Multiplying Laborers for the Urban Harvest

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How to Serve Your Student Body In order to organize and manage your Institute, you will have to give serious attention to the role of administration. The goal here is to steward your resources carefully, maintain excellence in procedures and record keeping, and strive for an overall accuracy and quality in the way you run your courses and programs. This is a service to the Lord, done on behalf of the students, staff, and faculty. Give the proper time and planning to the administrative tasks in order to ensure that your Institute glorifies God in this dimension as well as the training and teaching portions of your program. God is intently concerned with the administration of the affairs of his Church, as shown by its inclusion as one of the spiritual gifts provided to believers (1 Cor. 12.12-27). Set up structures that allow you to track the progress of your affairs, to follow the work of the students, and to understand how you may better serve Christ through your leadership development activities at your Institute. What a tremendous opportunity to use your gift in expanding the Kingdom of God! 1. Administration exists to serve the student body. Your Institute exists to facilitate and equip leaders for the urban church. Therefore, your administration, record keeping, financial procedures and policy formation should be carried out to enhance the learning of the students, and to make for the smooth, efficient operation of your Institute. 2. Excellence and accuracy in record keeping is fundamental to the admin- istrative task. Make certain that your office is well organized and efficient, and that you have designed clearly stated policies and procedures. Execute your administrative procedures wisely and effectively. Be careful to keep student records up to date, confidential, and accessible only to the proper administrative staff and faculty. Careful record keeping is critical to know the status of each student, whether financially, academically, or ministerially. Be aware of the following central truths as you establish your office and admin- istration procedures at your Institute.

Give the proper time and planning to the administrative tasks in order to ensure that your Institute glorifies God.

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