What do they do all day?

Have you ever found yourself asking what do Kevin and Nicki do all day? Well expect to be de-mystified (a little!) here. From week to week things change a lot and there are always extra projects or conferences or visits we need to run or make.

Nicki

Nicki works for YWAM mostly Tuesday to Thursday, till 3pm when she collects the kids from school. However many little jobs or appointments happen at other times (especially evenings) depending on availability. The other part of her time is full-time parenting!

• Tuesday: Staff meeting from 9 till 11.30. We have a general meeting first then after a break take time to worship together and pray for world issues. Often Nicki will be leading a part of these or all of these times.
• Wednesday:Nicki is a part of the leadership team of the centre here and meets with Kevin, Sheila and Steve from 9.30 till 11.30 before leaving to pick up Ellie who has a half-day at school each Wednesday.
• Thursday: Nicki runs “Mamans et Bébés” and “Mamans et Bébés Plus” alternately and fortnightly. In between groups she has a lot of preparation work and tries to develop the ministry.

When she has space in her program she is busy with other duties from the Base Leadership meeting, her oversight of Personnel, organising hospitality  or in Pastoral meetings. She rarely has a free moment.

Kevin

Kevin has the luxury of working a full week and tends to have lots of smaller tasks on the go. Kevin has to:

• Meet with all the leaders of the ministries (DTS, Alternatives, Bookshop, Bluewater DTS, Visiting teams, akaZOE bar and Counselling).
• Ensure the centre’s operates smoothly. This is where a lot of investment in administration, communication and PR has gone recently as it was (and still is) needing investment.
• Ensure the spiritual direction and pastoral direction of the centre continues.
• Keep hard at work with recruiting people to come and work or study. This involves many emails and telephone calls.
• Network with local pastors.
• Do lots more!

As National leader he has to draw the key team leaders together, develop the National work, ensure the National administration is covered and represent YWAM to external bodies and at international leadership meetings (fortunately a number of these are in Malaga where the Western European Co-ordinator lives!)

He tends to fit all this in amongst his regular weekly events:

• Monday: Time alone for prioritising and prayer. Meet with the administration team. Any small cleaning jobs (on a rota with other staff). Brussels leadership team meeting.
• Tuesday: Staff meeting and Prayer and Worship. Kevin leads these meetings regularly.
• Wednesday: Meets akaZOE bar leader. Connects to other team leaders. Tries to go running.
• Thursday: This day is much more un-scheduled and good for projects and meetings
• Friday: Time to write to supporters. Time to go for a run. Meets visiting teams leader.

We hope that this will give you a clearer idea of what we do – although we are too busy really and need some full time people around us to share the leadership and management of the centre. (For example Building Maintenance – there are many small jobs and larger projects which we need others to help with) There are so many areas of development, training and spiritual leadership that we would like to do but pressed by other operational and management functions. These are important but we can see scope for delegating them!