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Become a ConneXions Mentor

LeaderSource SGA desires to identify and train pastors and ministry leaders with extensive leadership experience and the capacity to become ConneXions Mentors.

A ConneXions Mentor is someone who is able to teach LeaderSource SGA’s ConneXions model to experienced indigenous leaders around the world and work with them to apply the principles and establish training processes that are indigenous to their own culture, community and environment.

In addition, ConneXions Mentors work with indigenous leaders in leader care – nurturing and encouraging them personally. One of the greatest needs among Christian leaders today is for spiritual fathers and mothers who personally invest in their lives.

It is our vision that the ConneXions Mentors will catalyze a movement to change the way leaders are built and cared for which will produce a crop of healthy, holistic leaders for the church around the world. This will lead to the rapid multiplication of healthy churches which in turn will bring a greater harvest of souls and ultimately transform the nations!

Requirements:

  • Have the heart of a learner and a servant.
  • Be in theological agreement with the core historical doctrines of Christianity. (Perfect doctrinal agreement with LeaderSource SGA on everything is not required.)
  • You must be a leader/teacher with capacities in both design and communication.
  • Make a commitment to the models and to the team.
  • You must do ConneXions (design and implementation) in some form appropriate for your own context.
  • Complete all the courses.
  • Attend one or two gatherings a year in Elkhart for training, coordination and encouragement.
  • Make one or more trips a year with LeaderSource SGA to other countries. Your first one or more trips will be with a mentor.
  • Explore, and then share what you learn!

Benefits:

  • Be part of a diverse team who are working together on the complex issues of leader development, speaking the same language, learning from one another, serving leaders of growing church movements in the nations.
  • Receive continuous improvement of the models.
  • Be in continuous conversation: mutual encouragement and learning.
  • Receive invitations to focused learning events.
  • Have access to Leaderpedia - an “open source” collection of leadership learning experiences and ideas for leader development, based upon the ConneXions model. Everything is contributed by, and accessible to, ConneXions Mentors.
  • Serve leaders in various nations in their leader development design.
  • Be part of a working alliance; this is not an authority structure.

The Process:

Your commitment to be a ConneXions Mentor will entail trips to Elkhart, Indiana for training and trips to other countries for ministry. Here are some details:

  1. Training. Plan on several trips to Elkhart in the first year for training. There are four courses that last four days, including travel time: Building Healthy Leaders, Designing a Collage, Design 2, and a Country Briefing. After the first year we will continue to meet in Elkhart once or twice annually for further training and coordination.
  2. Experience. You must personally be committed to the ConneXions model and using it in your own ministry context.
  3. Coaching. You will travel at least once to Elkhart for individualized coaching.
  4. Ministry. You will travel to other nations once or more per year to meet with various churches to mentor the indigenous leaders through the process of learning and applying the ConneXions model. These trips will be about two weeks in length. Your first several trips will be with an experienced mentor.
  5. Expenses. Each ConneXions Mentor will be responsible for raising his/her own expenses for training, preparation, travel and ministry in other nations.
  6. Commitment. We ask for a five-year commitment so that you have sufficient time to develop consistent, long-term relationships with our friends in other nations.
  7. Getting Started. Please call us at +1-574-295-4357 (ext. 213) or Contact Us.