LONGWOOD, FL-Great leaders spend lifetimes building work worth investing in. Visionaries sacrifice time, family, finances, and energy following their dream. Without the information and wisdom to see beyond acquisition of the vision, success is followed by failure as the dream fades in the next generation. Where Is My Joshua? ($10.99, paperback, 978-1-60266-234-6), by Pastor K. E. Kudowor, offers the key to ensuring that our work is not in vain. This book, the first in the Kingdom Expansion Leadership Training Series, begins the reader's journey of ensuring their work will last for many generations beyond their own.
A single meeting that had a profound impact inspired this book. While preparing for a ministerial conference on visioning, Kudowor met a prominent American pastor whose simple but profound words haunted her for years to come. The man no longer sought the support of his followers for new dreams and vision. Rather, he told her, "The dreams I dream now are not for me or my time. If I don't find someone soon, the dream will die with me without the energy to see it realized." In the five years since that moment, he still has not identified a successor. Kudowor can clearly imagine what he must be thinking: What happens next? Does it all end with me? Where is my Joshua?
"There is no success without a successor," says Kudowor. "The last act of a pastor should not be tarnished by the fact that an unfinished work was left to an unprepared people. The point of this book is to help leaders finish their work well by preparing those to lead after their tenure is complete."
Succession planning is commonplace in the corporate sector. Unfortunately, this is a rarely discussed topic in the nonprofit world. This book helps the nonprofit leader, the pastor, the small group leader, and others set the foundation for duplicating their leadership in the next generation so that their dreams will finally bear fruit.
Dr. Kudowor earned her doctor of philosophy degree from Capella University in 2005. A licensed church consultant, she also founded KE Consultants, a division of KE International Ministries, more than five years ago. She serves alongside her husband as the general overseer/pastor of three churches in Ghana, West Africa. She also leads an international ministerial fellowship comprised of more than 300 member pastors and churches.
Xulon Press, a part of Salem Communications Corporation, is the world's largest Christian publisher, with more than 3,900 titles published to date. Retailers may order Where Is My Joshua? through Ingram Book Company and/or Spring Arbor Book Distributors. Salem Communications is the country's leading Christian communications company with interests in radio, Internet, and magazine publishing.
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