Oct 8, 2026 · 2 min · 2 segments
Send us Fan Mail Episode 18 is here! Great leadership isn’t formed in seasons when everything is going well. Sometimes, it’s adversity that reveals…
Preston PooreHost
James AckermanGuest
The quality of your leadership is the thing that has the greatest impact on the culture.

And I felt like at the end of that period that I was the valley of dry bones.

And over the next few years, I felt the Lord restoring me in that way, and I became, as a result, a much better leader, a much more compassionate leader.

I was standing in a landfill, not metaphorically, an actual landfill, the Tijuana city dump.

200 families lived there, homes built from tarps, pallets, tin scraps, and old garage doors, whatever people could find and stack into something with a roof.

We were there to serve the people who lived in the dump, to knock on doors, hand out rice and beans, invite them to vacation Bible school that we'd set up nearby.

The best way to grow is to move out of your comfort zone and into the awkward zone.

The quality of your leadership is the thing that has the greatest impact on the culture.

And I felt like at the end of that period that I was the valley of dry bones.

And over the next few years, I felt the Lord restoring me in that way, and I became, as a result, a much better leader, a much more compassionate leader.

I was standing in a landfill, not metaphorically, an actual landfill, the Tijuana city dump.

200 families lived there, homes built from tarps, pallets, tin scraps, and old garage doors, whatever people could find and stack into something with a roof.

We were there to serve the people who lived in the dump, to knock on doors, hand out rice and beans, invite them to vacation Bible school that we'd set up nearby.

The best way to grow is to move out of your comfort zone and into the awkward zone.
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