{"id":12305,"date":"2012-11-02T12:01:13","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T16:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"\/news_blogs\/john\/?p=12305"},"modified":"2023-12-22T17:14:38","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T22:14:38","slug":"a-failure-report-from-cccc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/john\/2012\/11\/02\/a-failure-report-from-cccc\/","title":{"rendered":"A Failure Report from CCCC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Well don’t that beat all!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I just wrote about producing failure reports<\/a>, like Engineers Without Borders does. And I said it’s a great idea for ministries to be real with their donors and admit not only what they’ve done well, but also what they’ve done that crashed and burned. The idea is to show what has been learned from failure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, as I wrote the post, I was thinking mostly in terms of what other<\/em><\/span> ministries would write about, although I admit that we’ve learned a few things from experience at CCCC too. We should be accountable to our members just as they are accountable to their donors. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander and all that. Right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So picture this. You are in front of a target with a bow and arrow. With the arrow between your fingers, you pull the string taut, your fingertips turn white, and you say, “Ready, aim, fire!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And you let that string sing. Twang! The arrow’s away and you watch it arc through the air to the intended target. And then that moment of awful realization, when your stomach goes tight and your heart jumps out of the way. The arrow has landed, but far away from the bulls-eye you had in mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An arrow that hit near the outer edge of a target. Used with permission.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

That’s what I felt yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So now I have a failure report from CCCC. There’s no getting ’round it. Time to ‘fess up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is a story of ‘reckage, rebuke, restitution, and redemption.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n