LeaderSource

From Leaderpedia

Strategic Global Assistance, Inc. has been working internationally since the 1980s. It was established as a non-profit organization with a 501(c)(3) Federal tax exempt status on April 19, 1999. In 2007, we aligned all of our leader development initiatives under a new division, LeaderSource. We are based in Elkhart, Indiana, and have representatives in the U.S., Africa, India and Asia.

Contents 1 Our Mission 2 Our Vision 3 Our Strategy 4 Our Values 4.1 Guiding Principles 5 More information

Our Mission

LeaderSource's mission is to strengthen and expand the church worldwide by building healthy leaders.

Our Vision

Our purpose is to catalyze indigenous movements of healthy leader development and care, and thereby accelerate church planting and disciple-making around the world - especially in regions of fast church growth.

Our Strategy

LeaderSource's strategy begins with continued research and development of "models" - the conceptual frameworks that show the Bible's standard for leadership, servant leadership, healthy leaders, practices of exemplary leaders, leader development, leading change, etc. On the basis of these models, LeaderSource prepares resources, conducts learning events, and engages in individual consulting and coaching to empower three groups of people to teach the model to indigenous leaders. These are:

• LeaderSource teaching staff: full-time and part-time paid staff members who travel to the nations and engage with key leaders.
• LeaderSource indigenous staff: full-time staff members who are using the ConneXions model in their own context and who have the calling and capacity to share it with other leaders in their own nations and regions.
• ConneXions Coaches: selected volunteer pastors and leaders from the U.S. and other nations who have extensive leadership experience as well as the capacity to teach the ConneXions model to leaders and help them to apply the principles in their own leader development work.

These LeaderSource team members work with indigenous leaders in the following ways:

1. They build them in their own spiritual lives, biblical understanding, marriages, families and ministries.
2. They explore with them the core biblical principles of leader development. This is quite different from imposing a particular curriculum or preplanned leader development "package" on the indigenous leaders. Instead, this involves working with them conceptually to enable them to internalize the fundamental biblical principles of leader development.
3. They coach them on an ongoing basis as they form and implement their own designs in their own environments.
4. They resource them with leader development tools, printed materials, examples and case studies of effective leader development in a variety of contexts, and other pertinent resources.
5. They help them network with leaders from other groups and church planting movements, with whom they interact regarding leader development.
6. Ultimately, the indigenous leaders will define their own foundational models of Christian leadership and leader development, appropriate to their own cultures and communities. This is the ultimate expression of indigenization and contextualization - when the indigenous leaders define their own foundational models of leader development

This high level of indigenous ownership and depth of true contextualization are two unique characteristics of LeaderSource's strategy.

Our Values

• Centrality of Jesus Christ: Christian leadership, including our own leader development work, must be built on and in union with the Person of Jesus Christ.
• The Word of God is Truth: Our beliefs, models and practices must be soundly based on the Scriptures.
• The Importance of Community: Healthy leaders are built in community and they lead in supporting and accountable community.
• Integrity: Ultimately, God is more interested in who we are than in what we do.
• Indigenization: 
  • We seek to understand and serve what God is already doing in the nations, working in partnership with existing indigenous organizations and movements.
  • We seek to catalyze, by influencing and building the right few.
• Partnership:
  • We network regional and international leaders together to help each other.
  • We collaborate with other leader development ministries for mutual learning and assistance.
• The Mustard Seed Principle: If we do the right thing with the right people at the right time it may be small but it can transform nations!
• Accountability for Results: To do the right things the right way, we must know what is working.

Guiding Principles

• We work in partnership with existing national organizations and movements.
• We seek to empower and leverage national leaders.
• We focus on influencing and equipping as opposed to funding and organizing.
• We seek to understand and build upon what God is already doing in the nations.
• We network key international leaders together so church movements will be positioned to help other church movements.
  

More information

See the LeaderSource website.