Peter (Rusty – my hearing partner) and my sister said I deserved a proper holiday break from social service. This quote was just right for us, who works under MCA (M. Social Services in Hamilton) last weekend. Big Thank you to the funding board for having us a weekend break in Coromandel, North Island.
Apart from the long winding road, the staff picked other staff from Hamilton en route to our home via Coromandel. It was a cloudy afternoon, and at the last minute of haste, one guy to drop off an item house before I left. Two cars filled with staff arrived simultaneously, with one guy in a separate car at the gate while our dogs barked loudly. Oh boy, what a rush off afternoon!
The scar mark in the farming land showed from the heavy flooding in the Pinnacles mountains in Coromandel Forest Park on September 10 2019, and July 23 2017. Arriving before Tairua for a quick loo break at Kopu as the staff request and breather before heading the longest winding road along State Highway 25a and 25 up the mountain peaks. Between Kopu and Tairua routes, the mountainsides showed brunt marked from the flooded landslips that closed the main State Highway 25 and 25a on July 23 2017. This flooding and landslips repurchased my memories. Rusty called out to do the evacuation job by clearing approximately 50 metres wide and blocking both lanes, cutting local people and tourists. The work took many days to reopen the roads.
Finally, we reached Tairua and walked around to do exercise. We resume travelling, passing Pumpkin Hill, Whenuakite, by turning right toward Purangi and arriving at Cooks Beach to continue as the night drawing when we arrived at Flaxmill Lodge.
Closer to the place we will be staying at Flaxmill as afternoon fading.
Ah, bliss and how peaceful and excellent a place to spend a holiday break at Flaxmill Lodge. Before we all head out to Whitianga from the Ferry Landing, which takes under 8 minutes ferry ride, rest at last. We walked around and found a place to have dinner meal during the Friday busy night.
From the Ferry Landing to Whitianga
Mmm, Where is Flaxmill Bay? Peaceful, seaside campground and accommodation set within landscaped grounds at Flaxmill Bay on the east coast of the Coromandel Peninsula. A short walk/ferry ride to Whitianga, walking distance to Cooks Beach or a short drive to Cathedral Cove and Hot Water Beach. It is accessible for disabled people/children and other people to use this Flaxmill Accommodation and camping ground.
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive -to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.” – Marcus Aurelius
Spending time away from home of Eureka and work in Waikato this weekend – What a great way to start off on a journey to wind down and take a breather off my mind along with our work colleagues in Coromandel! Just six of us under Methodist City Action – Hamilton Methodist Social Service. What a laptop here with me?? A pen and notebook would be good, but I need some assistance to improve my writing and collect new words.
Staying at Flaxmill Lodge, Mercury Bay near Cooks Beach, NZ
How bliss the sunshine shining here through the window from the mountain and giving warmth and light! For I know the Lord is with us always and count our blessing today.
“But blessed is the one who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in him. They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.” – Jeremiah 17:7-8
How strange to be away from my partner, our three dogs and our home for such a long time! It is a different time when my partner was in the hospital for his new hip replacement early this year. How blissful to sleep in the large bed without a partner, two dogs sleeping on the bed and Joseph the older sleeping on the floor. This means no shuffling, bumping, pulling blankets side by side, even dogs taking our space.
“And God is able to bless you abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.” – 2 Corinthians 9:8
The sun rose above the mountain and keep shining on the ground, giving more warmth sunshine, for it was 3oC in the early hour of this morning. Walking around the lounge and found this book I came across. It is worth reading this book.
Looking forward to the rest of the day coming before we head back to our home in Eureka and their homes in Hamilton City tomorrow morning.
“Dōgen states that the eternal Buddha-mind or enlightenment is found in everything from tiles to oceans to mountains to stones. David Edward Shaner, The Bodymind Experience in Japanese Buddhism“
Enlightenment is found within the mind, not outside it in various worldly phenomena. It is found in wisdom, not ignorance, in virtue and purity, not evil and pollution. “William Bodri, Socrates and the Enlightenment Path”
Is there any way to understand the role of a Christian Leadership in the church, group and training college?
Ann (nom de plume) came across one video by the Deaf woman of Hamilton, hoping to establish a Deaf Christain camp and a team in 2022. In the video, she signed about Christain Leadership and signed about studying the course through Christain College. Mm, Ann thought, how can any Deaf person understand and lead the excellent leadership role to their Deaf parishioners in the church? It is a big challenge to become a good leadership role to all interest by the Deaf Christain persons.
