Category: The Network
Leadership Week
Network Leadership week is next week. Every spring, we link two of of our primary leadership teams together for back-to-back meetings. Beginning Sunday night, our Network Board will begin meeting in Chicago. They will finish up on Tuesday at noon. On Tuesday, our Regional Facilitators will begin meeting and will finish up on Thursday at ...
Resource Resource
Please allow me to introduce Shannon Savage-Howie. Shannon is the youth minister at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Thousand Oaks, California. She is awesome. She has served on the Extravaganza planning team in the last few years. Most importantly she is married to Robert, and is the mother of Declan, and housemate of Boomer, a ...
Reflections on Evaluation
This past weekend, the Extravaganza team leaders met at the Hyatt in Anaheim, site of the 2013 Extravaganza, to process the evaluations from the New Orleans event, and to do the organizational planning for ’13. We spent quite a bit of time processing the evaluations, and I just wanted to share a couple of observations ...
Praying
It is a simple word. Praying. But it means a lot. There was a another tragedy today, this time in Chardon, Ohio. A school shooting left (last I heard) 5 people wounded, one of whom died from the gunshot wounds. To be honest, I was in meetings today from 8:30am almost straight through until ...
Afterglow
Have you ever had an experience where something you were deeply invested in went really, really well, and it’s all said and done, and everything is boxed up and put away, and you sit back and sigh and you realize “hey, that was really cool…it feels really good to have been a part of that.” ...
I Didn’t Know That Was On There!
I hear it actually all of the time. Somebody will send me a question about a ministry topic, or perhaps about a resource, and I’ll drop back a quick note to them and say “you should check out _______________’s talk from the Extravaganza a couple of years ago…there was some stuff said there that I ...
Meet Rachel
There is another person that we want you to know: Rachel Claseman. Rachel is an individual who helps us to manage some of the changes, problems and glitches that occasionally pop up between our membership records and our web site access. Rachel is a first-year medical school student at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. ...
Institutional Control
I have been wanting to write something about the crisis/fiasco at Penn State University for a few weeks. However, to be honest, I needed to give myself some time to get my mind wrapped around the strong emotional reaction I had when the details about the allegations began to surface. I react very very strongly ...
Meet Laurie Hoium
There are people within the Network that you will interact with from time-to-time. These folks have different roles that hopefully provide support and assistance to you, certainly in your relationship with the Network; hopefully also in your ministry. I thought it might be helpful for you to (at least virtually) “meet” these folks so you ...
Welcome Trinity Lutheran College: Our Latest Partner & 3TC Sponsor!
The Network is excited to welcome Trinity Lutheran College as our latest gold partner organization. Trinity Lutheran College, located in Everett, Washington, is a small, Lutheran college whose mission is to provide a biblically-centered education and develop Christian leaders with a global perspective whose lives and ministry serve Jesus Christ in church and society. Trinity Lutheran ...
Network is a Verb 