The 3rd Million Leaders Mandate Conference was held in Vladivostok on April 7-8.
The third Million Leaders Mandate Conference was held in Vladivostok on April 7-8. This program launched by the EQUIP ministry lead by Dr.John K. Maxwell, a well known Christian author and expert in leadership training and development, is aimed at training 1,000,000 Christian leaders worldwide by helping them to improve leadership skills and build a Chrislike character and style of leadership. (You can read more at www.iequip.org). In Russia, MLM is hosted by 7 cities. Vladivostok conference was attended by about 300 pastors and leaders from about 100 churches and denominations from all Russia’s Far East.
Since the previous MLM conference in October 2006 church, as well as 3 other local churches, has been involved in facilitating this conference. This time even more church members were willing to serve as ushers in the conference hall and waitresses in the kitchen. They all were extremely enthusiastic about serving the body of Christ this way, and we consider it a privelege and believe God will richly bless them in return.
Some church members hospitably opened their homes to receive outstationed delegates. For some, it was a chance to make new friends, and for others to meet the old. For Alexander Chesnokov, sound operator, it was a special blessing. Alexander is a new believer. In October 3 pastors from other cities stayed at his place, and as they prayed with him he was baptised by the Holy Spirit. This time, as he returned home, he found another guest in his kitchen, and this
happened to be his long time BC friend, whom he had not seen since 1997. It proved that his friend had become Christian soon after that, and is now a Bible teacher in the nearby city of Ussuriysk. Alexander himself became a Christian in spring 2005. It was a joyful reunion of the two friends, once atheists, now sharing the same faith in Jesus. They had a lot to talk about.
Since January the church has started implementing the MLM study materials for in-church systematic leadership training. So far our monthly seminars have covered the following topics:
- God calls us to lead
- The heart of a leader
- Catching and fulfilling the vision
- Priorities and decision making
We had a privelege to be taught the latter by Fred Burckbuchler, MLM Associate Trainer and a speaker at the MLM conference.
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Comments by Luke Mardock:
I was at the website the other day. You’ve done a great job on updating it. I especially liked the pictures of me! Did you have someone edit the English for you? It sounded very native.
Hi, Luke. Thank you for high rank of our job. My wife helps me to translate the articles into English. She teaches English and Latin in VVO Customs Academy.