Close-up on Leadership Summit

I had the priceless opportunity to teach our Leadership Summit coaches this past Monday, along with my fellow intern Jace. We taught about how to unload baggage in your life. We had prepared a couple of weeks beforehand by teaching our lesson to the other interns as well as a staff member, but when it came time to actually teach it to the coaches, it was an entirely different story.

I wasn’t nervous, no that’s not how it was different, rather I felt that the lesson had so much more weight and importance than when I had taught it the first time. When I spoke, it wasn’t just ideas I had scribbled in the margins or Scriptures read haphazardly; each word landed heavily in the silence between the coaches and me. I see comprehension dawning on them and concepts fleshing themselves out as I continued to speak. Before, I hadn’t felt that the lesson necessarily impacted my life, but when I finished, I realized that the content could and did affect me just as much as them.

After we had finished teaching, Jennifer talked about the most recent Leadership Day and about how it went over as well as plans for the next month’s Leadership Day. Listening to them discuss how to better reach their students in Leadership Summit and hearing how hard they work each week made me realize how innovative and overall important Leadership Summit is to the vision of Thrive Africa. I appreciate the coaches’ dedication and their willingness to teach over 3,000 students so that we might develop leaders for the future generations.

4 Responses - Add yours below

1. danielle says:

   amazing! thanks for training up Africa’s next leaders…

2. Alece says:

   you guys are all doing such a great job — miss you!

3. Lin says:

   It sounds like you are getting to do what your hearts desire is and that is a affect others for Christ. I love you heart and that you are able to recognize that the Holy Spirit is the one teaching. I am proud of you and miss you. Dad

4. CLERMENT says:

   I love what you guys are doing its great to know that there are people like you out there and please try to do some field report on haemophilia when you get a chance

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