Catalyst ’16 – 11 Leadership Quotes From Brandon And Jen Hatmaker

As a member of the Catalyst Blog Team and INJOY Stewardship Solutions, I will be bringing you live updates from the much anticipated Catalyst Conference in Atlanta, GA.  The theme for this year’s conference is Uncommon Fellowship.

The morning’s next speakers were Brandon and Jen Hatmaker.  They live in Austin, TX where they lead Austin New Church, The Legacy Collective, and raise their 5 kids. They are both authors including Brandon’s newly released A Mile Wide and Jen’s New York Times bestseller For the Love. They speak at events all around the country and co‐star in an HGTV series called “My Big Family Renovation”.

Also, as a special gift to everyone reading these posts, INJOY Stewardship would like to invest in your leadership by inviting you to a FREE Thursday October 13th online event entitled “How To Overcome The Challenges Of Leading A Growing Church.”  Click HERE or on the image below to sign up.

The following are 11 Leadership Quotes and Lessons from their very helpful session:

1. Be yourself as church leaders. Being vulnerable as leaders will serve our families better. – BH
2. A lot of pastors’ kids grow up seeing two different dads and two different moms. – BH
3. We do have a public life but at home we just have a life. – JH
4. We treat our weekdays like most people treat their weekends. – JH
5. We were so busy on our church campus we didn’t know our neighbors. – BH
6. 100% of my relationships were with my staff because I needed them. – BH
7. We were so busy serving the rich in our church we didn’t have time to serve those on the margins. – BH
8. Our approach was radical. Don’t be weirdos. – JH
9. We did radical things like invite our neighbors to dinner. – BH
10. We would never, ever treat anyone we love like a project or an agenda. They are not projects. They are people. – JH
11. Serving the community changes you. – BH

I cannot wait for the afternoon sessions.  Be sure to check back for more leadership insights throughout the day.

On Thursday October 13th, INJOY Stewardship Solutions is hosting an online event entitled, “How To Overcome The Challenges Of Leading A Growing Church”.  You will able to learn church growth lessons from experience pastors like Shawn Lovejoy, Marty Schmidt, Josh Pennington, Mike Linch and Jeff Maness himself.  Click HERE or on the images provided to sign up.