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Dream Team Staff
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Amy Leigh Bamberg
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Amy Jones
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Honor Brings Influence
Building Community
To have your team relationally connected to each other and to you – united in purpose and vision – growing spiritually – this is our ultimate goal! To lay the foundation of team community:
CREATE a great environment for your team – make it fun to be together. Have pre-service meetings and a dedicated place to hang out afterwards.
CONNECT with your team. Create individual service team e-mail lists or Facebook groups that keep everyone in touch and informed about prayer requests or
Jesus - The Skilled Connector
John Maxwell has said that “Everyone communicates. Few connect.” What’s the difference between the two? What does it mean to connect? With regard to leadership, it’s all about identifying with and relating to others in such a way that we gain influence. This influence is what allows us to be salt and light.
The mantle of leadership replaces selfishness, or the right to think of self first. One of the first truths we need to embrace is that leadership is sustained by connecting, and
Successors
In 1 Kings 19:19-21, we read,
So Elijah went and found Elisha son of Shaphat plowing a field. There were twelve teams of oxen in the field, and Elisha was plowing with the twelfth team. Elijah went over to him and threw his cloak across his shoulders…. Elisha left the oxen standing there, ran after Elijah, and said to him, “First let me go and kiss my father and mother good-bye, and then I will go with you!” Elijah replied, “Go on back, but think about what I have done to you.” So Elisha
Good v/s Better
Most of us are familiar with the story of Jesus’ visit to the home of Martha and Mary (Luke 10:38-42). This passage is not a contrast between good and bad, but a contrast between good and better.
Jesus loved Martha immensely – but her joy was sacrificed on the altar of self-appointed service. Martha opened her home. Had she not invited Jesus in, prepared the food and house, this entire story would never have been a reality. It was Martha’s hospitality and heart for making others comfortable
