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There are leaders just waiting to be developed in the neighborhood surrounding our church. It is our goal to develop them! Their leadership is vital to the efforts, effectiveness, sustainability, and systemic influence of our local ministries in the community. If we truly desire our community to be changed by a relationship with Christ, we must commit to developing leaders from our neighborhood.
First, we will commit to believe that leaders are already in our community. As we see the youth in our neigborhoods, we must see them with God's eyes and embrace their usefulness. They have insights and intuitions that are more sensitive to the needs of the community than ours, and have the inherent ability to guide and to lead.
Secondly, we will empower the future leaders and help them be all that God has created them to be. This will take time, effort, money, resources, and commitment. This means that over time, we will give up the power we have as the existing leaders as we grow a new generation of leadership. We will commit to give them responsibility in areas in which they can lead, and we will gradually take a back seat and allow them to step into the foreground.
We will look to Jesus as the model of leadership development. In Matthew, Jesus demonstrated many strategies of leadership development. This includes choosing a few from the many, teaching them, being a servant to them, and making disciples of them-taking the whole person and teaching him or her as Jesus did.
1. See years into the future.
2. Never go anywhere alone.
3. Be available and socialize with them.
4. Expose them to role models.
5. Have our family be part fo the ministry.
6. Love them, and let them know it.
7. Be positive and affirm them.
8. Give them responsibility and let them fail.
9. Make them feel important.
10.Acknowledge that having an education is not the same as being a leader.
1. Develop a love and respect for oneself.
2. Develop a lifelong growing love for Jesus Christ and his teachings.
3. Go to college and pursue a purposeful study/trade.
4. Return and purposely serve one's community as an honorable man/woman of God.
1. Weekly meetings - church, restaurant, park, youth's home, etc.
a. "No agenda" meetings for the first two months that include sharing, hanging out, and praying.
b. Thematic studies about faith, true belief, application of Christian faith at home, with peers, at school, at work, prayer, reading the Bible, relationships, friendships, sexuality, media, emotions, etc.
c. Bible studies-finding God's teaching and application in the Bible and training in how to study the Bible and see that it is very real, relevant, and applicable to the present.
2. Monthly to Bimonthly community service activity-planned by the youth, and mentor, can include service to the Tutoring Program.
3. Sports Ministry with summer softball, pick-up basketball.
4. Miscellaneous events planned by the youth-movie night, sports activity or event, party or BBQ, etc.
Please contact Wayland Shih for volunteer opportunities.
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