The Leadership Community

Our Leadership Team at a Retreat in Colorado

The leadership community is made up of the heads of all the different divisions of the home office staff. As a group, they are responsible for implementing WorldVenture's vision and goals in the operation of the mission. This community runs services like missionary care, training, communication services, church connections, etc.

Field Leadership

The largest leadership community of the mission is comprised of our field leadership, who serves by giving leadership to their country or field team. These leaders, over and above their own ministry responsibilities, provide local strategy and financial management for the team.

Our Leadership Synergy

We enjoy (we believe) the best balance of leadership at WorldVenture, through holding in tension a field-driven ministry model and a centralized-oversight and development ministry model. It's not always a perfect balance; It's not always perfect (period).

Yet the outcome of holding these two things in tension is that our international staff on the field enjoy an enormous amount of autonomy and creative control of their ministry, while at the same time our fields are not abandoned to fend for themselves. Our home office works hard at a macro level to provide oversight and steering for the mission as a whole. One example of this is our yearly collection of field strategies which defines the next steps the field team needs to take. From this field-driven strategy our home office derives things needed to accomplish those goals. Sometimes this strategy requires more staff for that field and the home office then begins mobilizing to find people to fit. Our opportunity listing comes from this field-based strategy.