musings on leadership in ministry
I’ve completed my research for my Masters in Contemporary Christian Leadership and I discovered that the ministers I spoke to had lots to say! I discovered… Ministers are responsible for providing leadership and enabling others to lead. In exploring the experience of a group of Ministers in relation to leadership they reported their initial training Read More …
I was delighted to be invited to speak at the Spiritual Care Forum today. Here’s what I said…. Good morning. Thank you so much for the invitation to speak here today. I’m going to talk a bit about why spiritual care is important to me and what it looks like in my community. My first Read More …
I’m studying for a Masters in Contemporary Christian Leadership and in our class last night we spoke about ‘change management’. It’s one of the biggest reasons I wanted to do the course as it seems like the whole world is in a massive period of rapid change. The church is too and I want to Read More …
There’s a reason I’ve been writing about optimism. Optimists are more motivated to succeed and are therefore more likely achieve something than someone with a more pessimistic outlook. Makes sense, doesn’t it? That’s the kind of statement that we think is pretty obviously true and you’re not alone if that’s what you think. Most people Read More …
“Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.” Viktor Frankl I struggle with the idea that I can choose how to respond. My immediate responses are emotional. When something happens or is said I feel it… physically. My first Read More …
I run. At least sometimes I run. One of the tricks I’ve discovered is that you can convince yourself of things when you run, especially over a longer distance where the end seems very far away. I can run for 1km. At the end of that 1km I can tell myself the same thing. I Read More …