DAWN: Leadership Development
What kind of churches is DAWN planting? It is not enough to measure quantity of churches planted but quality also. What is the impact of churches in transforming communities? What difference does the church make in a nation? These are the questions that the Leadership Development Team seeks to answer.
The Leadership Development Department was created in 2001 to help respond to critical questions: What kind of churches are we planting? If spirituality is up why is morality down? What is the impact of churches in transforming societies or communities? Stated another way, what difference does the church make to a community or nation?
The purposes of the department are fourfold:
- To train church leaders worldwide to be holistic and transformational in ministry
- To develop the needed leadership competency in acting out vision
- To foster partnership among Christian Organizations engaged in leadership or holistic ministry to work together in enabling the churches to be transformational in impact; and
- To develop materials so that the concept can be cascaded from denominational structures to Bible Institutions, to Christian workers, and making church members product-champions of our Lord's holistic Gospel.
The LDM focuses on finding visionary leaders in each Country, particularly those with capacity to train others (2 Tim. 2:2) and who dare believe that evangelism and saturation church planting (+) social services and public advocacy (+) prayer and fasting (=) transformation. The Training Program can be cascaded and replicated down to the grass root level. It is a global vision with local application.
The Leadership Development Ministry has developed a training program that would vary in length from a one-day exposure seminar to a two-week Training Trainers' Institute. The program is three-pronged: A Biblical Framework for Transformation (DNA Vision), Capacity Building to translate vision into action through basic management training, and character development – without which, vision and capacity can go wrong. Beyond training is mentoring the graduates of these training programs.
