Leaders Conference Presentation
I was in Chicago last week to attend the WCA Leaderhip Summit. I was particularly moved by the Presentations of Wess Stafford and Jessica Jackley. My purpose for being at the summit was to help Mac Pier, our partner in New York City (circle #1 in our circles of grace campaign) present the Leadership Center partnership to a group of interested business people from the Chicago area. The New York partners include the New York City Leadership Center, Concerts of Prayer, Go2 Church Planting, and Redeemer Church. We are praying that the leadership center idea can be reproduced in America's 40 most populated city centers. Our GO2 role in the leadership center is to provide the social network component through our Act1v8 (Activate) social network which will launch full scale on January 1, 2010. The social network provides an elegant platform for creating both a national and regional conversation in our society around 12 significant issues. The purpose is very simple - to raise the demand for church planting in the United States. This starfish like organization allows for grass roots energy to be released in a decentralized fashion. Our hope is that while GO2 prays and works hard to supply church planters, that the social conversation will provide the demand for church planting. Thus, both supply and demand are addressed to reach our great nation for Christ. You can view the basic idea of the activate social network by linking to www.act1v8.us and click on "The Crowd" tab, but remember it will not launch formally until January 1, 2010 and this is simply a prototype of what is coming. Our goals - 5,000 new churches, 500,000 new believers, 50 million evangelized by the year 2020 in the United States of America. Act1v8 will help us move towards accomplishing the final of our three goals. Of course, none of this can happen without your prayers. Would you please pray for us! Be on the lookout for the premiere of our 1,765 "Circles of Grace" campaign, starting in September.
Tim
