Personal Leadership Assessment Some years ago I was taking in the leadership training at The Vietnamese Theological Seminary in Los Angeles, California. I was struck by the fact that most of students were talking about the power of leadership. As I was thinking along those lines, I did not know much about leadership at that time. I went to the library and checked out the books that related to the leadership such as Developing the Leader within John Maxwell, Courageous Leadership by Bill Hybels, Good to Great by Jim Collins and Experiencing God by Henry Blackaby. After read those books, I know the people in my organization who are in leadership positions must know how to bring out the best in everyone. Effective leaders are trustworthy, confident, and encourage employees to grow, take risks, and excel in their positions. Maxwell writes: “A leader is great, not because of his or her power, but because of his or her ability to empower others.” From that result, I have a dream to become a great leader in the future. Therefore, in the first part, I will discuss about how I involve the leadership in my church today. Leadership in My Church I have at least three things I need to compromise about the leadership. One is that leadership, as I usually think of it, is never divorced from an organization. Two is how that leadership never lost the comfortable and joy which arranges people in certain ways to accomplish their goals. Three, before start up, I should know the strengths, weaknesses of what I am. To do this, I need to review what I know and not know about leadership. The best way to learn is check the experience and to see what is beneficial that will help me to find the good and bad ways from them and take advantage of that knowledge. Then, I decide to search the Scripture. It does not surprise me to find that the apostles, as they walked with Jesus, thought along very similar lines regarding leadership and authority. In the book of Mark 10:35-37: And James and John, the two sons of Zebedee, came up to Him, saying to Him, “Teacher, we want You to do for us whatever we ask of You.” And He said to them, “What do you want Me to do for you?” And they said to Him, “Grant that we may sit in Your glory, one on Your right, and one on Your left.” After study the above Scripture, I pick up the good idea that the disciples knew from Jesus’ teachings that a Kingdom was coming. They recognized Jesus as the boss. Therefore, their reaction was to have a high position of responsibility and authority in the organization. And they went to the boss and see if they can get their request not Jesus’ assignment. A quite broken mind comes out from James and John design. I am not happy with that, so I like to result what I think the most helpful passage that I can turn to about being examples is founded in Hebrews 13:7. Here the writer is not addressing elders at all, but addressing the body of believers. But he is talking about their leaders. Notice what he says: “Remember those who led you, who spoke the word of God to you; and considering the outcome of their life, imitate their faith.” There is no way that I will ever achieve my dream and go on to live a hugely leadership successful existence. In fact, unless I know precisely what “leadership” means to me, I will never be a winner during this lifetime. Leadership is not only reached by those who keep their fires of desire burning strong and who keep trying and trying again until they succeed, but it is reached by those who know what they influence. Those who attain greatness display the winning character trait of perceptiveness. This is the shrewd ability to know what “leadership” means to them. Like many people though, the only question worth considering is, “What is your faith like? Is it worth imitating?” In other words, “What is the qualitative evaluation of your life?” The sheep and elders are fellow sheep as well will follow a lead sheep only on the basis of the pattern of his life; not what an elder does so much, but the pattern of his life. In Hebrews 13:17 to give his last statement to the body: “Obey your leaders, and submit to them; for they keep watch over your souls, as those who will give an account.” Starting new leadership that helps people to find their way work together in joyful, I love helping other people start new things through the leadership today in my church. The next step is a thrill to me for presenting the past influences. Past Influences Inspiring the leadership experiences, influencing from the leadership events, learning from the leadership books or courses. These sources are most importance things to shape my leadership in the church. I believed that I improved my leadership in effectively in helping people to build the kingdom of God. From the books. The Bible, of course, would be at the top of the list. Max Lucado’s early books shaped my devotional life as a young pastor. The Christian fiction work In His Steps by Charles Sheldon helped me to match my behavior with my beliefs. And I loved the leadership/business book Good to Great by Jim Collins. Too Busy Not to Pray by Bill Hybels affected me deeply. J. I. Packer’s Knowing God shaped my view of Scripture. Leadership always has been the standard for me leadership-wise. With the obvious exception of the Bible, I would say that Philip Yancey’s The Jesus I Never Knew and John Piper’s The Supremacy of God in Preaching have affected me deeply. A text book Leadership Training: A Servant of God by An Van Pham impacted me greatly. In one his email to his M. Div. students about the leadership on June 17, 2009, he writes: “A good leader is the one who is good on communication…” The other remarkable lecture, he states: Leader is a person who has responsible for general rather than just a professional expert in an area with fixed and limited. Leader also does not need to go into every detail of the