2008
Harold Roberts
Out Of The Deep: Leadership And Congregational Recovery From Hurricane Katrina
What is leadership? Why is it necessary? How do you evaluate it? What styles of leadership are helpful and why are others destructive and self-serving? This thesis is about leadership and one person’s journey of discovery. That journey took the author through the ravages of Hurricane Katrina into questions of leadership and recovery. This paper is presented in two parts. In part one the author looks at some concepts of Servant-Leadership, Creativity and Thinking in Leadership, and Marks of Excellence in Ministry. In part two he looks for these concepts in the recovery efforts of himself and four other clergy whose church facilities along the Mississippi Gulf Coast were destroyed. The clergy involved were candid, open, and willing to share their experiences with whoever would be interested.