Unlikely Candidates
What do you do when no one seems qualified to lead?
Mark Jobe
July 1, 2003
Mark Jobe: Our only prospects are outsiders, outcasts, or barely shave.
Dann Pantoja: My young team has more questions than I have answers.
Carol Cartmill: Nobody volunteers, now what do I do?
Brad Eakins: Small town Wyoming resisted my efforts until …
Debbie Reagan: Why is my mentor harsh, condescending, and nosy? When the Berean Mission Church, my first as pastor, began growing, I hoped to hire additional leaders. But we couldn't find anyone who wanted to come to the mission's tough, southwest Chicago neighborhood. Our only choice was to develop leaders from what we had. My first leadership team consisted of four unlikely candidates—a young Hispanic man fresh out of the Marines, two gypsy brothers, and a former alcoholic who came to Christ in his sixties. None of them had any biblical training for leadership. None had ever led in a church setting before. Yet in 17 years, that little urban mission has grown to become New Life Community Church, a congregation that meets at eight satellite locations every Sunday. Each of those satellites has its own pastor. And all but one of those pastors was grown from within our church. And though the church has grown from 20 to nearly 2,000, we continue to develop leaders by looking for the same qualities I saw in those first four unlikely men. Raising leaders FAST
Tony Wasso grew up in a gypsy family on Maxwell Street. He came to church each Sunday in a white T-shirt and with a big metal chain around his neck. But Tony, like the other three on our first leadership team, had four key qualities that comprise the acronym FAST—he was faithful, available, Spirit-filled, and teachable. All four of those men were hungry to be used by God. They were willing to commit (faithful), give their time (available), ...
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