Work of NCMI Team

Dudley Daniel led NCMI until October 2004 when that leadership was handed over to Tyrone Daniel. Tyrone is based in Adelaide, Australia, and is supported in the work by a team of leaders (located in various nations around the world) who have recognized Ephesians 4 giftings, and who have been invited to serve on the NCMI team. 

All of the team members are based in local churches, and most of them are pastors who lead a local church that is able to release and support them for periodic ministry around the world. Some have been fully released from a pastoral role to give all their time to trans-local ministry, but still with the local church as their base. Often, these churches are able to continue financing these ‘itinerant’ team members.

Some of the team members are supported by gifts and a common ‘ministry fund’. The ministry fund is supplied through voluntary contributions from relating churches. This fund also facilitates ministry by team members into areas and churches that are unable to fund a request for ministry. 

In recent years, NCMI has actually grown into being ‘teams within the team,’ although we still speak of ‘the’ NCMI team. This development of the team has enabled us to minister into different parts of the world more effectively, to serve the needs of the churches better and also to release new ministry more rapidly.

There is, however, no hierarchy in these teams. No one is at the top or at the bottom and these teams are not above the leadership of the churches that relate to them. They are men and women who have been anointed by God, and who we have been able to release in a way that enables them to give the benefit of that anointing to more than just their local church.

These teams can and do change at any time. New people may be brought onto a team so that we can reach more churches, while others may move off a team in order to focus their activities more locally. Some members may even move onto a different team if this is what is necessary for us to fulfil what God is calling us to.

Team Functions 

These trans-local teams have a number of areas of activity with regard to the churches that relate to NCMI:

• They strengthen the churches and help to equip the priesthood for works of service.
• They counsel and help church leadership work through questions related to doctrine, discipline and direction.
• They are involved in the appointing of elders in the relating churches.
• They help the relating churches with financial matters. For example, when it comes to the setting of elder’s salaries, we advise all the relating churches to ask a team member to come in and look at the church income and expenditure, and then advise on salaries.
• They co-ordinate the training that NCMI does in the different geographical regions.

Most team members are released to function in this way, although there are some who have more defined roles within the team.

All team members are available to churches that relate to NCMI, but team members will normally give a primary focus to the needs of the churches on the continent on which they live.

Regions, Reality and Recognition

Three factors that we take into account when making these decisions are regions, reality and recognition.

Some regions need more time and help from team members than others. For instance, in South Africa, where we have been active for more than 20 years now, there are a large number of people that have been exposed to what we are doing and who have had the benefit of input from team members. In some other parts of the world this is not the case, and we have to find ways to make more people available to go in and strengthen those churches, to help identify and to ordain elders, and to generally be available to help equip the priesthood.

As we seek to make people available to the relating churches, it is important that there is a reality to this. Their local church must be able to release them, and they must be truly available to do this work. If this is not possible for whatever reason, then it would make no sense to ask them to serve on one of the teams. They may clearly have an anointing to do this work, but if they are not able to make themselves available to those who need their input, then perhaps the timing is not yet right for them to serve on one of the trans-local teams. In other words, those who are on the teams are in a position where they can be released, and they will then serve on the team that is best suited to their anointing and availability.

The third factor, that of recognition, simply has to do with the recognition, by other churches, of their anointing. If this is not happening then, once again, it would be unproductive for them to serve on one of the trans-local teams. The people who are on the teams do have a recognised anointing. They are all men and women that are able to help build beyond their local church. In some cases they were already doing that before coming onto team.