Transforming Community
“I wanted to try to express my appreciation for your wise insights and spiritual leadership. I am always so blessed each time we come together. Your teaching touches a chord very deeply for me. I believe with all my heart that God ordained my involvement with the writings and teachings of the Transforming Center. I believe it has helped save me emotionally as I've walked through some great pain. God is using you to bless us. Thank you for faithfully serving us and our Lord."
—Worship Pastor, Alabama
"My participation in the Transforming Community has been deeply replenishing. Each of the retreats has been outstanding, ushering me into intense experiences of solitude and community. I always leave feeling my thirsty soul has been rejuvenated."
—David Hughes, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
“When I was first invited to join the Transforming Community experience, I thought the description Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership was a bit of an oxymoron. I could imagine strengthening the 'mind' of my leadership, but where did this soul thing fit into leadership?
You see, I come from the intellectual world – that has always been my comfort zone. I spent nine years in college, 25 years on a university campus as a member of the faculty and administration, and then these past seven years with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. I lived out of a theology that said I needed to work hard to please God. If anyone would have taken time to point this out, I would have denied that I believed this way, but it was still true. I behaved as though working hard to produce more right action plus less wrong behavior equaled godliness. Sin was something to be managed, kept at bay, always pushed to the edges. It was all about getting one’s mind around the problem and solving the problem. Godliness was something that I achieved (or pretended to) with my good efforts and I was motivated by right thinking.
Shortly after our first retreat, I was given . . . "
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—Tom Boyle, Director of Staff Development and Training, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship
