Mentoring the Next Generation

To whomever

I am a retied Wycliffe translators who worked first with the Chácobo tribe of Northern Bolivia. Because this small dying tribe of 135 individuals that could not count to two, read, handle money and lacked leaders, my focus for most of my life is has been on the development leaders in egalitarian tribal societies. Our ‘out of the box’ strategy exceeded beyond our greatest expectations. The tribe now numbers over a 1000, they built their own church without outside funding, now hire whites to work form them, run their own clinic, and help all the other tribes who have been run over by class domination. Also worked a few years among the Seminole whose mythology says “In the beginning were two sisters.”

At the moment I am working on a power point presentation for a Sunday school class dealing with the above problems and came across an article on the web in which the writer was quoting Huron Claus in which Huron’s main points were 500 years of missionary work with only small results for all the effort. Of course the question is why? I have my theories. One step in the right direction is your effort to remedy this through leadership development program specifically designed for the “context” of Indian existence. I agree. It is what we did in Bolivia.

Now I accidently erased Claus’ comments from my slide and have spent all morning on the web searching in vain for it. Now I found your site, which, by the way, looks great, and am asking if you have a copy of such a talk on file. It is all about leadership training in ‘”context”.

If you have it, could you send it to me. Your co-worker in trying to understand leadership development in egalitarian tribes, Gil Prost