Here’s where I’ll be for the next few days as part of the leadership team:

St.Andrew’s hosted the kickoff gathering for Alpha USA’s “Alpha in the Workplace” seminars last month.  Here’s a video presentation of the day just released by Alpha USA:

Have you ever wanted to be a more effective witness for Christ in the workplace? Nearly 250 people in Charleston came to St. Andrew’s today for Alpha USA’s Workplace Faith Gathering to explore the topic and to be equipped. This is Alpha’s kick-off event for a 14-city tour of much larger cities. Participants heard from five great speakers, including Lou Giuliano, former chairman of ITT Industries, Bruce Beard of Beard Pension Services, and Os Hillman, founder of Marketplace Leaders. Below is an excerpt of Os’s talk where he outlines a theology of workplace ministry.

Join us at St. Andrew’s for:

A City-Wide Workplace Faith Gathering

Wednesday, February 24

7.00 – 10.00 am

Breakfast to be served.

Three great speakers lined up:
Louis Giuliano, former Chairman & CEO, ITT Industries, speaking on the topic “My Story: Living Out My Faith in the Workplace.”
Os Hillman, founder and Executive Director of Marketplace Leaders, speaking on the topic, “Biblical Perspective on the Workplace.”
Bruce Beard, founder and owner, Beard Services Inc., speaking on the topic, “How to Live Out Your Faith in the Workplace.”

For more information visit: alphausa.org/workplacefaith

Here’s a longish (but worth the watch) clip from Nicky Gumbel on the urgency of the vision Jesus has for His church:

We had a nice treat today, Bear Grylls and family joined us at the USA Alpha Conference in Orlando today. Alpha has had a significant impact on his faith walk and he’s now become an Alpha champion. In his intro Nicky Gumbel noted that Bear’s TV show on Discovery, Man vs Wild, is the number one cable TV show in the US and that over 1 billion people globally watch him.  Also, interestingly, Nicky noted that Bear is tied with Barack Obama on the “most influential male” list. Here’s the opening 8 minutes.

Earlier this year Bear did this Alpha Course commercial:

Here’s Liz:

And, here’s John – please note, the last 10 seconds or so were cut – I ran out of memory of my Flip(ing) recorder:

Great conference.  Here with 24 St. Andrewsians who rode down together on a chartered bus.  Great teaching, great worship.  Great God.  Here’s a clip of Brenton Brown’s opening session:

with a busload (literally) of St. Andrew’s folks for the Alpha USA Conference with Nicky Gumbel and Bear Grylls.  Check it out.

After the huge walk-in crowd last week at the Alpha Course kickoff we had 23 new walk-ins tonight!  The Lord does all things well, doesn’t He?