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Serving Well: Leadership, Volunteer Support, and Accountability Resource Center

Who We Are We are a local faith-based nonprofit organization committed to helping people believe in Christ, live as disciples, and share the gospel. Our work includes worship, teaching, care, discipleship, community outreach, and opportunities for people to use their gifts in service. The organization depends heavily on volunteers across ministry areas, so healthy service, clear communication, and shared responsibility are important to how we carry out the mission. View the Achievement and Accountability Plan Putting Ideas Into Action Purpose of This Resource Center This resource center gives leaders, ministry teams, staff, and volunteers one place to find information that supports our achievement and accountability plan. The resources are organized around the three areas identified through our needs assessment: strengthening volunteer support, improving communication and role clarity, and creating a consistent way to review organizational progress. The goal is to provide resources p...
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How Humble and Inclusive Leadership Helps Teams Beat Procrastination

How Humble and Inclusive Leadership Helps Teams Beat Procrastination     By Randall Chase           If you have ever worked in a team where people drag their feet, avoid decisions, or wait until the last minute to act, you know how quickly procrastination can tank productivity and morale. What surprised me as I dug into the research was how much leadership style shapes this behavior. Not the loud, commanding kind of leadership people often associate with authority, but the quiet kind that asks real questions and listens. The kind that makes people feel seen. Two approaches stand out. Humble leadership and inclusive leadership. Both are grounded in the idea that people do their best work when they feel respected, valued, and connected. When leaders practice these styles well, procrastination tends to drop. When they do not, procrastination often grows into a real threat to team health. Humble Leadership: Leading with Curiosity Instead of Control ...

Review of Persuasions by Douglas Wilson

Douglas Wilson’s book, Persuasions is a collection of short parables involving the character Evangelist, who meets various people in a variety of situations all having one thing in common. They are all walking the one Road toward the Abyss. The Master of the City tried to give warning to the travelers, but many ignored them. One man known only as the Evangelist meets these travelers. With what seems to them as almost otherworldly ability he sees right to the heart of the individuals and can share with them the truth about their journey.   Some of the people whom Evangelist encounters seem significantly impacted by his insight and profound revelatory words, others offended, while yet others just ignore and keep walking on.   Persuasions deal with some very pertinent issues facing humanity today, Immorality, Feminism, Atheism, Marriage, Hypocrisy, Evolution, and other topics. Each issue discussed is done with articulation and a firm understanding in a manner that engages the rea...