City on a Hill Benefit Dinner Invitation (click here) presented by LDRS 201 students

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Mission

The purpose of the Center for Faithful Leadership is to enhance campus-wide efforts to educate students for lives of leadership and service in a global society through academic and co-curricular programs. The vision of the Center for Faithful Leadership is that Hope graduates a large cadre of students who are more confident in their leadership abilities and more effective in servant leadership; "so that those served grow as persons [and] become healthier, wiser, freer, more [secure], and more likely themselves to become servants" (Robert Greenleaf). Our method is to teach and learn leadership from the inside out.

We define a leader as someone who makes a significant difference. While we see the results of leadership, we believe what we don't always see—the character of the person and the processes used—is of greater importance. We therefore define a servant leader as someone who makes a positive and significant difference. To be a servant leader requires emotional intelligence competencies: to be socially aware, self-aware, self-managed, and able to build and manage relationships. To become emotionally intelligent requires the ability to learn from experience: to feel the needs of the world, reflect on purpose, test that purpose, and think about how to leverage that purpose. It also requires becoming a "fundamental leader:" in addition to being purpose-driven, it requires becoming internally-motivated, open-minded, and others-focused.

Our programs engage students on this path. Together we make a positive and significant difference by helping others meet their need to make a positive and significant difference.