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Dear JCTR Bulletin Readers: It is here! The fourth quarter JCTR Bulletin NO. 62 is finally out. Anxious indeed we must have kept you. We are very thankful to all of you who keep writing for this publication. We have and everybody else who reads this publication has undoubtedly benefited from your deep and analytical reflections. We encourage you to continue giving these powerful reflections, articles and reactions. Strategic planning, HIV/AIDS, serious illness and faith, the constitution, rural development, reconciliation, etc., are some of the major topics you will find in this issue of the Bulletin. There are, as many of you realize, important topics for Zambia, Malawi and of course the rest of Africa. Talking about strategic plan -- partly the reason for the huge delay in producing the fourth quarter Bulletin for 2004 -- the JCTR has been heavily preoccupied with the planning process designed to strengthen our work for the next three years in responding to the many social, economic, cultural, environmental, political, religious, etc., challenges of Zambia and Malawi. I remember someone who wrote that there was a man who was busy sawing a log and he had remarkably been doing it for so many hours with all the signs of hard work and exhaustion. Much as he realized that the saw he was using was not sharp enough he continued do it. He claimed to have been too busy to pause for a while and sharpen the saw!This situation happens to all of us as individuals or organizations. Sometimes we find it difficult to sit down to plan carefully because we are too preoccupied – too busy to plan. Little do we realize that the process of careful planning will help us “sharpen the saw” and lead us to high levels of efficiency and great outcomes. To be at the “cutting edge” of issues requires careful planning and it means finding time to do so. Complete letter |
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