Hi Reader,

As you can see, our community is really growing! I believe people keep joining this email list (even though I haven't given it my full attention) because our need for missional resilience resonates with so many of us right now.

So I’m reaching out to check if you’d like to receive our family/ministry update letter this year. Here’s the address I have for you: [ADDRESS GOES HERE].

If I don’t have your current address, would you update your information?

• I’ll mail our family update (even if you live outside the United States) with a small gift that was a true blessing to me during this year that was one of the hardest and most fruitful years of my life.

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Keeping step with the Spirit...

If we're friends on Facebook or Instagram than you know I’ve been on the move recently:

• Our book Essentials for People Care and Development launched and is getting great reviews and traction. It sold out at MissioNexus and was even a best seller on Amazon—in its category, but we’ll take it!
  • If you bought a copy, please take 2 minutes to leave an honest review - Once we get ~100 reviews Amazon will start recommending it. That's the #2 way to get this resource in front of those who will benefit from it (#1 is personal recommendations).
  • If you haven't, we're gifting copies to those who support our ministry this year.
• The Member Care Needs Assessment Report that I spent the year working on to better understand the perspective and sentiment of our Member Care Community toward the state of our discipline was presented at MissioNexus and PTM (listen here).
  • We had 175 participants and 1,300+ comments to analyze!
  • We synthisized that to four key findings that are truely encouraging.
• It was a delight to witness the symphony that emerged at the People Care and Development Track at MissioNexus as our presenters and participants co-created something beautiful, good, and true together.
  • Attending PTM and the Lausanne N. American Regional Gathering were wonderful too.
• Being asked by Kelly O'Donnell to be the guest contributor for their November newsletter and share not just my story and work, but also my heart for our discipline was pure joy (read here).

I could tell you story after story of how I daily witnessed God’s perfect provision. Here's just one:

I got to dinner late on the first night of MissioNexus. In a room of over 1,000 people I found a table with an open spot and sat down. Immediately someone said, “You can help us with this question!” It turned out I was with some folks from CIT - a ministry that trains missionaries. God has impressed upon my heart the demands missionary trainers experience this year so I was delighted to chat with them.

Their campus was just 30 minutes from where I needed to be the following Monday afternoon. God knew what I couldn’t have known when I was planning this trip and I was prompted to not plan where I would stay over the weekend!

That Sunday night I received their hospitality and on Monday morning give an impromptu 90 minute workshop on Missional Resilience for their staff. It’s material I’ve spent a lot of time with over the years but this was the first time I had just given a workshop with literally no preparation.

God knows what will come of that impromptu workshop. For me (and why I'm sharing it with you) it was an important reminder of the need to regularly exercise our spiritual instincts and follow through on the small but sometimes odd prompts.

I also sense as we become more and more aware of the turmoil in the world and the fragility of life, this message about missional resilience is a timely one for all of us who recognize that to finish the race God has entrusted to each of us will require more than our grit. Glory to God for All things!

Again, if you’d like to receive it, we’d love to mail you our family / ministry update letter.

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With Expectant Hope,

​ ​Geoff Whiteman, ThM, LMFT​ ​🎁 access free resources I promised to share. 💌 Read and share my latest updates. 🤝 Let me know how can I help you or your community?​ “Now to him who by the power at work within us is able to accomplish abundantly far more than all we can ask or imagine, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.” (excerpt from Ephesians 3:14-21)

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