I apologize for not posting earlier this week. As some of you know, I work for Newfrontiers USA and we've been very busy this week getting ready for our Equipped for Mission conference!
This conference is my favorite of all the ones we have each year and I'll tell you why....
This is our annual leadership conference, which means 95% of the people attending the conference are leaders in their local church in some capacity or another. This gives everything a different feel and a different perspective that I love seeing. There's something about seeing a room of 300 leaders worshiping God together that gives me goosebumps. I feel my gaze being lifted off of my own circumstances and issues when I hear the testimonies and hopes of what God is doing in our family of churches all over the country. I feel challenged and, oftentimes convicted of petty navel-gazing, or prideful withholding of the gifts God has put in me as I watch leaders ministering to other leaders and hear their passionate vision of the Kingdom of God being established in their home towns and around the world.
I've been in the church all my life. I've been a Christian for 28 years (holy moly!). I've been entrusted with various responsibilities - many times in leadership capacities of some kind - throughout the past 20-ish years. I never want to get to a point in my life where I think I've learned it all, or know everything that God is doing in and around me. I want to continue to run hard after God and everything that He has for me. These leaders that I'm about to spend the next 3 days with are a very real inspiration to me. I feel myself beginning to tear up as I think about how grateful I am to have such amazing and godly men & women to follow.
How can we ever think we can successfully walk this life alone? Thank you, God, for these leaders you've put into place (Romans 13:1)!
(I'm hoping to get to post more during the conference this week - if I have time and internet connection.)
Going Green,
Samantha
This conference is my favorite of all the ones we have each year and I'll tell you why....
This is our annual leadership conference, which means 95% of the people attending the conference are leaders in their local church in some capacity or another. This gives everything a different feel and a different perspective that I love seeing. There's something about seeing a room of 300 leaders worshiping God together that gives me goosebumps. I feel my gaze being lifted off of my own circumstances and issues when I hear the testimonies and hopes of what God is doing in our family of churches all over the country. I feel challenged and, oftentimes convicted of petty navel-gazing, or prideful withholding of the gifts God has put in me as I watch leaders ministering to other leaders and hear their passionate vision of the Kingdom of God being established in their home towns and around the world.
I've been in the church all my life. I've been a Christian for 28 years (holy moly!). I've been entrusted with various responsibilities - many times in leadership capacities of some kind - throughout the past 20-ish years. I never want to get to a point in my life where I think I've learned it all, or know everything that God is doing in and around me. I want to continue to run hard after God and everything that He has for me. These leaders that I'm about to spend the next 3 days with are a very real inspiration to me. I feel myself beginning to tear up as I think about how grateful I am to have such amazing and godly men & women to follow.
How can we ever think we can successfully walk this life alone? Thank you, God, for these leaders you've put into place (Romans 13:1)!
(I'm hoping to get to post more during the conference this week - if I have time and internet connection.)
Going Green,
Samantha
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