Jesus had twelve

What makes you think you can lead over 600 people when Jesus only led 12?  I remember when my pastor Chris Spradlin asked me this question.  We were discussing volunteers on our Welcome Team. This question was a major paradigm shift in my life and my way of thinking.

It was then that I decided the search for my twelve was on. I already had my twelve in mind, but I needed to sell them on the vision of what we were going to do.

I found twelve leaders to pour into and asked them to also find twelve leaders and pour into them.  This concept helped us to make what was a large team, smaller. We were always looking for leaders.  We eventually started looking for our three, these three were people who could replace us. Our job was to develop leaders to lead others, to spend time with them, to get to know them and not just their name, to learn about their family, how long they had been attending, & how long they had been volunteering at the church. We also wanted to know what they were passionate about.  We did spiritual gift tests and personality tests to find what their strengths were.  We learned how to better communicate with them. We did book studies, training sessions, had lunches, just talked, laughed, griped and planned on what WE could do to improve the team.

Our team became small and these twelve were helping to change the team.

It was no longer about one because there is only ONE who can do it all.

So my question is, who are your twelve?