Leadership Development at Riverbend

This year at Riverbend Bible Church we established a leadership development team comprised of six men who already serve in leadership roles within the church, but in whom we want to invest even more time. So every month we meet with these men as a part of our regular elders' meeting to discuss leadership principles, ministry issues, and church life.

Here is a picture of the men discussing how we can maintain a disciple-making focus in busy ministries that can so easily devolve into simple programme maintenance.

In preparation for the meeting we all read the first two chapters of The Trellis and the Vine: The Ministry Mind-shift that Changes Everything by Colin Marshall and Tony Payne. The book encourages ministry leaders to aim for the right balance of trellis work (i.e., property, programmes, administration, planning etc.) and vine work (i.e., disciple-making, evangelism, leadership training etc.). Both are needed and cannot be disregarded. Both need to kept in the right balance.

I recommend this book to you as a way to discuss ministry essentials with leaders within the church. It can be purchased here at Gracebooks NZ.