Pastor’s Retreat

This week The Tecumseh Leadership Center had the privilege of working with a team of pastor’s from the Lafayette, Indiana area.  The pastors come together periodically to share, pray, and to coordinate their efforts to minister to people in their community. An apt metaphor for their work was explored in one activity as they were given the challenge to set mousetraps with the stipulation that they could only touch the traps with the  provided metal spoons.

Anyone need a spoon?

The traps had to then be arranged in a particular circular order as per a photograph they were given.

Watch your fingers!

If this wasn’t challenging enough, they had to do this in a windowless room as the facilitator periodically turned lights off and tossed in ping pong balls. As they do in real life, the pastor’s worked through these challenges and successfully set the traps.

Steady! Careful! Steady! Careful!

Mission Accomplished! All traps are set, in a circle, and resting on each other.

The real value from this activity came out as they looked at and discussed HOW the group worked through the challenge and how the information could be used to help each other work through even more difficult situations in their local community as they minister in the real world.