problem, but he or she must know the issues. The group leaders need to work closely with people divide the assignments divided people. However, a leader must take responsible for general supervision to remind, encourage, evaluate, of finding the strong and weak points in order to earn experience. From great people. Besides the studying of the books, the great people who made the biggest influence in my life as Jesus, of course. He knows where I would be going and he directs my entire life. In addition, I have had several wonderful mentors whose lives have said, “Follow me as I follow Christ,” they modeled Christ to me in the ways that mattered most. Without a doubt, my parents stand out the most. My dad – But Van Nguyen, who is terribly missed, my dad had the greatest influence on my passion. I think of my mom – Diep Thi Nguyen had the great influence on my attitude – optimistic and believing all things is possible. Both passed away many years ago. When I was around 18 or 19 years old I really began learning about leadership from Tran Hung Dao (1228-1300), formally was one of the paramount Vietnamese national heroes. Nguyen Du (1765–1820) wrote a famous novel in verse, Kim Van Kieu. Hoang Ngoc Phach, who wrote the romantic novel To Tam (1925), is credited with the introduction of Western literary standards into Vietnamese literature. It would be difficult to name just one. I had many persons who shaped my leadership in positively ways such as John Maxwell – and that set the tone for my continued pursuit of leadership. And there are actually a lot of people in my life – teachers, pastors, old ladies who really knew some things about prayer that I hope to one day figure out, and others who really impacted my life over the years. Andy Stanley has helped keep me to focus on my commitment of reaching people who don’t know God. The three other persons have had great influence on me – Rick Warren, An Van Pham and Tamvan Tran. Rick, at Saddleback, influenced me in ways I am still discovering on the leadership. I have learned from Rick a great leadership in how to do things differently in our church than ever. Rick opened my eyes to what a church could be. I was stuck in the traditional mold, and dying. I learned a ton from Rick about building a healthy church. If it wasn’t for Rick’s influence I don’t think I would have ever started the Vietnamese Baptist Church in Dalton, Georgia ten years from now. An Van Pham is a great leader too. He taught me to pursue a great vision, with a humble heart. He has had a significant impact on my leadership style. I have learned a great deal from him how to focus on the main things in writing essays. He also taught me the power that can come from expository preaching which I employ in my sermons. Tamvan Tran, my lovely wife, she was encouraging me on the path when I was just staring the church that I am still walking today. I learned from her how to care my people well. She helped me in quit blaming the people that I was leading. The challenge I have had in my leadership is not to get away from my two sons and a daughter: NguyenVu, MinhVu and XuanVu. I have learned so much about being a good to a great father in my struggles and joy as a father. Now that they are grown, but I am still influenced and motivate by them. I am closed enough to them so we influence in both sides of life and family. I always keep at the forefront the role of leadership in a church to be fully understood by the people in a church. What I mean by this, is that if the leaders truly are Ephesians 4:11-12 equipping others for the work of the ministry, then it means that the staff has to view their role different and the people of the church need to view the staff and themselves differently. This is hard to do, and even with non-Christians coming in from the outside, they still have perceived understandings of what the “pastor” is that also needs to be re-taught. Also, with this approach it is critical to have a healthy leadership culture where people serving are truly cared for and supported and not just used by the church and burnt out. I firmly believe that God calls pastors to not only to lead, but to be a leader of leaders. From the events. The leadership influenced my life that I intend to make it as a remarkable event. Then I found that Jesus had already elaborated on His leadership style. He said: “I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep” (John 10:11 KJV). One great thing I have learned he is always sure to include a few colorful descriptive words to practitioners. Instead of saying that make people tire or thrilled, Jesus simply puts influencers attract imitators. There are many writings about Jesus, including some about His leadership style. When I read the part where Jesus said: “I am the good servant.” I simply want to demonstrate that I have gone off the track when I think it is good to accentuate Jesus’ leadership style. I want to find the best leadership style, it would be best if I concern about the future of the sheep, but in these verses He was primarily referring to His own leadership style. He was telling us about the best leadership style to apply if we want the sheep to thrive. They needed shepherd-like care, protecting and caring for the sheep. Strengths and Weakness I would like to presents and discusses my personality strengths and weaknesses. It then evaluates how my existing strengths can be used for furthering my leadership career such as trustworthy, loyal, confident, and encourage employees to grow, take risks, and excel in their positions. It also addresses how my weaknesses, specifically in the verbal and linguistic area, can be turned into strengths over time and through efforts to improve. Strength analysis: Trustworthy. I have had a great influence on my leadership – some of them in positive like trustworthy, confident, and encourage employees to