Evotional.com - Mark Batterson

Every quarter we have a leadership summit where we gather all of our small group leaders and ministry leaders. The summit is planned and led by our staff. They do training and teaching. And I try to share an update on what is happening on the church front and personal front. I love our summits because I feel like I'm able to talk at a very transparent level about how I'm feeling and how I'm thinking about NCC and my own life. I also feel like it is important to relate to our leaders on a slightly different level. They need to know first and know more. They ought to have inside information so to speak.

We did a little housekeeping by ratifying our Executive Leadership Team for next year and presented an amendment to our bylaws. Those things are extremely important, but we try to spend as little time on those kinds of things as possible so we can focus all of our energies on accomplishing the mission!

I also shared a devotional thought on I Samuel 7:12 because we experience another Ebenezer moment this weekend with our Georgetown launch. So I looked back and talked about all of the "so far so God" moments in our history. One of the things I love about getting older and leading longer is a greater appreciation for the faithfulness of God. We ought to grow in confidence as we grow older because we experience Ebenezer moments along the way.

All I can say is this: Hitherto the Lord has helped us!