Nordic Baltic Conference for Young Leaders 2014
time
7.00
8.00
9.00
10.00
11.00
12.00
13.00
14.00
15.00
16.00
17.00
18.00
19.00
20.00
21.00
Thursday 9
Arriving and registration
Lunch
Introduction 30 min.
Paul Donders teach
Coffee break 20 min
Paul Donders
Dinner
Øystein Gjerme
Friday 10
Breakfast
Morning Prayer
Øystein Gjerme
Coffee Break
Paul Donders
Lunch 2 h
Paul Donders
Coffee break
Paul Donders
Dinner
Øystein Gjerme
We can offer the participants to stay over the weekend as guests of our Latvian friends.
9-11 October in Riga
Saturday 11
Breakfast
Morning Prayer 8.30
Peteris S.
Coffe Break 10.30
Reflection &
Prayer
Lunch 13.30
Departure
Paul Donders
Lives in Hoornaar, Holland. Works at Xpand International, directeur and partner. Born in Venlo 1957.
Paul has his roots in the Jesus movement, moved to Germany after his studies to start a community, but didn't want to live in two worlds: the Christian
subculture and society. So he started a company that aims to empower leaders in church, business and society with Kingdom leadership principles.
Here are some thoughts from his teaching:
- In the time of the Jesus People you were supposed to lead a group by the time you were 17 or 18. And people who asked difficult questions were sent out
as missionaries to start new groups in other places.
- Leadership is providing hope, not exercising criticism.
- Everyone has the God-given potential to be a leader, at least to manage himself (first level). If you can manage yourself, you can grow into leading projects
(second level), people (third level), and organisations (fourth level).
- A Kingdom leader is lion and lamb, king and priest, at the same time.
- Virtues are a main theme in business and science at the moment (see Harvard Business Review January 2007).
- Power is neutral, but the heart can corrupt it.
- The Netherlands still benefits from the reformation inheritance of Abraham Kuyper and the fact that (unlike surrounding nations that were more directly
involved in the two world wars) we have no fatherless generation.
- There are not many effective models for 'discipling a whole nation', but Zinzendorf's approach comes very close. To really disciple a nation we need a
revival of the heart, a renewal of thinking, and a reformation (or transformation) of structures. This implies a synergy of different kinds of leaders with
different anointings.
- It takes 5% of the population (and 0.5% leaders in different sections of society) to start a revolution, and 20% to forge a reformation or transformation.
- Paul currently works in Rotterdam and Vienna with an experimental grid that can be applied to a city to identify the key areas of influence, the key leaders
of influence, and the opportunities for leverage.
- Healthy leaders develop character and competence, and a good balance between people and results. This means we have to train people in four areas:
discipline, servanthood, management and communication.
- Together with the CHE (higher education) xpand is developing a coaching program that aims to raise up Christian 'leaders of influence' in society.
Øystein Gjerme is founding and lead pastor of Salt Bergen City Church in Norway. The church is a multisite church, currently meeting in two locations and
planting a third site. In addition to the local church involvement, he is the Chairman of the Board of the Norwegian School for Leadership and Theology. He
travels extensively and is involved in teaching, preaching and training in both organizational and church settings. He lives in Bergen, is married and has three
children.
Øystein Gjerme holds a Master of Divinity from Regent University and a B.A. in Pastoral Studies from North Central University in the USA.