Personal Statement Of The Organization - 1725 Words

Description of the Organization I studied a traditional, conservative Seventh-day Adventist church that has approximately 200 members. It is a Filipino-American church that’s mission and vision is â€Å"to emphasize that every member develop a daily personal devotional live†¦to provide, through corporate worship, an uplifting, inspiring experience†¦to mentor and provide training for leadership†¦to enable all members to engage in active involvement†¦to establish a communication network which will recruit students with a Filipino heritage†¦and to reach out with the love of Jesus Christ to meet the needs of Filipinos and other people in the community.† This church grew from a desire by members to form a Filipino fellowship that provided a dynamic†¦show more content†¦He has an incredibly close, personal touch, yet, at the same time is naturally more quiet and withdrawing. Analysis of Leadership Dynamics Pastor X’s leadership theory is clearly a bottom-up approach; he avoids wrangling the conversation unfairly to his perspective, instead, he identifies himself as a component of the process, not the process itself. This instills in the members a trust in him that is remarkably deep. He also tends to seek out members for services that they provide (i.e. medical) in order that he can relate to them on a personal while simultaneously on a spiritual level. As I pointed out above, he empowers his members by giving them opportunities and allowing them to experiment, with the promise that he will be there to provide support if problems explode. However, this model allows problems to be resolved quickly and quietly and not spiral rapidly out of control. He averts empowering the members in the way of resources—what I am alluding to is that he is willing to acquire resources when needed, yet avoids seeking them out himself. He feels that it is best for individual leaders of departments to determine these decisions. His relationship with the church is uncommonly positive, in spite of a few differences. For example, during one nominating committee it was determined by the Filipino delegation, which is the vast majority of the church, that the number Caucasians and African-Americans who held leadership positions was rife and