Dear Hannah: LEarning (The Best of Mission Statement)

By Derrick Brown (follow on Twitter @dbrowndbrown)

 

Dear Hannah,

My name is Derrick.

My name means "leader of my people".

I am the brother from another planet.

"My people" do not always know that they are "my people".

I teach *students*, not *subjects*.

This is my mission statement.

 

Here are a few of our Mission Statement series' "Greatest Hits" ....

 

1. Mission Statement Part 1 - Indoctrination (2021) 
2. Mission Statement Part 2 - Red Beans and Rice (RBR) (2023)
3. Mission Statement Part 3 - Outliars (Outliers) (2023)
4. Mission Statement Part 4 - Family Fellowship (2023)
5. Mission Statement Part 5 - Dunleith's "Black Girl Magic" (2024)
6. Mission Statement Part 6 - Finance (2024)
7. Mission Statement Part 7 - #HappyBlackHistoryMonth (2024)
8. Mission Statement Part 8 - #CircumspectAboutDisrespect (2024) 
9. Mission Statement Part 9 - #AnnualReport (2024) 

 

 
Love,

Daddy

 

 

About Derrick Brown (Standup Storyteller)

 

 

I am Keisha's husband, and Hannah's father.

I am a “standup storyteller.”

I fuse rap, spoken word (poetry), oration (traditional public speaking), singing, and teaching into messages of hope, healing, and change that I write, direct, and produce to help people who help people.

Everything must change - and stay changED.

Tradition begins and ends with change.

Change begins with me and the renewing of my mind ... then continues through efforts to effect small-group discipleship (equipping others to equip others) with audiences that respect and embrace mentoring, mediation, and problem solving as tools of change.

I am the product of my mentoring relationships, peacemaking (and peacekeeping), and problem-solving ability.

My education began when I finished school.

After school, I enrolled in a lifelong curriculum that includes classes in ministry, entrepreneurship, stewardship, literacy, numeracy, language, self-identity, self-expression, and analysis / synthesis.

My projects execute a ministry that has evolved from wisdom earned through lessons learned.

I want to share this wisdom to build teams of "triple threat" fellows - mentors, mediators, and problem solvers.

We will collaborate in simple, powerful ways that allow us to help people who help people.

I now know that power is work done efficiently (with wise and skillful use of resources, interests, communication, and expertise).

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