The Warrap State ministry of gender, child and social development, and the non-denominational evangelical Christian organization, Samaritan’s Purse, on Thursday, concluded a two-day Biblical leadership workshop for government and church leaders in Kuajok town.
The training brought together 25 participants including government officials, ministers and administrators, 10 church leaders, and 5 youth and women leaders.
John Modi, the Samaritan’s Purse program manager for Biblical leadership who also doubled as lead facilitator, said the training was about divine leadership which aims at trust-building and peace dissemination in the community.
“The content of the is about Biblical leadership which we thought of to encourage political, church and community leaders to embrace leadership which is more Godly and to be servant leaders who do the work that pleases God,” Modi explained. “So, we have drawn principles from the Bible which talk about leadership and Jesus is a good example of a servant leader.”
He added: “We taught them to focus on how communities benefit from leadership in terms of creating peace, fairness, and building trust because a leader can lead both bad and good people.”
Elizabeth Awal Akok, one of the participants who represented the women said she learned Godly leadership from the training.
“I gained a lot of things about Godly leadership. Although we practice some of them as leaders, we did not know that a leader can be looked like a servant,” Awal said. “Let us forget those bad things we did and tend to new ways of helping people. As a leader, you can love people as you love yourself, appreciate and trust your people.”
Another participant, the Warrap State acting police commissioner, Brig. Gen. Chol Juach Adholoch said the training taught him how to provide security services to the people in a humane way.
“The benefit of this workshop which is initiated by pastors taught us how to become leaders of people and how to address their issues,” Gen. Juach said. “These two days taught us how faith is important in any institution. In the past, we were taught how to behave with our superiors in the police administration yet people are not supposed to fear the police because it is our mandate is to protect the people and their properties.”
Meanwhile, the Warrap State minister of parliamentary affairs, Ater Kuei, said the training was designed to teach them how to lead the people in a Godly way.
“It was planned to train leaders on Biblical leadership so we learned a lot on how to rule and lead the people knowing that there is God. We have also learned about resource management and how to administer,” Minister Kuei said. “Lastly, the training lastly touched on how to respect your boss and subordinates because somebody ahead of you deserves respect and transparency while people under you also you to have faith in them.”