Vision
our vision is to change youth ministry culture by living out the call of mentoring found in 2 Timothy 2:2

to change … where it is normal for youth workers to be in an intentional mentoring relationship with students and to be in a mentoring/coaching relationship themselves (The Be-With Constellation)

youth ministry culture… where students and youth workers are passionate about following Christ, sharing their faith and using their gifts to build the church

by living out… having a Christ-centered life-style of influencing others

the call of mentoring found in 2 Timothy 2:2…. investing in a few who, in turn, invest in others (Mentoring)

Mission
to build a Coaching community of student ministry leaders who sharpen each other in personal character and professional skills (Proverbs 27:17)

to build a Coaching community…. experienced veteran mentors who care for one another

of student ministry leaders… who are passionate about middle school, high school and college aged students

that sharpen each other… in an intentional Proverbs 27:17 relationship

in personal character… leaders living by example with integrity in all areas of their lives

and professional skills… best practices and leadership training to become the most effective youth leader that God has called you to be

INVITE
We invite all youth leaders  who are in line with our vision to become a part of our LEAD222 Coaching Community. Our strongest invitation comes from relationships with our existing members, inviting other youth ministry leaders to join our team. Current members cast the vision and tell our story through word of mouth. This helps to maintain a high level of connectedness and keep the leadership coaching personal.

CONNECT
The next step is to get our new members connected to a veteran coach. They then become part of a community of student ministry leaders who sharpen one another in personal character (“Inside Game”) and professional skills (“Outside Game”). Through these personal coaching relationships, LEAD222 is committed and intentional in developing youth leaders who live healthy lives and oversee effective student ministries.

OWN
Everyone who joins LEAD222 becomes a part of an international leadership team that goes beyond the other supportive and supervisory relationships that already exist in the person’s life. Each member serves others in the network by using his or her spiritual gifts and abilities in a personal area of interest to help further the vision of changing the culture of student ministry.

LEAD
The goal for every member of LEAD222 is eventually to become a coach who mentors other youth leaders. This process has an enormous potential to bring about a powerful spiritual transformation in church and ministry leaders of today, as well as impact the youth they serve and—we dare to believe this—the future world in which we will all live. We see the echoes of this work reverberating even further, to better the church to which our children’s children will belong, bearing fruit in lives we won’t live long enough to see.

Spiritual Transformation- The goal of Lead222’s focus is actually very clear—to help people to become more like Jesus. Scripture is clear that what matters most in spiritual transformation is not amazing knowledge or performance measures—but true inner change. Our Coaching goal is to help youth leaders transform at a significant and deep level, so that what comes out of them, without even trying, is good fruit. Christ-like character, full of love for God and love for others.

Inside Game: Personal Character- Your Coaching (mentoring) is about what is below the water line, so to speak. More often than not, something deeper within a person is driving their behavior. Our Coaches will work with you to discover these deeper drives and motives—to work on who you are on the inside. These discoveries are what help to build personal character.

Outside Game: Professional Skills- Your Coach will help you with the skills and training needed to develop your outside game (professional skills). You will gain experience and expertise to identify the goals you are reaching for and be put in touch with the training and other resources needed to achieve this.

The following values characterize this ministry. They help us coach the inside game and the outside game. They direct our questions into the areas of life that really matter. We believe them to our core, and while many things are open to modification, we are not flexible about these. We’re confident if these are compromised, what we’re trying to do will be compromised.

Authentic Community
Christ-Centered Relationships, Honesty and Truth-telling
(Acts 2:42-47; Matthew 22:37-40; Ephesians 4:15, 25)

Healthy Families
Keeping The Home Field Advantage, No Ministry Gains At the Expense of Family
(Deuteronomy 6; Ephesians 5; 1 Timothy 3:4–5; 5:8)

Spiritual Integrity
Authenticity, No Pretense
(Romans 12:1-2; Philippians 2)

Kingdom Impact
The Be With Factor, Investing in Others
(2 Timothy 2:2; Philippians 4:9; 1 Thessalonians 2:8)

Celebration
Having Fun, Enjoying Life, Cultivating Appreciation and Gratitude
(John 10:10; Nehemiah 8; Philippians 4:4, 4:8)

The sole basis of our beliefs is the Bible, God’s infallible written Word, the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments. We believe that it was uniquely, verbally and fully inspired by the Holy Spirit, and that it was written without error (inerrant) in the original manuscripts. It is the supreme and final authority in all matters on which it speaks.
We accept those areas of doctrinal teaching on which, historically, there has been general agreement among all true Christians.

To download a .pdf file of our core beliefs click HERE.