grow, take risks, and excel in their positions. People trust me because I have a reputation of being honest, reliable and responsible. Being considered trustworthy provides benefits from the way people deal with me, as well as I own self-esteem. So, I am very carefully to keep this reputation. There are numerous benefits from being trustworthy I received from people who like to deal with me because they trust me. For example: Many Vietnamese Baptist churches in Atlanta like to invite me to preach. Some of their church members know me and they tell the others that I am a man with honestly. Their pastor likes to have a reliable relationship with me. They also like my congregation who they can trust to take responsibility. When people trust me, they will like me and give me more opportunities than others. I feel good about myself that I have integrity and cannot be influenced by negative, outside forces trying to bring me down. I feel self-respect, knowing that I am worthy of others trust. Being trustworthy is an admirable character trait. It is being honest, reliable and responsible. Others will respect and want to continue relationships and dealing with me. Opened minded: I do want to break the barriers that most groups faced when they are interacting with others, I also like to create an environment to communicate openly in the group; my goals are not criticizing, not criticism or pressure placed on personal work. This is a safe environment for people to share and really considered that are their second meaningful home. I believe the channels of communication that I directly to communicate via email. For people to communicate openly, I am a good example of sharing and trust others in the process of working in my group. Weakness points. There is nothing that gets me fired up more than long time with Christians or leaders in my church who still thinks a pastor have to do everything. The biggest barrier of my leadership is getting upset about some church leaders did the wrong ways instead of being to reach the lost in effectively ways. I get upset to those who are afraid of change or change for sake. This is damaging not only for the leadership but for the relationship as well as it should – this is also a downfall in allowing unvalued mission to happen as it will discourage to the new ideas from emerging leaders. What I Have Learned the Leadership from the Readings (3pp) 10-12 This is a difficult question I have to answer, of course by myself. I have read three books. First one is Developing the Leadership within You by John Maxwell. Through Maxwell. Second one is Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind by Jack Trout and Al Ries and the last one is Good to Great by Jim Collins. First book. Developing the Leadership within You by John Maxwell. Through Maxwell’s work Developing the Leader within You is full of potential and sage wisdom. First, in this case, the strength of the book also poses as its weakness. Maxwell begins with strong statement of the insight about influence. He writes: “Everyone influences someone” (2). He concludes that each one of us is both influencing and being influenced by others. For example, in chapter one, he lists five stages of influence that individuals move through alongside five levels of leadership are as follows: position, permission, production, people development, personhood (5) by which a real leader knows the difference between being the boss and being a leader, as illustrated by the following. Second, Maxwell labels projects as high importance/high urgency; high importance/low urgency; low importance/high urgency and low importance/low urgency. Tackle high importance/high urgency projects first. He sets deadlines for completion of high importance/low urgency projects. Delegate low importance/high urgency projects. Postpone indefinitely low importance/low urgency projects. Keep priorities in place through regular evaluation, elimination and estimation. “Evaluate: Every month review the 3 R’s (Requirements/Return? Reward). Eliminate: Ask yourself, ‘What am I doing that can be done by someone else?’ Estimate: What are the top projects you are doing this month and how long will they take” (28). Third, he gives out the definition of integrity as “the state of being complete, unified” (35). This is a strong insight of a leader. In fact, one person with integrity does not have divided loyalty. Maxwell asserts a good leader must be “the one who influences other to follow only is a leader within certain limitations. The one who influences others to lead others is a leader without limitations.” (113) Maxwell is too exclusive in identifying the role of leader as anything other than the one who know how to inspire others to accomplish of labor. However, for those who would take the price of self-discipline will face the truth such as we cannot travel without until we first travel within a relating of these responsibilities among the various leaders allowing for better within hard work you should have (163). Maxwell teaches me about the leadership in topmost as he wrote: “Don’t be a fact hog. Share information with everyone who is affected, not with just the key players. People are usually ‘down on’ what they are not ‘up-on.’ As a leader, you will know you have succeeded when the members of your team put the interest of the group over their own” (193). Correspondingly, the more successful I get is from John Maxwell presently. Second book. Good to Great by Jim Collins. He and his research team set out to do research on why some companies outperform others. He starts to write Level 5 Leadership with a quote from Harry Truman: “You can accomplish anything in life, provided that you do not mind who get credit.” (17) What I learn the leadership from Collins is people need to work or activity that pulls the level 5 out of them. My concept of Level 5 Leadership is if I am not doing something that I am passionate about, I can never become a level 5 leader. Level 5 leaders will do whatever it takes to make their company great, and finding that something special you care about will help a leader in becoming a level 5 leader. Therefore, this book is one of those rare finds that just makes sense. It not only reveals core principles that most companies should follow to be successful. It also relays those same principles to how individuals can be successful in their personal lives. It follows the premise on why just be good at what you do when you can be great at what you do. This is an intriguing concept due to the fact that most companies mostly concentrate on the bottom line instead of actually putting out a product or offering a service that would stand the test of time. I also learn the leadership is caring from this book, Jim Collins challenges the notion that “people are your most important asset” and postulates, instead, that “the right people are.” Despite the authors emphasis on finding the right people, theres no evidence that a company has to have concern for its employees as a core value for it to be great. There are a number of inherently great companies that didnt have this. I dont think Walt Disney cared about his people. He cared about films, and Disneyland, and smiles of kids. On the other side, with Hewlett-Packard and IBM, I had the antithesis of Walt Disney. When I look at corporate history, what matters are not what core values I have a core value and that I believe them. The twenty-one members of Jim Collins’ research team in Bolder Colorado, reviewed a huge amount of financial data and other documentation for 1, 435 companies that appeared in the 1965, 1975, 1985 and 1995 listings of the Fortune 500. The criteria for selecting the good-to-great companies were strict: “The good to great performance pattern must be a company shift, not an industry event. In other words, the company must demonstrate the pattern not only relate to the market, but also relate to its industry” (p. 219). After reading the book, I was impressed to learn of the concepts and characteristics that may aid me in the pursuit of personal leadership greatness. Good to Great by Jim Collins is an oriented book Ive read that can be applied to any career situation. I can see why it has gained the respect from top level executives around the world. I have read other business type books which were more of a motivational lecture than actual years of research going into the making of one text. Before reading this book, my thought was that I would be lost in trying to understand Collins ideas. But that was not the case at all. As I state previously, I may be convinced of the value of this book in the future. Third book. Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind by Jack Trout and Al Ries. The authors of this book, Jack Trout and Al Ries teach me about branding, marketing, and product management. I get the idea of creating a very large community on the Web. This book helps me how to deal with the problems of communicating. The book Positioning is right to describe a revolutionary approach to creating a position in a prospective customers mind-one. This book is good in reflecting a companys own strengths and weaknesses as well as those of its competitors. Position a follower so that it can occupy a niche not claimed by the leader. Positioning also shows me how to use leading ad agency techniques to capture the biggest market share and become a household name. Because of many companies, many products and too much marketing noise advertising in America, like motion pictures, “the TV picture is really a still picture which changes 30 times a second. Which means the average American family is exposed to someone 750,000 television pictures a day (12). This book builds a strategy around competitions weaknesses. Reposition a strong competitor and create a weak spot. Use your present position to its best advantage. Choose the best name for your product. Determine when -and why-less is more. Analyze recent trends that affect your positioning. I can see the easy way to get into a person’s mind is to be first. If I can’t be first, then I must find a way to position yourself against the product, the politician, the person who did get there first. Vietnamese people always right when they say: “First impression is last impression.” It is very hard to change that mindset to cope over communicated society. I have learned to rank products on mental ladders. “In the rent-a-car field, for example, most people put Hertz on the top rung, Avis on the second rung and National on the third rung. Before you can position anything, you must know where it is on the product ladder in the mind.” (33) Ries and Trout provide many valuable case histories and penetrating analyses of some of the most phenomenal successes and failures in advertising history. Revised to reflect significant developments in the five years since its original publication, “Positioning” is required reading for anyone in business today. “Positioning,” a concept developed by the authors, has changed the way people advertise. Its the first concept to deal with the problems of communicating in an over communicated society. With this approach, a company creates a position in the prospects mind, one that reflects the companys own strengths and weaknesses as well as those of its competitors. A competitor has no hope of going head-to-head against the position IBM has established in computers. Many companies have ignored this basic positioning principle and have suffered the consequences (37). I want to be a leader, so I have to be first to get into the mind of the prospect - and then follow the strategies for staying there. The authors write: “What works for a leader doesn’t mercenarily work for a follower. An also-ran must find a ‘creneau,’” (54) or