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Leadership and Eldership in YWAM – Lynn Green

In late 2017 Lynn Green sat down to discuss Leadership and Eldership in Youth With A Mission, and to answer some questions that people around the world had about the changes and development of it in YWAM.

Some of the questions discussed are about plural leadership, what is an Elder, what is the role of conveners in YWAM, why was there the need for the significant organisational change for YWAM in Singapore in 2014, how does YWAM’s flat leadership structure work cross-culturally, what is the importance of relationship over hierarchy
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The Reconciliation Walk – God Stories with Lynn Green

In 1999, on the 900 year anniversary of the sacking of Jerusalem by Christian Crusaders, The Reconciliation Walk finished at an event in Jerusalem. Unlike the destruction brought to the city by the Crusaders in 1099, the Christians that came to Jerusalem with The Reconciliation Walk came with a message that says the Crusaders:

… betrayed the name of Christ by conducting themselves in a manner contrary to His wishes and character. …(By lifting up the Cross) they corrupted its true meaning of reconciliation, forgiveness, and selfless love. Continue reading

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Opium, Emperors, and Missionaries – Storytime with Lynn Green

Storytime sessions is a series that highlights some of Youth With A Mission’s values. In the first session that we offer you on the YWAM Teaching Podcast, Lynn Green shares about Opium, Emperors, and Missionaries.

Lynn Green is a Global Elder in Youth With A Mission and is currently living in the United Kingdom where his desire is to take the good news of Jesus to everyone, with a currently focus on China and the Middle East. About this specific Storytime session Lynn says …

We usually underestimate the role that history plays in shaping nations and relations between them. So it is with China and its view of the West. Every Chinese person I have spoken to has a detailed knowledge of events that stretched from the 1830s to the 1930s, in which “the Western nations oppressed us and kept us poor”. To understand is to empathise and empathy is a powerful factor even in international relations. Continue reading

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The Eldership Model of Leadership in YWAM with Lynn Green

Lynn Green joined us for a Google Hangout in June of 2013 to talk with us about the Eldership Model of Leadership in YWAM.

During the last 10-years Youth With A Mission has been moving away from a business style of leadership structure to an Eldership model of leadership. In this conversation with Lynn Green we get to hear what this change means, and how we can implement it at our own YWAM locations. Continue reading

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Avoiding the Institutionalisation of Leadership – Lynn Green

http://traffic.libsyn.com/ywampodcast/Avoid_the_Institutionalisation_of_Leadership_-_Lynn_Green.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: RSS | MoreIn this episode of the YWAM Teaching Podcast Lynn Green shares about how we in YWAM can avoid the pitfall of institutionalising leadership. Servant Leadership is on one of … Continue reading

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Financial Integrity – Lynn Green

http://traffic.libsyn.com/ywampodcast/Financial_Integrity_-_Lynn_Green.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: RSS | MoreIn this episode of the YWAM Teaching Podcast Lynn Green shares about financial integrity at a Base Leader Training Session. Leadership Letter from Lynn Green about Personal Finances, February … Continue reading

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