Here are some notes from the conference I attended yesterday for all you ministry friends out there. I would encourage you to look through them. They came straight from the mouth of Larry Acosta whom was more real than last times i've heard him speak. The stuff he was saying was real to me. They are copyright to Urban Youth Workers Institue. I will post some more personal notes later on. I pray Gods best for you friend.



The Next Generation Urban Leader

II. Present Trends in Urban Youth History
A. Youth Led (Entertainment to Empowerment)
B. Worship Focused (Performance to intimacy)
a. Reconnecting to the heart of the father.
C. Service Oriented (Self to others)
a. Servant Leader Model
D. Community Centered (Individualism to real relationships)
E. Holistically Minded (Compartmentalized to developing whole people and whole communities.
F. Multicultural (Dominant culture to diversity)

III. Urban Leadership of the Future

A. The Next Generation Urban Leader will be known…

1. Less for what they say and more for what they deliver.
2. Less for their title and position and more by their character and competence.
3. Less by what they control and more by how they work through teams.
4. Both for their personal integrity and for their organizational capabilities.

B. The Next Generation Urban Leader will have more of the following characteristics.
1. Incredible understanding and insight into the realities of the world (relevance) and into themselves (authenticity).
1st Chronicles 12:32 “The men of Issacar understood the times and knew they should do.”

2. Huge levels of courage to enable them to endure the inevitable pain of learning new way and bringing about change.
3. The willingness and ability to involve others because tasks will be too complex and information too widely distributed for the leader to problem solve on their own.
4. The ability to share power according to people’s knowledge and skills thereby encouraging leadership to emerge throughout their ministry.

C. The Next Generation Urban Leader will live out the following core values:
1. Accountability.
1. Who has permission in your life to ask you the hard questions?
2. Personal wholeness
1. New generation urban leaders must give greater attention to being more balanced and fit in the areas of their inner life.
2. Application: Each week schedule time for becoming more personally fit: body (physical exercise), mind (read more…”leaders are readers and readers are leaders”), soul (relationships that refuel your soul)and spirit (some form of the disciplines that will feed you spiritually).
3. Community.
1. A strong commitment to community will challenge you to lead through teams, work collaboratively with to others and practice relational ministry, thus avoiding burnout.

4. EMPOWERMENT (KEY).
1. The next generation leader must make leadership development one of his/her top three priorities!
2 Timothy 2:2

5. Transformational.
1. Personal inner transformation changing young lives, community transformation, and even ministry transformation will lead to deeper holistic impact.

IV. Core competencies of the Next Generation Urban Leader.
A. Vision casting
B. Ability to communicate
C. Decision making
D. Conflict resolution
E. Budget development
F. Fundraising/ grant writing
G. Strategic Planning
H. Time management
I. Tech Savvy
J. Team Building
K. Personal Selection
L. Board Development/ Governance
M. Organizational development
N. Mentoring, coaching, leadership development
a. NOTE: The urban leader of the future won’t have to be great at each of these competencies; he or she must value each of these and see to it that these core aspects of leadership get handled with competence.

V. The lasting Next Generation Urban Leader!
Dare to:
• To Change the things that will help you or your family get healthier
• Schedule a weekly date night with your spouse
•Schedule a one on one date with each of your kids once a month.
•If single, schedule a by-monthly meeting with an accountability group.
•Seek out a counselor and /or mentor.
•Set healthier boundaries (i.e. out doing ministry no more than 3-4 night per week)
•Schedule time to read your bible and other books that will strengthen your spiritually.
•GIVE YOURSELF ENOUGH PERMISSION TO HAVE FUN!

Endure...
•Relationships that will refuel you and share the ministry load.
•Schedule social time once a month with “safe people” who just love your for who you are and not for what you do in ministry.
• Recruit and lead through teams who will help you in the ministry.
•Enlist a leader(s) who will “coach” you in key areas of leadership that you know are important, but may not be in your present skill.

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