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“Raising Indigenous Leaders”
“ What we learned by interviewing 81 young urban leaders who
grew up in an urban neighborhood and who are doing relational
ministry in an urban neighborhood.”
Contact information: Marvin Jacobo. [email protected]
Contact: Marvin Jacobo. [email protected]
THINK
TEAM How can I Use these Findings to Develop my
volunteers and staff ?
What Stuck?
“Heads Up”
• “Parking lot” questions or thoughts that you
want addressed but may need to wait until
the end of the workshop.
• Appendix at the end of your notes show the
graphs from the survey.
Share your story of being
discipled toward being a leader. (Groups of 3)
Pay special attention to:
• Key people who have had significant,
positive influence on your development.
• Key experiences that strengthened or
deepened your faith commitment.
• Key steps in helping you mature into
leadership (3 Minutes)
Raising Indigenous Leaders
Why this is so important.
What’s the best strategy?
What does the research say?
How can we increase our knowledge?
How can all this shape our ministries?
Indigenous Leadership
Research Project
• How did we do it?
• Answering the question:
• What factors contribute the most to
developing urban indigenous leadership?
How did we do it?
Indigenous Leadership
Research Project Key Findings:
1. Relationships matter most.
2. Catalytic life events move young leaders
forward.
3. Young leaders must develop internal
motivation.
4. We must provide leadership
opportunities.
5. Relational mentors are the key.
Relational mentors are the key!
Mentorship is “a spiritual growth
relationship in which a more mature
person helps to guide a less mature
person within the context of a close
relationship.”
It is about a consistent, ongoing
relationship of listening, learning,
dialog, and challenge.
Relational mentors are the key!
Relational mentorship =
indigenous leadership
No relational mentorship =
no indigenous leadership
Relational mentors are the key!
What “good activities” might urban
youth workers be spending their
time doing if they aren’t laser
focused on executing a
mentorship/discipleship strategy?
The Research Shows:
Relational mentorship =
indigenous leadership
No relational mentorship =
no indigenous leadership
The Process
Relational Mentorship
Spiritual Discipleship
Practical Implications
Role Models come in all shapes and sizes. Nurture a trust based relationship with a
wise one that is along in life’s journey (Mentors).
How Much Weight Have You Placed On Cultivating Both Role Models And Mentors?
Friends, Mentors, Heroes? Train your staff and volunteers To Have
Quality Mentoring Relationships That Have Purpose.
What’s Sticking?
4 “Stages” of
Indigenous Leadership
Development:
Stage 1: Initial Relational Investments
• Time Frame: 0 - 12 months-PRAYERFULLY!!
• Relationship Characteristics:
• Adult will almost always be the initiator and continue
initiating.
• Fun! But little trust.
• Point young person to make a first time decision to
become a Christ-follower.
• Word and Prayer is “peppered” into the relationship.
• ??
Stage 2: Turning Spiritual Corners
• Time Frame: 3 - ??? Months- PRAYERFULLY!
• Relationship Characteristics:
• Growing in time spent and trust.
• Youth makes first time decision to be a Christian.
• Higher commitment to club meeting and/or Bible study.
• More time in Word and Prayer together.
• Urban youth speaking into our lives.
• ??
Stage 3: A Call to Discipleship
• Time Frame: 9 - ??? months
• Relationship Characteristics:
• More closeness and trust, but still issues.
• Discipleship (vs. just friendship) is invited by adult
and defined for student.
• Relationship is more structured and specific.
• Accountability and admonishment are increasing, but
so is encouragement.
• ???
Stage 4: A Challenge to Give Back
• Time Frame: 3 - 5+ years?
• Relationship Characteristics:
• High level of trust.
• Student growing closer to Jesus and therefore
demonstrating growing victory over moral and
character issues.
• Time in Word and Prayer significant.
• Youth are ready to begin relationships with other youth
to intentionally take them through the
mentoring/discipleship process.
• ???
What’s Sticking?
