Tag: ELCA
TEDTalk: “How Great Leaders Inspire Action”
A brilliant TED Talk that is too good not to share. My killer line: “There are leaders and there are those who lead. Leaders are persons of authority. Those who lead are persons of passion.” Worth watching. Interesting implications for our ministry. I’d love to hear your thoughts and comments on this below… Thanks to ...
The 800 Pound Gorilla
I was talking with a friend who serves in a different congregation in a different state earlier in the week. He said that he was looking forward to the next couple of weeks with a sense of dread. “Why is that?” I asked. “Because it’s all going to be about the ELCA Youth Gathering. The ...
Leadership Week
Network Leadership week is next week. Every spring, we link two of of our primary leadership teams together for back-to-back meetings. Beginning Sunday night, our Network Board will begin meeting in Chicago. They will finish up on Tuesday at noon. On Tuesday, our Regional Facilitators will begin meeting and will finish up on Thursday at ...
Resource Resource
Please allow me to introduce Shannon Savage-Howie. Shannon is the youth minister at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Thousand Oaks, California. She is awesome. She has served on the Extravaganza planning team in the last few years. Most importantly she is married to Robert, and is the mother of Declan, and housemate of Boomer, a ...
It’s Not About Us
There is a new webinar that has been added to the catalog of webinars that are a part of the “Practice Discipleship Project” done cooperatively by the Network and the ELCA Youth Gathering. I’m really excited about the webinar. It is titled “Compassionate Justice and Service Learning.” I’d like to give you the description, and ...
The Whole is Greater than the Sum of the Parts
There are moments when you suddenly realize that you are in the middle of an organizational “sweet spot.” Things click. Visions are realized. Goals are achieved. And you look around and say to yourself “I can’t believe that I’m here, in this spot at this time. I will always remember this time.” I’ve experienced that ...
10 Tips for New Youth Ministers
I don’t pretend to have all of the answers. To be honest, I’m not even sure what all of the questions are. And the longer I’ve been doing this, the less sure I am of what is ‘working,’ or even what the definition of ‘working’ is. However, I have been doing this work for 24 ...
Network is a Verb 