Bay Area Community Church is an church we love to work with - they have a high value getting their people involved in global missions. Trevin, one of our Ember guides, recently took a part time job there and he's serving as a point person for a short term training thing we are going to do there. And their missions pastor is one of the best around, with the unique perspective of a man raised in Africa serving in suburbia on the East Coast.
Because...
I was sent a job opening at Bay Area and passed it on to Trevin.
Because...
In April 2011, I ran a short workshop talking about mission trips, how to build teams and how they change us. It was my first time working with Casely, missions pastor at Bay Area.
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I met LeilaB, who introduced me to Casely, missions pastor at Bay Area Community Church. Leila, at that time, was working as Casely's executive assistant.
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I attended a dinner at Dave Shive's house with a bunch of young 20 something adults where the main conversation topic was old school churches, global missions and the emerging generation. Dave is a well known missions guy around DC and Baltimore, teaching at Washington Bible College for years as well as a Perspectives instructor, also for many years.
Because...
Dave and I met at the Advancing Churches in Missions conference in November 2010. It was one of the last formal gatherings the organization would host.
Because...
I was invited to give a workshop at the ACMC conference in November of 2010, the day after I held the very first board of directors meeting for Ember. Lots of energy that weekend.
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In the summer of 2010, I got an invitation on LinkedIn from Joe Steinitz, who was well connected in the global missions arena around the Baltimore/DC area. We had lots of mutual friends and had met here and there on a few occasions.
Seth Godin is right - we have moved from the industrial economy to the connection economy. Don't miss that.
[This post inspired by this post.]
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