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Challenges of Leadership for Mission in a World of Difference

Challenges of Leadership for Mission in a World of Difference. 1. Prophecy/Visioning 2. Care of members 3. Administration and Stewardship (McBride). Maintenance v Mission. Focus on needs of ageing members Dealing with majority of O/S born members

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Challenges of Leadership for Mission in a World of Difference

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  1. Challenges of Leadership for Mission in a World of Difference 1. Prophecy/Visioning 2. Care of members 3. Administration and Stewardship (McBride)

  2. Maintenance v Mission • Focus on needs of ageing members • Dealing with majority of O/S born members • Simply keeping up with changes in compliance • 75% organisational change efforts do not yield promised results (Deschryver-Mueller) • Working hard to get people to work together peaceably let alone effectively

  3. Diversity “Holding diversity lightly” (McBride) • Ethnicity/culture • Generation • Educational background • Gender • Ministries • Personalities

  4. Leadership Models I • One in four born O/S • One in two have a parent born O/S • 8 national conferences Uniting Church • Variety of Catholic ethnic chaplaincies What impact do they have on leadership in God’s Mission?

  5. Leadership Models II • Contemporary: education / expertise • Kinship seniority and formal education • Theological expertise in Australian parishes?

  6. Appointment / Election • Appointed leaders often efficient • Elected leaders often good observers / listeners • Mixed cultural group – some seek dynamic movement while others prefer relationships

  7. Consensus • What is to be achieved and how it is to be done? • Gather, inform, listen

  8. Pastoral Practice New worldviews and cultural practices have implications for: • Discipleship • Pastoral care • Decision-making • Conflict-resolution

  9. Well-being of Leader • Spiritual Leader moves in honest wonder and openness to discover and point to signs of goodness, grace, courage and hope… which suggest presence of a greater power for good in the universe. (McRae-MacMahon)

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