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Keys to Longevity in Ministry by Mark Oestreicher

Merry Christmas all, and enjoy or be horrified by this weird collection of nativity oddness from Mark Oestreicher.

collaboration works at a practical level: whatever hierarchical power a leader might forfeit by leading collaboratively is gained by an order of magnitude in terms of buy-in, shared ownership of mission, creativity, follow-through, quantity of output, breaking up group think, avoiding stupid errors and blind alleys, and all sort of other CYA dead ends.

Trust is, perhaps, the single greatest factor in leadership. and, while trust is so rarely present in hierarchical power structures, it’s one of the few facets that is possible within traditional hierarchical power structures

Mark Oestreicher “Marko” describes some of the thinking behind his book, Youth Ministry 3.0: A Manifesto of Where We’ve Been, Where We Are & Where We Need to Go, as well as some interesting insights into how the conversation of the book continues to evolve. Listen in as he poses questions about context, contextualization, and identify formation in adolescents.

Several years ago, I was working as the youth worker in a church just northeast of Los Angeles….And Mark Oestreicher, idiot youth worker, stuck to his lesson plan.