Our team recently took a recon mission to OakPointe Church in Novi, MI, noted as the 36th-fastest-growing-church in America by Outreach Magazine in 2007.
Back in the day Amber and I both served on staff (hence our strong passion for Zambia) and were greatly shaped by senior pastor Bob Shirock.
Anyhoo, Jack Janigian generously shared a few hours of his time with our team, giving us a tour of their new facilities and helping create contacts between our staff teams.
One of the big takeaways we plan on implementing was a dedicated space by the Worship Center for strategic, purposeful prayer during each worship service.
The idea behind traveling off-site like this is simple:
When we stop learning, we stop leading.
We are always seeking to stretch ourselves through the wisdom of church leaders further ahead of where we are.
I had a ton of tweets yesterday from OakPointe - here a few facility pix I snapped: