What a week

Whirlwind city, but I'm home.

This week was nothing short of phenomenal. I had the opportunity to attend the Unleash Conference at New Spring Church in Anderson, South Carolina with Ten members of our Leadership Team at ACC and I have to tell you that it was one of the greatest opportunities that i have seen our church take advantage of in a long time.

This conference was a one day, one-shot leadership seminar designed to strengthen and encourage leaders to renew their passions for ministry in the church.

I took the opportunity to attend a Service Planning seminar by New Spring's Creative Arts Pastor, Shane Duffy and I also attended Worship Leading with New Spring's Worship Leader, Lee McDerment. Both sessions were phenomenal and completely rocked my world.

Here's a couple of tidbits from my notes.

• Excellence is removing anything that stands in the way of others seeing Jesus. It is NOT perfection.
• God has called me to be (in this order):

#1) A child of God
#2) A minister to people in his church
#3) A Musician

• I am expendable as a minister, but I am irreplaceable as a child of God.

I will post more this week on the trip and some good discussions that came out of the sessions, but for now, I'm exhausted and I need some family time.