Samuel Voorhies
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http://samvoorhies.com/Sam Voorhies has 30 years of multi-cultural, international leadership and management experience in INGO (International non-Governmental Organization) relief and development. Sam has extensive work experience in Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe, Latin America and the Pacific Rim, covering some 65 countries and resident experience in Kenya and Zimbabwe (seven and five years respectively), working across 25 African countries.
His experience ranges from grass-roots, village-level work in rural and urban communities to national, regional and global program leadership. His vision and passion have focused on building national leadership capacity to lead sustainable programs.
Sam’s past work focused on strategy, senior leadership and organizational development, supporting organizational change for the World Vision International Partnership. Sam currently leads his own consulting company focusing on leadership and organizational development. Voorhies International Consulting works with leaders, their teams and organizations to assess current capabilities and provide strategic support for effective leadership, team growth and organizational development. Since it’s founding, VIC has worked with numerous domestic and global corporate and ministry clients (including Compassion International, Food for the Hungry, Living Water International and several large corporations in the oil, gas and construction industries) to increase leadership and organizational performance. Sam’s passion is the integration of spiritual formation and leadership practice.
He holds a Ph.D. in International Development Education from Florida State University. He is the author of several articles and publications on leadership, international and community development including: Serving the Poor: Steps to Relief and Development, Global Mission Handbook: A Guide to Cross Cultural Service, 2009, IVP; “Transformational Development: Changing People and Their Communities” published in Perspectives On the World Christian Movement, edited by Ralph Winter, 1999; Leadership Development and Organizational Effectiveness, The Good Steward.com, 2004. Sam serves as an adjunct and visiting professor for Leadership and International Development at Saint George's University, Colorado Christian University, Denver Seminary, Eastern University and Fuller Theological Seminary.
Sam currently lives in Colorado with his wife Emily, and has three adult children.
You can reach Sam through his website at www.SamVoorhies.com
There is No Such Thing as a Christian Organization
Jesus declared that His view of success and effectiveness was directly tied to His obedience to the Father, not to an organization. We often put too much faith, confidence, and belief in the organization as though the institution is what matters. We make the mistake of measuring our effectiveness, our success, by whether or not the institution is growing.
Say Yes to Time with the Father
Let’s be careful that we don’t by-pass relationship with God to get on with the activity, and start worshiping at the altar of what we do For Him. Jesus was very careful to point out that what He did was through the authority God gave Him. He also worked at maintaining that close relationship with His Father.
Putting the Mask On First
That little yellow mask that drops down from the ceiling in an airplane gives life-saving oxygen in a depressurized cabin. Oxygen is something that we take for granted while our feet are firmly planted on the ground. Sam discusses how our relationship with God is as crucial to leadership life support as oxygen is to the physical body. He outlines how self-deception toward responsibilities can be as detrimental to the physical body as lack of oxygen.
Leadership Development and Ministry Effectiveness
Some gaps, like holes in rocky cliffs, cannot be closed. However, gaps in leadership competencies can be closed. Jesus’ model of investing in leaders worked. Sam shares three observations of how leader development tuned toward leaders’ own context increases effectiveness, which makes it an excellent investment.
5 Principles for Growing through Change
Just a little rain transforms an arid desert into a magnificent blooming garden. That rain changes the arid environment and draws life from dormant seeds. The same can happen when we face changes in our lives. Sam experienced not one, but four painful organizational changes in his 24 years with World Vision. He said, “I was laid off once, resigned once and ‘stormed out’ once.” Sam outlines some growing lessons from Psalm 37.
Putting Your Oxygen Mask on First – Video
Most of us are so busy ministering to, or leading and managing others, that we do a poor job of managing ourselves. I want to share powerful principles, from Jesus’ example, for avoiding burn-out ourselves, and to identify the root cause of what often drives us to such destructive lifestyles or behaviors.
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