2). Blog Entry: Leaders Corner - Prayer
- I've enjoyed this week of prayer, watching so many of our pastors and churches post about their prayer meetings to begin the year. Yesterday, one of our youth pastors in the Siouxland section twittered a quote that Jesus' disciples didn't ask him to teach them how to lead, but they asked him to teach them how to pray. I've been reading a book by the author Francis Frangipane, in which he encourages leaders to bathe every action in prayer.
- Prayer needs to be a priority; a regular part of our lives, both personally and in ministry. When I was a youth pastor, I modeled this in two ways. First, every work day started off with our entire staff praying together in the sanctuary from 8 to 9am. We often had Christian music playing lightly in the background, and regularly I would read a little from the Scriptures before filling most of the time in prayer with God. Second, we would offer pre-service prayer at each of our youth services. Each leader was required to try to participate. If they picked up students, they made sure to arrange a time so the student could also accompany them in prayer as well.
- At dinner during the Great Plains Regional Salt Conference last night in Sioux Falls, we heard a report about one of our young adults in Nebraska who was having some issues with her pregnancy. Someone suggested we pray for her immediately, which we did.
- What are you doing to model prayer for those you lead, both personally and in your ministry. Here's a great article from NPR about how prayer is beneficial, even in a physical sense.
3). Ministry of the Day: Discipleship Forum - Check out this link with excerpts from great discipleship topics covered by our National Discipleship Ministries Agency
4). Link of the Day: Doodle Pad - Connecting agents and artists on a local level
5). Quote of the Day: 'Beauty has a lot to do with character.' - Kevyn Aucoin
6). Miscellaneous: Today is World Braille Day. It is also the birthday of Cindy Holbrook (Youth leader in Lexington) a distinction she shares with Pam Riddle (Youth Pastors Wife in Lincoln) and John McCone, former CIA director, from 1902. Finally, it is the anniversary of the day that Nancy Pelosi became the first official female Speaker of the House of Representatives in Congress in 2007.
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