THE MULTI-VOCATIONAL LEADER | Our Hope For the Future
What does it mean to be a multi-vocational leader and what does it mean to invest in them?
To be a multi-vocational leader is to be a person who is called to be a leader or a contributing member in more than one context of our lives - the number of contexts being defined by the number of different calls to serve that we may receive and the number of times we respond with a “Yes, I will serve there” answer.
Those contexts are oftentimes organizations or roles, but not always. In some cases, they are simply places we are called to serve. We may feel a sense of call to a specific leadership role within one organization, or feel a call to serve in two or three organizations. Even further, those calls are not always to organizations, but to roles within our life that will likely include caring for family, raising children, community service, or even a time when we are called to be a good friend to those close to us.
Whatever the case and number of calls, to be multi-vocational is to be open to and responding to multiple roles in multiple contexts, while being true to our primary vocation.
As my Dad has always told me,
Our job is to be obedient to the call upon our life while remaining open to being called elsewhere.
While it would be clean and simple to imagine us being singularly vocational - maintaining a sense of obedience and calling to one job or role - most of our real lives and stories don’t look like that. While being called to serve in one place is a lot simpler to consider, most of us serve our world and those within our sphere of influence in multiple ways while maintaining a rooting in one job, role, career path, or call.
However, that reality may change as more and more leaders are seeing a necessity or need to serve in more than one place.
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