Leadership Lesson #3

Today in class we talked about the tasks of a leader. And the assignment is to use the list of tasks for a leader, and plan a fake supply run to Guatemala.

The first task is to come up with the scope and goals of the project. The goal is to collect basic life necessities and ship them to Antigua, Guatemala. As for scope, we will need to find donors and sponsors to collect all the items. We will pack all of the supplies in a crate or box of some kind and fly it into Guatemala City and then drive the crate to Antigua.

The second task is to think of how many people and how much money we will need. First of all we will have to have the people to donate and collect the supplies. We will also need to find a pilot for our plane and a person or three to drive the crate to Antigua and distribute supplies. We will have to raise money to rent a plane and pilot and automotive transportation to Antiuga. We should also provide people who can teach the Gutemalans how to build the houses out of the supplies we're sending.

The third task is to cast a compelling vision. We are trying to help needy families and children to survive, thrive, and share the love of God with them.

The fourth task of a leader is foreseeing obstacles of the project. Now I'm somewhat of a pessimist so I could come up with a lot of stuff. We could have people not find our vision compelling enough in which case we will need to either come up with a different way of communicating our vision or we might have to take trips and tell people personally about our project. We would have to get passports and possibly visas in order to get into Guatemala, so we would need to order them quite far ahead of time. we would also need to work around the language barrier, so we might need to to hire a translator which would take more money. And, let's be honest, Central America can be a dangerous place, so that means that we bathe the trip in prayer, and don't take any stupid chances and send three or four people down with the crate because there is strength in numbers.

And the fifth task of a leader is to evaluate performance. We could evaluate our performance if the container of supplies actually makes it to Antigua, and also by the connections we make down there and the help that we give. We could count the number of houses that we build or the amount of food we give out. But I think that ultimately success comes down to the question, "Did we love them with the love of God, and did they know that it was God's love?"