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.
Today is Day 3 of the conference. The event’s next speaker was Danielle Strickland, who was interviewed by Carey Nieuwhof. Danielle loves Jesus. And she loves people. Her aggressive compassion has loved people firsthand in countries all over the world where she has embraced, learned, cared, evangelized, taught, and exhorted individuals and crowds to surrender to the boundless love of our great God and Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.
The following are 8 leadership lessons and quotes from her challenging lesson on as well as some comments from Tom Shefchunas of North Point Church:
Tom Shefchunas – @CoachShef
- Everything in your church changes when relationships matter.
- His church moves on through broken organizations.
- If small groups become your primary answer, then that ultimately changes everything you do…eventually. It takes time.
- High quality Christians make high quality connections.
- Kids don’t leave programs, they leave people.
Crystal Chiang (@crystalcchiang)
- Do you know my name? When we say their names, it lets them know that we see them. It matters. Knowing someone’s name, lets them know that they matter.
- When you learn their name, you earn the right to get to know them.
- Who will know their name next?
- Getting a Bible for graduation didn’t make up for being ‘unadopted’.
- We know as their leader that what’s ahead for them, is better than what’s here for them.
- What happens when they graduate from my small group and no one knows their name? We need to be willing to take a step or two into the next phase with our few. You might graduate from this roaster but you can’t graduate from this relationship.
Mike Foster
- When I am with somebody I’m looking at a masterpiece.
- Busyness is the enemy of spiritualty.
Kara Powell
- There are some people it’s easier to really see.
- No one person can know everyone’s name in our ministry. We must equip other people.
- The church often reinforces the hierarchy they experience in the world.
Danielle Strickland
- What was in God’s heart was for intimacy and relationship.
- Love has a name.Heaven has a name.
- Relationship, proximity changes everything. The Gospel attacks injustice everywhere through relationship and proximity. You need to know their names.
- If you want to move something big, do something small.
- If you want to stop extreme poverty, share what you have.
- You need to know their name. They need to know their name. This is God’s work all through scripture.
- Flowers were meant to bloom.
- Stop trying to move the mountain. Start using the mustard seed.
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