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Would you qualify to be an AIM staff member?
This is the 20th year since I started Adventures In Missions. It’s been quite a trip. I’m not the same guy I was when, I carved out a little office in our garage. What I didn’t know about life and especially life in the kingdom was a lot!God has been patient in shaping me and bringing people alongside me to help build this thing. And we’ve coalesced around a cause: To raise up a generation of radically committed disciples of Jesus Christ. We have a strong sense of vision and values and we seek to ensure that those who join us share them too. AIM Staff in ’05
In that regard, here are some questions we ask those who are interested in staff positions:
Vision
1) Have you had your heart broken by the poor and oppressed?
2) Do you try to mobilize others to reach the lost?
3) Do you have an outreach-focused, Great Commission lifestyle?
4) Do you make the time to regularly disciple others?
Values
1) Listening Prayer: Do you practice listening prayer? Do you have a deep hunger to know the Lord and spend significant amounts of time with Him in prayer?
2) Holistic Integrity: Would others say your lifestyle choices usually point to Jesus?
3) Wild Trust: Are you willing to trust God to provide for your needs no matter the cost? Do you have a consistently positive attitude?
4) Pervasive Excellence: Would your past supervisors say that your performance rated you in the top 10-20 percent of your peers?
5) Foolish Grace: Would your friends say you have a history of tolerance and forgiveness for those with whom you are in conflict?
What a privilege it is to serve alongside people who can answer many of these questions, “yes.” If we’re not there yet, at least we aspire to move toward this vision and these values. To be human is to stand for something. If over time, a person grows cynical or even agnostic, then he stands for that. As for our tribe, this is where we’ve planted our flag.
If you’re interested in knowing more about joining staff at AIM, check us out.
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Seth, the Foolish Grace part got to me. Had an argument last night with a somewhat new friend… didn’t go as the original conversation was planned.
High standards but exactly what God wants. So glad your team is built upon this. I know there are flaws but I’d rather be joining a team like this than any other.
Thank you for your words.
20 years…
well, you’re probably beginning to feel like you know how to do this thing called Adventures in Missions
(As I just told someone else, one of the benefits of “maturing” is that we stop making the stupid mistakes of our youth. And we start making the stupid mistakes of our “golden years” LOL)
Here’s to the faithfulness to go the journey with God for what has become AIM; & here’s to the infinite ripple effect of your faithfulness in the lives of the young people you touch, & the lives they in turn touch.
Not bad for a skinny white boy in N. GA ;-D
Hi Seth,
Did you have me in mind when you wrote this? My Answer is yes to the first four questions, yes to the next four questions and I would say I am working on #5. Can I fill out an application?? :))
Just kidding.
Thanks Seth for all you do in the Kingdom business.
Your years of experience, mistakes, wisdom is our gain! Thanks for stepping out in faith all those years ago!
Praying that you continue to stretch and expand during the next 20 years and not rest at a plateau.
Kesher International Missions
Connecting the local body to global missions.
Congratulations….I remember that office.
mb
yes to 1 for now.yes to all in HIS timing.i would love to just be the door keeper.soon child soon.
I feel somewhat ashamed of myself after reading this list. Yet, I have something to aspire to as you have stated. I am reading a book now called “In His Steps” by Charles M. Sheldon” written in 1896 and felt the same way after reading chapter 1.
This is exciting and I am glad you all have this vision. Keep up the Lord’s work.
Love,
Marqui