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Youth leader – Group leader

Leadership

The successes in youth work are shown by the qualifications and qualities of the youth leader along with his engagement, his personal talents and his team spirit. Successful Christian youth work requires a lot from the youth leader. He must not only be authorised by God, but also needs God’s empowerment and God’s spirit in order to deal with the empowerment when dealing with youths. The youth leader is Christian youth work is only a human being with his strengths and weaknesses.

The (ideal) youth group leader in Christian youth work is

converted
approved
talented
appointed
resilient
consistent

For this reason, the following themes are discussion points:

Are you authoritarian? How do you win authority? How do you lose your authority? Do you accept God’s authority in your life?
Providing successful and consistent youth work with God’s empowerment. Why are you a youth leader? Do you have empowerment? Is your empowerment still valid or has it already ran out? What do you have to watch out for?
Pastor and trusted person
The challenged and overwhelmed youth leader
Leadership styles
Qualities of a youth leader
Worker: Individual or team player