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What Do People Want Most From Their Leader? Hope; Plus Four Things to Know This Week, March 5, 2026

3/5/2026

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A Word to the Wise: 
 
Gallup identified four key expectations followers have of their leaders. They need leaders to provide hope, trust, compassion, and stability.
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Aaron Earls, Lifeway Research, 3.7.25, What Do People Want Most From Their Leader? Hope
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Four Things to Know This Week

  1. Forces for Good Summit Aims to Equip Churches for Sexual Abuse Prevention, Response (Baptist Press)
  2. 10 Nonnegotiable Rules for Student Safety in Churches (Sam Rainer, Church Answers)
  3. Group Caught Amid Iran Attacks Now Headed Back to U. S. (Baptist Press)
  4. 12 Signs of Hope for a Declining Church (Chuck Lawless)
 
Thank you for reading. Please share it with pastors and other AMSs you believe would benefit.
 
To the praise of His glory,       
  
Ray
 
P. S. I also host the “SBCAL Podcast with Ray Gentry” each Tuesday morning.
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    I’m Ray Gentry, the President/CEO of the Southern Baptist Conference of Associational Leaders (SBCAL). I’ve served Southern Baptist churches & associations in various roles for over 35 years. I have served as an associational leader for five associations, starting in 1993. The most recent one being the Southside Baptist Network, McDonough, GA.

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