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Dear Friends, I recently met in New York City with a group of church leaders that Leadership Network has been working with for the past few years. This group was comprised of leaders from churches that are rapidly "multiplying leaders," either through planting and starting new churches at a very high rate or by teaching other church leaders through multifaceted programs such as conferences, practicums, internships and residencies. Serving as a prototype for our current Leadership Communities, this group clearly illustrates the benefits of keeping like-minded leaders together over an extended period of time. The practices and ideas that these leaders "borrow" from each other have dramatically increased results. Consider the following results as one metric of measurement to illustrate this concept: in 2000, the first year of the group, the churches represented collectively planted 52 new churches. However, by utilizing the learnings from the group, in 2003, the ten primary planting churches planted over 300 new churches. Additionally, the "teaching churches" saw large increases. I am sharing this for two important reasons: First of all, if you are intrigued by what these churches are doing to yield such great results, you will want to attend the briefing to be presented by Leadership Network in January of 2005 in Las Vegas, Nevada. This will be a great opportunity to hear an elite line up of presenters and to consider the ways your church can benefit from their learnings. We are limited to 200 attendees for this Las Vegas experience, and registration will be closed when we reach that number. (Please see the details on the left hand side of this email.) Secondly, we are also exploring the opportunity to start a new Leadership Community in the Church Multiplication-Starting-Planting arena. We are looking for churches and groups that are already starting new congregations at a rate of at least one per year and have a desire to increase their results over the next three years. At this stage, we are researching the project and want to explore some ideas with such churches and leaders. If your church or group fits this description, please drop me an email at dave.travis@leadnet.org. I will be interested in hearing about the work being done. I appreciate your help with this, and I look forward to seeing many of you in Las Vegas in January. On another note, in a previous issue of Journey I wrote about our "Innovation Updates" that we are holding across the country. These sessions are mostly "listening posts" for us to talk with innovative leaders around the country. In glancing at my calendar I see that I will be in the following locations during the next few months for these structured conversations: Fort Worth, Texas; Chicago, Illinois; Houston, Texas; Baton Rouge, LA; Dallas, Texas, and coastal South Carolina. If you would like to receive an invitation to any of these, please drop me a line to the email above, and I will send you more details. Thanks for all your help and for your Kingdom work across America. Shoulder to Shoulder,
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