You might have heard the notion of leader as servant. I imagine that it might be based in the model of Christ as servant of His people, I’m not sure. But I have some experience with the idea that I might like to share.
Here’s the core of the idea:
- The group is the ones who deliver the value of the organization, much more than the leader personally.
- The leader can have the most impact by helping his people to deliver that value, removing obstacles and facilitating action.
- Therefore, the leader can be most valuable by thinking of himself as servant of the group.
But this is just the starting point, there’s more to the story.
Continue reading The servant leader
I’m really enjoying God’s gift of yearly cycles. During the summer, especially, is my time to refresh, re-energize, and re-commit. This is possible because so many things slow down during this season as people focus on vacations and family.
Sometimes the summer “break” feels a little weird because our kids are grown up and I’m running my own business, but that’s a topic for another day.
For the last three years, I’ve gone to the Sacred Music Colloquium. Continue reading Revitalize!
If you want the audio recordings from the 2008 or 2009 Sacred Music Colloquiums in Chicago, drop me an email. They’re available on the website at music.dierschow.com/2008Colloquium and music.dierschow.com/2009Colloquium, but the recordings are pretty huge if you want to download ALL of them.
I’ll also be making recordings next week of Colloquium XX in Pittsburg, so let [...]
For the third time now, we pulled together all the chant choirs from the parishes in Fort Collins to do a single Mass. Or in this case, two: one at my home parish, and one next Sunday at the most traditional church building in town.
I’m glad that this one wasn’t the first time we got together, [...]
There was an interesting piece on a local news channel about a teacher at the University of Northern Colorado who uses the Ward Method to successfully teach music. I haven’t met her yet, although I’ve been interested to attend one of her workshops.
The reason for mentioning it here is that our chant schola is featured – [...]
I absolutely love this time of year. Easter is a chance for a deep spiritual renewal – in so many ways.
I’m heavily involved with the RCIA program in our parish, which builds toward the Night of All Nights that we just experienced yesterday. A three hour Mass brings into clear focus how we are to act as believers, and to help others on their paths toward redemption.
Continue reading Christus resurrexit!
Back in November we got people from all the parishes in Fort Collins together to sing sacred music for Mass. That was so wonderful, we’re going to do it again! We’re looking at the end of February, at my home parish.
Continue reading Trust is the word, again
In my last post, I talked about the first city-wide chant scholae Mass that we put together. Well, the Mass was last night, and…
Continue reading Trusting the Holy Spirit
Last time I talked about the upcoming big chant gathering we have next Sunday. Well, we had our practice yesterday, and finally got a chance to meet and find out what we’ve learned, and whether it was the same thing.
Continue reading Trusting the Holy Spirit, big time!
We now have less than two weeks to go until we have the scholas from 3 Fort Collins parishes join together to sing a single Mass on November 15th. Actually, I found out that we can claim four parishes, because a gentleman has joined us from Greeley who is the “one person schola” for his parish.
Continue reading Gearing up for the Big Event
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