My Leadership Pathway: Kellan Huelat

Описание: Leadership Pathway exists to help churches find, develop, and hang on to young leaders through a two-year residency, but sometimes a church sends their best off to somewhere else. That's what this conversation is about.

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Kellan Huelat almost took his talents to the kitchen, “The Bear” style chaos, before God rerouted him into pastoral ministry. In this Leadership Pathway conversation with Dave Miller, Kellan shares how he went from culinary training and house painting in small town Missouri to adult ministry in Arizona and now a Discipleship Pastor role in Garden City, Kansas.

In this interview, they talk about:

• Growing up a pastor’s kid in Missouri and running from ministry
• Culinary school plans, and why restaurant life was not it
• Failing out of Ozark Christian College and wrestling with doubt
• Two years of painting houses, and the boss mentor who refused to let his calling die
• Entering a Leadership Pathway residency at Quad City Christian Church in Prescott, Arizona
• What he actually learned about pastoring that Bible college did not teach
• Obedience, suffering, mental health, and how God used pain to build compassion
• Planning a church-wide Serve Day and discovering the “90 percent unseen” side of ministry
• The importance of first impressions and why friendliness must be trained, not assumed
• His new role as Discipleship Pastor at Bible Christian Church in Garden City, Kansas
• Long-term dreams for church planting in post-Christian, urban contexts

If you are investing in young leaders, considering a residency, or you are a twenty-something wondering if ministry is really for you, Kellan’s story will encourage and challenge you.

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Markers
0:00 Intro
1:10 New role in Garden City, Kansas
5:30 Growing up a pastor’s kid in Missouri
9:45 Culinary dreams and why he did not become a chef
14:30 College, crisis, and leaving Ozark Christian College
20:15 Painting houses, mentors, and a renewed call to ministry
27:40 Leadership Pathway residency at Quad City
36:00 Obedience, suffering, and mental health in ministry
45:15 Planning a Serve Day and learning to lead
53:20 First impressions, discipleship, and what is next for Kellan