Servant Leadership Network: Loosening Knots

Johnny Wray just gave another “God-sighting.” He was struck at how well the youth worked together during the group-building (cow — don’t ask, long story) games. One of the games they played was the classic “join hands in weird configurations and untangle yourselves without dropping hands” game. He tied the game and their effectiveness into how essential it is for servant leaders to be willing to work together for loosening some of the knots that plague the world: poverty, terror, evil.

A group working on coordination

Johnny Wray joining in energizers!

Earlier in the morning the new President of Eureka talked to them about different ways they can incorporate servant leadership as they go on – through high school, to college, and beyond. The Dean of Admissions, Brian Sajko (pronounced ‘psycho’), also invited them to not only check Eureka out, but also talk with them about any of the issues students are facing with making a transition to college. Both of them impressed me — they, along with Terry Ewing, are great assets for the school.

Eureka President Dr. David Arnold

Dean of Admission Brian Sajko

Today was also fun because several things got switched around. This event is so cool because it has a relaxed atmosphere. The leaders of the youth councils planned much of it, but each group is bringing content and programming to help. It’s a collaborative event and so flexibility reigns. Originally I was going to be doing one of my technology workshops tonight. This morning Johnny Wray had to do a conference call for Week of Compassion where he helped handle some of the aid going to those in Haiti, Cuba and the Florida Keys with the hurricane going through there now. Because he had the conference call, we switched my leadership lab to this morning and pushed his worship one back. It still went incredibly well. Now I need to find some time in the next week and write a bunch of it down and put it in easy-to-use guides (hopefully soon to be downloadable in PDF format).

Terry, Bill and Michael coordinating