Looking for something to inspire other leaders or at least make you sound smart?
Leadingtoday.org provides several formal definitions of leadership.  Some of these would be good to put on top of leadership curriculum or that sort of thing.

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Planning this campaigners was a little tougher than the previous 2, but it turned out great.
We put down the Bibles for a while and asked the guys to pretend they were planning a Need talk.  What illustration or story (something that happened in the past week) from the world at large, that demonstrates something is [...]

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Book clubs have become pretty popular (thanks Oprah), and it’s gotten me thinking about the possibility of doing an online book club here at the YL Leader.
I’m thinking it would work like this.

People get interested in a particular book & leave comments here.
When enough people say they’re interested (that could really be 2), we can [...]

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I guess last weeks campaigners made a good impression on the guys, because all but one of them returned this week.  I went through the week excited about last week’s meeting, but in the back of my mind, wondering if the guys really liked it or if they were just being polite.  I guess they [...]

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Piggy-backing on my previous post, I thought I’d share a little pet peave of mine – campaigner highs and lows, and even to some extent, prayer requests.
During my 6-weeks, I decided to not even do prayer requests and certainly not highs and lows, and it worked great.  I’ve been involved in so many campaigners groups [...]

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We started campaigners this week and had 5 guys show up.  4 put their trust in Christ at camp this summer and one didn’t go to camp.  It was probably the best campaigners I’ve ever been a part of, for a few reasons.

Most of the guys have never been seriously involved in campaigners, so we [...]

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The weather in Kentucky is, as one weather man put it, “Oppressively Hot”.  This feeling of summer takes me back to my days doing Summer Staff and Work Crew.  Those were the best summers of my life so far. I had three memorable assignments: 1-An A.M. Cook at Sharptop 2-A sound tech. at Sharptop 3-A [...]

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