Report: 2009 Global Leadership Conference & Campus Congress

Written by Kip McKean on August 16, 2009 – 12:00 pm -

“Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved!” Mark 16:15-16

Go Into All The World was the theme of this year’s Global Leadership Conference and Campus Congress, as the evangelization of the nations in this generation is the motivating and unique vision of the SoldOut Movement Churches.  The Conference began with the 314 participants from over 20 nations joining the City of Angels Church for Sunday morning worship on August 2, 2009. 

At this three hour service, the singing was electric; the appointment of Michael and Michele Williamson to be Evangelist and Women’s Ministry Leader was moving; the Global Good News Sharing by several international disciples was faith-building; India’s Raja Rajan’s communion was compelling; Chris Broom’s sermon, A Severe Famine In All The World, was creative and deeply convicting; the three baptisms – Tiffany, Miriam and Manny – were so encouraging; the placing of memberships by Josue Soriano of Honduras and Megan Bard of England were inspiring; and the restorations of Jim and Dana Fenton – the original Yugoslavia Mission Team Leaders – were eye-opening!  During the fellowship, after this amazing service, several commented to me, “It’s happening!”

The Conference continued on Sunday evening with “a great banquet!” The Downtown LA Sheraton provided a delicious and seemingly endless buffet.  Then Nick and Denise Bordieri – the Directors of MERCYworldwide – reminded us of the impact on a lost world when every disciple in the movement can be mobilized for a common global effort to help the poor, needy, orphans and widows.  To conclude the evening of the first day, I preached the lesson, Go Into All The World. The essence of this message was to ask why the world has not been evangelized in one generation since the first century.  There are only two variables in this glorious task – God and His people.  Since God has always desired – in each century – for “all men to be saved,” He is not the issue. (1 Timothy 2:1-5)  Though in the last two millennia there have been a few visionaries who dreamt of world evangelism, sadly their “good intentions” have fallen short.  Therefore, the issue is leadership! My main texts were from 2 Samuel 23 and 1 Chronicles 11 on David’s Mighty Men – in Hebrew – “The Mighties.” These men first gathered around David at the cave of Adullam as men “in distress, in debt or discontented,” because of Saul’s unrighteous leadership. (1 Samuel 22:2)  They became “The Mighties” because of their zeal to honor God and their loyalty to David.  “The Mighties” were willing to pay the price of being outcasts, while fighting for and building a righteous Israel.  This same spirit is necessary in the leadership of God’s modern day movement, if “Spiritual Israel” is to spread to all nations!
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