Multiplying Laborers for the Urban Harvest

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A W o r d o f E n c o u r a g e m e n t

decide when/how to assign TUMI students to different ministry assignments based on their giftedness and fruitfulness in ministry–not necessarily based on how many TUMI modules they have completed–or even if they have graduated or not. Our job at TUMI is to train students and help them become proficient in representing the Great Tradition; it is the job of local church leaders to determine how to assign that person to a specific ministry. This notion can free you up from feeling any sense of failure about students not completing all sixteen modules in a straight line. Local pastors can deal with this on a case-by-case basis by encouraging students to finish; giving them more time for studies, or allowing them to move on into more ministry before they have graduated from TUMI. For those of you with educational backgrounds, “retention rates” and “graduation rates” are key metrics for success and excellence. But for us at TUMI, we are leadership developers, not educators. So we measure our excellence by how much we can equip leaders to represent the Great Tradition in their local church. This has a much more fluid meaning and is not often measured in such tight statistical ways.

May this liberate you. And, may you expect the Holy Spirit to complete his work in each student, in his time.

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