Servant Leadership
Searching for a deeper spiritual life...
hungry for social change?
Servant Leadership is about listening and experiencing God′s persistent call to faith and service. Servant Leaders meet in small groups to explore the inward journey of prayer, study and spiritual reflection, and to support each other in the outward journey of service and compassion for others.
Rhodes Chaplain′s Office
Campus Location: Briggs 310
Phone: 901-843-3849
To sign up for a servant leader class or reading group, or just to find out more,
please call #3899.
Servant Leadership programs at Rhodes are rooted in Christian spiritual practices, with openness and respect for religious differences and each person′s faith journey. We explore creative forms of prayer and reflection, share honest questions, doubts and struggles, and we encourage each other in our commitments to faith and service.
Co-curricular courses and reading groups in servant leadership are for students who seriously want to deepen their spiritual lives and explore some hard questions of faith and service. A group usually meets for 5-6 weeks and focuses on certain topics in faith and service, such as prayer, creativity, serving with the poor, poverty and privilege, vocation or calling, Bible study, social justice and interfaith dialogue. Members of each group also consider ways that they can serve in the community, spend time with neighbors who are poor or marginalized, pray, and find time for silence and solitude.
...long-term struggle requires constant inner renewal;
lest the wells of love run dry. Walter Wink, Prayer and the Powers
Since 1997, the Rhodes Chaplain’s Office has collaborated with the Memphis School of Servant Leadership and the Servant Leadership School in Washington, D.C. (Church of the Savior) to develop this unique program for students. Servant Leadership programs at Rhodes have been supported by the Corella and Bertram F. Bonner Foundation and special gifts from churches and individuals.
“For me, the heart of the spiritual quest is to know the rapture of being alive.
On this path to aliveness, we need a spirituality which affirms and guides our efforts to act in ways that resonate with our innermost being, ways to embody the vitalities that God gave us at birth, and ways that serve the great works of justice, peace, and love."
Parker J. Palmer, The Active Life
