Leadership Tips & Training Leadership Spotlight

Each month we will spotlight leadership tips and ideas from leaders all across the country. Send your ideas to ntaylor@firstplace.org and she will publish them in this spot each month. 

I found a little pass-along card with a picture of a little boy reaching into a tipped over cookie jar to get a cookie.  The writing on the card said "Uh-oh! Here I go again! "The Bible verse was, "Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation.  The spirit is willing, but the body is weak." - Matthew 26:41

I had a card for each member, laminated it and put a magnet on the back to make a refrigerator reminder about temptation. 

We also send a summary of each class with the next week's agenda, and a personal note to any member who misses a meeting, so they can be back on track for the next week.

Janella Chapline/Barbara Mahan, leaders
St. John's Episcopal Church
Farmington, NM


Nancy Taylor is the First Place Leadership Training Director and joined the First Place staff in 1997. Nancy teaches leadership principles to First Place Leaders throughout the country and at Houston's First Baptist Church where she coordinates all the First Place groups. . Nancy also speaks at First Place workshops, rallies, retreats, and conferences, where she delights her audiences with humor and encourages them with boldness. She writes a monthly article, which includes helpful tips for leaders, for the First Place E-newsletter, and was a contributing writer to the Today is the First Day devotional book. Nancy is the resident First Place Bible Concordance because of her love for Scripture memory.