Strategically Speaking - The Mission Center

Since I came on board as Director of Missions of HBA, I have started using some different terminology that sometimes causes confusion. The building at 603 N. Business 287 is most commonly referred to as the association or HBA office. I refer to it as the Mission Center. As a result of that, sometimes people have gone to the wrong location for a meeting. I really don't take wicked pleasure in confusing people (I promise). The motivation behind it is to speak and think strategically--by that I mean to look at the desired result and cast the vision over and over until the message gets first into the eyes and ears, then into the mind, and finally into the DNA of the organization. So, now I say that association staff members have offices in the association Mission Center. Harvest Baptist Association is not a building. It is a missional network of cooperating congregations who are connected by the MISSION of sharing the good news of Jesus Christ. An office is a place for work, for meetings, for decisions. Those things are all necessary components of what we do, but the mission is our heartbeat. The mission is our center. The mission is why we go to our offices. The Mission Center should be a visible reminder of the mission for every person who walks through the doors. It may not have reached DNA level yet, but we are on the way.