Follow-Up
Follow-Up
Every order you issue to your subordinates or to your daughters, and do not follow up on its implementation, may eventually be forgotten.
Likewise, every decision and every project without follow-up may not be completed, or may not be completed in the best possible way and within the time specified for its completion.
Therefore, follow-up was very important.
Sometimes it is the difference between office work and field work. And the successful person in his work is the one who always follows the field approach.
By follow-up, you prove your interest in the matter.
And this interest is transferred from you to the one who carries out the work. For he feels that there is someone behind him who supervises, asks, and holds him accountable. Or he feels that there is monitoring, and behind the monitoring there is accountability.
And follow-up follows every stage of implementation.
With an evaluation of what has been accomplished at the stage and the extent of its proficiency. It also makes it possible to know what obstacles there were, and what is necessary to get rid of those obstacles in order to facilitate implementation.
Through follow-up, the work of those responsible for implementation can also be evaluated. Who among them deserves a reward? And who deserves reproach, or who needs to be replaced by another person?
Follow-up is a vigilant eye, undertaking supervision, and everyone who works under its administration feels its presence and supervision.
And the one whose conscience does not cause him to follow up and evaluate his work must have a firm administration undertake this task.
And we in the Church need such follow-up in everything we undertake, whether spiritual work or administrative work.
The decisions of the Holy Synod need follow-up in publishing and implementing them, so that they may be transformed from decisions into practical reality.
Every church among us has a council that undertakes its financial and administrative affairs. These councils need follow-up to know what work they are carrying out and to ensure that they fulfill their responsibilities.
Likewise, Sunday Schools in every church need follow-up of their work, by supervising the curriculum they teach at every stage and the competence of the servants in teaching. They also need follow-up to solve problems—if any—before they develop and become complicated.
Even the work carried out by the priests in visiting and caring for the congregation also requires follow-up, whether by the priest or by the bishop of the diocese.
This is so that we may ensure the spiritual work that the priest undertakes toward every family, in visiting it, caring for it, and solving its problems.
For all of this, we need supervisory and administrative bodies that undertake supervision and follow-up.
It is never permissible to consider that organization within the Church conflicts with spirituality or with the simplicity of life and interaction.
Saint Paul the Apostle said to his fellow servant, Saint Barnabas: “Let us now go back and visit our brethren in every city in which we preached the word of the Lord, and see how they are.” .
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