Celebrate Recovery Blog

I was reminded on Memorial Day the difference between the urgent and the vital. After starting my day off in the normal way, walking three miles on the treadmill and a light breakfast, I was ready to start my day. At 7:00 a.m. I left our home to take care of the urgent business that Monday morning always brings.

As I walked out the front door things went from urgent to vital in a fraction of a second. I leave my shoes on the front porch so I walked out in my socks and immediately felt as though I had been stung by a wasp on my foot. I turned to kill the culprit and saw a 2 foot long copperhead snake coiling up to strike again. All my urgent plans for Monday faded into the vital plan of staying alive. I wasn’t sure what a bite from a copperhead would do but I knew a few things that were vital to my well being; kill the snake so doctors could identify it, stay calm to keep the venom from rushing into my bloodstream, and get to the hospital. In short, we killed the snake & got to the hospital where the doctors took the appropriate action.

So what in the world does this have to do with being an “A” coach? Well our #1 way to be the best “A” coach is to not only attend the Summit ourselves, but find a way for others in our groups to do the same thing. I believe this and attending One Day conferences with new leaders is “vital” to your group to see the big picture. And before you think that I am just trying to sell tickets, the Summit will be sold out this year and it looks like even sooner than ever. So I believe its coming down to who “gets to” go!

Since the first Summit Mary and I attended, we saw this life changing ministry for not only us, but everyone else we could think of. I mean, really, who doesn’t have a hurt, hang-up, or habit? We bring as many as we possibly can to the Summit which is over 60 counting this year.

So why would we go through all the hard work of helping our people raise funds to go? When they come home after the Summit experience, being around over three thousand other people who are fired up about recovery in Jesus Christ, it’s like someone else I read about “there is a fire in my bones that cannot be contained.” (Jer. 20:9) They return home making the work of the “A” coach more productive. How? You then have folks who literally can’t keep quiet about Celebrate Recovery and they want to help you find new ways to get the word out!

So get your reservations made and tell other churches in your area to ride the WAVE with us at the Summit in August!

Mac
mowen@wfrchurch.org