Dan and Katie Cuttriss are co-Youth Pastors at Manurewa Baptist Church in South Auckland and co-lead the Intermission programme at Carey Baptist College.
Imagine a movement with a culture of identifying and unleashing gospel-focused leaders.
At our National Hui next month (6–9 November), delegates can participate in one of ten Gospel Impact Labs. Each one looks at a different issue and will develop a tool to help local Baptist churches. See all Gospel Impact Labs at the end of this article. In this one with Dan and Katie, the tool will aid in knowing what to look for in those with leadership potential and how to champion them.
Our movement needs leadership that can guide our faith communities to join in with the gospel work that Jesus is doing around them. We dream that local Baptist churches would be identifying and sending leaders to be trained in such numbers that churches might have a choice of who to call!
We love the church and are passionate about our Baptist movement having healthy and robust leaders. Our lab will focus on how we Baptists might build a culture that identifies leaders well and supports them to grow in their giftings.
In this Gospel Impact Lab we’ll spend time dreaming together about the future of our movement and the local church and work backwards from there. We hope to produce a tool that captures a bold dream for the future leadership landscape of ngā Hāhi Iriiri ō Aotearoa.
We believe that the priesthood of all believers challenges us to have a wide range of people leading in exciting and diverse ways.
In the weeks after Hui we'll share these Gospel Impact Lab tools with the whole movement.
Photo: Dan and Katie Cuttriss
Gospel Impact Labs
Develop leaders
Political engagement
