Leadership Summit

Hi all,

Yesterday and today I attended the Willow Creek Leadership Summit here in Quito. The summit is actually done in Aug and then recorded and translated into Spanish. It is translated into many languages and presented all over the world in 52 different countries, if I remember correctly. This is the first time I have attended the summit. Last year was the first year we had the summit here in Quito.

Several of my radio team members also attended the summit. Leadership is a big topic in Latin America, just as it is in north America. I have spent a lot of time reading leadership books over the years, and after a while you begin to figure out that everyone basically says the same thing. You also begin to figure out that Christian character is probably the most important ingredient there is for leadership.

If that is true, where are all the Christian leaders? Shouldn't we be leading the world? Shouldn't we be leading the best corporations? Shouldn't we be impacting the world like no one else has?

I don't have the answer to that question. But it sure makes you stop and think a bit. If my Christian faith is really the best basis for leadership, then I should probably stop spending so much money on leadership books and start spending more time reading and studying my Bible. No wait... maybe I need to start applying what I know from my years of studying the Bible to the real life situations that I run in to every day.

There are so many ways that we could start moving into the future. There are so many paths that are available to us these days in media. There are so many audiences out there that have never existed before. So which direction do we go? Who do we go after first? What technology do we use to reach them? I have lots of ideas and dreams swimming around in my head. Will you pray for direction for our leadership team? We need the Lord to direct our steps and to provide the financial and personnel resources we need to move in to the future. We need your prayers for God's guidance in a world that keeps creating new ways to communicate with each other.

Doug