The team that learns together, grows together.
What are you doing as the lead dog that is fostering growth and development in your adult staff? As leaders, we tend to spend the majority of our time concerned about how our students are maturing along in the process of discipleship, yet the key to their maturation depends on the maturation of the adults that lead them, week in and week out.
What if you decided to approach this the same way you would approach a student ministry small group, model the same principles those group adhere to and exist as an adult small group, in the vein of a community of practice? You allow time for instruction and time for response; time for listening and time for doing? This can be what your team needs to take it to the next level.
I spend a lot of time being the best pastor and leader I can for those that are entrusted to me. Why not do the same for those that I position to lead those very same students?
That is why our adult staff will be working through Mark Oestreicher’s Understanding Your Young Teen: Practical Wisdom for Parents. It’s not that this book is a magic bullet, but it’s a great book with quality insight. Mark is a ministry stud and that’s the kind of person you want to learn from.
The challenge for you will be this: what can you do to learn as a team, in order to grow as a team?
Want a sample of the book we’re using? Check it out HERE.
