This was a question I posed my ‘new’ team of 21 enthusiastic & faithful servants of the Lord, as our recent Staff Summit. Below is sorta like a transcript from my little ‘speech’ to them. It’s kinda long.. but it does sum up quite a bit of stuff tt’s been happening the past month or more! 
So if you have 5mins or more, do read on….
“The past month, I’ve been grappling with many facets of my role, seeking for answers to different aspects of leading and managing CC. Some days I feel frustrated, desperate, worried, concerned, anxious etc. Other days I feel delighted, encouraged, blessed, excited, hopeful etc. Over the weekend I attended IDMC- abt Leadership Resonance etc. Thankful that I went cos’ through it, God got my attention once more. Through my struggles in leadership, I realized that I seek God for answers, a response, or some quick fix from God. But instead God chose to give insight & understanding like in Daniel 9:22..Furthermore, He reminded me, and clarified for me my key priorities as a leader. What I needed if not more planning, but more praying (1 Chron 28:20). I was more interested in formulating the blueprint, but God really wanted me to follow His footprint!
God also brought me back to the ‘beginning’ when He first called me to this new role. I realized and remembered that I feared taking this on because I didn’t know what to do. (I’ve no expertise whatsover; I feel inadequate etc.) Plus I was really enjoying.. and very comfortable leading ForeRunner. So why Lord why now, why me? But God made it clear (through 2 specific promises in His word ‘Bezalel-Ex 31 and 2 Cor 3) that he wanted me to trust Him. “I can’t.. but God can”. (which btw, is often a good place to be in. When you think you know it all, watch out!!)
In a nutshell, God led me to understand that for my ministry to make sense & succeed, I needed to lead our ministry to focus on 3 key priorities. These are not merely priorities for the interim period, but steadfast priorities for the ministry.
These, I believe are the 3 steadfast priorities in Creative Communications:
1. Know God
Our first priority, if we are to fulfill our mission of ‘Bringing the unchanging gospel to a changing generation’, is to know the God who gave us the unchanging gospel. Who really is the God who loved us and gave himself for us? Do we know him well? The first call of Jesus is not ‘Advance my kingdom’ but ‘Abide in me’.
2. Know Ourselves
The greatest enemy we ever face is ourselves. The Bible exhorts us to have a sober judgment of ourselves. That would mean that we don’t think too highly of ourselves (which might lead us to think that we can do it, and therefore a lack of dependence on God ), or too lowly of ourselves (which leads us to belittle how God could use us, inspite of ourselves). An accurate view of ourselves would help us see that God wants to use us as conduits of His grace & love to flow to our generation. He is afterall the one that qualifies us to this ministry of reconciliation (2 Cor 10:3,5,6; 2 Cor 5:19,20)
3. Know the Changing Generation
What is our changing generation? Whether young or old, do we really know these people? Do our hearts feel the pain they feel? Do we weep, like our Lord, when He saw how lost they are? We need to ask God to grow our hearts, and deepen the compassion we have for the world. How else would we innovate, generate, create & produce effective tools to connect & reach them apart from knowing & understanding the people for which these tools are for?
These 3 priorities are paramount. Even as we work on formulating plans, discussing & planning strategies & methods, we need to anchor ourselves in these 3 areas. They form the foundation of our ministry without which we’re just ‘building castles in the air’ (which is basically dreaming!) Or whose still, we might find ourselves building our ‘own’ castles/kingdoms, instead of His.
If we as a ministry are to stay faithful to these 3 steadfast priorities, we’re on the right track to fulfill what God is calling CreaComm to become. I’ve no doubts about it.”