By Bill MacLeod, Executive Director In his book ”Unlikely – Setting Aside Our Differences to Live out the Gospel” author Kevin Palau makes this statement: “I think it’s easy to forget how impactful the gospel can be – how far it can penetrate – when we look beyond our differences with one another and form…
By Bill MacLeod, Executive Director On November 5-6, Mission ConneXion Southwest fulfilled a vision that was launched almost exactly 20 years ago to the day… Back on November 15, 2001, over 300 pastors gathered for a luncheon to hear Luis Palau help us cast the vision for what would become Mission ConneXion. The theme we…
By Bill MacLeod, Executive Director With less than 10 weeks left before the start of Mission ConneXion Northwest at Village Church, Beaverton, we are excited to welcome Andrew Scott, President/CEO of Operation Mobilization in the USA. He and his wife Sharon live outside Atlanta, Georgia, near their two grown children Ana and Daniel. Born in Northern…
By Bill MacLeod, Executive Director Mission ConneXion Southwest is only days away – scheduled to arrive right on time on November 5 & 6. Helping you picture your place in the world Christian movement so you can answer the question “What’s Your Role?” will be these special guests… Pastor Noe Garcia was born in Houston,…
By Bill MacLeod, Executive Director With less than 15 weeks to go before Mission ConneXion Northwest (MCNW 2022) launches at Village Church, Beaverton, there could not be a more timely, or simple theme for January 21-22, 2022, than “It’s Time.” Here are two of our four Plenary Speakers we are excited to tell you about…
By Bill MacLeod, Executive Director With only weeks to go before Mission ConneXion Southwest launches – we thought you would like to at least hear about TWO of our Plenary Speakers! Keep in mind our theme is: “What’s Your Role?” … Jeff Lewis has been mobilizing and discipling people for 33 years with Pioneers, having…
By Bill MacLeod, Executive Director When the events of September 11th took place 20 years ago and we were in the midst of preparing for our first Mission ConneXion Northwest (MCNW) event, I thought it must be about the worst possible time to try to help mobilize the Church to fulfill its role to take…
By Bill MacLeod 50 years ago, today, my life changed forever. Thursday, August 26, 1971 The events of that day so changed my life that I still carry in my wallet a little calendar from a bank that went out of business decades ago, with that day circled reminding me, of the day the world…
By Bill MacLeod, Executive Director Luis Palau and I met when he was 43 years old, and we were friends for the next 43 years right up until he went home to be with the Lord on March 11th, 2021. I recently shared how much Luis reminded me of my own Dad. But what is…
By Bill MacLeod, Executive Director As underscored in our May Newsletter, the Lord began to stir the waters in 2012, then following a visit by myself and two board members in late 2018, church and mission leaders began to pray regularly about a city-wide, church-mission-mobilizing event being hosted by Arizona churches in Phoenix. Today, we…
