Growth happens; often before you’re ready for it. Soon enough, a leader can be consumed by day-to-day details that have nothing to do with the overall vision work that should be taking place. It’s time to assign an Assistant Captain.
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Back in the day, MySpace was some strange time-waster for teens and college students. Then Facebook came along, almost single-handedly pushing MySpace out of existence. As well, as picking up a tonne of first-time social media users. All of a sudden, we started to think very differently about this social networking thing.
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What makes a first string the best? Is it natural talent, or well-practice ability? Sure, these are important traits. However, in the ministry game, consistency, and integrity prove to be far more valuable. Today, we’re going to focus on consistency.
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When it’s time to captain the team instead of coaching it. You have a great team, and you’ve been coaching well. That’s fantastic and should be celebrated. However, let’s not forget that in any area of leadership, you’re not only on the sidelines, you’re also in the game.
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A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post focusing on why coaches make great pastors. After a great conversation with a friend about the post, I realized that this topic doesn’t just pastors. So, let’s reframe this conversation around all leaders.
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While living in Alaska, as a Canadian, I often felt culturally alone. Though struggling, I continued with my calling, trying to depend on God to comfort me in times of loneliness. Thankfully, He placed a Canadian friend into my life, whose home would become my Canadian oasis.
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What would the Olympics look like without judges? How necessary are they, really? Perhaps the athletes could do it themselves, in a diplomatic sort of way? They could get together and discuss each others’ routines and come up with the deserving winner. Would that work?
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My transition time is fast approaching. Believe it or not, the packing of boxes actually began yesterday. It’s strange but while packing those boxes, it was the first day that the transition actually felt official.
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In my Youth Pastor days, we worked through something called Trader Projects. It was part of our High School Discipleship series. The students set up official officers (President, Vice Pres., Secretary & Treasurer), and chose the type of ministry, or service that they endeavour to invest in.
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We entered into week two of our Trader projects this past Sunday night. For those of you who aren’t in the loop on what I’m actually talking about; I suggest you check my previous post based on Surrender Self before reading any further.
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Many of you have followed my ministry work for the past couple of years. This blog has served as a great resource for our friends and family, to experience my life and service to Alaskan youth. As you all know, there have not been many dull moments while serving in the Last Frontier.
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This past Sunday felt like a wash. It actually started half way through last week, when I had to cancel our 4-day Youth Snow Camp due to a lack of interest. I hate cancelling events! But multi-day events like Snow Camp cost money. Without a certain amount of students, it just wasn’t going to fly.
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