Reflective Exercise
Reflective Exercise
• How much time during the week do you spend
doing relational mentoring?
• How much time a week do you spend
modeling relational mentoring to others?
• How much time a week do you spend training
relational mentoring to others?
• Think of the youth you are building
relationships with (not the youth your
volunteer team is building relationships).
Decide what stage they are in with you.
Stage 1? 2? 3? 4?
Reflective Exercise
• Now, think of your volunteer team. Which
one of your volunteers have only been able to
achieve Stage 1 with an urban student?
Stage 2? Stage 3? Stage 4?
• Do you have volunteers who aren’t even at
Stage 1 yet with a young person ?
• Categorize your entire volunteer team into the
stages based on the strength of their relational
mentoring abilities.
Think
• What does this exercise tell you about your
relational mentoring focus?
• What does it tell you about the relational
mentoring abilities of your team?
Within the Mentoring Two life skills (according to the research)
that your urban youth must possess!!
①Victory Through Catalytic
Life Experiences.
②Develop Internal Motivation.
Catalytic Life Experiences
“Turning Negative Life Experiences into
Positive Life Opportunities.”
Equip our young people to Embrace and Build on
Negative Catalytic Events Rather than Avoiding them.
How Can Your Leadership Team Make Spiritual and
Relational Investments During these Events?
Can We be Intentional In our Programming So that our
Young People can be Equipped to “Turn Lemons into
Lemonade?”
Traditional (training based) Leadership Development
Programs Don’t Get Into These Issues…It’s Done Via
Relationships.
Bamboo and Urban Leadership
“Young urban leaders must have
the strength of bamboo. Able to
bend, blend with circumstances,
adjust to change, and overcome
adversity, they can meet any
challenge with courage and
compassion.”
Adapted from ‘The Tao Of
Personal Leadership’ by Diane
Dreher
Catalytic Life Experiences:
Making Lemonade out of Lemons
• Listen Well.
• Ask Good Questions.
• Remind them of God’s Love and
Grace.
• Ask them permission to ask a probing
question.
• Share your stories transparently.
Catalytic Life Experiences:
Making Lemonade out of Lemons
But Joseph replied, "Don’t be afraid of me.
Am I God, that I can punish you? You
intended to harm me, but God intended it
all for good. He brought me to this position
so I could save the lives of many people.”
Genesis 50:19-20
Catalytic Life Experiences:
Making Lemonade out of Lemons
The Lord says, "I will give you back
what you lost to the swarming locusts,
the hopping locusts, the stripping
locusts, and the cutting locusts.”
Joel 2:25
Their Past is a Mentor for Their Future
“ The Lord allowed you to go through everything
you have been through, both positive and negative,
for a reason.”
Romans 8.28
“ You might never know or understand the reasons
why you went through some things. But be assured
that God, who began a good work in you, will
complete it.” Phil. 1.6
“ Nothing touches your life unless it has gone past
God’s desk. He has allowed it because it will build
you for what lies ahead.” 1Peter 2.9
THINK THROUGH YOUR PAST
The thing, event, circumstance, or person
that affected me most in the past and still
tends to affect me most in my present role
is ___________.
It tends to affect me in this way _______.
If I imagine my past as a mentor, this is
what I believe my past should teach me _.
City Life Curriculum
2012-2013
YFC.org/citylife
Key Survey Findings (Review)
1. Relationships matter most.
2. Catalytic life events move young
leaders forward.
3. Young leaders must develop
internal motivation.
Developing Internal Motivation “Taking Personal Ownership of their faith.”
• Salt them with the Word.
• Ask a lot of questions, listen to the answers.
• Give them a dream for their life.
• Expose them to godly people .
• Give them experiences and memories.
• Equip them for life in all its’ fullness (John 10.10)
• Pray for them and with them.
Key Survey Findings (Review)
1. Relationships matter most.
2. Catalytic life events move young
leaders forward.
3. Young leaders must develop internal
motivation.
