Blog: IYH 404-423

This section covers a few different subjects from getting people engaged to the point they are locked, charisma and how it is actually a learnable skill vs something that people are born with, and how to keep people motivated from start to finish along the path. For getting people engaged there has to be an understanding and knowing that they can make an impact, that they have skills, and the objective is of importance. On charisma there is ten teachable or learnable skills, each one playing some significant role with how they can be used when interacting with people, this can help filling ministry roles. Sometimes there are hard paths we travel down to get to where we are going, but they can lake encouragement so leaders need to come along side those to encourage or motivate them to reach their goals.


The basis of the section is how leaders can come along side their volunteers, staff members, or anyone else for that matter and teach them skills, motivate them to reach goals, or help them understand why it is necessary for people to be full engaged. It's funny when I read this book because in so many ways before enrolling in this class there has been times where I've been doing this or currently am doing this in my life. My time before North Central I not only a soldier, but a student and a volunteer at my church back in Duluth, MN where I'm from and these were things that I just picked up on. I've been going to school far long than most people will ever want or would dare too as I started in the fall of 2008 and it's now fall of 2015 and by the time I will graduate it will be close to 8 years if not more since this journey started. People have kept me motivated from one semester to the next especially in the middle of the semester when everything closes in around you. This book has a lot of great tips and tools, it's just a little bland when a student as the experiences of someone who's older than the normal student by eight or nine years maybe more. So tell my fellow students I say to them stay the course, don't loose sight of who God is turning you into, and follow him wherever he leads you.