. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love."
Rev. Sam Adeyemi, Anybody can lead because everybody has the ability to lead, furthermore Comr. Ben Emeka also said leadership is not a position, leadership is an avenue of reviewing potentials in an environment: every leader is called a visionary, however, a leader is one who sees the best others and help them to actualize it. every leaders are dream maker not game player.
Leaders are Prayerful. Open in prayer, if the context allows. Don't be afraid to pray. But don't just say a Christian prayer. Encourage people of all faiths to lift up prayers to their creator, proclaim their own faith and not disclaim others. For those who claim no faith tradition, encourage them to speak and reflect in comparable ways.
Service is important, but it is not what is most important.
Let the service activity that you are participating in be a context and opportunity for conversation and fellowship with people you may never have met before. Service generated out of grace and love requires that your assumptions, stereotypes and even prejudices be challenged and eventually eliminated. Participate in a service project with people you don't encounter very often, if at all. Work side by side with people of different races, ages, different neighborhoods, congregations and economic backgrounds. It will be a way to build the "beloved community" that Dr. King spoke of and also Martin luther King jnr..
Learn more about the issues your service is directed toward.
If you are working at a soup kitchen, learn about the status of hunger in your community. Or homelessness. Or the prison system. Or human rights violations. What is behind the courageous response of the organization you are working with to address these needs, challenges and injustices?
Consider the faces of those who give shape to the service movement.
Whose picture hangs in our service offices, our libraries and our school hallways? Write their names down. Think of the phrases, articles and books that we refer to when writing a term paper or selecting an inspiring quote to put at the end of your email message. Then identify a local person, someone older, who for years has come week after week, year after year to serve with a community organization. Look at the list and talk about what you notice. My experience with this exercise is that many of the individuals named, from the famous to the unsung hero, will be those of faith, from many faith traditions. my experience has shown me that many in most organization, church etc fail not because they are not visionary but because they are always too full of themselves to share opinion.
As a leader allow others to explore if not they will all run away or make you fail in your pursuit,
always give room for people to know how best they can be.
Be a leader not because you are ahead of them but because you are a visionary, not just because you are a visionary but because you are dream maker....nobody was born leader, we were all made leaders.
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