The Latest and Greatest from Monday and Tuesday:
The Coaches Summit has been great, with all four members of our leadership team serving and teaching. Now the coaches have returned home, and for the rest of Tuesday until Wednesday afternoon (Wednesday morning MO time), our leaders are holding the Pillars Summit, focused on ministering to the nine pillars who currently oversee all those coaches in nine regions of Kenya and Tanzania.
Tuesday's Prayer Requests:
1. Our Four to accurately speak and share exactly what God wants them to impart to the pillars.
2. Open hearts for everyone to be both greatly encouraged and, if necessary, gently corrected.
3. The Holy Spirit's continued clear direction for each level of servant-leadership moving forward (coaches, pillars, national directors) as the ministry expands into new regions of Kenya and new nations, particularly Uganda and Rwanda.
Tuesday's Details:
In the past, in addition to actually presenting hours of seminars, all the planning and preparation for nearly all the aspects of a mission trip have landed squarely in Scott's lap. But now he is greatly helped by having Hillary and James - both of whom are pastors and oversee numerous churches - on the ground and consistently working aggressively to cast vision for disciple-making among more and more pastors and handling many logistical details.
And God has graciously added Mark, a pastor who also has extensive management experience in business settings. On this trip especially, he has taken a huge load off Scott in the thinking, planning, preparing, and "getting things done" realms.
This team of four is just working very well together, and we are thankful to God for putting these key puzzle pieces together for such a time as this.
About the Monday/Tuesday Coaches Summit, Scott said, "I definitely made the right choice when I made Hillary the Chief National Director of the Kenya DM Movement. The message he gave last night on counting the cost was so powerful."
Hillary teaching with passion
All the DM coaches, ready to receive what God has for them during this summit!
Scott said, "Things are going extremely well. We've had different teaching sessions that had a great focus on 'Are you ready to die so that your disciples may live?'" [That is NOT a lightweight theme!]
One of James' sessions
Mark prepared communion for everyone, and they all shared in that special remembrance of Jesus.
Mark is honored to serves and takes it seriously
Afterwards, he said about their communion experience, "It was a very powerful fellowship time."
But along with deep and serious ministry, the coaches also laughed and had fun. Here's a 20-second video of everybody running around playing Human Bingo. I'd like to have seen one of those Bingo cards!
The Coaches Summit ended well...
40+ East Africa DM coaches, blessed and ready to head out
... and now Our Four (Hillary, James, Mark, and Scott) are spending focused time with the nine regional Pillars. They truly appreciate our daily prayers for them and will surely have exciting stories to tell as the return home in less than a week! Please continue to pray for them and those they are serving during this Pillars Summit.
Blessings,
Patty