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SilentDawning wrote:
In summary — I think metrics are important, that the organization has a right to collect and share them, and that volunteers should embrace some accountability. But this accountability should be applied to people who WANT to be serving in their position. And such accountability should lead to kind, loving support from leaders and not censure like I’ve seen in other contexts.
Well said!
I once heard of a MP who told his missionaries that they should never set a goal that took away the free agency of somebody else. So NO baptismal goals. You could set goals for hours tracting, or hours studying, but never number of lessons or baptisms. I’m pretty sure this MP was not promoted up the ranks when he got home!
Sheldon wrote:
I’m pretty sure this MP was not promoted up the ranks when he got home!
Was he respected by the Missionaries that he served with?
Sheldon wrote:
I once heard of a MP who told his missionaries that they should never set a goal that took away the free agency of somebody else.So NO baptismal goals. You could set goals for hours tracting, or hours studying, but never number of lessons or baptisms. I’m pretty sure this MP was not promoted up the ranks when he got home!
My MP taught this also. “You can’t set goals for other people” he’d say, and from that point of view, with which I agree, baptismal goals were silly. That’s actually one of the few things I learned on my mission which has turned out to be tried and true and useful in my professional and church life.
This was back in the dark ages before the time of Area Authorities and such (one Q70 which didn’t have 70 in it) and he was the son-in-law of a Q15. I’m not sure exactly what became of him upon his return, although I do know he was very well known in the area he was from.
My son’s much more recent MP was not all that in to numbers and he was an Area Authority.
Fwiw, Preach My Gospel says (or at least said) the exact same thing conceptually, at least. I can’t remember if it addressed baptism goals, specifically.
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