter?
Personal Satisfaction: We are highly motivated by experiences of personal satisfaction. This isn’t selfishness – it’s the way we are designed. Our brain gives special attention to experiences that are deeply satisfying and seeks to repeat them. When our mind is being renewed according to our deepest purpose, our experience of satisfaction is also shaped by this – it’s trustworthy. Living according to our design – our Strengths – is a deeply satisfying experience. We are energized by these opportunities, we seek them out, we want to repeat them, they increase our confidence, and we feel good about our contribution. When this happens in community or on a team, the satisfaction factor is exponentially high.
Team Effectiveness: When a team is actively integrating the strengths of all team members, their effectiveness increases significantly. Gallup has identified that Effective Teams have these 4 things in Common:
- Common Mission and Purpose.
- Everyone on the team understands and appreciates that he or she is great at some things and not very good at others– Self-Awareness.
- Team Members are aware of each other’s talents and the implications of those talent filters – Awareness of Others.
- Individuals are leveraging their own strengths and partnering with team members to perform or reach shared objectives.
Here’s just one example of how this can look.
I have Intellection as one of my top strengths; Harmon has Activator.
My Intellection tends to take a thoughtful, slower, take-in-lots-of-information approach to decisions; His Activator is able to take immediate, decisive, forward moving action.
On my own, I might miss valuable opportunities due to my slow response; on his own he could overlook important considerations.
Together, we co-create a fuller, more complete process that enables us to maximize our potential.
I have Intellection as one of my top strengths; Harmon has Activator.
My Intellection tends to take a thoughtful, slower, take-in-lots-of-information approach to decisions; His Activator is able to take immediate, decisive, forward moving action.
On my own, I might miss valuable opportunities due to my slow response; on his own he could overlook important considerations.
Together, we co-create a fuller, more complete process that enables us to maximize our potential.
High Engagement: Deep Personal Satisfaction + Meaningful Team Effectiveness = High Engagement. Engagement is one of our identified Member Care Priorities on the Asia Pacific region. Engagement is kind of a buzz word in organizational circles that is used to describe the atmosphere of the organizational from the team member’s perspective. When engagement is high, team members are deeply motivated to give discretionary effort – above and beyond the minimum expectations; in other words, they are personally invested. They feel seen and cared for – and therefore they feel safe to give of themselves. Gallup research indicates that functioning from a Strengths-based perspective is one of the greatest effectors toward high engagement.
What can we do about it?
Discover and Learn About Your Team! Ask everyone on your team to take the StrengthsFinders online assessment. Contact me to learn how. Then start an intentional conversation!
- What does the assessment affirm about me that I already knew?
- How do I invite my team members to understand these things about me?
- What does the assessment tell me that I didn’t already know? What are my potential blind spots?
- What can we learn about each other in regard to our greatest area of contribution to the team?
- How do we all apply our strengths toward our shared mission and purpose?
- Who is the greatest visionary on your team?
- Who is the navigator that charts the course toward success?
- Who keeps an eye on the details that could become obstacles?
- Who ensures the ideas will be implemented?
- Who keeps everyone connected to one another?
- Who are your team’s cheerleaders? Who can rally everyone together?
- Who ‘takes care’ of the team members as individuals?
- What specific actions can you set in motion, to create a team culture where everyone recognizes and appreciates each person’s talents and strengths?
- What processes and structures are in place for collaboration?
- Who is involved in what levels of collaboration?
- How does your team manage conflict?
- How is team collaboration balanced with leadership responsibility?
Strengths-Based Team Development: Strengths development as a team is a fun, interactive, eye-opening event, facilitated by a qualified Strengths Team Coach where you’ll:
- Explore what makes you a unique creation.
- Discover what energizes you and why.
- Develop new awareness for yourself and your team members.
- Increase deep acceptance for one another’s differences.
- Celebrate the Sacred design of your team as you demonstrate what it means to live as a Body.
- Discover the unique purpose for You on your team.
- Design strategies to maximize the effectiveness of your team.
- Experience deeper interpersonal relationships through greater understanding.
- Create an environment of high engagement and low stress.
- Learn a language of strengths to experience more effective communication.
We have certified Strengths coaches available on the A-P region to facilitate an event for your team. Contact me to explore how your team can benefit from Strength-Based Team Development.
Upcoming topics: Strengths-Based Grace, How Strengths Help and Hinder, Strength-Based Stress Management.
Upcoming topics: Strengths-Based Grace, How Strengths Help and Hinder, Strength-Based Stress Management.
Resources:
What Is a Strengths Based Team?