hole in the mind not occupied by someone else. This book spells out how to position a leader so that it gets into the mind and stays there, position a follower in a way that finds a hole not occupied by the leader, and avoid the pitfalls of letting a second product ride on the coattails of an established one. Revised to reflect significant developments in the five years since its original publication, many people consider marketing as a means to let creative juices flow. This applies to both internal and external marketing. Companies tend to lose focus – whether it be because it is having a difficult time dealing with high growth or because a few upper management ‘wanna-bes try something bold. This is where positioning comes into play – if you want to survive or prosper, that is. So what I learn on this book is to exercise a concept that sparked a revolution in advertising. It was developed in by the authors of “Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind.” Positioning was the first concept to deal with the problems of communication in an over-communicated society. With positioning you can beat the competition and win the battle for recognition in an overcrowded, media-blitzed marketplace. With this approach, a company creates a ‘position in the prospects mind, one that reflects the companys own strengths and weaknesses as well as those of its competitors. Product positioning is an important strategy for achieving differential advantage. Positioning reflects the “place” a product occupies in a market or segment. Potential Changes to Improve My Leadership Abilities (3pp) 13-15 I learned from them for leadership is to be effective and help people so that they follow. Leadership, of course, is much more than individuals and their decisions and acts. Leadership as a quality may be more innate than acquired, but some qualities and characteristics can be identified and consciously brought to bear during complex and difficult times like the present. Potential changes to improve my leadership abilities such as vision, communication, courage. Vision. This idea relies on past leadership that influence is an inherent human trait and is indispensable to the stability of society. When I look back to the times it when change is slow. I mark the acceleration of events or any decisions which must not be based so much on vision on their prospective impact. I must conceive of original and breaking ways to make progress. I cannot be content to live on the accumulated vision of the past. An old idea must be repackaged and infused with new substance to meet the changing needs of the present. When the imagination produces new ideas and points toward new directions, another dimension emerges. Ideas and concepts can carry a vision far in time and space that I used during a trip to Dalton. But ideas are not in themselves enough. Ideas must be woven together into a vision and coherent strategy. The vision must fit into a larger scheme which may appear to be workable in specific cases, may fail to solve the problem and may even worsen it in the absence of a vision and coherent strategy. Without such a vision will not serve to resolve conflicts that themselves may be incompatible and contend against each other. Communication. As a leader I must speak out to set the record straight. Communication between leaders and peoples in this media-saturated age has increasingly become a matter of entertainment. I accept interpretation of the past and mistaken lessons can be drawn by future leadership. Images reach people almost instantly and influence their attitudes and decisions more powerfully than more precise and comprehensive written assessments. There is also a deeply moral responsibility that I bear in my efforts at communication. This involves advocacy for those individuals, peoples, and events that are orphaned by the global media in general. The poverty-beset individual, the desperate family, the beleaguered minority, the ghastly conflict that the press overlooks -- all these will be voiceless unless the leader speaks for them. In this age of communication, words are tantamount to deeds. The old distinction between what is said and what is done no longer holds up. Leaders therefore need to understand the vast power of their utterances and be ever-more responsible communicators as a result. Democratization -- one of the greatest projects of our time -- deepens the need for good leadership. In an age of near total communication, pressures grow for ever more direct democracy. The outcome often can be government by opinion poll, where leadership becomes followership, or, conversely, demagogic authoritarianism. Representative democracy provides both accountability to the public and an arena for responsive and creative leadership. Such challenges to leadership can be observed today in the many examples of countries seeking to democratize. In such cases true leaders understand that undemocratic means must not be used to achieve democratic ends, for such attempts can never successfully serve the long-term interests of leaders, peoples, or the future of their countries. A COOPERATIVE SPIRIT Cooperation is also a concept transformed by contemporary change. Cooperation is no longer one option to be weighed against the advantages of going it alone. Globalization means that no major problem can be effectively and enduringly dealt with unilaterally. The great conflicts of the twentieth century have demonstrated the overriding necessity of cooperation and coordination among states and peoples. The idea of unilateral action in response to conflict has progressively been scaled back until it realistically can apply today only to limited conflicts, and even then only for a limited time. Cooperation in the first instance must be achieved internally -- an objective that has always been harder to achieve in democratic societies, and