Leadership Tips & Training Looks are Deceiving!

This month our theme is "second helpings." Thanksgiving could be renamed as Second Helpings Day! In preparation for Thanksgiving, have a weighing and measuring activity for your Wellness Spotlight. Go to the local cafeteria or restaurant and order a "healthy choice" lunch to go. That would usually be some type of baked chicken or fish, some vegetables, fruit and a roll. Bring it to class and have the members guess the exchanges contained in your "to go" lunch. Then bring out the food scale, measuring cups and spoons to find out the exact amounts found in the meal. This can be an "eye-opening" experience! Challenge your members to weigh and measure all their foods for a week and report back to the class how their week went, then have them share anything they may have discovered after weighing and measuring their food. Many times they will find they were not counting something correctly, or that they were not eating as much as they thought!   Keeping your members focused on how much they can eat will help them as they are tempted to go for those second helpings!

Nancy Taylor
Leadership Training Director


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.