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APEST Team Building for Bi-Vocational Teams
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APEST Team Building for Bi-Vocational Teams
The DISTRICT will be presenting at Assembly 26 about Bi-vocational missions and ministry requiring a team — really a Community of Practice (CoP). We organize the core of our DISTRICT team using the APEST Equipping Gifts framework (part of the Calling Into Gifts position on The Journey Map). Attached is a PDF which shows how our gifting maps out: where we have over-lap coverage and where members have unique capacity and where there are gaps in coverage.
Coverage: We’re a very strong team in the Prophetic, Teaching, and Shepherding gifts, with two of us each having these gifts. That means we’re especially good at seeing God’s high-level vision and standard and judging the fitness of people to respond (Prophet) and then applying the visionary analysis to training and systems of care where people are served (Teacher-Shepherd). This is expressed in our district which identifies as “a community of care” and yet is strongly aligned to mobilizing for mission, especially towards social transformation of neighborhoods. We have one on the team high in Apostle which could mean that gift would be over-powered by other emphasis, but interestingly other team members have been growing in the Apostolic (see Growth below), so they have strong appreciation for that gift and allow it to “mediate” between the Prophet and the Shepherd-Teacher for innovative ideas that have practical and wholesome impact.
Gap: Our big gap is the Evangelist — none of us are strong in this gift. This means we have a harder time aligning to and adopting trends in the immediate culture and creating the “accessible and immediate win” for people. This means we need to loop in people with these capacities, either through relationships (the best way) or resources.
Workflow: Usually we start in the Prophetic: what’s God doing on a high level? Then this gets passed to the Apostolic for “what would be the missional dynamics that would move us towards this?” Things get practical when this gets passed to the Teacher-Shepherd: how will we build capacity and care so people can enter the missional dynamic to move towards the vision. We also start sometimes in the Shepherd-Teacher: “I feel like our people are here right now and need ____.” This then gets passed to the Apostle for refining the “how” and then to the Prophet to align it to high-level “why”.
Growth: It’s easy to forget that this paradigm of gifting emphasizes “equipping” over “performance”. People must perform their gift in order to equip others, but Jesus does not intend for us to simply lock into a role to get things done. The point is to invest who Jesus is in us in others so they are fully equipped for service in maturity — this manifests Christ. For my perspective in the position of Apostle, I have seen both my teammates grow in their Apostolic capacity. But even more, I have grown in both my Prophetic boldness and attunement and Pastoral grace from my relationship with my teammates.
What is the gifting like on your team?
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