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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008The New York City Leadership Center Coming September 2008 “Who the center targets and why we need it.”
Willow Creek Embraces the Mess
Thursday, January 24th, 2008The latest issue of Willow magazine, published by Willow Creek Association, features my article “Embrace the Mess: Why Youth Must Lead Now.” Here’s an excerpt. It felt like a mutiny. As an official youth group, we were still young  not yet two years old  and our teens were even younger spiritually. Most were [...]
Engage Leadership Conference
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008I spent the weekend at the NY Baptist Convention’s Engage Leadership Conference, where I had the privilege of spending five sessions interacting with youth workers from around New York and New Jersey. As promised, here are links to the notes and materials online. Note to non-Engage participants: The theme of the weekend was leadership development [...]
Friday Foto Finish
Friday, December 21st, 2007The past few weeks this weblog resembles a photo gallery more than a traditional blog. What with all the holiday cheer, my still relatively new camera, and the belief in the old cliche that a picture says 1,000 words better than 1,000 words can, that’s been unavoidable! This installment of Friday Foto Finish is a [...]
Outreach magazine has a thing for my friends
Monday, November 26th, 2007Liz Rios joins recent cover boy Dimas Salaberrios on the cover of the latest issue of Outreach magazine. She’s profiled as an emerging Latina leader as part of the issue’s “Hispanics in America” focus: Raised by a single mom in a community of single mothers in the Manhattan projects, Puerto-Rican born Elizabeth Rios never questioned [...]
Why Not?
Monday, November 19th, 2007“… Since my agenda wasn’t working anyway, I ditched it at the next meeting, situated the chairs in a circle, told the group what I was feeling, and asked them to do the same. What surfaced surprised me. The youth felt bored not because they wanted to pull away, but because they wanted more. “Many [...]
Time to be vulnerable
Thursday, November 15th, 2007“Bob from the church is one of the most honest men you’ll ever meet, passionate about the Lord, compassionate for people, and real about his shortcomings. That realness made him safe to talk to, so I vented one evening. He listened. Empathized. Did all the things a friend does in a crisis. But then he [...]
Embrace the Mess: Why Youth Must Lead Now
Friday, November 2nd, 2007- The following is from my November 2007 article in Tri-State Voice. Read the full article here. _______________________ It felt like a mutiny. As an official youth group, we were still young – not yet two years old – and our teens were even younger spiritually. Most were new to the congregation and raw street [...]
Blogging from CCDA 2
Thursday, October 11th, 2007Here are my notes from the empowering indigenous leadership workshop. “The world’s best companies are realizing that no matter what business they’re in, their real business is building leaders.” – Fortune, “The Leadership Issue,” 10/01/07 I had a great time co-presenting with Flo Haraway, the woman who actually gets things done at Harambee while Rudy’s [...]
Monday Morning MP3
Monday, October 8th, 2007Raising up a New Generation of Urban Heroes Larry Acosta, CCDA 2005 Courtesy: UrbanMinistry.org.
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