By Byeong
I have been a National Director of the Lay Pastors Ministry in Korea for about 15 years. But I don’t need to use my leadership at all because of our Principal Mr. Aloto Anche is leading the school for now. He is doing great. Before we opened the school, I was leading LPM Korea.
Above all, vision casting frequently was my priority. Every stage, every level, and all aspects needed vision to permeated because it motivates people to stay at this ministry longer, go forward, they are proud of belonging to this ministry, taking risk and sacrifice, struggling of this ministry to grow and to success, etc., then finally they have ownership more and stronger, more committed in this ministry.
I found I was implementing most of the work myself, of course my leadership is different in the beginning stage and later on leadership for today, I mean for 15 years of this ministry, but I think I have done hard work myself first. Leaders need to be motivated to work hard to accomplish what they have to do. Our primary goal is to help churches through this ministry so that they might grow inwardly(maturing), and externally(numbering). I was only the one who was full time staff in those days, so I had to check everything with my hand, of course there were secretaries for office work and I can’t say thank you with only my lips on how much they worked for this ministry.
Networking with local churches and their pastors also plays an important role as a national leader. As you guess Networking is very important for growing ministry, therefore people were using this terminology every time, every place, and we know the meaning of “Net,” means woven every aspect as one unit, also connecting each other regularly, and got to know right away what’s going in their mind, at their church, through the network, theirs and our ministry enhancing always, so it’s indispensable of network.