Last week we had our annual Director's retreat in Vienna, Austria. We were actually an hour outside of Vienna up in a Mountain. With all the leaves changing it was absolutely beautiful and incredibly peaceful up there. The perfect "retreat". This is a time we take every year with all the director's to pray, fellowship and discuss things on leadership and discipleship. It's always really refreshing to be around many people with the same vision and heart as us. This year was unique because we had a lot of new people who came with questions on how to start a Master's Commission in their church.
We had two pastors representing Scotland that want to start a MC, another couple from Italy and a pastor from England. We had a lot of time to sit with them and talk about what they can do in preparation to start strong. I'm so thankful for these opportunities to share and pray together. It's exciting to see our MC family grow. It's even more exciting to see more youth being trained and discipled across Europe. Pray for these programs as they start in the next year. Pray for the pastors and directors who will be laying a lot of ground work and recruiting for students.
We also had representatives from the programs in Southport, England, Braunau, Austria, Reykjavik, Iceland, Amsterdam, Holland, Tartu, Estonia and Paris, France. The programs face a lot of different oppositions and God has helped them overcome a lot to be where they are today. This retreat allowed them to all come together and we find that through this we have been encouraged by fighting together for one common goal and leave feeling refreshed and built up.
