Resumé

At Friendship UMC in Athens, AL, I serve on a team of forward-thinking ministry innovators who value community, honor those they serve, and practice serious sustainability. I thrive on flexibility and entrepreneurship, and wither under high control and strategic vagueness.

I like to work at the leading edge, but I know how to stay behind the blade.

Passions:

  • Training and equipping both vocational and volunteer church leaders
  • Discipleship and missional outreach through community (small groups)

Skills:

I have a unique blend of technical, business, and ministry skills:

  • Ability to identify and leverage appropriate technologies for ministry
  • Ability to analyze and evaluate business and ministry needs and craft solutions
  • Ability to translate technical concepts for non-techies

People describe me as:

  • Innovative
  • Entrepreneurial
  • Insatiably curious
  • Strategic thinker
  • Funny
  • Passionate

Spiritual Gifts:

  • Leadership
  • Creative Communication (speaking, writing, designing)

MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator):

  • ENTP (Extraversion, iNtuition, Thinking, Perception)
  • “The ENTP has been described variously as the innovator, the originator, the lawyer, the inventor, the explorer, and the visionary. ENTPs are quick to see complex interrelationships between people, things, and ideas. ENTPs are frequently described as clever, cerebrally and verbally quick, enthusiastic, outgoing, innovative, flexible, loyal and resourceful. ENTPs are motivated by a desire to understand and improve the world they live in. ENTPs “think outside the box,” devising fresh, unexpected solutions to difficult problems. The ENTP regards a comment like “it can’t be done” as a personal challenge…”
    (Source: Wikipedia. It’s on the Internet so it must be true.)  More…

Work History:

Willow Creek Association, South Barrington, IL | 2006 – 2009

Willow Creek Community Church, South Barrington, IL | 2000 – 2006

GranDesign Studios, Inc., South Bend, IN | 1983 – 2000

Prior to 1983

Speaking, Training, and Volunteering - Things I’ve done outside of “work”

Technical Skill Sets - Things I know how to do (more or less)

Just for Fun - Reading, hobbies, and interests

References - Who to contact to learn the truth

Endorsements - People I may or may not have bribed to say something nice about me

You can contact me at dtreat at thinkingsmall dot net.

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