Multi-site Exposed (Chicago) is happening in just a few weeks. In cooperation with CCC of Naperville and First UMC of Sedalia, MO, we'll be hosting several hundred pastors, staff and leaders who want to learn more about multi-site ministry.
I'm excited about this conference for several reasons:
- It will be the first time we've hosted a conference for people outside of New Life. It feels like a big step to be doing training for other churches and leaders.
- I believe that the interdependence that multi-site ministry fosters is a New Testament value that gets easily lost in our culture. So training churches in the interdependence of multi-site ministry is a way to help churches recapture a key value of the early church.
- Anytime you gather people in a conference environment like this, there is a special sense of expectation and faith. People come with hearts open and a desire to grow. That is my favorite environment.
- Hearing people's stories and doing impromptu, conversational consulting about the "how's" of ministry will be fun. Meeting people from different areas and backgrounds stirs me up and helps me see the bigger picture of what God is doing in the world.
- Preparing for the training sessions will force us as a team to take a good look at what we're doing and to ask tough questions about our practices and theology. Do we need to tweak this? Overhaul that? Get rid of this? Add that? Preparing to train can be a great tool for honing your own ways of doing things.
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