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Servant Leadership School
"Jesus' kind of leadership is the kind of servant leadership needed in our time if our society is going to survive. Much is at stake. God is calling you, and God is calling me to something quite beyond what we have ever been or ever done before."
N. Gordon Cosby, Co-Founder of the Church of the Savior.
In the summer of 1989, a remarkable dream was realized: Washington, D.C.'s ecumenical Church of the Saviour opened a "people's seminary" and gathering place to incarnate a biblical vision of servant leadership. The Servant Leadership School, inheritor to the church's fifty years of experience in Christian education, found its home within the newly constructed Festival Center. By design, the School and Festival Center are located in the Adams Morgan neighborhood which is the focal point of our Jubilee Ministries. These ministries serve as the campus of the School and create an opportunity for brothers and sisters from all walks of life to talk, pray, and support one another as we explore what it means to follow the servant Jesus.
The Servant Leadership School, the Festival Center, and the Jubilee Ministries form a hub of activity which is governed by the Festival Center, Inc. and its Board of Directors. Together we strive to offer healing and hope to individuals, churches, and society.
The Church of the Saviour was founded as an ecumenical Christian church on October 19, 1947, when nine people committed themselves to membership, repeating the following commitment:
I come today to join a local expression of the Church, which is the body of those on whom the call of God rests to witness to the grace and truth of God
I recognize that the function of the Church is to glorify God in adoration and a sacrificial service, and to be God's missionary to the world, bearing witness to God's redeeming grace in Jesus Christ.
I believe as did Peter that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the Living God.
I unreservedly and with abandon commit my life and destiny to Christ, promising to give Him a practical priority in all the affairs of life. I will seek first the Kingdom of God and His Righteousness.
I commit myself, regardless of the expenditures of time, energy, and money to becoming an informed, mature Christian.
I believe that God is the total owner of my life and resources. I give God the throne in relation to the material aspect of my life. God is the owner. I am the ower. Because God is a lavish giver, I too shall be lavish and cheerful in my regular gifts.
I will seek to be Christian in all relations with my fellowman, with other nations, groups, classes and races.
I will seek to bring every phase of my life under the Lordship of Christ.
When I move from this place I will join some other expression of the Christian Church.
For other readings on Servant Leadership, consider James Hunter's The Servant, and Ken Blanchard's Servant Leader.
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