Urban Leadership Foundation
A hub for leadership training in cities and among the world's 1.4 billion slum-dwellers
Run to and fro, through the streets of
Jerusalem, search her squares to see if
you can find a man, one who does justice and seeks truth, that I may pardon
her.
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The
city coordinator will not be directly
involved in all of the steps, but will shepherd these processes into being by:
·
listening
to, loving and serving the leaders of the church (servant networker)
·
giving initial and ongoing vision (catalyzer
and visionary),
·
bringing together those who can get the task
done (organizer)- which will include the functioning leaders of all the
different strands in the cities transformation, (e.g. networks, consultations,
task forces, partnerships).
·
helping them form effective group dynamics
(partnerships)
·
developing
the process management structure (integrating the goals, developing
communications, defining steps and components of the processes)
·
problem solving
Practical
issues:
·
No - one should lead more than 10 people
·
No-one
should make decisions alone.
·
The pastors will not be able to do most of the
work. Lay leaders need to be found by
the pastoral leaders to bring the processes to birth.
This
role could involve identifying (along with the Leadership team), and appointing
leaders to:
·
mobilize the research network
·
develop the church-planter's consultation and
network
·
develop the city leader's launching conference
·
develop the training / networking center
·
develop an urban issues consultation
·
subsequent networks (strategy groups,
partnerships).
·
link to city leaders in other cities
(inter-city consultations)
To accomplish the above the coordinator
needs to develop groups of volunteers under the overall city Leadership team
who take responsibility for aspects of the process. For each task group, goals, responsibilities
and job descriptions need to be defined by the coordinator to get the task
accomplished.
The
City Coordinator and the Leadership team mentioned above will be
guiding the city processes, but they must be integrated with the pastoral
eldership, the secular eldership, the business Leadership and women in citywide
Leadership.
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and the Encarnação Alliance Training Commission
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