4….
Provide for them
Meaningful Leadership
Opportunities
“The whole cause of our ministry must also be
carried on in a tender love for our people. We
must let them see that nothing pleases us more
than what profits them. We should show them
that what does them good does us good also. We
should feel that nothing troubles us more than
what hurts them.” English Puritan Richard Baxter, 1700.
“ Watch Your Walk: Ministry From a Heart of Integrity.”
“Love Them…Love them Sincerely…
Love them for a Long Time.”
Questions?
Contact information: Marvin Jacobo. [email protected]
Project Work Product
• 81 Indigenous Leadership interviews transcribed
• 81 Indigenous Leadership interviews transcripts coded
in a statistical analysis program
• Numerical rankings of the 81 interviews in spreadsheet
form
• Multiple spreadsheets and graphs that explore the
different cross sections of the data
• A one page summary of our most critical research
findings
• Recommendations for the practical applications of our
research findings
• Recommendations of further research that could be
pursued as a result of our findings
•Family influence (both +/- influence) decrease as
person moves into ministry.
•Exemplars influences decreases as person moves
into ministry.
•All relationships decrease in influence (save
mentors) as intrinsic motivators increase.
•Identifying Mentors increases significantly as person
moves into ministry.
•Family (the absolute value of the two scores together
+/-) is an even higher influence number than mentors.
•Negative exemplars were very small in comparison to
the positive.
•Role of Mentor from growth into ministry is critical,
because of the weight of working through the
emotional/thought process of catalytic events (see
Holistic Domain Observations).
Practical Implications
Relationship Generated Ministry is our Strategy.
Which Relationships are most impactful and when on life’s journey?
Train Your Staff And Volunteers on how to practice Relationship Building Skills
Overcoming Life Crisis
Negative To Positive Catalytic Life
Experience
E.G. Joseph, School Dropout, Poverty
What Did The Data Say?
• The (-) to a (+) Catalytic Experience is the
most commented upon factor from the
social domains
• These catalytic experiences are most 0
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Initial Growth Ministry
All Results
ongoing special leader opp catalytic intrinsic mentors
friends family exemplars bible prayer
Relational mentors are the key!
Groups of 5 (10 minutes) 1. Define close/trusting - How do you know that the urban
youth had begun to trust you? How long does it take to
build trust? How do you get to that place of closeness
and trust?
2. Define consistent - How often should you meet with a
mentee? How many hours a week might you spend with
them? Why? What do you think it communicates to urban
youth if we aren’t consistent with them?
3. Define ongoing - How long should we mentor them for?
When should we expect for them to be mature (say
mature enough to be Volunteer in Training and eventually
Volunteers/Staff?) What if they are too old for our
ministry?
Overcoming Life Crisis
Negative To Positive Catalytic Life Experience
E.G. Joseph, School Dropout, Poverty
What Did The Data Say?
• The (-) to a (+) Catalytic Experience is the most commented upon factor from the social domains
• These catalytic experiences are most frequently commented upon during initial and growth stages
• A substantial drop in references occurs when young people move into ministry stage
Practical Implications Equip our young people to Embrace and Build on
Negative Catalytic Events Rather than Avoiding
them.
How Can Your Leadership Team Make Spiritual
and Relational Investments During these Events?
Can We be Intentional In our Programming So
that our young people can be equipped to “turn
crap into fertilizer?”
Traditional (training based) Leadership
Development Programs Don’t Get Into
These Issues…It’s Done Via Relationships
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Initial Growth Ministry
Relational Results
mentors friends family exemplars
Raising Indigenous Leaders:
God cares about it more than you!
“May God himself, the God of
peace, sanctify you through and
through. May your whole spirit, soul
and body be kept blameless at the
coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
The one who calls you is faithful
and he will do it.”
1 Thessalonians 5:23-24
Practical Implications
Role Models come in all shapes and sizes. Nurture a trust based relationship with a
wise one that is along in life’s journey (Mentors)
How Much Weight Have You Placed On Cultivating Both Role Models And Mentors?
