Below you’ll find a short video that shows highlights from the Willow Creek Global Leadership Summit that First Assembly Community Ministries hosted last August. It’s returning to Lafayette and some 500 cities across the United States on August 8-9! Check out the video below and click here to learn more about this year’s world-class faculty! You can also register directly … Read More
Ideas on how to Grow Your Life Group
Recently, Pastor Todd Hair posted these ideas on The City for how to grow your group! Check out these fabulous ideas! Know your target The name of your group should reflect clearly what it is about The description shouldn’t be long, but should communicate a clear purpose The group location & meeting time should be convenient to the people you … Read More
What are my Spiritual Gifts?
The Holy Spirit is part of what it means to be a Christian. The powerful, abiding presence of God’s Spirit is part of what he does in the life of the one following Jesus. Beyond that, however, the Spirit gives gifts to everyone who is following Jesus. The apostle Paul puts it like this: “Now to each one the manifestation of … Read More
How To Follow Up on the Global Leadership Summit
Thursday and Friday of this past week were some spectacular days to take in at the Global Leadership Summit hosted at our church via satellite. Our first year had over 200 in attendance from businesses and ministries across our community–a smooth start! Talking to people who attended for the first time, I kept getting the same kinds of replies from … Read More
DAY 2 of GLOBAL LEADERSHIP SUMMIT
WOW! Today was amazing and inspiring! I don’t know where to begin with all the ways The Global Leadership Summit 2012 impacted me today! Beyond the unusually clear presentations from Patrick Lencioni on organizational health, conflict and negotiation expert Dr. William Ury and an Indian woman by the name of Pranitha Timothy who has been involved in the liberation of … Read More
DAY 1–Global Leadership Summit
“Invigorating!” “I learned so much today!” “I was proud of my church today for bringing such a great thing to Lafayette.” “I feel like I grew today!” “Thanks for hosting this; I’m getting so much out of it!” These were just some of the comments I heard today after Day One at The Global Leadership Summit–the satellite conference we’re hosting … Read More
The Global Leadership Summit 2012
If you’ve been around First Assembly in the last couple of months, you know that we are hosting The Global Leadership summit on August 9-10 in our sanctuary via satellite. This event is the primary leadership development moment we will have as a church in 2012, and I want to encourage you to be present for it. Beyond the fact … Read More
Prophet, Priest, or King?
This month, I’ll be adding a number of posts on leadership, in keeping with the theme “Under the Influence” that I’m speaking on at Lafayette First Assembly this month. I don’t know who started talking this way first, but one helpful way to think about leading in the church is by looking through the lens of the tri-fold office of … Read More
UNDER THE INFLUENCE–May 2012 Series
Jesus was a person with an absolutely magnetic character. He drew men and women around him who left everything else to hear him speak, see his miracles and just be with him. In the same way, God looks for his people to be “influencers” in the world. That’s the subject of May’s Sunday morning series at Lafayette First Assembly. This … Read More
Us and Them
I’m working to become a person who constantly realizes it’s not just about “Us and Them”. The “Us and Them” mentality creeps in easily at church. Those who are already a part running a particular ministry or enjoy membership in a certain group or have been a part of the church for a long time can easily begin to see … Read More