If leadership within the church does not prevail, eventually the culture will gobble them up and they won’t make it to the next generation. It’s already happening. Statistics cite church failings all the time.
But there’s hope.
The Willow Creek Association believes to its core that if you change a leader, you can change a church. If you change a church, then you can effect change to the city, the region, and the country. Our vision is that one day it will be normal for every church to thrive. It won’t happen overnight and it won’t be easy, but it can happen as long as leaders do one thing: follow God’s Spirit in establishing biblical patterns of church life that blaze new trails and live out Christ’s teaching from Matthew 28.
These are the kinds of churches the WCA is called to inspire and equip.
The Global Leadership Summit is an annual infusion of leadership training that helps leaders grow and thrive. The faculty is carefully selected with one goal in mind—to challenge all aspects of your leadership—whether you lead a ministry, a business, a large team, a small group, or a family. There’s a lot at stake and leadership matters!
The Summit is less than two months away (August 9 and 10). You have a few days left to take advantage of Early Bird pricing, which expires Tuesday, June 26. Ourchurch.com readers can save $20 on any satellite registration by using the special code ‘churchtrend’.
Win a Pair of Tickets!
We’d also like to offer one winner a pair of tickets to the satellite location of their choice. Just…
- Leave a comment below telling us who you’d bring to the Summit and why, AND
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We’ll select a winner on June 26!
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I would bring the principal from my child’s school. One of the speakers was featured in the movie “Waiting on Superman” and I would love to bring someone in education leadership to the Summit.
I would bring my husband who is the leader of our household–(when I'm not home ) ;D
And very a important leadership role that is!
While I am a member of a wonderful, growing church, I have felt challenged by the need to be outside the walls of the church doing my best to be like Jesus. I have had the opportunity to influence a number of non-profits as a consultant, helping them see how to stay true to the word, while working in the world. However, I still felt there was more I needed to do. So, at the age of 51, I am entering the teaching profession, teaching science in a high school where most of the students don't believe in themselves enough to value an education or going to college. I need wisdom on how to influence them to see their own worth and seek to be more than just a statistic. Everything I learn will also help me teach the 5th and 6th graders cementing their worldviews at church, and in raising my family to put God first as a strategy for life. I believe that the two tickets to this summit would provide me the access to knowledge that I can turn into wisdom.
Great story, Chris! Blessings as you start a new chapter leading and influencing the next generation of leaders.
hello! i wold love come learn more about being a leader and would bring my hubby if I win a ticket!
Easy…I'd take my wife. Together, by God's grace, we have amazing potential to impact the world. She is a Christian counselor and the lessons from the Global Leadership Summit would have far reaching impact as she works with her clients. I am a business leader and the lesson's I'd learn would have far reaching impact as well. And most importantly, together we parent our three amazing boys who are 8, 11, and 13. We are committed to raising young men who grow up to serve and I tear up thinking about the amazing impact they'll have throughout their life. What an opportunity and what a responsibility. We'll take all the help we can get.
I would take my right hand man, Bryan. 15 months ago we launched a new church together and are trying to figure out how to faithfully pastor and lead our growing new church!
I'd take my talented daughter Melissa. She just graduated from Calvin College with a degree in Psychology and ready to launch towards her next life step… Having attended multiple leadership summits has made such a profound difference in my life and it would be an honor to share this years experience with my daughter. Thank you.
I would bring my best friend Tiffany. She just got promoted to a new position where she is feeling drained and discouraged. She is a great leader and I know the Leadership Summit would definitely ignite the passion in her to become an even better one.
Wow, I do not envy your position having to make a choice. I would love to give these two tickets to my church's pastor and pastor-in-training at Jericho Road Church in Wheaton. I've been in Wheaton for 11 years and over the last year I finally found a real church home here. It's a young church, and our pastor Jeff is our only salaried position. We are struggling financially right now so I don't think he could afford this but from my experience at GLS, this could be a really revitalizing couple of days for him. I would really really love to see Devlin McGuire be able to go. He is 22 and unable financially to continue his Wheaton education for now. He's currently living with church family and serving as the "free intern" at our church where he helps to lead prayer or communion and fills in leading preaching at times. Devlin has so much charisma. He definitely has the gift of teaching and I would be so excited for him to get this leadership training as God continues to prepare him for his next stage in life. As an added bonus, tomorrow when you choose a winner is my birthday and I would be so excited to win these tickets and bless these two guys which would in turn bless our church so much. It's a young growing church with so many college students, and these two leaders would in turn lead and bless so many others. Full disclosure – I'd love to say I'm totally selfless in not picking myself here, but I'm hoping (likely) to attend with some Wheaton College coworkers again. Thanks for your consideration.
I would take my husband. God radically changed our lives four years ago. From the bar to our knees. We are growing in leadership together and this would be a huge blessing for us!