May 1st through 3rd are three of my favorite leadership days of the year. Each year, INJOY Stewardship Solutions allows me to live-blog the Orange and ReThink Leadership Conferences. No event stretches my thinking more and make me a smarter and better-equipped leader than this event.
If you are unfamiliar with ReThink and Orange, let me give you an overview. Hosted by Carey Nieuwhof, ReThink is a series of Ted Talk-stlyle lessons from some of the most innovative minds in business and leadership. Orange is simply the nation’s preeminent organization on children’s ministry.
As part of my time here, INJOY Stewardship is offering a FREE Capital Campaign Calculator for your church. If your church needs to raise significant capital in the next two years, this will be a wonderful source of information for you.
Day 2 began at The Orange Conference. Today’s first speaker was Dharius Daniels. Pastor Dahrius was the final speaker of Day 1 at ReThink Leadership. Those notes can be read here.
The following are 19 leadership lessons and quotes from his challenging lesson on serving youth and children workers:
Prior to his message, there was Table Conversation with Reggie Joiner and Mike Foster, Nona Jones, and Tedashi. Their quotes are below:
- The power that comes from pain can destroy your life or can be used to help heal the world. – MF
- I really should be a statistic. – MF
- You setbacks can become your super-powers. – MF
- Every human being wants to be loved and belong. – MF
- Vulnerability, authenticity, and openness is a strength. – MF
- People know me because I’m broken. – MF
- The church needs to be a place where pain is turned into purpose. – NJ
- This generation needs hope in a hopeless situation. – RJ
- When pain enters your life it becomes a journey. – T
- God is good even when life is not. He is good even when your world is shaken. – T
Dharius Daniels
- Your presence on this planet has purpose…. You are not a relational accident…. You have been intentionally, purposefully, and strategically placed on this planet.
- Your parents made you but I formed you.
- I picked you because I knew you and the world needs you. – God
- God gets personal when it comes to creation.
- God did not use words when He made humans. He used his hands.
- Semantics matter. Language
- We are not youth workers. We are Purpose Partners. Your job is to help the next generation discover theirs.
- Purpose is the reason for the creation.
- Purpose is the answer to a problem. When purpose is not fulfilled a problem God wants rectified goes unsolved.
- The dominant world in the New Testament to describe the church is “family”.
- Rich Wilkerson Jr did not see my son as an interruption but an appointment that God did not put on his calendar.
- In different seasons different voices have different values.
- It takes a village both naturally and spiritually to raise a child.
- I had to make sure my values and priorities were aligned… It’s once thing to say you care and another thing to show you care.
- Ministry is the only place where people come to conclusions without conversations.
- In the inner city you see the immediate implications of getting relationships wrong. Because they will join a gang.
- We cannot delegate the development of the next generation to a department.
- It’s not a NextGen responsibility. It is the church’s responsibility.
- We were willing to invest more money.
- If it matters to you, you will sacrifice for it.
- I took one of my best leaders and put him over our greatest opportunity. This investment has eternal implications.
Next is more from ReThink Leadership.
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