Twenty-first century Deacon ministry — waiting on tables — and the people who do it.
Begin readingMission Administration is a home for the work of administration as ministry — the work of waiting on tables, the recovery of the diaconal office, the patient and steady labor that holds up the work of the church.
Writing, resources, and conversation gather here. For administrators. For executives in mission organizations. For executive pastors, deacons, and elder boards. For everyone running the business of the ministry. And for the Christian in the pew whose vocation, given to the church, has always been ministry.
The church does this work wherever she is sent. That work is ministry.
The foundational article
The parachurch is not adjacent to the church. She is the church in dispersion, doing the same Lord’s work in a place the local church cannot reach. The orphaning of that work, by the church and by the parachurch herself, has to end.
Read the articleThe playbook
What the recovery looks like in working order. What it asks of the parachurch as an institution, what it asks of the local church, and what it asks of the worker.
Read the articleThe office itself
What it would actually take to recover the office of deacon for the 21st-century church, and why the recovery is mutual between the local church and the parachurch.
Read the articleAbout the writer.
Brandon Harvath serves as Chief Administrative Officer of one of the world’s largest mission organizations. He is an ordained parachurch minister, and has spent thirty years running and advising complex institutions — Fortune 500 operating divisions, healthcare systems, missions, churches, and nonprofit boards.
Mission Administration has come out of three decades of doing administration as ministry, watching it be undervalued, and slowly naming it for what it is.
He and his wife of 24 years have seven children — five sons and two daughters. They reside in Florida but serve on mission around the world.
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