28 Day Journey-Day Six

Saturday 12//10//05
6 Team

Passion06 is a team event. I'm in touch with that reality today having spent the past three days in Nashville, gathering with our Volunteer Team Leaders as we make the final push to January 2. Our Passion staff team is relatively small (we like to think of ourselves as lean and agile :>) and there is no way we could pull off a massively intricate event like Passion06 without tons of help. This year almost 1000 volunteers are preparing to be in Nashville, men and women who are taking vacation time and paying their way to work long hours and set the table so that a student generation can have a history-changing encounter with God.

Leading this volunteer army are over a dozen Volunteer Team Leaders. These are folks with full time jobs who have taken on another semi-full time job with Passion because they believe in the vision and love seeing students awaken to His renown. You've heard of Piper, Tomlin, Crowder, Louie and the other lead worshipers, but these are the guys that really make Passion possible.

Looking around the table yesterday I was humbled again, and grateful. Our team is the best. While most people just show up and enjoy a confeence like Passion06, few really can imagine what it takes to make it happen with excellence. Moving 17,000+ people around downtown for four days is a huge challenge, one that requires detailed coordination at every level. And for us, we aren't just trying to get through it, we want to do it to the very best of our ability. In doing so we glorify God, reflecting to the people of Nashville that events focused on Jesus are done right, where from the way workers in hotels are treated, to the banners we hang on the streets we reflect the power and beauty of God for all to see.

We are striving to do our best, yet we can only do so much. In the end we are table-setters, preparing the way while trusting Jesus to be the meal. We are door-holders, making as open a way possible for every student who comes to see the face of God.

So, today, we want to pray for our Volunteer Team Leaders and those they lead:
Father, we know that Passion is not dependent on smooth logistics and well-executed details. Our hope rests solely on You to draw us into Your presence and meet us in supernatural power. But, too, we know that You desire that we offer our best to You, doing what we do as "unto the Lord, and not men."

Thank You for an amazing team. Inspire and empower them as they balance jobs, holidays and Passion06. Live through them in power and meet them in Nashville in the midst of many long days and nights of labor in life-altering ways.

All through the day: We are preparing the way for You.