LSE Leadership Training

One of my focuses this year has been Community Leadership Development within the communities we work with through Living Hope. We're hoping to link the work of Living Hope with building up the local church to be equipped for Discipleship and Teen Ministry needs in our communities. As with many things in a large successful organization, there are hundreds of busy-bees doing successful work but the group is often unaware of what each other is doing. This has been the case within the Life Skills department that I work. The Life Skills Educators (LSEs) do a variety of things (schools, preschools, parenting courses, teen ministry), and with an added focus of this Community Leadership Development, the LSEs were unaware of exactly what goes into our efforts. So, this past Thursday and Friday, Meagan and I were given an opportunity to lead the LSEs in the exact training we do in the local churches with youth pastors and rising youth leaders. It was so neat watching the faces of our peers as they learned and were challenged in the importance of Discipleship and Leadership.

I'm really loving teaching and working in the communities here. I think God is going to do big things through this new focus and in building up churches and its leaders!