Can any Deaf Christain people move away from the ‘toxic’ area from the Deaf community? We do not have the answer, let alone and pray, if they realise and understand what was going on out there?
When a person creates an idea to lead the group, it must work together as a team, not be pushed around or ordering someone to do the work for anyone. The other tool is to find someone to mentor the person and the team to become a good leader. One person must remember to limit the highly speaking and creating the idea, or problem solving because that person will become too enthusiastic and forget about any Deaf Christain people’s chance or choice to speak up. This person is the result of too inferior leadership role at the table or in the church.
Irrespective of how anyone defines a leader, he or she can prove to be a difference-maker between success and failure. A good leader has a futuristic vision and knows how to turn his ideas into real-world success stories. It is essential for anyone as ‘a leaders know the way, goes the way and shows the way.”
Let us see the excellent leadership role, qualities and principles, examples of teaching, and leading other church or youth groups that separate good leaders from bad ones.
Let see what the principles of becoming or gain the learning to improve are.
Peter walk toward Jesus on a stormy sea forecast the dilemma of Christians in future centuries. Stormy change often leaves believers seasick as the gospel shrugs off the shackles of one historical period after another on its journey to the outer limits of recorded time and beyond.
Today’s Christian leaders face upheaval as time roars into the 21st century. They must walk with Him and obey Him on a raging sea of social, economic, moral, cultural, and technological change unprecedented in human history. Like Peter, they must decide which is more vital—their faith in God or their fear of the future. Simon Peter climbed out of the boat, believing he could follow Jesus’ command to walk on water. However, anchored by his limited view of the possible, his faith faltered, and he sank. Church leaders on a mission today must also step out in faith from their anchored past to answer Jesus’ command to communicate His unchanging message in a mighty roaring sea of change.”
Here is another example of making an outstanding leadership by a different author.
Ann began wondering how the other churches can learn more from the Deaf Christain people and other disabled people in their churches. She realised it is different to lead the churches by the disabled, even Deaf people, for example, communicate in sign language, braille Bibles. Today, many new technologies make disabled people and Deaf people’s lives better than before as there were so many barriers that restricted Deaf people/disabled people. There are more tools to develop a better course for any Deaf people or Deaf with disabilities people to study “The leadership role”. Yes, there is one problem: financial to provide excellent tools like computer, laptop, literacy resources plus in NZSL versions, Bible study in NZSL and Easy to Read versions. Many Christain people seek funding, receive bequests donations, fundraising to help disabled Christain people, even to Deaf Christain people.
Here are other simple tools for leadership qualities are: –
There are plenty more ideas for becoming a good leadership person than a bad one.
Great Stewardship
In Christian organisations, God calls us to be good stewards of all our resources, especially the people we have entrusted. Leadership is about enabling those people to achieve their full potential, not only to achieve but exceed their goals in God’s Kingdom service. Developing leadership excellence leads to the fulfilment of individual and organisational potential.
Growing Christ-centred leaders is an investment in excellent stewardship.
Great Outcomes
People who have expertise and skill in an organisation’s technical and operational aspects natural rise to leadership positions. Nevertheless, leadership is about much more, requiring an additional, new and different skill set.
Authentic leadership, modelled on Christ, is not about position, it is about the role, and it emerges from a Christ-like servant heart that understands how to enable others to be the best they can be in God’s service. This leadership skill set is the critical factor that allows leaders, the people they lead and their organisation to achieve excellent outcomes.
Growing Christ-centred leaders is an investment in achieving excellent outcomes.
Great Reputation
Alas, it is sadly all too easy to come across Christian organisations with a reputation for not reflecting the character of Christ as they ought. The culture of any organisation built on the character and style of its leaders. Leaders become nurtured and grown to lead in a way modelled on Jesus create a vital and vigorous organisation that enjoys a reputation for being Christ-like.
A good reputation is essential; not only does it honour God, but it correlates with effectiveness, high productivity, easy recruitment and low staff churn.
Growing Christ-centred leaders is an investment in the witness of an excellent, God honouring reputation.
A Christ-focused organisation
The quality and character of its leaders define the quality and character of an organisation. There are two possibilities as to the source of this character: the world or Christ.
