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 final speakers were Reggie Joiner and Kara Powell.  Reggie is the Founder of Orange.  Kara is the Executive Director of the Fuller Youth Institute.

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 39 Leadership Quotes And Lessons From Reggie Joiner, Kara Powell and others:

Dr. Deborah “Super Nanny” Tillman

  1. “God didn’t answer ‘Why me?’ He did say, ‘You can do it better.”’
  2. “That’s what we want for children – to reach their full potential.”
  3. “Community matters because teachers feel alone.”
  4. “The ratio in this country for teachers and 2-year-olds in 1:10.”
  5. “Parents are the first teacher.”
  6. “Everybody in this room has a power to leave a legacy.”

Jon Acuff

  1. “Empathy is understanding what someone needs and acting on it.”
  2. “Parenting is easy until you have kids.”

Kara Powell

  1. “Is your church helping parents win or is your church about parents helping the church win?”
  2. “Would your student’s parents say you are committed to them or would they say you are about your student’s parents being committed to you?”
  3. “Most of the time I thought of parents because I needed their help.”
  4. “If you want to change the way we see parents we need to change the way parents see the church.”
  5. “You don’t have to like every parent for them to have more influence than you.”
  6. “What you are doing is so important but it’s just not as important as what parents are doing.”
  7. “The greatest influence in a kid’s life are their parents.”
  8. “Parents, we can’t outteach what you teach at home.We’re not that good.”
  9. “When parents win, kids win.”
  10. “Young people and families are changing churches…Your church wins when the parents in your church and community are winning.”
  11. “We tell our youth leaders, you only see 10-20% at best of what is going on in their lives.”
  12. “Parents will have more influence than youth leaders because they will know more than you will ever know, have more time than you will ever have, and be in their future more than you ever will.”

Reggie Joiner

  1. “We can do more together when we communicate with parents.”
  2. “If you can’t explain your ministry strategy, parents aren’t applying your strategy.”
  3. “Are you helping parents and leaders map and schedule for you as parents?”
  4. “We want to help every parent become more intentional at home and more connected in their faith.”
  5. “The most powerful piece of communication you have is to tell a parent about what you do and how it helps them win.”
  6. “Your church is more positioned to help parents win than any other organization in their community.”
  7. “If you don’t help parents, who else will.”
  8. “What is your building presentation?  When parents walk into your building what do they see?  What does it communicate?”
  9. “A parent is not the only influence a child needs.”
  10. “No one has more potential to influence a kid than a parent.”
  11. “We want parents to meet people who will have influence to make a difference in you and your child’s life.”
  12. “We want parents to add experiences…  We want to affect your calendar.”
  13. “We want to help parents prioritize their time.”
  14. “We want want to help parents identify the needs in their child’s lives.”
  15. “We want to help parents talk together with your kids about critical issues.”
  16. “If we can help parents be more connected, we can help parents be more intentional.”
  17. “The average church has about 40 hours a year with a kid.  The average family will have about 3,000  hours.”
  18. “If we can change the way we see parents, they will change the way they see us.”
  19. “Most parents don’t trust us…  They don’t think they need us.  They don’t think they get us.”

Kara and Reggie were just fantastic!  More to come this afternoon!

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.

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