Your organization believes. Your organization believest that…

• Our purpose is to glorify God
  
• God is a Trinity: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
  
• All people are sinners and need salvation
  
• Jesus, fully God and man, died for our sins, rose from the dead, is in heaven, and is coming again
  
• We are saved by grace through faith in Jesus
  
• The Bible is God’s Word
  
• Christians are part of the Church and should obey God’s Word

Your organization identifies a mission consistent with its beliefs, for example:

• Christian Academy in Japan, a school for the children of evangelical missionaries in Japan, equips students to impact the world for Christ
  
• The Japan Evangelical Mission Association exists to network and equip its members to make disciples for Christ

Your organization works to achieve its mission, using operational values to drive mission achievement. Your organization’s operational values address 2 things:

1. Who you are. For example, your organization is caring and collaborative.
   
2. What your organization needs to become in order for your mission to be achieved. For example, to achieve its mission, your organization needs to increasingly value diversity, excellence, stewardship.

My question: To what extent does your organizational environment reflect your organizational values? To answer this question, complete 3 tasks:

Task 1: To answer my question, take your values statement (see sample draft below) and rate each value in terms of the extent to which that value is reflected in your organizational environment. Be brutally honest. Use the following scale:

• 5: Exemplary
  
• 4: Good
  
• 3: OK
  
• 2: Developing
  
• 1: Starting

Task 2: Use your answer to develop an action plan that targets having each value having a rating of 4 (Good). If each of your values has a rating of 4, target having each value having a rating of 5.

Task 3: Use your action plan.

Pursue excellence. Use your organization’s operational values to achieve your God-given mission. Ensure that your organizational environment reflects each of your organizational values at level 4 (Good). Do this so that your organization can be itself and can become the type of organization it needs to become in order to achieve its mission.

Here’s a draft of a values statement

Faithfulness

• We serve Jesus Christ (Matt. 22:37, Matt. 25:14-21)
  
• We use a biblical perspective (II Tim. 3:16)
  
• We walk our talk (James 1:22)

Caring

• We help and encourage others to succeed (I Thess. 5:11, Heb. 10:24)
  
• We maintain a nurturing learning environment (Mt. 22:39)
  
• We communicate the truth in love (Eph. 4:15)

Collaboration

• We function as the body of Christ (Cor. 12:12-31)
  
• We work in partnership with parents, who are primarily responsible for their children’s education (Deut. 6:6-10)
  
• We believe that success comes from group effort (Eccl 4:12. Eph. 4:16)
  
• We help and encourage others to succeed (Luke 10:25-37, I Thess. 5:11, Heb. 10:24)

Diversity

• We, the body of Christ, come from many nations (Mt. 28:19)
  
• We respect ourselves and others as God’s image bearers (Gen. 1:27)
  
• We recognize and value diversity seen in ways of learning, abilities, and cultural backgrounds and identities

Excellence

• We develop exemplary, sustainable, replicable programs
  
• We use biblical principles and sound, current research and practice

Stewardship

• We carefully use the resources God has provided to educate missionary children through day-school and extension programs (Gen. 1:28)
  
• We provide affordable Christian education for evangelical missionary parents