Recruit & Release!!
We just got back from a week in the woods!! We went camping as a family with some other friends at Red Top Mtn. State Park. We had a great time!
The park is located on Lake Allatoona. So, we were able to get a little fishing in while there. We did not catch much, which was weird b/c we used live bait and artificial lures, which is strange to me since it’s Spring. But as my friend Keith says, “that’s why they call it fishing and not catching”! – (btw-i hate it when he says that!)
My 10 year old daughter caught the only fish and it was just a bream about the size of the palm of her hand. She thought it was great and honestly, i did too. Instead of keeping it, we supported the “catch & release” philosophy (which is always easy when they are small, right?)
i am learning a new leadership lesson along the same lines. I call it “recruit & release”. I am trying to constantly tell our ministry leaders (volunteer and paid) to build their teams! lead their teams! multiply their teams! the best way to do this is to “recruit & release”.
A leader has to constantly be focusing on two paradigms- getting more people on the team, and getting more people owning the team for a team to truly be a team and for us to be fulfilling the mission Jesus gave us – Multiplication Discipleship!
I am learning that if I don’t ask more people to take steps into serving that growth will be slow. I am also learning that if I don’t let people “run with the ball” so to speak, growth will be even slower! So, it takes both, Recruit-build the team, get people on the team; and Release– multiply the team, get people to own the team!
What a tremendous joy it was to see my young daughter be so excited about her catch, honestly, to her, the size of that fish didn’t matter, she caught one-she was happy! It was also exciting to hear her be the first to say “let him go daddy”. She beat me back to camp so she could tell her mom and everyone who could hear about her “catch and release” experience. So it will be with any leader who is able to brag on God and tell “glory stories” about the fun in ministry that others are having b/c of their “recruit & release” experience! join in on the fun of building God’s Kingdom!!
love ya lots,
MK
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