Although I have never taken on a leadership role in my community, I feel that I have obtained leadership qualities that enable me to be a positive example. I have worked with kids camps before in church related events and have been able to perform more than what was expected of me, always contributing my time effectively and taking it upon myself to demonstrate leadership when asked or needed. These past two years I have been able to say with confidence that I am a leader and my contributions to kids camps that I volunteer with are important to me. Leadership is something I have grown in continually throughout these past four crucial years in my life. My freshman year to now my senior year was spent figuring out the woman I wanted to be and the woman I have become. Sometimes leaders have to restore order, regroup and redirect their …show more content…
As for me, my followers were groups of young children who would go their own way, become distracted and forget their purpose. My junior year I became involved in two different kid’s camp with the same message: love and be loved. Cliche as it sounds, this message never fades. My first camp, hosted by the Vista Assembly of God Church Carlsbad campus is one I have been working with now for two years, while the other camp I recently became involved in was hosted by Crossroads Church Temecula. Royal Family Kids Camp, Temecula gave me the opportunity to work with a new community, a new church and with abused and neglected children who came from the Foster Care system. Just this last summer I worked both camps in different months, seven days a week from six in the morning to close to eleven at night. In both camps I had the label of teen staff assistant but my elders saw beyond that. Since I was a teen assistant my focus was not geared toward only a few kids, it was shifted from group to group as I would make my rounds and spend time with each child. I was flexible and would