Winter 2020 | Recharge

Recharge and Accelerate!

Christian Leadership Alliance President and CEO Tami Heim recently interviewed Valerie Bell, CEO of Awana. With an unwavering commitment to the gospel, Awana reaches nearly five million kids every week in 126 countries, making disciples...

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Recharge As You Lead

Leadership is hard, and 2020 has multiplied the difficulty through uncertainty, unfamiliar scenarios, new challenges and rapidly changing information. To lead others well, we must lead ourselves well.

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Inside-Out Leadership

We know from experience that thriving is much more than just surviving and continuing old patterns. It requires intentionality. What areas of your life need some intentional work? What will you do to lean into that?

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Take My Yoke

The dictionary definition for the word yoke is “a bar or frame of wood by which two oxen are joined at the heads or necks for working together.” So, what does it mean for Jesus to say, “Take my yoke”?

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Contagious Calm

I’ll begin with a confession. This year, I have felt drawn towards anxiety like never before. It’s not a big, loud anxiety. It’s more like a low-grade fever, or a little strained back muscle that’s subtle most of the time...

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A Resilient Life

As I survey the inner landscape of the market and ministry leaders that I work with regularly, most are discouraged, drained, depleted and depressed. Most of us are feeling the heavy weight of all we’ve been carrying to keep life working and together [...]

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Generosity in Uncertain Times

For those of us in fund development, this year has offered a chance to get back to the roots of our work; to those simple, basic concepts. It has caused us to ask: “What are the basic strategies that raise the resources for our programs...

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The Power of Purpose

When calling and giftedness converge in a purpose, nothing stops it; not persecution, not pandemics, not politics, not poverty, not disadvantage, not war and not even complacency.

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Recharge, Reset and Refresh!

The year 2020 has been the most interesting, ever-changing and challenging year for me as a Human Resources Executive. Back in March of 2020, I was finishing a wonderful ministry trip to our office in Brazil, when I was informed that a virus was...

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Help Your Team Thrive

It is no secret that the year 2020 has been hard. In an economy rocked by the pandemic, nearly 40 million Americans were out of work at some point, and almost everyone’s jobs, businesses and traditions have been disrupted in some way.

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Narrow Your Focus

The sounds are deafening. New message alerts combined with colleagues (or kids) talking outside your door make it difficult to focus. You open Facebook and your feed screams contrary messages...

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Staying Connected

There’s no doubt that 2020 has not been a typical year for any of us. I’m one of those people who actually likes change, and often bring it on myself. But when that change lasts for months on end, I too, begin to feel that strain and toll...

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Books for Winter 2020

In each edition of Outcomes, Christian Leadership Alliance highlights books to help you think higher as a Christian leader. Here are 12 volumes to help you recharge today, and build your leadership skills for tomorrow.

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