Baptist Youth Worker Training

If you’re on our email list (Praise ‘n Prayer Update), then you know that Nov. 24-26, I will be teaching at the National Slovak Baptist Youth Workers’ retreat.

In that, I am working through my talks and am brainstorming more specifics. If you’d like to have some input into this, I’d be grateful. Here are the parameters within which I must work:

        * I have 4 sessions approximately 30-45 minutes in length
        * 99% of these are volunteer and/or bi-vocational youth leaders
        * Most of the youth groups are about 10-12 students in size
        * Most of these youth are church-goers from birth
        * Few, if any, of these groups have any kind of regular evangelistic outreach
        * Leadership is done by individuals, not by teams
        * 33% of the churches in which these people work are “pastor-less”
        * Many of these youth leaders have received their position by default - no one else wanted to step in

So, for now, I have come up with these 4 foci for the Baptist youth worker training (what do you think?):
What is leadership and what is a leader?
The concept of servant-leadership.
How can I grow as a Christian servant-leader?
How can I lead others effectively?

more later...