In what ways or how does your leadership team create an environment in which people are trained, equipped, assigned duties, followed up, and sent out again? “It’s easy to mislabel equipping as delegating. But you can’t delegate a task to someone who hasn’t been equipped. They may not be as unwilling as they are untrained.” – Karl Vaters In Karl Vaters book ‘100 Days to […]
Dear Christian, When I think of all this, I fall to my knees and pray to the Father, the Creator of everything in heaven and on earth. I pray that from His glorious, unlimited resources He will empower you with inner strength through His Spirit. Then Christ will make His home in your hearts as you trust in Him. Your roots will grow down into […]
As long as the conversation about systemic racism is taking place… Did you know Native Americans are more likely to be killed by police than blacks? Indigenous people are kidnapped more than any other race in America as well. I don’t post this for anyone to feel sorry for me or my Native American families but to make the point that All Lives Matter. It’s […]
David Dorn, a retired St. Louis police captain, was shot and killed the other night while trying to protect a local store from looters on Martin Luther King Drive. David had retired from the St. Louis Police Department in 2007 after 38 years on the job. He rose from rookie patrol officer in 1969 to captain. When he retired, he then became police chief in […]
Recently, another American man was killed, this time gunned down while standing outside the Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Oakland, California. Dave Patrick Underwood isn’t a household name. His death didn’t make nearly as many headlines. But his life mattered, too, and his murder should displease every American. Underwood was a law enforcement officer in the Federal Protective Service. He and a colleague were […]
In August, 1968, the country was still reeling from the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. four months earlier, and the race riots that followed on its heels. Nightly news showed burning cities, radicals and reactionaries snarling at each other across the cultural divide. But a brand new children’s show out of Pittsburgh, which had gone national the previous year, took a different approach. Fred […]
Many have learned about George Floyd’s tragic death by extreme police force in Minneapolis. The feelings of anger, sadness, and injustice are real — but how should we publicly respond? The world is watching Minnesota right now. We need to answer by saying and demonstrating peacefully that we will seek changes that address the inequities and discrimination that led to this incident and the many […]