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Delegates Affirm Leadership Development
BY STEPHEN CHAVEZ, managing editor, Adventist Review
In each of these settings, Adventist leadership seeks not only to inspire but to facilitate outreach and nurturing ministries. Because of the challenges, this year's General Conference session spent 75 minutes of each morning's business session in profiling the priorities and characteristics of Adventist leadership. According to Harold Baptiste, chair of the leadership coordinating committee, the attempt was to help define Adventist leadership as distinct from leadership in general. "Servant leadership is a highlight of Christian leadership," he declared. The five leadership presentations made at the session (see Adventist Review Bulletin No. 4, p. 11), identified seven characteristics of Seventh-day Adventist leadership: On the last day of the business session the delegates accepted a report that called for a four-phase plan of action, including curriculum development and centers of leadership, networking, professional development, and evaluation. Each of the morning sessions included an opportunity for responses and questions from the floor. Delegates who spoke on the floor were generally very appreciative of the quality of the presentations and the initiative of General Conference officers to develop leadership training on all levels of church administration. The report included a request that the General Conference Executive Committee "receive reports and monitor the effectiveness of the leadership development process throughout the 2005-2010 quinquennium." For the full text of the recommendation, click here.
A Young Perspective
BY SARA ROSE, Kidsview reporter from Columbia, Maryland
The first person I talked with was helping out at a Native American booth. Her name was Avery. She is from Oklahoma and is 8 years old. Then I talked to Alan, age 11, who was handing out flyers for the Hope Channel booth. President Clarifies GC/NAD Ties BY STEPHEN CHAVEZ, managing editor, Adventist Review
Paulsen pointed out that several General Conference institutions in North America--universities, publishing houses, media ministries--serve the global church, and North American division officers sit on their boards and committees. "It is important that we keep a close consultation between the officers of the North American Division and the officers of the General Conference," he said. "This is a special relationship; it's good for the church to keep it that way."
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s a global church, Seventh-day Adventists face challenges unique to each geographical area. In some regions where the church operates societies are torn apart by militant ethnic and religious divisions; in other areas secularism and rampant materialism are barriers to outreach; in still other regions, churches seek to minister to populations that suffer under the burden of extreme poverty and a deplorable lack of healthcare.
spent some time one morning walking through the exhibit hall at the GC session. I found some other kids working, and thought it'd be cool to find out what they were doing.
eneral Conference president Jan Paulsen addressed session delegates Tuesday morning of the session to clarify the historic relationship between the General Conference and the North American Division. His statement came in response to questions raised by the session's nominating committee about General Conference bylaws recommending that the North American Division secretary and treasurer serve as associate secretary and associate treasurer of the General Conference.
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