I’ve referenced it a couple time so I thought I’d blog about it. In a couple weeks I’ll take our entire staff off-site for a daydream day. We’ll rent space at the National Cathedral–very cool place to pray, meditate, dream, and hang out. Plus I love the observatory. One of the best views of the city. We actually went their before launching our second campus so it’s one of the places we go to dream.

I have a simple formula: change of pace + change of place = change of perspective. I’ve been concerned lately about lack of clear vision. I never want us to go through the motions. So our entire team is reading Making Vision Stick and I’m asking everybody on our team to rethink what they do. I want to make sure we’re doing ministry out of imagination. And I’m really seeking God for more clarity.

One of the things that inspired me was the way Starbucks closed-up shop to do some retraining a few months ago. In the same spirit, we’ll close up shop for a day to make sure we’re going after God-ordained and God-sized dreams. By the way, I planned it for the day after The Whiteboard Sessions. So I think we’ll have lots of energy and vision coming off that conference experience.