Willow Creek Community Church
The Global Leadership Summit 2025!
This was my 5th year attending, but my first time experiencing it in person! Since 2011, GLS has challenged, stretched, and inspired me to lead where I am.
So grateful for the wisdom, challenge, and encouragement GLS continues to bring each year! Can’t wait to attend another summit!
Here are some of my key statements and quotes that have stuck with me:
- “What’s boring to you is often faithfulness to God. Show up and be faithful. build the habit. Embrace the mundane.” – Craig Groeschel
- “Don’t waste failure. When you lose, learn from it, sacrifice, and change.” – Nick Saban
- “Live in the tension, and view conflict as an invitation.” – Gabriel Salguero
- “Don’t be MID! That is not the bar! Excellence requires you to be uncomfortable” – Thasunda Brown Duckett
- “We need vision. What vision have you drifted from – and how will you recover it?” – Christine Caine
- “Never compare your beginning to someone else’s middle.” – Jon Acuff
- “People will describe your life in one sentence. – pick it now.” – John Maxwell
I am so excited to announce that I will be going on my First Service Trip across the globe to Uganda to help out at God Cares School this Summer! At God Cares School, I will get to interact with High School Students and teach them about Jesus and share the good news of the Gospel. I don’t talk to much about my faith with others, but this trip will teach me how to walk across the room and express my faith in ways I have never done before. I am so excited that I will be able to speak into the lives of young adults and show them how to live and love more like
Jesus every single day of their life! Also, I will ensure that each of them aren’t alone because God has a plan for you and me regardless of the circumstances you have been through in your life. I have challenged myself to take my next step with faith through service. I truly believe that God has called me to serve for this short 9- Day Trip to Uganda. This trip is 100% self funded by myself. I need to raise $2800 to go on this trip. If God has called you to financially contribute to spreading his message across the world please consider donating as little as $1 to my trip. My goal of this trip to allow God to open my eyes to see the world in a different perspective by spreading his grace and truth to a country that is in need of hearing the word. If you cannot contribute financially, I urge you to pray for our entire team traveling to Uganda, and please pray that God will transform lives through our trip.
Daniel Lacey 