I’m honored to be live blogging this week at the Willow Creek Leadership Summit for Engage International which is part of the Willow Creek Association. I’ve also been facilitating on line classes for the WCA called LIFT (Leadership Institute For Transformation). I’d encourage you to check out all the resources Engage and the WCA provide here!
Here’s the beginning of my post for the first session of the Summit…
Every year my husband John and I would say the best two weeks of our summer are the ones in August when we bring a large group of staff and lay leaders from our church to the Willow Creek Leadership Summit, and afterwards go on a staff family retreat in northern Minnesota.
We show up expectant, thinking, “What will God do this time?”
And every year after Bill Hybels’ opening talk, without fail, John says, “Well, I can go home now!” He’s filled up and recharged, but is always glad we stay around for the “B team”. 🙂
Bill’s talk is always a combination jolt of Red Bull, and a Brave Heart “Get off your butt” rallying cry.
Which is great if you’re a senior leader like my husband. But I also try to listen through the filter of the young mom, and the staff administrator, and the librarian, and the retired radiologist elder we’ve brought with us. You know, ordinary folks with ordinary lives who are definitely leaders of their family, or PTA, or church committee, or office staff, but may think “Is this really for me?.”
You can read the rest here!
