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Welcome to ABC's Leadership Empowerment and Development website...
As followers of Christ, we are challenged to Make A Difference 4 God wherever He has placed us. In that context, we are called to lead others, to demonstrate the reality of God's life within us, and to help others grow as disciples, followers of Jesus.
Our desire is to become a church where intimate relationships are developed, where each person can serve according to the gifts they have received, where small groups are at the heart of our life together. In order to build capacity for growth and to enable everyone to be part of a small group, developing new leaders and equipping existing leaders has to be a priority.
We have therefore put together a program through the rest of 2008, and beyond, open to all (existing leaders, potential leaders, and followers of Christ who are leading others) so that together we can grow more leaders and become more Christlike in our leadership.
Here are the details of the events for 2008:
- Mentoring & Apprenticing
- Building Effective Teams
- Turning Vision into Reality
- Leadership for the Long Haul
- Achieving the Task
- Keeping Christ at the Centre.
Through Lent/Easter 2009, we launched the program 40 Days of Community (Purpose Driven UK), and saw over 20 new small groups being formed!!
LEAD ABC will be an ongoing program of resourcing leaders, developing mentors and raising the leadership bar at ABC.
Below you can find links to previous LEAD ABC sessions:
Click here for session 1- LEAD ABC#1 - Launch with Dave Edwins
Click here for session 2- LEAD ABC#2 - Mentoring & Apprentices: Developing the Individual
(Transcript of talk: PDF)
Click here for powerpoint and resources from Leadership Community on Oct 18th
Click here for session 4- LEAD ABC#4 --- Turning Vision Into Reality (Achieving the Task).
The audio clips used during the talk have been removed for copyright reasons, but you can find transcripts of Martin Luther King's speech (I have a dream) here - www.altruists.org/f352 and extract from Braveheart below.
Click here for session 5 - LEAD ABC#5 --- Keeping Christ At The Centre
Extract from Braveheart used during the service.
William Wallace:
And if this is your army, why does it go?
Veteran:
We didn't come here to fight for them!
Young Soldier:
Home! The English are too many!
William Wallace:
Sons of Scotland! I am William Wallace.
Young Soldier:
William Wallace is seven feet tall!
William Wallace:
Yes,
I've heard. Kills men by the hundreds. And if HE were here, he'd
consume the English with fireballs from his eyes, and bolts of
lightning from his arse.
[Scottish army laughs]
William Wallace:
I
*am* William Wallace! And I see a whole army of my countrymen, here in
defiance of tyranny. You've come to fight as free men... and free men
you are. What will you do with that freedom? Will you fight?
Veteran:
Fight? Against that? No! We will run. And we will live.
William Wallace:
Aye,
fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live... at least a while. And
dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willin' to trade
ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance,
to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives,
but they'll never take... OUR FREEDOM!
[Scottish army cheers]
William Wallace:
Alba gu bra!
["Scotland forever!"]
Army:
ALBA GU BRA! ALBA GU BRA! ALBA GU BRA!
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