Reflection On Tina Housers

After rereading Tina Housers’ book and identified which principles were my strengths and my weaknesses, I took the time to carefully think over and pray about these four principles. The principles in the book that I found to be strengths of mine included: laughs and participates as a team player. The two principles I found in the book that I need to improve on were; pointing others to Jesus and administrates meetings efficiently. The first strength that I believe will help me once I begin my ministry is laughs. This is strength of mine because I work best whenever I am able to do work but have fun doing it at the same time. As a leader my hope would be to make the working environment enjoyable for the people. I would try to make sure that …show more content…
But we are also given a lot of freedom about how we go about doing this. This is reassuring because it also shows us that they support our decisions about trying new ways to help these students grow. The first area that I need to work on is pointing others to Jesus. This leadership essential is definitely an area where I need to grow mainly because I have not really worked on it. Since leading children to Jesus is the whole idea of Children’s Ministry and that I now know this is a weakness of mine I believe that I will start working on making it a strength. Throughout my whole life I have never really tried to make an effort to evangelize. Even growing up and having friends who would have benefited if I tried to point them to Jesus, it never occurred to me that it was something that I should do. Another reason why I believe that this is a weakness is because I myself am not yet to the point where I am comfortable talking about my own faith. So if I am not even comfortable/struggling with my own faith how could I truly lead others to Jesus? One way to help myself in this area is to constantly ask myself the question that Houser states, “Are you doing what you’re doing in order to point others to …show more content…
Laughing connects to my calling because one thing that I have learned by working with individuals especially kids with disabilities you need to just laugh with them. The main way I try to gain trust with kids is by engaging in activities that they enjoy doing. Once I gain their trust I believe that they will be more receptive to what I have to tell them. As a part of my calling being a team player is huge. If I ever do get a chance to fulfill my sense of calling to lead and ABLE Ministry, I want to make sure that I make every volunteer feels like they are contributing the success of the