and Kim Shockley, Coordinator for Pathways of Spiritual Leadership
ChangeMakers is coming soon!
Senior High Youth are invited to be ChangeMakers through our highly interactive immersion experience at Wesley Forest from June 28 – July 2, 2020. This experience is designed for young people to learn more about how they are wired for leadership. Youth will learn aspects of leadership and discern where their gifts can meet a true need. Each participant will design a leadership initiative to take back to their local church or community, as well as participate in much that Wesley Forest has to offer for fun, nature, and worship.A special covenant between the young people, their congregation, and the Young Clergy Initiative (YCI) will be in place to support the participants through the ChangeMakers event and the follow-up leadership initiative. This is a powerful opportunity for local churches to live out a culture of call for your young people and help them develop as leaders. Local United Methodist Congregations are being asked to recruit one to three young people who exhibit gifts for leadership. The church provides $250 support for participation. (There are limited scholarships for local churches who would find this to be a true hardship). The young people will contribute $50, and the YCI grant funds will undergird the remaining costs of the experience and training. Each local church leadership team will also covenant to find ways to actively support the young person’s leadership initiative with enthusiasm and encouragement when they return home! Participants will also be invited to join a Continuous Learning group with peers and a coach for 6 months following ChangeMakers.
YCI hopes to encourage young people to explore God’s call to vocational leadership as a layperson or clergyperson, however this experience is also geared to help young people to sense God’s guidance on living as Spiritual transformational leadership every day and everywhere they go, as disciples of Jesus Christ!
Please contact Kim Shockley (KShockley@susumc.org) for more information and instructions on how your local church can register your youth. This year’s experience will be limited to the first 75 youth who are registered. You will also be provided with a supportive covenant that will undergird this experience between the young person and their local congregation. This immersion experience is being planned by the Growing Spiritual Transformational Leader Team in cooperation with Ministry Incubators and the Young Clergy Initiative!
This is an amazing opportunity for young people. Please, give this gift of leadership development for your youth and register today! Preparing young leaders is absolutely essential to the present and future of our shared mission and ministry together.
