Our mission statement reads “Pioneers mobilizes teams to glorify God among unreached peoples by initiating church planting movements in partnership with local churches.”
Pioneers eight core values are:
1. passion for God
2. unreached peoples
3. church planting movements
4. ethos of grace
5. the local church
6. team centered
7. innovation and flexibility
8. participatory servant leadership
In this reflections I will focus on our seventh and eighth core values: “innovation and flexibility” and “participatory servant leadership”.
INNOVATION AND FLEXIBILITY. These are values that I aspire to, but they don’t come naturally for me. I prefer well defined processes and structures. However, in the rapidly changing world we live in, innovation and flexibility are important values for any organization that seeks to stay on the cutting edge. There is such remarkable diversity encountered in any cross culture work, making these practices essential to being effective. Additionally these values are highly regarded by many from the emerging generations in our own culture.
PARTICIPATORY SERVANT LEADERSHIP. This is one of the striking distinctives of Pioneers and a big part of what won my heart over to this organization back in 2007. Our leaders are humble, servant hearted men, who are truly men of God. Their leadership style is participatory, not autocratic. Every person on our team has a meaningful voice at the table. This creates participation in and ownership of important decisions. I find this value to be a rarity in both secular and Christian organizations. It is in stark contrast to many of our larger local churches who have chosen to embrace a pastor as CEO model of leadership. It is a leadership style that I highly value and thrive under, and it is a leadership style that I seek to practice.
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