Today is the final day of my favorite conference of the year! INJOY Stewardship Solutions has dispatched to attend the Orange and ReThink Leadership Conference in Atlanta, GA. This event contains the most relevant church leadership content I annually receive. It’s just an amazing conference!!
The morning’s first main speaker was Ryan Leak. Here’s what you need to know about Ryan: He’s a husband to Amanda and dad to Jaxson. After that, he’s an author, filmmaker, and speaker. He’s known as an ultimate risk taker from his two documentaries: The Surprise Wedding and Chasing Failure.
Before getting to his thoughts, the team at INJOY Stewardship wanted you to have a FREE resource. Click HERE or on the image below to download your copy of The Millennial Handbook: 16 Ways To Engage Millennials On Stewardship. Some resources need no explanation!
The following are 33 Leadership Quotes And Lessons From Ryan Leak and others:
Josh Shipp
- “What kids don’t talk out they act out.”
- “To be a safe place for kids is making them feel safe when things are out of their control and helping them feel the things that are in their control.”
- “We don’t see you as a problem. We see you as an opportunity.”
- “3.2 million kids are bullied every year… 50% of foster youth will be homeless by 19… Every kid is one choice away from being a statistic.”
- “Every kid is one caring adult away from being a success story.”
- “Kids spell trust T-I-M-E.”
- “When kids are going through something difficult they don’t turn to an organization. They turn to someone.”
Kristen Ivy
- “When you get close to someone different than you, you begin to see yourself differently.”
- “When you get close to someone different than you, you begin to see God differently.”
- “When you get close to someone different than you, you show what love is.”
- “If you don’t have difference you can’t show what unconditional love is.”
- “What we do matters because we do it together.”
Tom Shefchunas
- “There is no strategy if there is no sacrifice.” – David Salyers
- “Sometimes we sacrifice our felt need to say everything to say only what needs to be heard.”
- “If we treat mental illness like a sin issue we will not create a safe place.”
- “You measure how safe your ministry is by how willing kids are to share about the things they are dealing with.”
- “Where else in the world can middle schoolers find anyone who cares what they think? We have an advantage.”
Ryan Leak
- “Friends are like elevators. They can take you up or they can take you down.”
- “Lost and found people both have marriage problems.Unchurched people and churched people both have money problems. The outsider and insider both struggle with depression.”
- “The found person has an anchor for their storm.Following Jesus doesn’t mean you don’t have storms. It just means you have an anchor in the storm.”
- “The lost person actually admits they have problems.”
- “We tell people to come as you are. And as soon as they become Christians we tell them to get their act together.”
- “What if the gathering of God’s people was about lost or found. What if it was about pain? Then we would reach both outsiders and insiders.”
- “Are we safe for each other to talk about marriage when it’s not going well?”
- “There is nothing worse than a leader pretending to be happy to help everyone else.”
- “We are not talking about angry black men.We are talking about broken-hearted fathers.”
- “To be safe people – vulnerability.”
- “To be safe people – authenticity.”
- “When we become authentic we become allergic to short responses.”
- “To be safe people – confidence.”
- “To be safe people – grace. Don’t judge them. Help them. They’ve already been beating themselves up and judging themselves for so long.”
- “I don’t care about our church brand. I care about people.”
- “I pray our church is a safe place. But my prayer doesn’t make it a safe place.”
This is an informative way to start the day! More to come!
Once again, the team at INJOY Stewardship wants you to have a FREE resource. Click HEREor on the image to the left to download your copy of The Millennial Handbook: 16 Ways To Engage Millennials On Stewardship.