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Leadership Summit: Leading in New Cultural Realities (John Burke)
Posted on09. Aug, 2008 by Kenny.
What John shared during this breakout is some great stuff (John’s the pastor at my church and he’s been sharing this stuff for many weeks now). In some ways it comes across as fluffy stuff we hear in a lot of churches out of the mouths of a lot of pastors. The difference here is that this stuff is really happening and has happened at Gateway. John shares story after story of people coming out of ever imaginable situation and getting reconnected with God. John shares insight on how the church today can connect with a culture that has become very disconnected with God.
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Leadership Summit: Stand Up and Lead (Wendy Kopp)
Posted on09. Aug, 2008 by Kenny.
Wendy Kopp is the CEO and founder of Teach for America. Teach for America is described like a Peace Corps for education. The best and brightest college graduates are recruited to give two years to teach in a failing school.
Wendy describes how even in America, where you are born does determine your educational prospects.
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Leadership Summit: Finding Your True North (Bill George)
Posted on08. Aug, 2008 by Kenny.
Bill George is a professor at Harvard Business School, former CEO at MEDTRONIC and the Author of Authentic Leadership and True North.
Bill begins by saying that we’ve been in a leadership crisis for the past 10 years. [...]
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Leadership Summit
Posted on08. Aug, 2008 by Kenny.
Today I had the privilege of attending the Leadership Summit. Not at the Chicago location, but at the satellite location in Austin, TX.
Churches I’ve worked with in the past have not been Willow Creek Association churches, I I haven’t really known that much about Willow. I’ve certainly read a lot about Willow Creek and of the amazing things they’ve done, but really more as a bystander. However, once I came on staff at Gateway I’ve been much more exposed to Willow Creek. Not only is our church a WCA church, but many from our staff were once on staff on Willow. John Burke, our pastor was on staff at Willow when he felt called to plant a church in Austin. So, we use a lot of Willow resources and they’ve been absolutely fantastic. I’m very impressed.
So this was my first Leadership Summit. I only attended the first day because day two was on Friday (my day off) and I really needed a day off. Need I remind you of what’s been going on in my house? I was amazed at the scale of this event. It was never said (at least I didn’t hear) how many were attending this conference, but I heard that there were upwards of 60,000 joining either live or at satellite venues. How amazing is that? In addition to this, they’re boxing this thing up and making it available to gatherings of Christian leaders all over the world. In the same way that One Prayer impacted hundreds of thousands through synchronized worship experiences, Leadership Summit may impact many more through incredible leadership training.
So, here is my very brief overview of my one day Leadership Summit experience at a satellite venue.
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Anyone going to the Leadership Summit this week?
Posted on06. Aug, 2008 by Kenny.
Just curious if anyone is attending this year? I signed up this afternoon to attend. I won’t actually be in Chicago, but I will be at a video venue here in Austin. Our Senior Pastor, John Burke, will be speaking on Friday. He’s got a new book out (just in time for Leadership Summit) and will be talking about how we’re using it as a tool to do something pretty amazing this fall here at Gateway. I’ll write more about Soul Revolution and our plan to start a revolution next week. So, anyone going to attend?
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