As a leader, you need to see opportunities differently than most people. They are a chance for you to learn about yourself, your team, and your opportunities. They provide you a way to improve your own life, improve the lives of others, and gain influence.

“Consider how decisions are topically made in churches: there is a short prayer followed by a long discussion about the issue; a proposal is made and voted on; and a short prayer is said asking God to bless the decision that was made” (The Kingdom Unleashed).

Excellent mission thought.

"Every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you…into something a little different than it was before. And taking your life as a whole…all your life long you are slowly turning this central thing into a heavenly creature or a hellish creature" #CSLewis

.Gerson P. Santos: "Any initiative to reach the large cities of the world should be a long-term initiative that includes a variety of ministries and approaches. Centers of Influence and church planting are an important part of this initiative" MissionToTheCities E. Douglas Venn Adventist Mission™

“Trabalhe para Deus. O salário não é alto mas o plano de aposentadoria é doutro mundo.”

It is so true!

I just heard from Anthony WagenerSmith "I have found most people are turned off from numbers but a numerological way of interpreting reality."

.Christianity Today > 1/3 Canadian atheists agree to some extent that: "Evolutionary processes cannot explain the existence of human consciousness"

We do not want what appears to be urgent to drive out what is really important. (Lynn Underwood)

Being a disciple is to be a follower of Jesus, and to follow Him we need to understand who He is, and who He is for me, personally.

Meeting with leaders at São Paulo Conference. The great commission is our mission. Church was organized to serve and to save.

The profusion of offerings may lead to confusion. Marcos Bomfim

William A. Spicer, in 1922 wrote to his wife, after being elected president of SDA: "There is no post of honor, only service."

If God gives me strength now, at nearly eighty-two years old, I shall be in the cities. EG White

“Are there some of us who have only paid lip service to Mission to the Cities whilst sailing for Tarsis, like Jonah?” Ted Wilson

Ted Wilson challenges the church to reach the cities.

The work of God in this earth can never be finished until the men and women rally to the work, and united their efforts. E.G. White

“A primeira responsabilidade do líder é definir a situação real. A última é dizer: muito obrigado. E entre as duas, o líder é um servo.” Max De Pree

Elder Ted Wilson thanks Elder Israel Leito for 25 years of Inter-American Division presidency, as Elder Leito announced his retirement.