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What Leaders Can Do to Help Those Who Feel Isolated: Four Lessons from the Berlin Airlift Of 1948

Joel Vermillion, Director of Wilderness Ministry Institute shares some incredible insight on how leaders can help others who feel isolated, a condition that is uniquely affecting the world at this time.

THE CANDY BOMBERS UNTOLD STORY OF THE BERLIN AIRLIFT

I’ve always had a fascination with WWII as one of my grandfathers was a chaplain in the US Army, and my Mom grew up in postwar Germany. You’ll often find a book about WWII or people from that time period on my nightstand. One of the books I’ve read during this quarantine is called “The Candy Bombers: The untold story of the Berlin airlift and America’s finest hour” by Andrei Cherny.
What Leaders Can Do to Help Those Who Feel Isolated: Four Lessons from the Berlin Airlift Of 1948
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The Best Book You Can Use to Develop Youth Leadership

master-planYouth ministry requires lots of leaders. If you want your church or parachurch to reach an increasing number of young people in your city, then you will need more leaders to do it. Developing youth leadership is a top priority. This is true for a couple of reasons. First, trends in youth ministry show us that it takes more leaders to reach fewer kids today than in previous generations. I talk about some of the reasons why in my recent post, 5 Trends in Youth Ministry & How to Navigate a Perfect Storm. If we want to reach more kids, then we need more leaders. But how do you recruit, train, and empower new teams of leaders year after year?