From experience I have learned that taking on new leaders because someone else recommends them does not work. More than once I have been charged with apprentices/co-leaders/whatever you wan to call them and turns out usually that they were being given to me because someone else didn’t want them.
It has always worked best for someone [...]

Some things are better ‘caught’ than ‘taught’… and some things can only be caught!
When serving in program-based churches we used a leadership preparation strategy that was called ‘pre-service training’ (catchy, huh!). We looked into the tasks required to fulfill the demands of a certain job description and put those tasks together in what seemed like [...]