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Volume 2: 30-Day Shepherd Leadership Challenge

Continue to live even more genuinely into your calling as shepherd in the lives of those you lead!

August 25, 2021

To those who completed the first Challenge, we pray this next step will continue to impact you and those you lead. To those that are starting a Challenge for the first time, get ready to be stretched and refined. Be encouraged to lean in… hard… even when it’s uncomfortable. Be honest. Don’t give up. Be willing to allow the Good Shepherd to deeply challenge you everywhere and with everyone you influence. It will be worth it… for you and those you lead!

May we each live into our calling with the daily reminder that the Good Shepherd is the Ultimate Provider of Provision, Protection, and Presence. We are simply blessed to be used by Him with the sheep in our lives.

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