Through Ed Ramsani who attended our SCM fun day, 8 young leaders from Diepsloot were invited to a Willow Creek leadership conference along with YouthReach workers , Simon Bennett and David Silva
The conference was hosted by Oscar Muriu, the senior pastor of Nairobi Chapel, who has developed dynamic programs for identifying and training young leaders to expand the Kingdom of God.
We had trouble with our truck, so transported all 8 teenagers in a Toyota Yaris. So we arrived a little sore!
The meeting was excellent for us all. These were some of the takeways.
1) The success and volume of your work/harvest will depend directly on your ability to train, empower and release leaders.
2)If you want a legacy it is not enough to be influential in your own generation. You must invest in the next generation.
3) The leaders you need are already in your vicinity. They just need to be identified, called out and challenged.
4) Impart the five loves to your leaders.
1) Love the Lord with all your heart: Character
2) Love the Lord with all your mind. Understanding
3) Love the Lord with all your soul. Conviction and Values
4) Love the Lord with all your strength. Competence and skill.
5) Love your neighbor as yourself. Compassion
5) Spend time. Jesus spent, by conservative estimations, over 10,000 hours with his disciples. That is why the priests were able to see just by looking and listening to them that they had been with Jesus. How many hours are we willing to give to our young leaders so they can learn from us?
The teenagers were rewarded when Oscar gathered them all and prayed for them after the meeting. Thank God for a true man of God for the teenagers to see in the flesh!
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