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Our team training at NSYFC today was led by Roy Crowne who'd come up to stoke to speak about "passion" (the attidtude/emotion, not the film or youth worship event).
Roy is one of those guys who it seems could talk to you about anything and you'd think it was the best idea in the world - he just has that... passion(?) about everything he speaks about. It was really good to see a large crowd from local churches turn up to hear him as well.
Anyway, after some AMAZING worship, Roy's talk and then a sandwich lunch, I had the privilege of taking Roy out for a starbucks in Hanley and stealing another hour of his time to discuss vision, plans and generally follow on from our meeting in Februaury where I interviewed him as part of the MLS course.
At the February meeting Roy had set me some "homework". Nothing major - just to decide what I was going to do with the next 5 years of my life!! And I had to report today that I'd pretty much fallen at the first hurdle.
The trouble is, that I have a good idea where my passions, giftings and strengths lie - the problem has always been knowing how best to utilize them. I do know that I'm still extremely passionate about seeing young lives impacted with the Gospel, and that for me that's always going to be achieved best by investing in TEAM. The question is, should that team be a team of church youth leaders, a team of interns (gap years) or something bigger/different?
I guess the key thing from today is to break it down more specifically into manageable chunks (i.e. 1 year at a time), and distinguishing between what I (or we as a family) would like to do, and what we NEED to do, so that would include things like "being in a better position financially etc, and working from there. Now that sounds slightly more manageable.
Anyways, My thinking on the whole "5 year" thing is much clearer now, so I really need to get this whole plan thing done and dusted -Roy's given me til mid May to get it to him and I guess we'll go from there.
Right, back to the MLS projects - to be posted here v.soon.
Ciao
Ok. So I've realised that thelast month hasn't been as productive as previous ones (with regard to the MLS course, anyway), but hopefully that's all about to get fixed...
I have just over 2 weeks before the next MLS gathering, and that means just over 1 week before my present book assignment, character study and first project need to be written up and posted here. And that's all great, except I'm slightly behind on the whole book assignment, I'm not sure how to present my study on the leadership of Roy Crowne, and after spending a fair amount of time planning my first project (a large social event for NSYFC team and Executive committee members), it's now been canceled as our Chairperson has stepped down, so we're re-scheduling the whole thing.
So, as you can tell, I may be blogging quite a bit over the next few days - and when I'm not blogging, I'll either be working, or have my head buried in the Lead Like Jesus book.
Along side all that, I also have to come up with a 5 year plan for my life within 6 weeks when I'm seeing Roy Crowne again. I spent some time with Liz (the NSYFC director) this afternoon, looking at some of the basics, and it appears that it could be a fairly complex process, and involve me making decisions that I've been putting off for ages (without even realising it).
Anyway, do check here again soon. Cos there's hopefully going to be some iteresting stuff to read
I have just over 2 weeks before the next MLS gathering, and that means just over 1 week before my present book assignment, character study and first project need to be written up and posted here. And that's all great, except I'm slightly behind on the whole book assignment, I'm not sure how to present my study on the leadership of Roy Crowne, and after spending a fair amount of time planning my first project (a large social event for NSYFC team and Executive committee members), it's now been canceled as our Chairperson has stepped down, so we're re-scheduling the whole thing.
So, as you can tell, I may be blogging quite a bit over the next few days - and when I'm not blogging, I'll either be working, or have my head buried in the Lead Like Jesus book.
Along side all that, I also have to come up with a 5 year plan for my life within 6 weeks when I'm seeing Roy Crowne again. I spent some time with Liz (the NSYFC director) this afternoon, looking at some of the basics, and it appears that it could be a fairly complex process, and involve me making decisions that I've been putting off for ages (without even realising it).
Anyway, do check here again soon. Cos there's hopefully going to be some iteresting stuff to read
Well, it happened - My "brown nosing" session with Roy Crowne happened yesterday, and all in all it went pretty well. Frustratingly, he seemed to have some kind of precognition of the questions I was going to ask, as he generally started answering them (in a very in-depth way) before I'd even finished each question.
I actually recorded the audio of the whole thing, and I was sorely tempted to upload it to this site, as it is actually highly stimulating, but although he gave me permission to record our time, I never actually asked him whether I could make it public, so I guess I probably shouldn't. However, if you really want to hear what he had to say (and if you suggested a question that I should ask, there will be an answer there somewhere), then either drop me an email begging for a copy, or hold on a few days and check back as I need to write up the whole thing as a character study for MLS anyway.
For now, I'll leave you with what I consider to be the best answer to a question that he gave...
Q: Being the leader of a big organisation like YFC, how do you avoid switching into "leader" mode in you personal & social life?
A: I don't!! I'm a leader all the time - that's who I am - it annoys my family a lot, but that's me!!
Absolute Genius!!
I actually recorded the audio of the whole thing, and I was sorely tempted to upload it to this site, as it is actually highly stimulating, but although he gave me permission to record our time, I never actually asked him whether I could make it public, so I guess I probably shouldn't. However, if you really want to hear what he had to say (and if you suggested a question that I should ask, there will be an answer there somewhere), then either drop me an email begging for a copy, or hold on a few days and check back as I need to write up the whole thing as a character study for MLS anyway.
For now, I'll leave you with what I consider to be the best answer to a question that he gave...
Q: Being the leader of a big organisation like YFC, how do you avoid switching into "leader" mode in you personal & social life?
A: I don't!! I'm a leader all the time - that's who I am - it annoys my family a lot, but that's me!!
Absolute Genius!!
My meeting with Roy Crowne to gain from his leadership experience (or
"brown nosing" as my boss calls it) is only a week away, and I want to
hear from you guys what I should be talking to him about?
So here's your chance...
Give me suggestions on the following question, and I promise to ask Roy for a response when I see him.
"If you had the chance, what's the one question that you'd ask Roy Crowne about (his) leadership?"
I wonder if any of you will actually have good suggestions?
Here's to hoping...
So here's your chance...
Give me suggestions on the following question, and I promise to ask Roy for a response when I see him.
"If you had the chance, what's the one question that you'd ask Roy Crowne about (his) leadership?"
I wonder if any of you will actually have good suggestions?
Here's to hoping...
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