DLC

I returned yesterday evening from the District Leadership Conference (DLC) we held in St. Louis. It's a gathering of all the district youth presidents, district NYC coordinators, and district trainers. The main part of this year's conference was the passing of info from our office to the district leaders about NYC 07 (waterfirewind.com). It was a big week for us.

Overall it went well. We had a few snafus at the beginning of the week but the two main purposes of our time together went well: relationships with the youth leaders and sharing the information about NYC.

Some highlights for me:
1) spending time with friends - especially Kevin and Josh
2) worship services - we had Jon Shirley as our worship leader and he was awesome. Dave and Mark Holcomb shared in the general sessions. God moved in many ways and his presence was definitely there.
3) conversations - on Tuesday and Wednesday nights we had some great conversations with people from around the US, just asking questions and sharing stories about what God is doing and where God is leading us.
4) making connections - meeting people, making friends and connecting with folks in regards to NYC.

Some tough things were not being with my family and not being able to be with my friends in Maryland as they go through a tough time.

The main thing I took away from DLC was that there is incredible hope for our church and our future. So many people are ready to make changes and look at things in new ways to make disciples of Jesus!