Leadership Summit favorite quotes
Written by Aron Strong on August 9, 2008 – 3:02 pm -
The Leadership Summit was awesome. Here’s some of my favorite quotes:
Gary Haugen, CEO & Founder of International Justice Mission
“Just because I am leading, and people are following doesn’t mean I am leading them in things that matter.”
“Are Jesus and I really interested in the same things?”
“What’s God’s plan for making it believable that he is good? We are the plan. There’s no other plan.”
“People will take care for themselves the work that is easy and fun. Leaders must lead in the areas that feel frightening and really difficult.”
“Jesus did not come to make us safe. He came to make us brave.”
Bill George, Harvard Business School professor & former CEO
“People who fail, don’t fail to lead others. They fail to lead themselves.”
Wendy Kopp, Founder of Teach for America
“It’s your personal conviction in this that enables you to ask people to sacrifice to achieve the vision.”
“We channel the greatest future leaders against our greatest social injustice.”
John Burke, Gateway Community Church lead pastor
“The religious leaders didn’t like Jesus’ messy ministry. They wanted it to look clean on the outside.”
“Are we leading others to look at people through the eyes of grace?”
“Spiritual growth is scandalously easy. A child can do it. Are you growing your relationship with God?”
“Seekers aren’t opposed to truth… But what they are opposed to is arrogance.”
Craig Groeschel, LifeChurch.tv lead pastor
“You have everything you need to accomplish what God wants you to. Not having what YOU think you need makes you look for the thing GOD thinks you need to accomplish his will.”
“People say failure is not an option. I agree. Failure is a necessity.”
“You are not what people say of you. You are a child of God, gifted by God and led by God to have everything you need to do what God put you here to do.”
Chuck Colson, Prison Fellowship Ministries Founder & prolific author
“Stop blaming the culture when everything goes wrong.”
“Culture is nothing more than religion incarnate.”
“We don’t impose, we propose.”
Catherine Rohr, Prison Entrepreneurship Program CEO & Founder
“I felt compelled to give them a solution where they had no option to fail when they got out.”
“My prayer was simple. ‘Bring it on, God. Bring it on.’”
“God doesn’t really need me. He just needs me to follow instructions.”
“I sacrifice a lot of privacy for accountability. And it’s worth it.”
“These guys understand what it is to be willing to die for something. And that does something special to our culture.”
“This isn’t about pity. We hope this is about compassion. Suffering with people and taking them to the next level.”
Mother Teresa’s commitments she made to God and never compromised:
- Say yes to God in everything.
- Respond to God promptly.
- Refuse God nothing.
- Seek to love God as he has never been loved before.
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Summit Week!
Written by Aron Strong on August 4, 2008 – 1:10 pm -Well, it’s finally here! The week of the Leadership Summit. We’ve been working on this so long, it’s going to be odd when it’s gone.
Last night I was at training (I’m going to be an usher). Got pumped up by Dave Love, encouraged by Moses with a dose of bonding with my fellow ushers.
Today, Jen and I are setting up the projector. Tests tomorrow and Wednesday.
I’ll give you updates on all the boring stuff going on behind the scenes as we prepare. Hope you’re coming. It’s going to be great!
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Man Day- Success!
Written by Aron Strong on June 18, 2008 – 12:06 pm -What an awesome weekend Man Day was! I wish I had more pictures. I was running around too much to grab many.
Clovis Hills members, and World Champion lifters Nick and Raul were beasts benching over 400 lbs. They ripped phone books and broke apples in half with their bare hands. Very cool to watch. And both these guys are the nicest guys you’ll meet. Strength + meekness = very cool.
Steve and Dave Mac spent weeks in the gym training to show off their muscles. Or at least weeks waiting for the muscle suits to arrive in the mail.
Dave Mac proved his Iron Man prowess and broke two bricks with those manly muscles before Nick showed him up by breaking six. (it’s not your eyesight, it’s a pic of the tv screen in the green room taken with my phone)
Paul Haugen tore it up with some big feature music including featuring ZZ Top, Queen, Thin Lizzy and the “Bad Boys” song from Cops. “I Wanna Talk About Me” by Toby Keith rocked with some seriously smoking video by Kevin.
Outside, families had a great time in our Sports Center, K2 Challenge, 2 Man Freethrow Challenge and Putting Green.
A couple long days, but another can’t miss Clovis Hills weekend in the record books.
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Worship Night
Written by Aron Strong on April 4, 2008 – 12:39 pm - 
This Sunday night, April 6th, at 5pm is the Night of Worship at Clovis Hills, the first of several on the way. This is going to be an awesome event. I think the guys we have in our band are some of the finest in the valley. I can’t tell you how many comments we get that say the band was a major reason people came to Clovis Hills!
If you dig the music at Clovis Hills, then don’t miss this weekend! Paul and Kimberly have been working to create an evening of extended worship and prayer. This won’t be something that takes energy from you, but should recharge your spirit. Don’t miss it! I’ll try to post some pics of the evening on Monday.
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heath ledger and most of america
Written by Aron Strong on March 28, 2008 – 2:47 pm -
This Sunday is the Free Estate Planning Seminar. This is a really great event. Jen and I went to the one we did last year and got our plan all set up. Along with most of adults in the US (studies show over half), Jen and I never got around to planning for…the unexpected. Once we had a son, we knew we needed something set up but never knew where to start.
Not only did we get great info at the seminar but the Foundation worked with us and a lawyer from our church to really walk us through what we needed to do, provided some great insight about things we didn’t know much about and finally get the darn thing set up.
If you don’t have a Will set up, don’t end up in a Heath Ledger situation. Make sure your family is provided for.
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