Category Archives: Leadership

Apr 30 2010
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Campus Ministry, Evangelism, Leadership

Congrats to C.I.A. Corpus Christi!

Just wanted to give a shout out to everyone involved in CIA (Christians In Action) Corpus Christi!

I received word this week that the administration at Texas A & M Corpus named CIA “Campus Organization of the Year” for 2010.

Great job Corpus crew!

CIA’s Corpus plant is led by Clint & Kelsey Hill (check out Clint’s blog here), and is one of three ministries planted through Campus Ministry United (CMU) within the past three years.

I have the privilege of serving as the administrative director for CMU – an organization that plants evangelistic, Church of Christ campus ministries around the country. More troops are in training, and additional plants will come in the future.

I just wanted to take a minute to brag on the Corpus crew – all of our ministries are doing great and lots of people are coming to know the Lord. They’ve had a whole slew of baptism in the past couple of years in Texas along with some really well put together campus events that have gotten very large percentages of the student body involved. The administration at A & M Corpus have noticed how effective Clint & Kelsey’s work has been, and this award is indicative of their good leadership.

To the Hills and everyone else at the Grace Fellowship Church – great job, and keep up the good work!

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Apr 28 2010
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Leadership, Personal Growth, Resources, Update

Pepperdine Bible Lectures

I’m planning to attend the Pepperdine Bible Lectures next week, and am bringing quite a few people with me.

In addition to my wife and two children my parents are making the trek to Malibu for the first time, as are my good friends Gary and Zoe Lambrecht, James Holston, and Nathaniel Tuliao – all first timers.

Last year was my first time to attend (regular readers may remember I posted notes online). I came away impressed with the program, and have since talked it up to quite a few people.

I’m pleased to see Jonathan Storment is a featured speaker this year, and am also pleased that Tyler Ellis has been invited to teach a class on campus ministry (I bragged on Tyler a few days ago in this post). Both are young ministers my age whom I respect and believe the church at large could learn a lot from (view the complete lecture schedule here).

I’m also looking forward to Tim Spivey’s classes on reviving and maintaining healthy growing churches. His blog series on church revitalization was excellent – I’m sure his classes on the subject will be as well.

Who else is planning to go?

If you can’t make it in 2010, you ought to put it on your calendar for 2011. This is a quality event.

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Apr 08 2010
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Leadership, Missional Living

Atlanta Church Splits $1.5 Million Among Members to Do Good Works

This story is too good not to share!

From The Christian Chronicle:

Exclusive: Church splits $1.5 million for good works

Let God write the story.

Pulpit minister Don McLaughlin made that request of the 1,400-member North Atlanta Church of Christ last fall as he revealed astonishing news.

A donor who asked to remain anonymous had given $1.5 million to be divided among all present that Sunday — from first-graders up — and spent on good works in the Lord’s name.

“The most amazing thing to me was that if you were at the service that day, even if you were a visitor, you could get a voucher because the elders felt like God had placed that person there for a reason,” said longtime member Cari Thornton, who has taught children’s Sunday school classes for more than 30 years.

Read the full story on The Chronicle’s website here.

I’m a big fan of the North Atlanta Church of Christ. I’ve heard Don preach several times and have always enjoyed it (besides this one time at a youth retreat – funny story – maybe I’ll share sometime), but really like what they’re doing with their recovery ministry. They go out of their way to minister to “the least of these” (Matt. 25:40), and this story is another example of that.

It’s wonderful! Again, I encourage you to read the entire story.

People stepping out in faith, doing good in the name of Jesus – I love it!

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