When starting a student leadership program many people in the church are going to have questions. Church leaders are going to want to know how far you are going to carry this idea of students making decisions. Parents are going to want to know who is going to be on the team and what the [...]

Leadership pride comes from a misunderstanding of leadership. People who derive leadership from their title are often times suffering from pride. So don’t be surprised when student leaders get the idea they are important because they are titled “student leader.”  Most of the students leaders I have worked with struggle with pride and power. Teaching [...]

When student leadership teams are well organized, they usually require students to sign a covenant concerning their behavior. This is crucial to ensuring the integrity of the team and the idea that students can have influence over their peers. This is all well and good, but what do we do if a students breaks the [...]

The following is an exercise that you can use with student leaders to help them identify a younger student to mentor. You can also download this activity in PDF form at http://www.leadertreks.org/assets/Identify-a-Mentee-Activity.pdf A leader should be in a continual cycle of being poured into (being mentored) and pouring into someone else (serving as a mentor). This [...]