Who is a Chapter Leader?

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What is a Chapter Leader [Exec member]?
Discipleship
- the goal
Y priority = not simply empowerment, but development
Y internship - an opportunity to learn how work with others in leading a group
Y formation - both in skill and character
Leadership
- within the chapter
Y servants - hospitality at meetings; doing the things that need to be done; administration
Y investors - giving generously out of your resources (time, money, energy, and affection) to the fellowship
Y shepherds - discussing pastoral concerns of specific individuals and teams, challenging and encouraging fellowship
members in their discipleship.
Y overseers - discussing issues, making decisions that effect fellowship culture and .
Y specific places of shared leadership
- leadership team, new student outreach, chapter camp campus times, large group, conferences
- deciding upon and articulating a fellowship theme for the year (i.e. Radical Kinda Lovin')
- any innovative ideas of your own design
Partnership
- with the staff team
Y mutual submission - learning from staff team out of their experience, offering insight to staff team out of
connection to the fellowship
Y mutual trust - freedom to communication honestly, humility to follow staff leadership
Y celebration & evaluation - assessing the impact of fellowship structures / ministries; suggesting changes for the
future; enjoying God's faithfulness in leading us as we lead the fellowship.
Y shared experiences - weekly meetings (3 hours), weekend retreat in january (1/8-10),
vision & planning week
before chapter camp in august (8/16-20), opportunity of summer missions
Friendship
- with one another
Y trust - banking on benefit of the doubt; believing in the best of intentions from the other.
Y dependability - following through on the things we say we'll do.
Y vulnerability - sharing our lives with each other in increasing measures.
Y availability - opening our schedules to one another throughout the week.
Y accountability - getting by with a little help from our friends.
Y flexibility - in how we lead meetings
Y intentionality - offering team-building exercises, placing a priority on hang out times
Cornerstones
- our departure point
Y keeping "short accounts" with all team members, reconciling conflict before the next meeting.
Y attendance (physically in the room) & presence (actively participating) at all fellowship functions
-all absences must be discussed prior.
Y personal prayer & meditation for fellowship throughout the week.
Y meeting times of 3 hours/week; weekend retreat in January, (1/8-10),
vision & planning week before chapter camp, (8/16-20)
Y ministry to a group of students in some intentional, structured way.

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It is a trustworthy statement: if any man aspires to the office of overseer, it is a fine work he desires
[to do]. 2 An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, prudent,
respectable, hospitable, able to teach, 3 not addicted to wine or pugnacious, but gentle, peaceable,
free from the love of money. 4 [He must be] one who manages his own household well, keeping his
children under control with all dignity 5 (but if a man does not know how to manage his own
household, how will he take care of the church of God?), 6 [and] not a new convert, so that he will
not become conceited and fall into the condemnation incurred by the devil. 7 And he must have a
good reputation with those outside [the church], so that he will not fall into reproach and the snare
of the devil. 8 Deacons likewise [must be] men of dignity, not double-tongued, or addicted to much
wine or fond of sordid gain, 9 [but] holding to the mystery of the faith with a clear conscience. 10
These men must also first be tested; then let them serve as deacons if they are beyond reproach. 11
Women [must] likewise [be] dignified, not malicious gossips, but temperate, faithful in all things. 12
Deacons must be husbands of [only] one wife, [and] good managers of [their] children and their own
households. 13 For those who have served well as deacons obtain for themselves a high standing and
great confidence in the faith that is in Christ Jesus.
(1 Timothy 3:1-13, NASU)
WHO IS A CHAPTER LEADER?
A Chapter Leader is -
Y AUTHENTIC: integrity & genuine responsiveness to God
- the inside and the outside match up, honest
- lifestyle choices & kingdom values match up, faithful
Y RESPONSIBLE: disciplined in commitments & reliable in promises
- stewardship of academics, small group members, spiritual authority
- generous with resources, invested
Y INFLUENTIAL: concern for fellowship as a whole
- vision for growth & willingness to take risks
- serving friends and small group members as shepherd
Y COMPASSIONATE: sacrificial love & burden for the lost
- emotionally engaged by the needs of others (gentleness)
- tangibly dedicated to reaching out beyond comfort zone (evangelism)
Y TEACHABLE: humility & willingness to learn
- reflective about life's circumstances and experiences
- receptive to truth & influence from others

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