Leadership Tips & Training Ways to Develop leaders within your group:

1. Have members volunteer to lead a discussion on a portion of the Bible study each week. This will build their confidence and help them discover their gift of teaching.
2. Ask a faithful member to help you assist with weighing in and begin to mentor this person by giving them more responsibilities as a session progresses.
3. ASK - recently I suggested to one of my leaders to ask a specific person in her group if she would consider leading a group. Her response was, "Since my first session of First Place, I thought I would love to lead, but would never ask to lead. I was waiting for someone to ask me." We discovered a jewel - that would have been discovered much earlier, if we had just asked!

To find out who in your First Place class may be a potential leader; take a survey at the beginning of each 13-week session, asking them questions such as:

        * Would you feel comfortable praying aloud in class?
        * Would you be willing to teach the Bible study one week?
        * Do you have any hobbies or talents you would like to share with the class?
        * Would you be willing to help with evaluating the Commitment Records?

 


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.