Leadership styles based on secular models, which is the default unless specific steps take, will lead to an organisation with a worldly character. Leadership styles that emerge from obedience to Christ’s teaching and reflect his nature will be distinctly Christ-like. As with every aspect of the Christian walk developing Christ-likeness takes prayerful effort. If becoming more Christ-like alone is not enough, such a character will significantly enhance an organisation’s reputation amongst its peers.
A highly committed and engaged staff
Study upon study shows that the best performing organisations enjoy the highest levels of staff commitment, the lowest levels of toxic attitudes, and very high staff satisfaction levels. They show that this results only from the highest leadership quality focused on enabling others to achieve their best. Leadership born from a character-centred on Christ’s Servant heart is a leadership style of the highest quality.
Creativity and vigour
Organisations with the highest quality of leadership and a staff who delight in achieving their best are vibrant and vigorous. They are creative and innovative, as they find better and more effective ways of working and using their resources. They excel in resolving complex issues and challenges which would otherwise limit achievement.
Growing high-quality people
Christ-centred servant leaders are concerned with enabling those they lead to achieve their full potential in Kingdom service. Consequently, they invest in the quality of their people by growing their skills, experience, confidence, and wisdom. Studies show that high-quality people with high levels of staff satisfaction lead directly to the highest quality outcomes for the organisation.
Extending organisational capacity
The high levels of commitment, job satisfaction, vigour, creativity, and quality that emerge under exemplary leadership enable organisations to work smarter and more efficiently, finding more effective ways of using often limited money and resources. As a result, they will increase their organisation’s capacity because they can achieve more with the limited resources available.
Highly effective performance
As a direct result of exemplary Servant leadership, exhibiting a character-centred on Christ’s Servant heart, an organisation will not only reflect Christ’s character more brightly, but it will be highly effective and able to achieve more. Studies show that similar organisations massively outperform their peers on key staff, operational, and financial measures.
Growing the Servant Heart
Growing the Servant Heart is a leadership development curriculum designed to help anyone do just that. Rooted in the Bible and practical experience, it seeks to draw out and apply the leadership principles taught and modelled by Jesus.
People are everyone – children, babies, adults, teenagers, disabled people and children and D/deaf people and children as one whole universal people.
What people who are deaf with a disability or multi disabilities, people with mental illness, elderly persons? This group of people/children with multi disabilities, along with D/deaf are human like us.
Mm, what I am trying to work out by putting a piece of advice or details about us to you – readers? Do you realise there are more than 1 billion disabled people in the world? This result came from the WHO (World Health Organisation), and yes, it is an updated result. Perhaps you did not see anyone with disability/disabilities in your area, street, park even anywhere you did not see anyone with disability/disabilities in your area, street, park even anywhere you work in the building.
If you do not know much about us – disabled people, even D/deaf people well, or a little bit of understanding-you may have a family member who has a disability. Please consider learning from us; otherwise, you will be fantastic to see or realise we do have the skill, ability to do in a different way of communicating, activity and the ability to understand you. Yes, I know that people are often afraid, unsure how to communicate, or unsure how to get involved with us. But, the worst of all, we disabled people, D/deaf people and D/deaf people with disabilities, are often left out or forgot that we are there in the same room without chatting or include us in your meeting.
In New Zealand, we – disabled people, D/deaf people and deaf with other disabilities people facing many house crisis, shortage of financial income, bleak of finding a job and no friendly accessible everywhere. We are not the only human facing huge problems; everyone else looking for a place with a roof over the head faces a shortage of houses. We – disabled people, are at the bottom of the list than anyone else able to gain a home with a roof, find a job, or earn a little income for their children.
Stop thinking of the planning design, infrastructure first and start listening to us on what we need with a friendly, accessible environment and homes with a roof over our head. I could challenge high profile players like property developers, property investors, architects, Maori Trustees of the Boards, Rental management Brokers/investments, and other people like the MPs, Council Staff. A tool called ‘Universal Design” logged and implemented into the Building Act Law in Ireland. The device called the “Rethinking” project because they may not know about us, instead of bickering over the high-cost infrastructure to install in the ground, even inside the house. The rethinking tool is ideal for making everyone change their attitudes, learning about us, their behaviours, and perhaps overall, challenge implementing the law through the Government. Check out this website http://universaldesign.ie.
We are human like you, and we have the gift of wisdom, leadership, teaching and experience from birth/after accidents to pass on to the next generation as we learnt from the previous generations.
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