Life Leadership Lessons Learned

Since L.A.M.B. started this project in July 2010, they have sent approximately 2,600 Good & Evil Books to this Facility. NKSP currently processes incoming inmates usually within a 90 day period at this facility. 

When it comes down to the lessons that I have learned through this service project I could list many that apply to me.

One such lesson I have seen from reading the letters from inmates, is the power of close, intimate, and relational communication and the impact this can have on the outcome of your life. Most of these inmates who are incarcerated have learned from their mistakes about the power of these types of communication. Almost all of these inmates have had marital conflict, parent/teen conflict, no Father relationship to help them through their growing years, and many other types of problems. All of these problems have big bearings on the outcomes of these individuals. They have never seen the example of relational communication so they don’t know how to give this type of communication to another.

Another lesson would be the impact of leading by serving. This lesson takes me back to a quote I heard from a professor one who asked the question, “Should you lead through serving or serve through leading? The answer that this professor gave is that we should lead through serving. This gives leadership a completely new perspective and outlook. When I spent time organizing the monthly events for packing the Good & Evil Books I would have to stop and start leading by my own example of serving and then others have someone to look up to for example and leadership in that area.

Finally the last lesson would be the impact of spiritual training as a method to set people free from the bonds of enslavement to a system of recidivism. This lesson can apply in my own life in the specific area of my vocation. I work in the Tax & Accounting industry and by having previous spiritual training in the area of biblical lessons of finance and stewardship, I can serve others by giving solutions to difficult situations in life.