I wonder if I might add one more item to Tim's list of suggestions for indirect shepherding - the handwritten note. I know many others could be added as well - his list was not intended to be exhaustive. But in an age of e-mail (and few people write more e-mails than I do - it also can be a means of very effective indirect shepherding in its place) people are usually surprised to receive a handwritten note card. It took a recent Capital Campaign for me to understand that afresh, as the consultant taught me and modeled for me the importance of two minutes and a pen. It's a way of saying, "What I see in you is of personal and intrinsic value - I thank God for you." Even though he had used personal secretaries to whom he dictated some or all of his letters, didn't Paul also find that it added something of great value when he wrote with his "own hand."