off to Dallas

One of the highlights for me each summer is my annual trek to Dallas to participate in the Global Advance "Ambassador Meeting", which is a gathering of some of the most missions-minded pastors in America. We enjoy some great fellowship, some missions updates and challenges from Dr. David Shibley, along with the latest news and plans from Global Advance. Of course, Dr. Shibley is a dear friend and G.A. is one of our missions partners, with whom I do pastor's conferences every year.

This year is even more exciting, because for the first time in their history, Global Advance is unveiling a new strategy to include women in their training focus, as they begin offering simultaneous conferences for women in leadership alongside their FrontLine Shepherd's Conferences in developing nations. They've asked Chris and me to make a presentation tomorrow to all the pastor's gathered in Dallas, since we've practiced team ministry for years.

I'm pretty pumped about that, since husband-and-wife-teams are such a core value at CLC (if you hadn't noticed, all our pastors operate as couples!), and we so believe that The church has suffered from not embracing women in ministry. Imagine what the Body of Christ can accomplish if women, who make up over 50% of our numbers, are fully released to accomplish their ministry in the Kingdom!

So we're off to O'Hare in a few minutes, but we'll be back this weekend (at Tinley & South Bend) - let's keep chasing lions together!