For all small group members and leaders, we would like to encourage you to take a close look at the Weekly Readings that are now available to you on our website. Each week, there will be material provided for you to go deeper into the Sunday morning message as well as prepare for what you will learn the following Sunday. You can take this opportunity to use the weekly study guide for your personal study, with your family, or even at your small group! For any questions, you can always email us or call Stephanie at 831.655.0100.
For all small group members and leaders, we would like to encourage you to take a close look at the Weekly Readings that are now available to you on our website. Each week, there will be material provided for you to go deeper into the Sunday morning message as well as prepare for what you will learn the following Sunday. You can take this opportunity to use the weekly study guide for your personal study, with your family, or even at your small group! For any questions, you can always email us or call Stephanie at 831.655.0100.
Awana Clubs launch this fall at Shoreline for children 3 years to 5th grade. Leadership positions are now being filled for Handbook Leaders, Game Leaders and Club Directors. For more info on Awana Clubs, check out Awana.org or pick up an info packet at the Children’s Ministry Information Station upstairs. Mark your calendar for Awana Leader training on Saturday, August 22.
Awana Clubs launch this fall at Shoreline for children 3 years to 5th grade. Leadership positions are now being filled for Handbook Leaders, Game Leaders and Club Directors. For more info on Awana Clubs, check out Awana.org or pick up an info packet at the Children’s Ministry Information Station upstairs. Mark your calendar for Awana Leader training on Saturday, August 22.
Do you have a heart for others and have been saved from any addiction, affliction, hang-up or habit by God’s amazing healing grace? Celebrate Recovery is looking for female leaders to join this exciting, life saving ministry! Please contact dhopkins@shorelinechurch.org or 655.0100 x303.
Do you have a heart for others and have been saved from any addiction, affliction, hang-up or habit by God’s amazing healing grace? Celebrate Recovery is looking for female leaders to join this exciting, life saving ministry! Please contact dhopkins@shorelinechurch.org or 655.0100 x303.
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Parenting Tip
January 6, 2009
It’s Hard to Raise a Leader
Some children are born leaders. They want to control their parents, their siblings, their friends, and even people they don’t know. They have their own agenda and want everyone else to know what it is and how to fit into it. Leaders can be a real blessing in life but they sure are hard to raise.
One of the greatest gifts you can give to your budding leader is the ability to follow. To follow means listening to the needs and desires of others, submitting to someone else’s agenda, and learning how to work cooperatively on a team. All good leaders need to know how and when to follow.
Although you will nurture the leadership gifts your child possesses, it’s also your job to teach him or her how to work with others. The weaknesses of young leaders are demonstrated in negative ways like arguing, badgering, and being demanding or angry.
Don’t just brush off these weaknesses as inevitable. Take time to correct, but do it in a way that appreciates the child’s gifts. “Karen, I can tell you’re going to be a good leader someday, but remember that leaders think about the needs of others.” Or, “Jim, I like the way you take initiative with your brother. Remember, though, that a good leader is also a good listener.”
If you guide the development of your young leader you’ll not only make family life easier now, but you’ll also benefit many other followers down the road. Your hard work will be worth it in the end.
This parenting tip is from the book Home Improvement, The Parenting Book You Can Read to Your Kids by Dr. Scott Turansky and Joanne Miller, RN, BSN.
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Parenting Tip
January 6, 2009
It’s Hard to Raise a Leader
Some children are born leaders. They want to control their parents, their siblings, their friends, and even people they don’t know. They have their own agenda and want everyone else to know what it is and how to fit into it. Leaders can be a real blessing in life but they sure are hard to raise.
One of the greatest gifts you can give to your budding leader is the ability to follow. To follow means listening to the needs and desires of others, submitting to someone else’s agenda, and learning how to work cooperatively on a team. All good leaders need to know how and when to follow.
Although you will nurture the leadership gifts your child possesses, it’s also your job to teach him or her how to work with others. The weaknesses of young leaders are demonstrated in negative ways like arguing, badgering, and being demanding or angry.
Don’t just brush off these weaknesses as inevitable. Take time to correct, but do it in a way that appreciates the child’s gifts. “Karen, I can tell you’re going to be a good leader someday, but remember that leaders think about the needs of others.” Or, “Jim, I like the way you take initiative with your brother. Remember, though, that a good leader is also a good listener.”
If you guide the development of your young leader you’ll not only make family life easier now, but you’ll also benefit many other followers down the road. Your hard work will be worth it in the end.
This parenting tip is from the book Home Improvement, The Parenting Book You Can Read to Your Kids by Dr. Scott Turansky and Joanne Miller, RN, BSN.
