UNITED Leaders

A few a weeks back, all of our student leaders at Cross Point came together as ONE team leading students on 4 CP campuses. I’m very proud of these men and women, who not only love and lead our students well, but who also work very hard at being UNITED–ONE team doing ministry in 4 different places.

We’ve come to realize that we need the following to be better together.

1.) Unified Commitment

By God’s design, no one person is gifted to do everything well. Student ministry is communal; it is the work of a entire body or team. And, when you are on a team, the overall team’s well being and goals take precedent over individual desires and preferences—unifying everyone.

2.) Collaborative Climate

There is a large body of research and data that consistently concludes that collaborative environments are far more efficient and productive than competitive ones. We will be far more successful by working well with others than by competing with others or trying to work alone.

The Major Goal of Our SM team, right now.

To Work Together More Effectively and Efficiently as a Functioning Team on Each Campus.

To begin that work, we must realize we bring a great gift to the team that contributes to it functioning better—we like this part of team and can live there easily. However, we also bring some measure of dysfunction that can destroy both unified commitment and a collaborative climate—too often we would rather just avoid this, but we can’t if we truly hope to function more highly as a team.

The Starting Point of Teamwork?

It begins with establishing the right attitude and spirit of healthy teams; which is first and foremost, BE FOR each other.

The Payoff

When we participate on a well functioning team, we know it…

-We experience higher levels of joy.
-We see greater results from our efforts.
-We are quick to extend trust and grace to each other.
-We have more fun.