• God hears our prayers

    God hears our prayers

                    This is a story shared by our friends in the Philippines, who went through the servant leadership course as a community and as a result decided to form the Center for Servant Leadership, Philippines. This is a story of the  power of prayer and transformation that can happen when we are aware [...]

  • How Servant Leadership Impacted my Service

    How Servant Leadership Impacted my Service

    This is part of a series of stories from Servant Leaders who have been trained by the Center for Sharing over the past fifteen years. We will be highlighting leaders across the globe who have submitted their lives to serve and now find themselves in positions of leadership. Salome Meeme, who now works for CARE International and who was part of [...]

  • Wilson Dumelod, Servant Leader

    Wilson Dumelod, Servant Leader

    This is part of a series of stories from Servant Leaders who have been trained by the Center for Sharing over the past fifteen years. We will be highlighting leaders across the globe who have submitted their lives to serve and now find themselves in positions of leadership. This story is from Wilson Dumelod, who was a part of the [...]

  • John Koskei, Servant Leader

    John Koskei, Servant Leader

    “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.”  - Jesus Christ,  from Matthew 5:9 This is part of a series of stories from Servant Leaders who have been trained by the Center for Sharing over the past fifteen years. We will be highlighting leaders across the globe who have submitted their lives to serve and now [...]

  • A New Dream is Born

    A New Dream is Born

      The focus of our Servant Leadership training efforts over the past five years in Kenya have focused heavily on educating the community leaders there from the Methodist Church Kenya to work to build better communities. Recently, Roseanne Mbaya, one of the leaders who went through our servant leadership course decided to start something new, a dream of her own. [...]

  • Servant Leaders in Kenya

    Servant Leaders in Kenya

    CFS has been offering SL courses through MCK since 2005. Having trained some 20% of their pastors now, we felt this was the right time to hold some regional meetings in order to gather information about the impact of SL on them, and in what ways, if any, they have tried to apply it to the communities in which they [...]

  • True Wealth is Discovered

    True Wealth is Discovered

    By Ruth Ortega, from the Center for Servant Leadership, Philippines There was a time when we sat down and asked ourselves what wealth makes us and what poverty makes of us, who we would want to be identified with and to what will our lifestyle witness. On our second week of having no money in the fund to buy food [...]

  • A Mother is Found

    A Mother is Found

    Thirty years ago, Gladys lost her son…but more than that, she may have lost herself and her family. She left everything she knew and began to wander from her native El Salvador, migrating north and living in the streets. She became a broken woman, and she lost all contact with her family and left her native country to head to [...]

  • CDC: Challenges of changing a culture

    CDC: Challenges of changing a culture

    This is a tale of two young women in Oaxaca who are struggling to decide if they want to follow their own dreams or give into the social pressure to marry at a very young age.  This month one of our middle school students, Basilia, did not return to the program.  No official word came from the family until we [...]

  • Servant Leadership on the Job: Reed Bennett

    Servant Leadership on the Job: Reed Bennett

    Reed was a participant in a Servant Leadership class in early 2011. This interview was a follow up to Reed’s class to see what he’d learned and how he’d been able to apply the principles of Servant Leadership in the work he does as Food Safety Certifications & Training Manager at Broetje Orchards.  What did you learn from SL Class? Reed [...]