Friends, Mentors, Heroes Train your staff and volunteers To Have
Quality Mentoring Relationships That Have Purpose
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Initial Growth Ministry
All Results
ongoing special leader opp catalytic
intrinsic mentors friends family
Practical Implications
HOW DO YOU DEVELOP INTRINSIC MOTIVATION?
Pray for your young people
Salt them…create a thirst in them for the things of Christ…including the Word.
Year long Curriculum Will Be Rolled out in September
Blogs beginning in April will discuss this
Regional Conferences…3 hours of training…practical roll out ideas for you
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Initial Growth Ministry
All Results
ongoing special leader opp catalytic intrinsic mentors
friends family exemplars bible prayer
Practical Implications
What specific valuable Ministry Opportunities
can you create For Young Leader Prospects?
We learn best by doing.
How do you develop intrinsic motivation in
your young people and volunteers?
You “salt them”...you create thirst for the Lord
and his Word by creating a thirst in them.
You pray for them and ask the Holy Spirit to
whisper to them..or hit them over the head!
Practical Implications
Ground them in God’s Word not in you.
Direct them to the Word.
Equip them to live by God’s values not rules.
Don’t give them the answers let them discover.
How do you train volunteers to do this
Conclusions In your efforts to raise indigenous leaders:
Are you promoting and emphasizing the need and value for raising urban leaders?
How do these insights spur your thinking on how to better raise leaders?
Much more training to come on this topic:
3 hours of training at Regional (you, volunteers, young people
Year worth of curriculum “turning evil into good.”
Blogs that will raise questions for discussion and give direction on how to best use these findings.
Conclusions
What do you take home from this and implement?
Questions????
Let us know what you need from us.
“For what is our hope, our joy, or
the crown in which we will glory
in the presence of our Lord Jesus
when he comes? Is it not you?
Indeed, you are our glory and
joy.”
1 Thessalonians 2:19-20
“For now we really live, since you
are standing firm in the Lord.
How can we thank God enough
for you in return for all the joy we
have in the presence of our God
because of you?”
1 Thessalonians 3:9
Relational mentors are the key!
Relational mentorship =
indigenous leadership
No relational mentorship =
no indigenous leadership
“As apostles of Christ we could
have been a burden to you, but we
were gentle among you, like a
mother caring for her little children.
We loved you so much that we
were delighted to share with you
not only the gospel of God but our
lives as well, because you had
become so dear to us.”
1 Thessalonians 2:6b-7
“For you know that we dealt
with each of you as a father
deals with his own children,
encouraging, comforting and
urging you to live lives worthy
of God, who calls you into his
kingdom and glory.”
1 Thessalonians 2:11-12
1Thess. 2.12
Encouraging:
This is about affirming and blessing. It is finding
your mentee doing something right and praising
them. Rewarding what you want repeated. It is
helping them discover their unique gifting and
contribution.
Comforting:
Is all about helping your mentee through the
difficult things. When life gets hard and when
ministry gets hard, we walk alongside to provide
comfort and support.
1Thess. 2.12
1Thess 2.12
Urging: Is about challenging your mentee-nudging them and
pushing them to improve and grow. It is about
stretching them and not letting them settle.
Relationship(Trust): Is what gives me the right and insight to encourage,
comfort and urge my mentee on toward the likeness
of Christ.
Paul’s Strategy
2 Timothy 2.2
“You have heard me (monologue/dialogue) teach
things that have been confirmed by many reliable
witnesses. Now teach these truths to other
trustworthy people who will be able to pass them
on to others.” (NLT)
Jesus’ Strategy
And He went up on the hillside and called to Him
[for Himself] those whom He wanted and
chose, and they came to Him.
Mark 3.13 (AMP)
“More time spent with fewer people equals
greater impact.”
“ The amount of life change in a mentee is
equal to the amount time spent with the
mentor.”