How I Lead as Bishop with JustServe | An Interview with Daniel Brown
Leading Saints Podcast
Leading Saints
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🗓️ 6 July 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Daniel Brown currently serves as bishop of the Searcy Ward in Searcy, Arkansas. He has previously served as a counselor in the bishopric, elders quorum president, Young Men president, and a counselor in the stake Young Men presidency, among other callings. He served in the Nevada, Las Vegas mission and has been married to Lacey Brown for 20 years. They are the parents of five children.
Highlights
03:00 Introduction to Daniel Brown and leveraging the Justserve app 05:00 Daniel shares the background of his area in Arkansas. 07:50 The story of Daniel getting called as bishop and his awesome beard 09:40 What he focused on when starting out as bishop. He was called right after covid and during social distancing and it was a struggle to get back into ministering. 12:00 Why should we be using JustServe? Working with other churches to use JustServe too. 22:00 How Daniel’s ward is using the Justserve app 24:15 The easiest way to feel the love of Christ in our lives is to serve His sons and daughters. 25:00 The missionary effort in Arkansas 25:40 The lesson Daniel’s dad taught him when called as bishop 26:50 Handling youth dynamics as a bishop. They try to do one service activity a month with a youth. They use JustServe to help with these activities. 29:00 There is no role in the church that can’t be covered by the JustServe website. 30:10 Daniel’s testimony of how leadership has brought him closer to Jesus Christ
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| 0:00.0 | Does a youth leader ever feel like they haven't figured out? This hasn't been my experience. However, I couldn't be an effective youth leader today without |
| 0:16.1 | Dan Duckworth's presentation about going from youth worker to youth mentor. Mentorship is a key concept to understand when leading youth. In his presentation |
| 0:24.9 | Dan talks about ways to really turn the traditional approach to leading youth on its |
| 0:29.8 | head. How can you better know your purpose? How can you find out their life goals? How can you better know your purpose? How can you find out their life goals? |
| 0:34.0 | How can you build a relationship that is transformational rather than simply filling time |
| 0:39.0 | during the weekly youth activity? You can watch Dan's presentation in the Young Saints Virtual Library by going to |
| 0:45.8 | leading Saints.org. 14. You'll get free access for 14 days and that will give you plenty |
| 0:51.1 | of time to watch Dan's presentation a few times. |
| 0:54.0 | Let's give youth the leadership they deserve. Oh, So my name is Kurt Frankham and I am the founder and executive director of |
| 1:30.0 | Leading Saints and obviously the host of the Leading Saints podcast. |
| 1:33.9 | Now I started Leading Saints back in 2010. |
| 1:37.6 | It was just a hobby blog and it grew from there by the time 2014 came around we started the podcast and that's really |
| 1:44.8 | when it got some attraction and took off 2016 we became a 501c3 nonprofit |
| 1:51.2 | organization and we've been growing ever since and now I get the |
| 1:54.4 | opportunity of interviewing and talking with remarkable people all over the |
| 1:58.8 | world. Now this is a segment we do on the leading Saints podcast called How I Lead. |
| 2:04.0 | And we reach out to everyday leaders. They're not experts, |
| 2:07.0 | gurus, authors, PhDs, they're just everyday leaders who've been asked to serve |
| 2:11.8 | in a specific leadership calling and we simply |
| 2:13.9 | ask them how is it that you lead and they go through some remarkable principles |
| 2:17.8 | that should be in a book that should be behind a PhD they're usually that good |
| 2:22.1 | and we just talk about sharing what the other guy is doing and I remember being a leader just simply wanting to know okay I know what I'm trying to do but what's the other guy doing what working for him? And so that's why every Wednesday or so, |
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