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Do You Have Ideal Team Players?
 
"I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy, because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now." (Phil 1:3-5)
Building a quality team may be the most important thing you do as a leader. I have always enjoyed learning and teaching about building teams. Especially teams for ministry. Many talk about the "C"s of good team members: character, competence, chemistry and conviction. In a new book titled The Ideal Team Player, Patrick Lencioni, builds a different model based on three characteristics: humility, hunger and smarts. I always like hearing what Lencioni has to say. He points to a balance between all three of these three traits or else you end up with weaker or distracting team members. Actually he says "If even one is missing in a team member, teamwork becomes significantly more difficult and sometimes not possible." 
In a culture that is fragmented, independent and angry, I believe that building a team is more important than ever. 
How are you doing in building your team? Do you have the skills and know how, to build your team? To address this need, we are excited to participate with the Northsound Network, Church Planting Northwest and others to bring the author of Sticky Teams, Larry Osborne to help you and your leaders to build an effective team. Please read the invitation below. 
In His Grace,

Rev. Steven B. Welling
District Executive Minister
Church Planting Northwest
One Day Leadership Conference with Larry Osborne
June 2, 2016; 8:30-4:30; Cascade Community Church 

Do you want to start, increase, and grow a culture of leadership development in your church? If so, the Church Planting Northwest One-Day Leadership Conference with Larry Osborne is an experience you do not want to miss.

We will focus on practical principles of leadership development for your church, as well as developing your leadership and elder teams. Larry will lead us through several key topics, and then your team will have time to discuss practical application and action steps. You and your team will leave with a plan on how to develop a culture of leadership in your church.

Larry Osborne is a husband, father, pastor, author, and leadership consultant. He has a 
passion for helping Christian leaders in both the secular and church world succeed and bring glory to God. Since 1980, he has served as the Senior Pastor of  North Coast Church in Vista, CA.  During that time, North Coast has grown from a fledgling group of 128 meeting in a rented high school cafeteria to a multi-site church ministering to over 11,000 in weekend attendance. Larry has a passion for leadership, spiritual formation, and discipleship. As a nationally recognized trainer of leaders and pastors, as well as church planters, he travels extensively speaking at conferences and mentoring events.

Flood the Sound Luncheon
 
 
When:            May 25, 2016
                      11:00 am to 1:30 pm

Hosted at:      Bethany Baptist Church
                       713 South Hill Park Drive
                       Puyallup, WA 98373
 
Speaker is Randy Deal. To get a taste of Randy's impact in ministry read this article and check out the work of Vision Arizona.
 
Randy and Dena Deal live in Gilbert, Arizona. Randy is one of the lead coaches for Vision Arizona in the Converge Southwest district and is a community life pastor at Harvest Community Church. He still works part-time as a pharmacist. Dena is an RN and serves on the guest services team at Harvest.
 
Lunch is being provided by Flood the Sound and we encourage you to invite/bring someone who could benefit and is interested in what Randy will be teaching.  If you have not sent in your RSVP,  you still have time to send it to Pam Nordstrom via reply email.  If you will be bringing guests to the luncheon, please let us know their names and contact information as well. 

Thank you!
News from The Converge Team
 
Meet Converge Northwest's new Part-time Bookkeeper, Debi Rickabaugh.  Debi brings years of business experience and is a delightful addition to our Team!   Her office e-mail address is debir@convergenw.org.
 

Converge Northwest Prayer Team
 
"These all with one mind were continually devoting themselves to prayer." 
(Acts 1:14)

p r a y   f o r   c h u r c h   p l a n t i n g:

Please pray for the Church Planting Northwest One-Day Leadership Conference, which is taking place June 2, at Cascade Church, Monroe, Washington   Pray for Larry Osborne, pastor, Sticky Teams author and leadership consultant, as he prepares to speak. 

p r a y    f o r   c h u r c h    s t r e n g t h e n i n g:
   
Please pray for:
  • Healthy finances to stay in the black. 
  • Churches to discover the power of joyful effectiveness.
  • Multi-generational and multi-cultural vibrancy.
How can we pray for your church? 

If you are interested in joining the Prayer Team, please e-mail
Theresa Schaudies at tschaudies@comcast.net. 
Date
Event
May 25, 2016
Flood the Sound Luncheon @ Bethany Baptist Church - 11:00 am - 1:30pm
June 2, 2016
Church Planting Northwest One-Day Leadership Conference with Larry Osbourne
@ Cascade Church, Monroe, WA.
June 7-10, 2016
Converge Church Planting Assessment Center
@ Cascade Church, Monroe, WA.
June 28-July 1, 2016
REACH - Converge Biennial Meetings in Colorado.

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