Millennials are leaving the cities and finding “home” in small towns and rural areas. That’s the latest trend reported by recent research. The young adults, born from 1981 to 1996, are no longer finding urban centers and metro areas attractive. Why? They’re looking for community and opportunity. 30,000 Millennials left metro areas in 2018, the […]
Leader Development
Midwest Leadership Summit: ‘You have a special assignment from God’
Will Mancini declared to a packed room: “God had a dream over your life before you were born.” He told the Midwest Leadership Summit attenders people often don’t know how to understand what that special assignment is, but his goal is to help them discover it so they can live a fulfilling, God-honoring life. Mancini […]
Midwest Leadership Summit: Becoming ambassadors for racial reconciliation
“We’re not always going to get it right. “But when we get it wrong, call it out,” said Casey Merrifield at the Midwest Leadership Summit in Springfield Jan. 21-23. “Own it.” Merrifield, a leadership consultant and Lifeway Women’s trainer, encouraged Midwest leaders to be advocates for racial reconciliation in increasingly divided times. “This is an […]
Midwest Leadership Summit: Reaching the nations in your neighborhood
At the Midwest Leadership Summit in Springfield Jan. 21-23, Mark Stevens, a missionary with the International Mission Board, shared that immigrants and their U.S.-born children number approximately 81 million, or 26% of the population. Around 22% of the population age 5 and older speak a language other than English at home. “Our call as disciples […]
Prayer meeting faltering? Let it go.
I didn’t kill our Wednesday night prayer gatherings, but I didn’t keep them alive either. Our youth and AWANA programs engage lots of students and require numerous volunteers. It never made sense that our churchwide prayer meeting was at a time that so few could attend. Praying with fellow believers was always encouraging, but I […]
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