Relational Leadership Collaborative
Leadership Training
Trinity Lutheran College
High school students, College Students, Pastors, Youth Ministers, Volunteers, and even a College Professor or two!
“I am excited to started!”
“The skills give lots of confidence.”
“I can use this right now.”
“Reinforces who I want to be.”
“Enjoyed the opportunities to get to know everyone.”
“So important to listen and not debate.”
“A lot of this I had in my mind, but now it is deeper and can live it.”
“Remarkable.”
“These are skills for life.”
PML training with:
I sense we are on target as participants reflect what they are learning and planing to use. Here is a little of my own summary.
3 Lutheran congregations, 1 Catholic community, 1 Episcopalian parish and a Young Life group joined together at the Villa Maria for a day long Peer Ministry Leadership retreat. I was so impressed with how quickly the group responded. Many expressed their gratitude at having new understandings about ways to share faith through caring and welcoming rather than coercion.
Campus Ministry continues to grow and benefit from Peer Ministry Leadership. The group at Concordia University in Portland had wonderful discussions about what ministry is and what it isn’t. They decided they did not want their ministry to be known for pressuring other students into attending events or intrusively arguing beliefs. Much of the discussion turned to the importance of being in the midst of every day university life, listening, caring, welcoming and being in the midst. It was refreshing for the group to discover new ways of being Christian other than being stereotyped into “Bible thumpers.”
The group taught me a new word as they expressed their desire to avoid to much “7-11 music.” Interpreted, 7-11 music are the songs that only have 7 words and are repeated 11 at least 11 times. Refreshing to find students looking under the surface discovering a ministry that lives every day, everywhere and in every relationship.