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Teamwork: how to build relationships

Fellowship of friends

TEAMWORK
How to build relationships
By Gordon and Rosemary Jones
Scripture Union. 240 pages. £7.99
ISBN 1 85999 691 4

All my life I have worked in teams. Once I led a hospital resuscitation team, then a primary healthcare team. We were a team at Christian Medical Fellowship, and I now work in several others. At church there are elder, pastoral and strategic teams. Would this book help me in roles like these? Yes, it would.

The authors are a married couple who spent 36 years working with Wycliffe Bible Translators, and now concentrate on teambuilding. Having defined a team as 'a group of people who share common objectives and who need to work together to achieve them', they remind us that Jesus 'chose to use the team approach: he gathered together a team of 12 men and shared his life with them'.

The book could be used for a series of studies, and each chapter ends with suggested individual and team activities. It is strongest when it uses biblical material, common sense, life experience and illustrations. You could calculate which of 16 Myers-Briggs personality types, six interest patterns, and 16 different values each member of your team holds, but don't let this put you off. This book will help you build relationships within your teams.

Dr. Andrew Fergusson,
an elder at Brook Lane Community Church, Bromley