Gurukul Faculty Retreat: Dr. Sam Kamalesan

After summer vacation Gurukul Lutheran Theological College and Research Institute reopened on June 15, 2008. In preparation for the new academic year the Faculty has spent a day in retreat on June 14th. The Retreat was held at the Breeze Hotel in Chennai. Dr. Sam Kamalesan founder of the Friends Missionary prayer Band has been the retreat leader. Currently he is the Director of World Vision. Dr. Kamalesan has exhorted the faculty on servant leadership that needs to be cultivated in the Church. Servant leadership is transformational leadership. Another form of leadership is prevalent in the world today is transactional leadership, which sustains on the motto: You scratch my back, I will scratch yours. He further emphasized that thriving for respectability is the greatest hindrance for creativity as well as servant leadership. All institutions become bureaucratic in less than fifty years. Only way to redeem institutions from bureaucratic stagnation is to cultivate servant leadership. Jesus Christ is the great servant leader; good leaders are good followers: Christian leadership will become Christian as well as real leaders when they follow Christ. If you have nothing to follow you cannot lead. Thanks Dr. Kamalesan for the inspiring as well as provoking message.