Monday, August 25, 2008

Annual staff conference August 14-19,2008









Our worship and prayer time

Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence

All staffs in CCC in Hungary

I am the member of Strategic Recourse Team. We work together day by day.

I celebrate my 10th year anniversary as a staff in CCC.

Last week we had our annual staff conference. Each year we spend together 5 days with the staff who are serving in Hungary (6 Americans, 23 Hungarian staff). Dr. Bill Lawrence, professor of theology and director of Leaders Formation International was our guest speaker. This was truly one of our best staff conferences according to the feedback of the staff. God used Dr. Lawrence’s messages to reveal things in our hearts and point to some of the areas we need to grow as people who lead others in their walk with Christ. We tend to focus on the leader’s hands (what he does) and forget to focus on the heart (who he/she is), but God created a Who, not a What. The ministry is not about numbers, but about changed hearts. These thoughts were helpful for all of us. We’ve recorded his teachings and you can download them from our director website. It’s worth it!!! (http://www.advancingthekingdom.hu )

This annual conference strengthens our community, our mutual understanding of our calling and is a great opportunity to prepare for the coming ministry year. We feel so privileged to work together with these missionaries. These staff gave their life for the call of evangelism and discipleship and all of them made significant sacrifices to stay in the ministry. God blessed us with a great team of people.

There are three teams in the Hungarian ministry right now. Operations, Campus and High School. So the three leaders’ wives of these ministries were to come up with programs for the conference. We ALWAYS do serious things, so this we did something fun. Here we were making jewelry. It was such a fun time and the ladies liked it so much.

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