Behind the Snowy Scenes Edition

The snow is still lightly falling here in Atlanta and socked our offices in Dallas yesterday that they were closed today. Before she left yesterday, Diane Reynolds, our CFO snapped a few shots to share "Behind the Snowy Scenes".

Here is a look out of our 9th Floor Collaboration Studio there.

That same space was relatively quiet this week but will be very active next week. We start the week with our staff meetings, one of the three times a year we gather our whole team together.

Then there is one of our Innovation Labs kicking off on Wednesday. Sherry Surratt will be leading a lab on Small Group Innovation. To learn more about that program go to our Innovation Lab page.

One of the highlights this week was a special luncheon honoring our founding chairman, Bob Buford. I will share more of that in a future blog post. Bob has been under the weather for a month now, in an out of the hospital a few times but is on the mend. It will be good to get him back in the flow of things.

Todd Rhoades tells me that our registration for Aha! New Voices Fresh Ideas online conference is up over 1500 now. Time to get registered for that event happening on March 3. That's 40 great speakers without leaving your house or office for FREE. Plus we have a "premium" option where you can get a conference notebook complete with speaker notes, group discussion questions and the schedule for the day.

I know Chris Willard, who helps lead our upcoming Generosity Lab, was over in the Jackson, Mississippi with Pinelake Church this week.

They tell me Eric Swanson, who kicks off our new Global Connections Leadership Community in a few weeks, was in Rome. Not Georgia, Italy. Working with a group of leaders there on city reaching tactics.

Linda Stanley, who launches our Fifth Next Generation Pastor community in a few weeks, completed 12 more interviews for our upcoming Leadership Development Community.

To contact any of our team about any of those programs just remember their email is firstname.lastname@leadnet.org. So give them a shout.

I missed The SHOW this week that featured one of our authors Earl Creps, interviewed by our own Sherry Surratt. The archive show is here. And then Stephanie Plagens, the host of our monthly Spotlight program.

We have an informal event next week we call "Unthinkable" where we have a group gathering to discuss how some Unthinkable events would disrupt society. More on THE SHOW next Tuesday. Watch it at 4 p.m. Eastern/3 p.m. Central.

And our Leadership Network Advance Featured one of our latest books Missional Mapmaking.

find it here: http://www.pursuantgroup.com/leadnet/advance/feb10s1.htm

Plus as a treat, another new Leadership Network book arrived "Church 3.0" by my friend Neil Cole.

I have a few newslinks to share and I hope they are still in operation. These came from churches we have worked with on a regular basis.

Here is a story from the Asheville, NC paper covering the Seacoast Church Haiti Relief partnership with Water Missions International.

Our friends up at LCBC up in Pennsylvania, members of a few of our Leadership Communities has a nice article here about their new site.

And speaking of new sites, The Crossing, in Quincy, Illinois, one of the more rural churches we have worked with in our Multi Site Leadership Community, is opening a new site back in Quincy. See the story here.

And speaking of "The Unthinkable" - Tim Keller covers some of them in his blog post this week. You can read that here.

In case you are reading this on an RSS post like thousands of others. I hope you didn't miss the excellent posts by Warren Bird:

Unusual Ways to Reach People

A Report from our Latino Mega Pastor Forum

Sherry Surratt's - Do Small Groups Really Work?

And Stephanie Plagens on Third Culture Leadership.

Super busy week next week so look for posts later that week.

Dave Travis

Managing Director

Leadership Network