A29 Bootcamp in very cold Chicago

I'm currently up in Chicago (Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, to be exact) for the Acts 29 Network Bootcamp. What we do is basically provide large-group training, networking opportunities, and assess potential church planters for the Network. It's been a great time being with my A29 brothers and meeting new guys around Illinois who are wrestling through a call to church plant.

Nasty winter weather blew in last night. We saw the temperature drop over 40 degrees yesterday, and winds gusting to over 40 MPH, and got 3 inches of snow. When I woke up this morning, the normal temperature was -1 with a wind chill of -20. When you go to Chicago in January, this is what you get!

I've heard great messages so far from my friends Darrin Patrick, Mark Driscoll, and Ed Stetzer. Mark Dever will be speaking today, as will Mark again, and the A29 director, Scott Thomas will be as well. Within the next month, these message will be posted on the Acts 29 site for your listening pleasure as well.

This is also a good time for a reminder of Delta's church planting vision: 8 church plants in Central Illinois by 2018. We feeled called to be a church planting catalyst in Central Illinois as we seek to train, resource, network, and coach men who want to bring the Gospel to the 217 area code (you can read Mark 2:17 for our inspiration).

Anyway, I've got to warm up and drink a lot of coffee...baby, it's cold outside!