Trust Builders

“Trust” (pagtitiwala) is a necessary ingredient for creating a healthy mentoring environment.

• Trust us based on integrity. You can easily trust a mentor who is reliable and honest.
• Relationships of trust provide the foundation for “transformational” discipleship.
• Only in trusting relationships can we honestly deal with barriers to obedience and overwhelming sins that hold us back from spiritual growth.

Tips on Building Trust

• TIME - once-a-week. be on time. make it a great moment.
• RESPECT/RESPONSIBILITY - use talents/gifts & awareness of limitations
• UNDERCOVER - keep everything confidential.
• SUPPORT - in almost every life area.
• TRUTH - in both walk and talk (modeling).

7 Pointers on FINISHING What You Have STARTED

1. Intimacy with God
2. Seven Basic Skills
3. Biblical Perspective on Life
4. Humble & Teachable Spirit
5. Clear Purpose and Calling
6. Submissive Mentoring Relationship
7. Passionate Ministry Service

The Vision will Never Die!

HABAKKUK 2:2-3 (New Living Translation) Then the Lord said to me, “Write my answer plainly on tablets, so that a runner can carry the correct message to others. This vision is for a future time. It describes the end, and it will be fulfilled. If it seems slow in coming, wait patiently, for it will surely take place. It will not be delayed.

Write One-Goal for...

• My Self
• MY Family
• MY Church

Action Plan: Daily Principle of Three

WORD OF ENCOURAGEMENT Dale Galloway:

[Leading with Vision (Makati City, Philippines: Church Strengthening Ministry,Inc., 1999), 31]

Fulfilling the great dream God has given you takes a lot of DEDICATION, but without wholehearted commitment your dreams are only empty wishes os passing fantasies. The vision is not going to happen until you get your heart in it. Jesus said, Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also" (Matthew 6:21). What you place value on is going to have your heart. In the Bible the word heart means the center of your affections. To fulfill the vision, you have to want it with all your heart.

TEN 2009 CARRY-OVER LESSONS

1. God first! - Quiet Time Priority (Reflection . Revelation . Revolution)
2. Be an Evangelist - intentionally positive, on-look for the best, & share the good news
3. Idealistic but realistic - a “big vision” keeps us holy, happy and healthy.
4. Family focus - our family leadership is the foundation of our ministry success. “Everything rises and fall with family leadership.”
5. Invest on people - if you want their hands invest on their hearts.
6. Be teachable - listen to people, study diligently and process learnings.
7. Sustaining fire - experience daily revival!
8. Teamwork=Dreamwork - work God’s dream with special and talented people
9. Close everything - finish tasks. close bad relational issues.
10. Love is Greatest - love is the best reset button we can press when things get confusing.

ACTION: Start Mentoring Leaders!

Vision in Action

OUR MISSION...

• Encounter - “PEP” (School of Consolidation)
• Educate - “SOL1-3” (School of Leaders)
• Empower - Cell Group & G12 Launch | “SOT” (School of Teachers)

OUR VALUES...

• Upward - devote to God
• Inward - minister to others
• Outward - reach out to people
• Forward - focus on leadership development

7 BASIC MINISTRY SKILLS...

1. Quiet Time
2. Church Service
3. Giving
4. Evangelism
5. Consolidation
6. Cell
7. Leadership Development

ONE-WAY QUIET TIME...

• Reflection (Read and Meditate)
• Revelation (God’s Insight)
• Revolution (Disciples Action)

G12 Group Basic Mentoring System

G12 Leaders’ and Disciples’ Tools

1. Bible - preferably New International Version or Mabuting Balita Biblia
2. Journal - where you can write your QT Notes, Cell Notes, G12 Notes and Sunday Messages
3. Pen and Marker

FJC Vision: Biblical Basis

"Everyone a LEADER who LOVES GOD and LEADS CELLS (to All Nations)”

• Matthew 22:37-39 (Great Commandment)
• Matthew 28:18-20 (Great Commission)

G12 Meeting System

1. CARE - Need - How can I help you?
2. COUNSEL - Challenges - What are the problems/issues you are currently facing?
3. COACH - Vision - Where are you now in the vision?

Successful Leadership by Cesar Castellanos (Part 1: Chapter 9 , pp. 79-85)

Chapter 9: EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP

Page 79

• Intro: “A visionary possesses the ability to transform the absurd into something beautiful, the vile and despicable into something pure, and the weak into something strong.”
• God needs leaders with character comparable to His own. (From molding to modeling)
• What made David great was the way he responded to each situation with an obedient heart and was faithful to what his father had entrusted him.

Page 80

• David knew the secret of persistence. Success must be result of a positive mental attitude.
• Mediocre thoughts = mediocre results.
• Faithful attitude = victorious results.
• Need to wear: “helmet of salvation.” (knowledge of scriptures)

Page 81-83

Lesson 1: Leaders are not born as such, they are made.

• Strength and vigor are qualities that distinguish a wise leader (Proverbs 24:5). These are acquired though a process of character development where one is ultimately able to influence others.
• A person chosen to carry out a leadership role regardless of his personality, should be molded by the Lord and guided by biblical principles.

Five Important principles you must consider when you become a leader:

1. All things work together for good - all good and bad experiences serve a purpose in strengthening our character.
2. There are no losers - great leaders of human history were forged in times of crisis. Abraham Lincoln asked by a journalist, “Aren’t you tired of failing?” He replied: “I haven’t failed yet, I just haven’t attained the desired results.”
3. It is necessary to assume responsibility - the ability to assume responsibility is what gives internal strength to a person.
4. Absolute commitment - commitment shows dedication and consecration to the cause that drives us to leadership, and our cause is Christ. The fruit of abundance waits for the one who fully devotes himself to the mission.
5. Defining short and long-term goals - goals are the bricks with which purposes are built, and that defines the fulfillment of man.

Lesson 2: Reproducing in Others (Pp. 83-84)

• We must be conscious of the need to forge successors.
• When leadership reaches the level of required commitment, it will have the ability to shape others so that they reproduce what God has placed inside them.
• Needs creates a team committed to the vision and a reason that drives us to work.
• 1Corinthians 11:1. This means that an important step required to have a committed team is to give paradigms of conduct, where the leader becomes the example worthy of imitation.
• The true leader worthy of being imitated is the one who instead of saying, “go” says “let’s go.”

Lesson 3: A Lasting Leadership (pp. 84-85)

• An effective leader endures along with his followers who have been formed to perpetuate the word that God has assigned.
• John Maxwell: “The most important asset is people.”
• The measure of success of a pastor is determined by the number of disciples he is training for leadership.