“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” ~ John Quincy Adams During my years as the Executive Director at Peacemaker Family Center (PFC) in Miami, Florida, I have learned that…
“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore In my work as the Executive Director of the Peacemaker Family Center at Trinity Church, I have…
“Now Deborah, a prophet, the wife of Lappidoth, was leading Israel at that time.” Judges 4:4 NIV Deborah is one of my favorite leaders mentioned in the Bibles’s Old Testament. She led Israel during a time of great…
“You can never stop believing and acting in the belief that your cause has the power to change the world. If you don’t believe then who will?” ~ Brian Sooy A cause is a reason or motive for some human action. Brian Sooy writes in…
A year ago, our mission team was busy working on a biogas digester project at Teen Challenge Cambodia. On our team was a young woman named Lacy Beach. At age 19, Lacy’s desire was to be a missionary. She had been inspired to serve in Cambodia…
“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” ~ Elie Wiesel I am privileged to have three very strong, young women in my family. My daughter Vanessa who is just…
Today, I am reposting this article I originally wrote for the Lead Change Group. Fifteen years ago, I reinvented myself and started a new career in faith-based social services. I have had the privilege of building innovative social service programs…
After ten months of planning, I am in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, leading a mission construction and outreach team at Teen Challenge Cambodia and three other local faith-based, humanitarian programs along with with 27 other team members from Trinity…
I am honored to share this guest blog post written by Mark Miller. This post originally published Monday, December 2, 2013 on Mark’s blog at www.greatleadersserve.org 10 RESOLUTIONS FOR THE SERVANT LEADER I’m often preoccupied with the…
Everything I learned about servant leadership I learned from serving children who have incarcerated parents. For the last fourteen years, I have had the privilege of developing unique, faith-based social service programs at the Peacemaker Family…