Leadership Development
Leadership Development is fostered through 1:1 mentoring, a leadership class, keynote speaker series, capstone projects and real-world leadership opportunities.
Leaders Not Interns, Katai Mutale
When people think of internships at a church, we expect to just be assisting with stacking papers and packaging catalogs, and helping out with Sunday coffee. Not Tahoe Church—they have full confidence that your gifting and personality will add something to the church. I serve in the pastoral ministry division, and my ministry lead (who is the lead pastor) challenged me to co-preach with him using some of my prophetic art drawings and to find another way to pour into prayer ministry. About a week later, I took the initiative, and we co-wrote sermons and I preached in Sunday service. Not only that were—I taught middle schoolers, co-led small groups, and planned a “4th-of-July” themed youth night. Even though we do help out with Sunday coffee, we are given spaces to lead and add to the church, and they support us all the way through.
Leaders Not Interns, Anna Vermillion
We’re not interns, we’re resident leaders. That is the core of this program because it’s more than getting involved and learning, it’s about putting what you’ve learned into action. My focus for the summer has been worship and I had expected to come, learn about worship, lead on Sundays, and maybe give a song suggestion or two. However, throughout my time here I’ve led almost every Sunday, I planned and ran all of kid’s camp worship, I’ve been in charge of running Sunday worship (scheduling people, putting together slides, running rehearsals), and I even got to bring in my own idea to implement. I put together a Worship Workshop for 6-12th graders where the next generation got to learn from myself and other members of the worship team! More than just learning about leadership, we actually had the opportunities to lead, and it has equipped me very well as I prepare to graduate college.