A Deeper Exploration of Each of the 34 Talent Themes
The Clifton StrengthsFinder Technical Report: Development and Validation
A Deeper Exploration of Each of the 34 Talent Themes
The Clifton StrengthsFinder Technical Report: Development and Validation
Asia Pacific Strengths Coaches:
Gallup Certified Strengths Coaches: Harmon Schmelzenbach; Cindy Schmelzenbach
Strengths Champion Certified Coaches: Kafoa Muaror; Gail Dooley
Nazarene Strengths Institute Strengths Coach: Ingrid Lustana
Gallup Certified Strengths Coaches: Harmon Schmelzenbach; Cindy Schmelzenbach
Strengths Champion Certified Coaches: Kafoa Muaror; Gail Dooley
Nazarene Strengths Institute Strengths Coach: Ingrid Lustana
If you are a certified Strengths Coach and are willing to provide coaching to your Asia Pacific team members, let me know! (Cindy Schmelzenbach) Read More.
Announcements
2018 Offering for Nazarene Missions
On November 18, 2018, Nazarene churches around the world will hold the 2018 Offering of Thanks. This offering will help fund the mission of the Church of the Nazarene around the globe through the World Evangelism Fund. God’s faithfulness to the Church of the Nazarene has never failed, and we believe that our faithful response is to give back to the mission of the church.
This offering goes to help fund numerous ministries across both the Asia-Pacific Region and the other Nazarene World Areas. From creative local church ministries, to global missions, to compassionate ministries, the Church of the Nazarene is responding to the call of God on our lives to make Christlike disciples in the nations.
Registration Now Open for 2019 Asia-Pacific Regional Conference
You are invited to attend the next Asia-Pacific Regional Conference: Unleash the Power 2019! We believe that the power of the Holy Spirit is strong enough to move mountains and sensitive enough to urge hearts toward change. There will be time for you to connect with others who serve in your area of ministry as well as engage in field break-out sessions. Conference topics will focus on how the power of the Holy Spirit is unleashed to move in the following areas:
- Seeking the Kingdom First
- Discipleship
- Church Multiplication
- Intergenerational Faith Communities
- Compassionate Churches
- Christlike Leadership
- Using Loving Dialogue
Laity, clergy and ministry coordinators who serve on the Asia-Pacific region are encouraged to register. Prayerfully consider attending this exciting conference in Chiang Mai, Thailand from October 19-22, 2019.
Watch this video to get inspired!
- Early bird registration* is $300 per person and includes:
- All Sessions
- Lodging (double occupancy) 18, 19, 20, 21 & 22 -October-2019.
- All Meals for the duration of the conference (Breakfast on 19th to Breakfast on 23rd)
- Transport from Chiang Mai Airport (CNX) to Venue and back to CNX Airport
- Event Materials
*Late registration begins June 1, 2019, wherein the registration fee will be raised by $50 per person.
- Registration Fees DO NOT INCLUDE:
- VISA Fees (if applicable)
- Airport Departure Fees / Taxes
- Transportation costs from your resident country to and from the Chiang Mai airport
- Extra / Optional Tours that may be available – details forthcoming
- Personal snacks/spending
- How To Pay
- Registration Fees should be paid to your Field Conference Coordinator or Field Treasurer (District Conference Coordinator for Japan, Taiwan, and S. Korea). If you do not know who this is, contact Unleash2019@apnaz.org
- Registration Fees WILL NOT be accepted at the conference venue. Unleash2019@apnaz.org
- Also, consider attending the Regional Theology Conference
- Theme: “Christ and His Church Engaging the Cultures of Our Region”
- This will take place on the afternoon of the 22nd and all day on the 23rd
- The cost is only an additional $60 to attend.
Sincerely,
The Team, Unleashed!
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Regional Theology Conference 2019: Call for Papers
The Asia-Pacific Regional Theology Conference will be held in Chiang Mai, Thailand on 22-23 October 2019. The planners of this conference are calling for scholarly papers.”On 22-23 October 2019, the Asia-Pacific Region will host the Regional Theology Conference in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The theme of this conference will be “Christ and His Church Engaging the Cultures of Our Region.” This event will be held in conjunction with the Asia-Pacific Regional Conference, “Unleash the Power 2019,” also being held in Chiang Mai on 19-22 October 2019.Nazarene Theological College, Brisbane, Principal Dr. Rob Fringer is coordinating this conference, along with the NTC faculty. In preparation for the conference, Dr. Fringer has sent out a call for scholarly papers. These papers will be due to Dr. David McEwan at NTC by October 15, 2018. For more information on submission, and for specific guidance on topics, follow this link. Read More
Hiring English Teachers for Malaysia – INQUIRE NOW!
Dynamic Language Centre is accepting applications for full-time language teachers in their English language center in Penang, Malaysia.
The newly renovated center has been in the business for over 18 years. While they teach many languages, children’s and adult English are their main focus.
If you are an experienced children’s teacher, enjoy a wide mix of cultures from Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa, and are looking for a rewarding career- we have an opportunity for you!
Candidates should be:
- Native English speakers
- 4-year University degree holders
- Experienced in teaching children
- TESOL certified
Join our team! Contact us for further details about the program and available opportunities.
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- Nazarene Essentials
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