-L5- Leadership Training

The Art of Team Building
The last L5 took place in may 2006, in Ireland. We run this training course every 2 to 3 years. The next L5 is planned for January 2009 find out more here.

Since Vatican II there have been an increasing number of Catholic and ecumenical initiatives geared towards training Catholic young people in evangelisation and towards mobilising them into missionary service. As the number of participants in these lay missions programs has grown over the years, so too has the awareness of the need for more specific leadership formation.

Discipleship training, knowledge of doctrine, and an awareness of general leadership principles have often proven to be insufficient to meet the demands placed upon those lay people leading todays outreach and missions teams.

- L5- was created to attempt to address this need.

- L5- is a practical, hands-on 5-week Leadership training course (hence the title) designed for people like you - Christians who lead evangelisation and / or missions teams for lay-missions organizations, prayer groups, communities, or discipleship training programs. The course will cover the following topics:
 

- Team building - recruiting, recognizing gifts of your team members, mentoring, problem solving, understanding team dynamics, leading team meetings, maintaining a healthy team life, creating a leadership team, and making corporate decisions

- Evangelisation in a Catholic context - re-evangelising the baptised, a Catholic understanding of salvation, organising evangelistic events, evangelistic models that work, evangelisation and ecumenism, building communities, kerygma and didache

- Building a solid Catholic identity on your team - cultivating a Catholic ethos in an ecumenical team, increasing your teams sacramental understanding, the place of missions in Catholic Church history, learning to appreciate Catholic spirituality

- Communication - writing newsletters, fund raising, relating to diocesan and international structures in the Catholic Church

- Keeping the fire burning - how to cultivate a long-term mentality in missions, prophetic leadership, networking, helping your team stay motivated

In addition to the lectures there will be regular Eucharistic Celebrations, small groups, ministry times, assignments, and weekly concerts of prayer,. There will also be ample free time for recreation and for fellowship with the participants. It is our hope that the relationships formed in these 5 weeks will provide a kind of supportive missions network that will last well beyond the conclusion of the course.

- L5 - is being run by Kerygma Teams, a branch of the interconfessional lay-missionary organisation Youth With A Mission. Kerygma Teams supports Catholic parishes, renewal movements, and groups active in evangelisation, mercy ministries, and training in the Catholic Church. In addition, Kerygma Teams offers opportunities for Christians to become involved in short - and long-term cross-cultural missions projects.