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Maintains overall leadership, but he/she relies heavily on the other four primary leaders and their assistants to carry out much of the daily life functions of the team. - The overall leader of the team and chairman of the Team Council.
- Responsible for making final decisions on interpretation of ministry policy. This includes major factors relating to personnel, schedule, finance, programming, etc.
- Regular reporting to commissioning leadership, local sponsoring leadership, and families. King’s Kids Regional or International Leadership should also be informed.
- Maintains a high standard of training and function in every area of team life, travel, and ministry through the quality of his/her leaders and his/her relationship to them as well as his/her personal rapport with each of the young people and children, It is his/her responsibility to know how everyone is doing on the team. Constantly checks this area. Know well the condition of your flock.
- Personally responsible to the parents of the participating young people and children for their safety and conduct.
- Represents the team to pastors and other community leaders.
- Often serves as the primary spokesperson in public settings.
- Maintains a balance of activities providing the overall spiritual leadership of the team by example and direction.
- Constantly checks to see if team is effectively pursuing pre-stated goals.
- Spends time in prayer everyday to see what God wants to say to the team from the standpoint of correction, encouragement, direction, and general edification.
- Handles serious discipline problems with staff and/or young people or children.
Qualifications - Experience in leading adults in the context of Christian ministry.
- Secure in God, knowledgeable in His Word.
- Able to handle pressure and many factors at once.
- A visionary.
- Comfortable in front of people, good communicator.
- A heart for God.
- A heart of the families, heart for children, heart of teenagers.
- A burden for the lost.
- A peacemaker, yet not afraid to confront people.
- Challenged not threatened by the impossible.
- A kingdom fighter, strong but gentle.
- Aggressive, but not reckless.
- Someone parents could unhesitatingly entrust their children to.
- A good sense of humor.
- A good steward of time, people, money, and resources.
Dangers - Failure to delegate responsibility to other leaders and support them through times of their mistakes and incompetence.
- Must guard against becoming burdened down with problem creating a driving legalistic team atmosphere.
- Cannot afford to delay dealing with any signs of disunity or wrong attitudes among staff or children. Must know the state of his flock.
- Cannot be closed to input from others, but instead must take full advantage of the safety there is in a circle of counselors.
- Afraid to admit failure or reluctant to share about areas of weakness.
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