Greetings from sunny Orlando! It's been a very busy time for me, and I guess you could say I started off the New Year with a bang!

In January I hosted the Eastern Discipleship Training School (DTS) Resource Team Meetings for a few days, hosted the Base Leadership Training seminar with Lynn Green (YWAM's International Chairman), I taught for a week in our January DTS, and our staff and students helped serve at the very first Call2All Congress which was held locally at a large church.

Call2All

Call2All is a worldwide movement calling the church to a renewed, focused collaborative effort to complete the Great Commission. The sole purpose of the 4-day consultation was to plan, strategize, and partner for the completion of the Great Commission. This was the first of 40 congresses that will be held in different regions of the world between now and 2010. Some of the speakers for this event were Jack Hayford, Luis Palau, Loren Cunningham, James Robinson, to name just a few. Around 550 people from various organizations and churches attended this first congress.

Last week I taught in the Jacksonville Discipleship Training School and really saw new freedom in the lives of the students. Next week our Discipleship Training School and School of Ministry & Evangelism outreach teams in South Africa and USA Cities return to Orlando. On Friday we have graduation for these schools and get to hear highlights of what God did.

Thanks once again,

Yours for the Lamb, Michael

Hello from sunny Orlando! As you know, a significant part of our calling is to train leaders, so we were especially excited to host a week of leadership training here in Orlando called Base Leadership Training. Lynn Green, the international chairman of YWAM, spoke the majority of the time. We had leaders from around the US and Canada. This was an amazing time of impartation into all of our lives.

Epic Quest Reunion

Immediately on the heels of this event was the Youth Ministry reunion, in which we invite alumni from our various youth programs to come for a weekend of inspiration, reconnection with friends, and further training. My son, Joshua, was a part of the worship team, playing a guitar which was his grandfather's. What a joyto see him use a guitar older than he is to worship and honor the Lord!

PROPERTY UDPATE

In our last letter we said that the next meeting to negotiate the price on the 180-acre piece of property was January 8th, but the owners had not obtained their appraisal, so they postponed the meeting to January 24th. Please continue to pray for wisdom and favor for us as we walk through this process. Especially join us in praying for a release of the property!

Thanks once again for your friendship and partnership!

Yours for the Lamb, Michael