One tool we use to help young leaders get perspective we call Data Points. It’s a non-scientific way for a young leader to look back twelve or eighteen months and see objectively how they’ve been doing in key areas.
We mark the data against the timeline (across the bottom) as well as a grading scale of 0-100 vertically.
Read MoreThis is the first in a four-part series on helping young leaders get through the first year of ministry and helping them take the healthiest steps.
I learned from my long-time friend, Bart Rendel of Intentional Churches, that the best planning is done when in perspective.
Read MoreResidency has provided me the courage to pursue ministry rather than continue only as a volunteer; plus, learning leadership soft skills has been much more valuable to me than any time I spent in a classroom while enrolled at a Christian college.
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Currently, I serve as a Worship Resident at the Lexington, KY campus of Crossroads Church (Cincinnati, OH). From the beginning, residency has been a challenge, but in the absolute best way that is making me grow and get better! I have known for a long time that God called me to be a worship leader, and now I am in a position to do everything I can to make that a reality.
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Leadership Pathway connected me to Community Christian Church in the Atlanta suburb of Sharpsburg, GA. I was taken by their motto as a church ‘for the rest of us.’
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You should look for a residency program like this one, and if you’re at all considering ministry, I’d say that’s probably the Holy Spirit nudging you to do this.
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There are so many church leaders today who jump into full-time ministry unprepared with leadership and spiritual development still needed. When I first began in residency, theology and doctrine were the most important things to me. Now that I have experienced what ministry really is, I understand that relational skills, leadership, and counseling are just as important.
Read MoreResidency has been transformational for me.
My journey towards leadership began with my desire to not lead, yet I moved forward with a sense of responsibility and an attitude of obedience and heart to follow God no matter what, even if that meant feeling uncomfortable or out of my element.
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