Back in January, I blogged about the process I was walking through to create a student leadership team at my church. You can follow the progression by starting here. As we kick off the new school year, I’ve opened up applications again, and here are a few thoughts that have …
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Heart Check
Words reveal intent. Actions reveal heart. I worked up that phrase a few years back, and it’s something I return to regularly to both wrestle with it’s validity and to check my heart in the process. You see, I think we say things we want to do. We want to …
Three Online Leadership Workshop Insights
Last week, I did an online training for my student leadership team. It was something I talked about for two Thursdays in a row (here and here). So I thought I would finish this mini series with three key insights about our time together. Time invested in training is a …
Train Student Leaders
Last week I shared a couple thoughts I had about developing student leaders during this unprecedented experience. Today, I’m executing one of those ideas. I’m doing an online leadership workshop for my small group of student leaders. Just to recap: they applied to be on the team in January, and …
Student Leadership Development and COVID19
Back when I was starting to help develop what we now call Horizon Leadership Camp, I set out to ask as many youth minsters as possible one question: What are you doing to develop student leaders? In the process of asking the question, I came to a conclusion: developing student …