Leadership Development Made Real

David Jauregui has become a close friend, fellow sojourner and Kingdom inspiration to Janny and I since our move down to Golden Hill. He has been an apprentice with NieuCommunities this past year and his life tells the story of the impact NieuCommunities has on its participants who are led into a life of radical Jesus discipleship.

While David spends much of his time among and advocating for orphaned children across the border in Tijuana (he actually lived down there for a portion of his apprenticeship), he has jumped head first into this year of leadership development, vocational discernment and community engagement.

Over the course of a year, all NieuCommunties participants goes through a curriculum that is broken into 6 sections (we call them postures). These past few months we have been going through time of vocational/calling discernment through a program called Life Compass. In short, it is a time to explore God's Mission (what we call True North) for the world and explore how our gifts/passions/talents/skills shape our role within that Mission. David tells the story of his experience going through Life Compass and follows that with a story of how this training had a direct impact in the community we live/serve. Please check out these stories as they give a glimpse into some of things we are doing and offer a challenging/inspirational picture of what it looks like to be disciples of Jesus apart of God's Redemptive Mission.

Story 1: Personal Experience with Life Compass

Story 2: Amazing Story of Community Engagement with the Hope of Jesus