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In this issue...
Richard Curtis | John Ortberg | Featured Satellite Site
LWYA Snapshots | Advanced Copy | VIP Pass |
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RESERVE THREE DAYS THIS AUGUST
TO JOIN MORE THAN 80,000 LEADERS
What’s taking priority on your calendar this summer – Graduation? Vacation? Motivation? Each August the Summit provides Christian leaders around the world with an annual injection of vision, skill development, and inspiration for the sake of the local church. In three days, leaders are presented with teaching to improve personal abilities as well as challenges to advance their community and global impact. More than 20,000 leaders are already registered for The Leadership Summit 2007. Have you reserved time to grow your leadership skills? We look forward to your team joining us at Willow Creek’s South Barrington campus or at a satellite location right where you are. |
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GIVING A NAME TO NEED
Richard Curtis |
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Screenwriter Richard Curtis has worked with some of the biggest names in show business—Julia Roberts, Hugh Grant, and Emma Thompson. On an ever-increasing basis, though, the “big names” Curtis finds himself working with are ones like Gyamfi and Violet, Pamoja and Rashid. They are the men, women, and children who live in under-resourced parts of places like Africa and India who long for hope amid otherwise hopeless realities. Founder of such efforts as the UK’s annual Big Red Nose Day and executive producer of Idol Gives Back, Curtis is striving to move these names into the limelight and give international fame to the eradication of extreme poverty and treatable diseases as described in his Summit interview, Living for the Greater Good.
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A RUTHLESS SENSE OF HONESTY
John Ortberg |
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Driven leaders can feel like they have to be doing something significant or profound or life-changing all the time. John Ortberg suggests, however, that one’s mission should be something more than just what we are trying to accomplish. It should utilize the energy provided from God-given gifts in a way consistent with God’s will for a human life. In his Summit session, A Leader’s Greatest Fear, Ortberg will take an honest and direct look at the fears that can get every leader “off mission.” Exploring leaders’ default settings, his hard challenge will question whether or not we are using our talents for God’s purpose or simply for ourselves.
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Featured Satellite Site
Leading Where We Are—With Relevance by Bob Merritt
 When I came to this church 16 years ago, it was called First Baptist Church of White Bear Lake. At that time, there was a lot of potential—but there were so many things that needed attention. The 300-seat sanctuary was dark, cold, and brown. Everything was total 70’s. The music was a strange mix of organ, piano, guitar, trombone, and some drums; we had a robed choir. I’d never seen anything like it in real life. It was like everything going on outside our walls was modern and normal, but everything going on inside was old, brown, and just a bit of out of step.
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“Lead Where You Are” Snapshots
We’re telling stories of leaders like you; people driven to take action and lead where they are. Click on the videos to learn these stories then dig deeper and read more on our Web site. Stay tuned as every two weeks we release new snapshots.
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Advanced Copy
When the Game Is Over It All Goes Back in the Box by John Ortberg |
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Remember the thrill of winning at checkers or Parcheesi? You become the Master of the Board—the victor over everyone else. But John Ortberg asks, “What happens after that?” You know the answer: It all goes back in the box. You don’t get to keep one token, one chip, one game card. In the end, the spoils of the game add up to nothing. Using popular games as a metaphor for our temporal lives, Ortberg’s upcoming release, When the Game Is Over, It All Goes Back in the Box, neatly sorts out what’s fleeting and what’s permanent in God’s kingdom. Using humor, terrific stories, and a focus on winning “the right trophies,” Ortberg paints a vivid picture of the priorities that all Christians will want to embrace.
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VIP Pass
Learning from Notting Hill by Corinne Ferguson
What a joy it was to welcome U2’s lead singer and social justice activist, Bono, to the Summit stage last year!
Well, sort of.
I had a mixture of feelings when I realized that due to Bono's schedule we would need to pre-record his interview with Bill Hybels. It was the first time the WCA would feature a pre-produced session at the Summit, and I was concerned that we wouldn't have the advantage that comes with being live and in the moment. You know, sitting on the edge of your seat and wondering, "Is Bill really going to ask him that?!"
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