Youth Leader Summit Notes:

Recently I attended a youth leader summit in Lima, NY with a good friend of mine. I wanted to share a few notes with you that I took while there. The following notes are from my first night. Jeanne Mayo was the speaker:

In the Crucible

Crucible: container for melting something. 2) bottom of furnace. 3) testing circumstances. 4) ordeal

•What is the crucible in your life?
•God is not punishing you, He’s educating you. It’s not punishment; it’s training.
•Ask Him not to take you out of the crucible but enlarge your pain capacity.
• A true leader will grow through the crucible.

What are the traits of a crucible?
•Crucibles make you ask the hard questions. I.e., Am I really called to do this? Did God really give me this vision?
•Crucibles are inevitable where people play for high stakes. Heaven & Hell!
•Crucibles are conquered by those who think and act differently when times call for it. (will do what needs to be done)
•Crucibles can come by failure or cause failure.
•Crucibles are a turning point. You are different than you were before the crucible...

The tipping point is the awareness of knowing that you are affecting peoples lives by how you come out of a crucible. (Made me think of the Chase family during Sam’s battle)


Be diligent with the church you have and not the one you want. Jesus died for one person at a time. One is just as valuable as 1000.

•Take charge of the narrative of the story. The choice is always yours. You are the story teller.

•A crisis always introduces a person to themselves.

•If the crucible causes anger to come out, don’t blame the person who caused the crucible...the anger was always there, the crucible just brought it out.

• Leaders often find their voice in the crucible. They face the obvious risk, and choose to be optimistic.

• Sometimes God removes our dreams to give us our destiny.

•Greatness often comes at the intersection of pain & passion.