Starting the Adventure...
So here it is... My first step into the world of REAL leadership!!
And how did this come about? Well...
I'm currently working for a YFC centre in North Staffs, heading up a gap year (ministry apprenticeship) project, developing links with local churches, youth workers etc, and running a media project (film & web based stuff).
...The director of the centre suggested I look into the whole area of leadership training, and more specifically the National Youth For Christ emerging leaders training course known as the Missional Leadership Scheme (MLS).
Now into its second year, the scheme is run by YFC and the Christian Leaders Forum in the north of England, and basically aims to equip and inspire future (and present) leaders to achieve all that they can as they seek to serve God and honour their calling to ministry.
And I, just this weekend, attended the first of 6 high intensity residentials to meet the other team members, get some quality teaching from the National director of YFC, Mr Roy Crowne, and attend the Willow Creek Global Leadership Summit.
And what a few days it was...
I'm not going to bore you with the ins, and outs of getting up stupidly early to drive for over 3 hrs to get to Yarn in the north of England. Nor am I going to rave on about the amazing people I met during my stay. What I am going to journal, is some of the really key/inspirational issues that we're raised throughout the training, and maybe a bit about how I've been impacted and any changes I'm hoping to make as a result.
In fact, what I think I'll do, is post entries depending on the subject matter, so anyone that gives a hoot about what I have to say can easily just select the right category and not have to read through all this garble to find the one nugget that they really want.
What I will say for now is that the first residential was amazing. It really got me fired up about leadership and I got to spend time with some pretty remarkable people. I also re-learned how cool Mac computers are, and learned the weirdest card game I've ever played (I'd tell you what it's called, but then you could look it up on wikipedia and find out the rules, so I can't, cos the rules state that "only I can know the rules" - yup it's that weird).
Anyway, see you in the next post!!
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