The church that meets at Rivanna River

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The phrase “Servant Leadership” was coined by Robert K. Greenleaf in The Servant as Leader, an essay that he first published in 1970. In that essay, he said:

"The servant-leader is servant first… It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. That person is sharply different from one who is leader first, perhaps because of the need to assuage an unusual power drive or to acquire material possessions…The leader-first and the servant-first are two extreme types. Between them there are shadings and blends that are part of the infinite variety of human nature."

"The difference manifests itself in the care taken by the servant-first to make sure that other people’s highest priority needs are being served. The best test, and difficult to administer, is: Do those served grow as persons? Do they, while being served, become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become servants? And, what is the effect on the least privileged in society? Will they benefit or at least not be further deprived?"

For more information about servant leadership, please visit The Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership at www.Greenleaf.org ... or ... send me a note!  

Thanks,

Jack

The NorthFork Center for Servant Leadership (www.NorthForkCSL.org) is a not-for-profit startup organization which proposes to imbue leaders, present and future, with a humble spirit and the good courage to lead with the heart of a servant.  Our aim is to cultivate a servant’s heart as the basis for lasting and effective way to prepare men and women for lives of public service, cultural influence, advocacy, and civic leadership in harmony with timeless biblical values and fidelity to the spirit of the American founding.

Integral in our approach is the creation of a flagship private school for rising juniors and seniors, many of them homeschooled, the development of a magnificent Conference Center designed expressly to become the most advanced leadership learning center built in Virginia, and a team of consultants and educators that promote virtue, transform leadership, and perpetuate enduring commitments to God, family, and fellow sojourners.   

The NorthFork Leadership Education & Conference Center brings time and place together to provide a stimulating environment for the education, communication, and creative thinking necessary to develop leadership character and transform motivation and intentions. 

NorthFork is destined to become the premier leadership development and education center in the country, best known and most respected for nurturing and encouraging hearts and minds to answer the ever-pressing call of public service; a place where the curriculum, campus, and community come together to uniquely prepare and propel men and women toward lives of public service and positions of citizen leadership/advocacy that deeply and genuinely value the human spirit, discern greatness by virtue of service, and lead by lifting the meek.