Tuesday is the last day for staff conference. The day began with an email from Spencer (leader of the tent tours) with the numbers of people who toured our tent. Here is a segment from his email that tell it all:
Highlight of the day….
Kathi & I were visiting Staff Depot w/Don Zerbian, and in walked Mrs. Bright w/her asst. Sarah. When we greeted her, she was adamant that she needed FL resources; she knew a young couple in trouble and wanted to help. We invited her over to “The Journey Home”, and Sarah drove her over to our tent. After her tour, we gave her Dennis’ book for the husband and Life Ready Woman for the wife, in addition, a few extra copies she wanted to give to other friends. We also gave her a “WTRG Guest Pass” for the couple to attend – Vonette was extremely grateful. Big moment was when she stepped in the front door to our home, and she saw the photo of her and Bill and she got teary eyed. A very special visit. Oh, she really wants the audio to listen to again, and share. What a great day!!! What a wonderful Lady!!!!
Today was record breaking guest attendance with 403 guests. The Lord blessed us with a total of 1,434 Cru Guests – that’s about 29% of Cru Staff attending CSU!!! Wow!!!
Singles and/or Couples filled out one card each – so, out of the 820 cards filled out when our guests finished “The Journey Home” experience, 646 checked one or more HomeBuilder tool boxes, 79% of our guests have joined us, and God, as HomeBuilders!!!!! Another Wow!!!!
God blessed us in helping us beat our attendance goal; we beat our HomeBuilder goal, and beat our Staff Interest goal. We can’t wait to see what the days and weeks ahead will be like for the 53 couples that are interested in pursuing joining God’s HomeBuilder movement w/FamilyLife!!!! Giving Him ALL the glory for this time here at the tent!
The morning session was a bit different after the praise and worship. We were able here from the 4 speakers conducting the afternoon Super Seminars. After hearing Phil Cooke, I realized this was the seminar I needed since it was about marketing and I'm in the marketing department at FamilyLife. Much of what he said reminded me of some of the things I taught in the marketing classes I did with National Seminars. He was also behind the name change 100% because of our changing audience and the people we need to reach.
We were able to hear Dave Platt, author of the book Radical share his heart. He has a church in Birmingham and knows Crawford Lorits, one of his mentors and board members of CCC and FamilyLife. We had a farewell for Bob Horner who hosted the staff conference for over 40 years. In the process of him saying a few words of farewell, he mentioned that part of his job of hosting was to make people think a bad speaker was great even if they weren't. All that to say, Dave Platt was over intimidated when he got up to speak. He didn't was to be one of those 'bad speakers'. He was over the top as a speaker even though he felt he was 'in over his head'. He used Isaiah 6 as his text, emphasizing how great our God is. What a way to end our conference.
The day ended with a 'circus' (mostly just a bunch of circus food and a couple of acts. Some of us bailed and went to a coffee house near by for some fellowship. These people our a few of our closer friends, the Damiens and Davaults.
We head home this morning taking 4 days to get home seeing a few people on our way. We may by-pass Oklahoma City, since the people we wanted to see are not available, and just get back to Little Rock early.
Harold
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