“Who will lead us to a higher place?” her voice screamed at the mirror.
She confessed to the miserable image that she believed she had the guts to do it.
“What are you waiting for?” asked her reflection.
“Permission,” she whined.
The mirror replied, “Granted.”
Putting on makeup her is harder than leading.
She is no Barbie doll. She knows this.
She becomes unafraid.
She dares to lead.
Leadership. Who wants to do this stuff alone? Who wants it to be boring? Who wants strategy to be tedious? None of us. So we call it ...
chocolate leadership
Because chocolate is for sharing, it comes in a thousand different forms, it’s deliciously exciting and never, ever tedious!
Team with a group of 20-25 women for six months. These women are from Mosaic. They want to be strong leaders. They dare to lead.
Kim's home is filled with colors. It is an eclectic mix of art, memorabilia and farmhouse charm. So is she. Kim is a force of nature.
She offers her story with vulnerability and grace. At the age of 8, she was sent to live with foster parents in Leicester, North Carolina, on their tomato/tobacco farm. She was their fifth official foster child and longed for a normal home. The feeling of being an orphan was a relentless shadow, but God was able to pierce through the loneliness and hard labor on the farm to reach Kim's heart.
"God my Father did not hide me from his powerful overwhelming love or His grace that sustained me through ever lonely nights. His presence was not hid from a young adolescent who had no idea how to become a lady. He is generous to those who call out to Him, and I did call -- even screamed and pleaded -- hundreds and thousands of times. My calls were answered and I learned the beautiful words 'I love you' from the Jesus who saw my condition and saw me through it. If I had courage at all, it was this: I know that I am not alone or powerless. All the mothers in the world cannot be the one I lost but even the one mother I had could not be the one I need. I desperately need the one called Jesus. He is the courageous one in me."
Kim says her children think she is overreacting most of the time. Her reply to this is always the same: "When I am dead in my coffin you’ll be able to say, 'At least now she isn't overreacting!'" Kim is using her passionate voice to help women find freedom from fear, abuse and hopelessness and to mentor leaders that will shape our culture not only relationally but also through entrepreneurial ingenuity. Kim’s firm belief is that we cannot change the world around us simply by reading books or singing songs by other people. We need to pen the books, write the music, create new ways of seeing the world.
Kim McManus [Her Bio]
Director of Mosaic SHE Community kim@mosaic.org Q: If you could have any super power, what would it be? A: Changing chaos to order. Q: What did you want to grow up to be when you were a little girl? A: An anesthesiologist, because I could be a big word.
