Welcome to a community of sojourners gathering around Servant-Leadership

I am pleased that you have come to visit. 

• You may have come with questions. Perhaps some will be answered in this web-site or other web based companions that focus on leadership.
• You may have come with ideas to share. I hope you will find plenty of ways to do so.
• You may have come hoping to broaden your perspective about servant-leadership. There is much to be learned from each other and our elders.
• You may have come seeking a brief Sabbath from the pressures of your life of work. Please rest and enjoy yourself.
• You may have come desiring to find ways to link your faith and your work. For many of us this is a compelling quest so you are not alone.
• You may have come at the urging of your own spirit or God's Spirit. Please listen with us for the "still small voice."

So, come and see how we may serve you and learn with you and how you, in turn, might contribute to our being together and working together.

Robert Greenleaf

I first became aware of servant-leadership about 10 years ago when I first read the work of Robert Greenleaf. I was stunned. Here was someone writing about a way of leadership which spoke to my heart and made sense to my intellect and yet was counter to the conventional wisdom of "how things got done." For the first time, I felt there was some way for me to take my religious convictions to work in the form of servant-leadership.

I quickly found that servant-leadership is not just a style of leading. It is primarily a way of being; a servant first. It challenges us to answer the question, Who are we? Then it helps us to frame how we are to work. And this initial challenge connects us deeply to our spirit and God's Spirit. Bob said it this way,

"No one can judge, from where one now stands, how difficult the next step along the road of spiritual growth will be. Those of good works, the upright moral citizens, the pillars of the church may find the next step of staggering proportions. Their seeming opposites--the unsuccessful, the misfit, the unlovely, the rejected--may take the next step with ease. We cannot assume with assurance that we are relatively advantaged or disadvantaged for any stage of the inward journey. 

Then set forth upon your journey and, if you travel far enough, filling the voids of loss with the noblest choices, you may be given the secret of the kingdom: awe and wonder before the majesty and the mystery of all creation. Then, and only then, will the parables be explained (the drinking of the cold, lofty, original water). I submit this as a hopeful hypothesis at a time when hope is dim. I will bet my life upon it. " 

St. Paul

As we listen to the words of Paul, he too, speaks of the deep interconnection of God's Spirit and the human spirit.

1Cor. 2:11 - 12 For what human being knows what is truly human except the human spirit that is within? So also no one comprehends what is truly God's except the Spirit of God. Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit that is from God, so that we may understand the gifts bestowed on us by God.

Come on a Journey

Please join me and other companions on the journey of servant-leadership as we seek to be faithful to our callings while learning and growing together.