The end of Week 1

[Pastor Gary]

Nothing could have prepared me the depth of this experience. I have become intensely enmeshed in the lives of some great leaders from all over the planet... world-changers... and me. Wow.

I always hate to hear people say "this event changed my life" -- but I really suspect that might be the case here: this event is changing my life.

Contacts are being made, and relationships built, that will impact my ministry direction and possibly the direction of the entire denomination going forward. I am having prayer, and communion, and lunch with people who normally wouldn't return a phone call from me.

[TW]

Gary,

That's an, and I hate to use this word as it is over used, awesome report. I believe that every time we have to make a conscious decision we have a life changing event. However some of those events have greater impact, and I believe that for you, this is such an event. God opened a door for you, and provided a way for you to become a part of this. You, with some trepidation have stepped through that door. My prayer for you, my friend, is that you continue to follow the leading of the Holy Spirit, and become every thing that God has planned for you. We do not know what God has planned for our lives, we must have faith and trust God to reveal His plan as we can understand it.


Your brother in Christ,
TW

[Pastor Gary]

Here is the absolutely incredible group of people who are blessing my life at Fuller.

[Full Quiver]

I am having prayer, and communion, and lunch with people who normally wouldn't return a phone call from me.

Why would one want to associate with such people then?

[Pastor Gary]

I am having prayer, and communion, and lunch with people who normally wouldn't return a phone call from me.

Why would one want to associate with such people then?

I don't understand. You think because they are really high-level leaders they are bad for filtering access?

Pick up your phone and try to get through to the head of a major mission agency... the pastor of a mega-church... the mobilizer of a worldwide relief agency... you are unlikely to get through to them, or get a returned phone call if they do not know you. That's not because they are bad, or mean; it's because they get so many calls and emails daily they have set up gatekeepers to screen out only what they need to see, or only what they can act upon.

The network of trust and access this program is providing will give me -- and by extension, give each of YOU -- a measure of access past those gatekeepers. My cell number will come up as "UNKNOWN" in the caller I.D., but "Gary" and I am already using these new points of connectivity to network people here with people in my world. Kind of a good thing, don't you think?

[Full Quiver]

Thanks for clarity. Your original wording came across, to me, as if they were above you thus they wouldn't bother to call you back.

[DeWayneTN]

PG, I've been trying to access the page to find out what group of people but it doesn't come up.