The GLS Progress - Update 2

Welcome to our latest progress update. Things are busy around here preparing the soil for what we know will be a movement of God this fall in countries all over the world.


To give you an idea of all that goes into just one GLS site, picture this. An Organizing Committee convenes months and months, sometimes a full year before the GLS happens in a country. They carefully guide the direction of the event, recruiting key volunteers, selecting venues and choosing content for that country's event. In the months leading up to the event, there are trips to Chicago to view the Leadership Summit at WCCC, negotiations with host churches. Volunteer teams are put in place. Different print and web marketing campaigns are launched are strategic times to attract the country's best church leaders. Content from the Leadership Summit is translated into the native language. Volunteers including tech, programming, and event management teams are trained in the highest quality event production techniques. Banners printed, stage decor designed, content processing tools written, registration confirmations sent out, bands and vocalists rehearse, caterers selected, notebooks printed. It is hard to overemphasize all that goes into just one GLS location. Multiply that times the 160 sites this year and you have an idea of all the activity that is happening all over the world, right now. The first GLS is 10 days away, with most being in early October, so our teams are in high-production mode.


Would you pray for our teams overseas as they prepare? Each one has a multitude of details to attend to. Their desire is to create a seamless event so God's leaders, most of whom are serving under very difficult circumstances, can be envisioned, equipped and inspired. Those leaders, some of whom leading in impoverished, corrupted cultures, come to this event every year because often times, it's the only event in their country that affords them access to quality leadership development. These leaders need this development most of all.