Trees Walking: Growing Leadership in Children's Ministry
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Are ministry leaders made or born? What does a "leader" look like? How do you know?
User-friendly and quick, 'Trees Walking' shows you how to grow spiritual evergreens that scrape heaven's gates. Chapters include Leadership Skills and Qualities, Learning and Practicing Leadership, Enhancing the 'Know Who,' Teamwork and Volunteer Management, Dealing With Dead Wood, and Let's Dream!
Kristine Lowder
A southern California native transplanted to the soggy Pacific Northwest, Kristine Lowder specializes in what one wag dubbed “excruciatingly insightful prose.” When attempting to avoid being excruciating or insightful—which is most of the time—Kristine hikes, reads voraciously, enjoys exploring the Cascades and will do almost anything to avoid scrubbing the bathtub.
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Trees Walking - Kristine Lowder
Trees Walking:
Growing Leadership in Children's Ministry
Copyright 2012 Kristine Lowder
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Also by Kristine Lowder, published at Smashwords:
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Man in the Corner: A Holiday Story
Isabella's Torch: A Thanksgiving Memoir
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Table of Contents
Author's Note
Introduction
Chapter 1: Leadership and Leadership Development in Children's Ministries
Chapter 2: Learning Leadership
Chapter 3: Practicing Leadership
Chapter 4: Enhancing the Know Who
Chapter 5: Teamwork and Volunteer Management
Chapter 6: Ten+ Tips for Dealing With 'Dead Wood'
Chapter 7: The '3 to 5 Rule'
Chapter 8: Let's Dream
Chapter 9: Remember...?
About the Author
Author's Note
You should write this down
Jennifer urged. This is good stuff
Benny echoed. Jeri chimed in with, Yeah, you should publish this.
The feedback came as my Children's Ministries team wound up several brainstorming and strategizing sessions in tandem with the church's ministry emphasis. As the Children's Ministries Co-Director, I was privileged to work with some incredibly gifted, talented, and ministry-minded people who weren't afraid to Dream Big.
I've moved on to other adventures since then, but what follows is a synthesis of the most salient portions of those discussions as well as my own take on what Leadership in Ministry means and how it looks. While much of the content approaches the topic from the context of Children's Ministries, the essential elements and concepts may be applied within the broad range of church ministry at large.
A word about style. The first portion of this work is more white paper
and academic. The second half is more narrative, conversational. If you prefer one over the other, feel free to dive in wherever you feel comfortable.
I'm finally taking Jeri's advice, with this caveat: this micro book is not nor is it intended to be an exhaustive, comprehensive treatment of the subject. You