I want to take a moment to share with you our major training events for 2008. Over the past few years we have had very positive feedback when we have added training events to our quarterly meetings. Our goal is to meet the needs of churches in the Central Baptist Association and we believe the events we have lined up for 2008 will develop prevailing churches.

Here is our schedule for the coming year:

January 24 – High Performance Meetings with Doug Jividen will be held at Prairie Springs Church at 2340 Manley Drive in Sun Prairie. You can find out more about this workshop at www.nextlevelleadership.com. Register by e-mailing us at amanda@cbaow.net.

April 25-26 – Managing and Developing People with Bert Ross at Midvale Baptist Church at 821 S. Midvale Blvd. Go to www.midvalebaptist.org for directions. This workshop is also another Next Level Leadership workshop. All pastors and churches who plan to have summer missionaries are encouraged to attend this event.

August 7 – Prayer and Spritual Warfare with Chuck Lawless at Gospel Baptist Church in Sparta. Chuck is the Dean of the Billy Graham School at Southern Seminary and the president of Church Central. You can go to www.churchcentral.com for more details.

October 11 – Sharing the Acts 1:8 Challenge with Terry Sharp of the International Mission Board at Trinity Baptist in Reedsburg. See www.imb.org for more details.

We will be providing more details as these dates draw closer. However, I encourage you to go ahead and put these on your calendar as we go through 2008 together.