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CHAPTER 13 CONCLUSION
13.5 Financing
As far as possible, ongoing sources of funding should be secured, since it is very difficult to budget and plan on the basis of once-off donations. Of course, seemingly continuous funders could withdraw support at any given time, so contingency plans must be made in advance.
13.6 Final word
Managing faith-based initiatives is by no means an easy task since most initiatives operate under extremely difficult internal and external conditions. Consequently, employing the management techniques that have been discussed in this essay will notguaranteesuccess or sustainability, but will increase the likelihood that an initiative will be able to operate effectively for a significant period of time and that participation in it will be a meaningful and positive experience for all those involved.
Inattempting to implement these processes, however, managers may often find themselves desperately trying to 'obey the rules' to the extent that their performance becomes mechanical, or contrived. Even just reading through the numerous guidelines can beexhausting~the thought of putting them into practice, and doing so effectively, can be positively overwhelming! While the strategies discussed in this essay are certainly useful in enhancing management practice, it is vital to realise that in Christian management, as in so many other areas of life, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. In other words, mechanical attempts to obey all the rules (the parts) may result in effective management, but without an ethos of love, justice, dignity, stewardship and humility within the initiative as a whole, we will never achieve the type of management to which we aspire. For Christian managers, then,
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At the beginning of this essay, Bonganjalo Gobawasquoted as referring to the 'serious theological questions about the authentic witness and mission of the local church'.Inthat context, his words were alluding to the need for the churchtobecome involved in alleviating social problems. After having completed this study, however, we can extrapolate the meaning of his words even furthertostress that theprocessby which the church meets societal needs should accurately reflect an authentic witness. Management of faith-based development initiatives is an integral part of this process. While management mustbeefficient, therefore, it must also be significantly different from that ofany secular organisation, because the manager is firmly grounded in Christ and actively upholding Christian principles.
13.7 Areas for future research
This study has stimulated some ideas for future research in the field of faith-based development management:
• The scope of this study could be widened to include management of faith-based development organisations that are not attached to particular local churches.
• It would be interesting to explore whether churches of different denominations have clear differences in their approaches to managing faith-based initiatives, and if so, the reasons for these differences.
• Aninvestigation could be conducted into whether there are styles of leadership and management that would be more effective in some churches than in others.
• Models of organisational structure for faith-based development could be evaluated in relation to Biblical models of the early church, or other appropriate Biblical models.
• Contemporary approaches to organisational structure including team and network
approach~scould be investigated as more appropriate options for faith-based development initiatives than the traditional mechanistic-organic continuum.
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