Making Your “Life
Mission” Plans
 Why Care About Life
Mission?
 3 Pillars of Mission
 Talents of Delight
 Place & Setting of Appeal
 Purpose to Partner with
God & Others
 Assessing your Mission
 Next Steps
 Q&A
1 May 23, 2009

Why Care About Life
Mission?
 God has plans for our life
 Jer. 29.11
 We are commanded to serve &
love: Matt. 22.36-40
 God
 Neighbor (Family,
Community, Society)
 Enemy
 More control of time & resources
than marrieds so don’t waste it
 Service in Area of Mission =
quality & quantity of life
2 May 23, 2009

3 Pillars of Life Mission
 Toexercise that talent
you most delight in
 In
the places and
settings which God has
caused to appeal to you
 For
the purposes God
most needs to have
done in the world
3 May 23, 2009
Copyright 2009, Craig A. DeLarge

Talent of Delight
 Talents
 Natural & spiritual gifts,
 cultivated skills,
 learned knowledge,
 of Delight
 naturalaptitude
 gives deep satisfaction
 near-perfect
performance
4 May 23, 2009
Copyright 2009, Craig A. DeLarge

Places & Settings of
Appeal
 Physical or mental work
 Indoor or outdoor work
 Climate: warm, temperate,
cold
 Single or multi-culture
 Variety & Change or not
 Making things or people
 Risk: hi or low
 Working alone or in groups
 starting or maintaining
(managing)
5 May 23, 2009
Copyright 2009, Craig A. DeLarge

Places & Settings of
Appeal (cont’d)
 Researching or
Implementing
 Details or on big picture
 Science or art focus
 Lots of interruptions or not
 Objective or subjective
measure of success
 Pace: fast or slow
 Work & Play: the same or
different
6 May 23, 2009
Copyright 2009, Craig A. DeLarge

Purposes & Needs
 God partners with people
to achieve His purposes
 Clues to Purpose
 personal trauma
 particularly offensive evil
 area of deep experience,
knowledge & interest
 issue that align with/
offends values
 point of resonant change
7 May 23, 2009
Copyright 2009, Craig A. DeLarge

Assessments for
Discovering Mission
 Who I am?
 Interests
 Personality (
 Values
 What I Think & Feel?
 Passion
 Priorities
 What I Can & Like Doing?
 Learning Styles
 Life Narratives
 Areas of Service
 Barriers
8 May 23, 2009
Copyright 2009, Craig A. DeLarge

Next Steps
 Recommit to service
 Adopt accountability partners
 Assess & observe the Pillars
of your Mission
 Live the priorities & values
that allow you to achieve your
mission
 Plan for overcoming barriers
9 May 23, 2009
Copyright 2009, Craig A. DeLarge

Further Reading
 7 Habits of Highly Effective
People - Covey
 Getting Things Done - Allen
 The Power of Full
Engagement - Loehr
 What Color Is Your
Parachute? - Bolle
 www.wiseworking.com
10 May 23, 2009
Copyright 2009, Craig A. DeLarge