those societies today are proliferating. The complexity of modern life also has multiplied the number of players and groups within a country who must have a say in matters of international affairs, issues that no longer can be regarded as the province of a special elite but that are now correctly understood to be inextricably intertwined with the domestic issues of everyday life. Just as these factors have complicated the job of coordination within a single country, they have on a larger scale made coordination among international partners more difficult and time consuming. At the same time, these factors of complexity can also be positive, offering more channels and greater opportunity for more deeply rooted, enduring, and effective solutions. It is the task of leadership to resolve the complexity and realize the opportunity. COURAGE Not every conflict can be solved by cooperative means. Courage also is essential if the leader is to succeed in the task of turning vision into reality. There are implacably dangerous enemies of peace and human dignity at large in the world. Unless there is the will to act when the situation demands action, war will become more not less frequent and new horrors and atrocities will be unleashed on the world. When the ability to act is evident, and when courage is perceived in a leader and in a people, the chances that diplomacy can work are immeasurably enhanced. But courage may also mean pursuing efforts that require accepting the risks of failure while allowing others to receive the tributes of success. POLITICAL INTUITION Political intuition is, for me, the summum bonum of all these leadership qualities. Leaders must sense where, when, how, and with whom progress can be made. Political intuition requires timing. When have warring parties reached a susceptible moment of fatigue? When will the public demand or reject action and how does that public opinion fall into phase, or fail to do so, with the needs of the moment, politically, diplomatically, and militarily? The moment -- when it appears -- must be seized. Political intuition requires an awareness that everything counts, that no issue is too small or too remote to be potentially significant. In international affairs this means that a truly global outlook is required. The superpowers had such an outlook during the Cold War, but have become more selective in their foreign policy interests since then. It is highly important that leaders regain the sense that even small and far-off details eventually can have vast and far-reaching implications. The new perspective offered by chaos theory, that the beat of a butterflys wing can lead to a typhoon in another continent, can apply to matters of statecraft as well as to matters of meteorology. Without diminishing in any way the importance of law and institutions, the time has come to recognize that the age-old qualities of leadership have not been given enough recognition recently. The best institutions are of little use in the absence of true leadership. On the other hand, an outstanding leader can make effective use of virtually any basically sound institutional system. Western emphasis on structures of government has added important new dimensions to the study of statecraft and the management of states. But good leadership continues to be essential to the long-term success of governance, even though leadership may today be measured in different terms. CONCLUSION Perhaps the time has come to give fresh recognition to the ancient wisdom that placed such strong emphasis on the qualities of leaders. In considering governance, the scholars and statesmen of the non-Western traditions of Islam, India, and China, among others, paid relatively scant attention to structure. Matters such as the separation of powers, cabinet government, or the electoral system were of little or no interest. What mattered from their perspective were the qualities of the leader. In uncounted volumes on statecraft in these ancient traditions, entire chapters are devoted to attributes of leadership such as benevolence, knowledge of foreign tongues, mental discipline, and physical stamina and ability. Examples, like the ability to ride a horse at breakneck speed while shooting an arrow at a far-off target, might be drawn from reality while at the same time standing metaphorically for the required skills of statecraft. Today, as in the past, leadership remains an essential ingredient at all levels of human life. In this time of historic transition, we urgently need leadership that, while constantly and closely attuned to the rapidly changing pulse of human affairs, can project a comprehensive, coherent, and compelling vision of human society, communicate that vision convincingly to the worlds peoples, foster its implementation through cooperative endeavor, and make and follow through on the hard decisions that will inevitably arise. The quality of leadership we engender -- globally, nationally, and at the grass-roots level -- will determine the kind of world we live in, and the state of the world those future generations will inherit. Conclusion Leaders of organizations must think about the well-being and development of the entity for which they are responsible. A church congregation is no exception. In fact, these leaders not only want, but also depend on the Holy Spirit to guide them in the development and maintenance of the congregation God has put in their care. This essay will discuss two issues: evangelism and church growth analysis and a three-year strategy plan for future. This discussion serves as an in-depth inquiry of the past and future of the Vietnamese Baptist Church of Dalton. Our intention is to put these three-year strategic plans into action. I learned from them for leadership is to be effective and help people so that they follow.
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