Coming to you in this post from The Mercy Center in St. Louis. My team will be arriving later this afternoon. I’d love it if you could think of us this week and pray for our 48 hours together. Here’s the schedule if you’d like to see what we’re up to.

Working Genius and A Year with Mic.

Two of the “big rocks” going into the jar this weekend will be a workshop on a thing called Working Genius, and we’re going to spend some time with the Old Testament prophet Micah (you guessed it, MSS Study). If you need an intro to Working Genius you can go their site and check it out yourself. Working Genius is a little like Strength-Finder. You answer a 40 question survey and the tool tells you what part of a planning and execution cycle you’re best at (and what part you’re NOT good at). Here’s a snapshot of Tim Perry:

Tomorrow my team will spend the whole morning with a Working Genius facilitator. She will take us through a map of how all our Working Genius profiles intersect and overlap. I’m looking forward not only to how the profile will help my team mates individually, but also what we can learn about being a more effective team.

A year with the prophet Micah!

Really? YES, we’re kicking off a team adventure in scripture for the coming year (we’ll see how long this actually takes). If there ever was a message our planet could use at the moment, the restoration oracle of Micah 4 would be it!

You would be more than welcome to join us on our Year with Mic if you’d like. Here’s complete Micah manuscript that is loaded with study resources. And here’s a quite time guide for Micah 3-4 if you need some questions to stir your spiritual formation.

I’ll give you an update after the weekend. Thanks for your prayers for me and my team!