Olivet chosen as premiere host site for 2012 Global Leadership Summit

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Bourbonnais, Illinois

Olivet Nazarene University will host the live telecast of the Willow Creek Association’s 2012 Global Leadership Summit on August 9 and 10. This two-day event will be broadcast live from Willow Creek Community Church to Olivet’s College Church of the Nazarene — one of more than 200 telecast sites.

Since seats at the main site — Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Illinois — are already sold out, this provides a unique opportunity for local leaders of businesses, churches, and organizations to experience the summit via live telecast. After the event, the summit will move into more than 260 cities in 85 countries via videocast.

Willow Creek Association (WCA) recognizes that the leadership core of any church includes leaders from the business, education, government, and social sectors. The Global Leadership Summit welcomes leaders from all these sectors to this leadership training event. The summit is a tool for transforming Christian leaders around the world with an injection of vision, skill-development, and inspiration.

This year’s presenters include:

• Bill Hybels, Willow Creek Community Church founder and senior pastor
• Condoleeza Rice, former U.S. secretary of state
• Jim Collins, national business thinker and author
• Marc Kielburger, co-founder of Free the Children; co-founder and co-CEO of Me to We
• Sheryl WuDunn, best-selling author, Pulitzer Prize winner, and business executive
• Craig Groeschel, founder and senior pastor of LifeChurch.tv
• John Ortberg, senior pastor and author
• Mario Vega, Mision Christiana Elim senior pastor 
• Patrick Lencioni, The Table Group founder and president; best-selling author
• Geoffrey Canada, Harlem Children’s Zone president and CEO
• Pranitha Timothy, director of aftercare at International Justice Mission
• William L. Ury, co-founder and senior fellow, Harvard University’s Program on Negotiation

Guest music artists include:

• Kevin Olusola, cellist and a cappella member of Pentatonix from “The Sing Off”
• Gungor, the iTunes Rewind 2011 pick for Christian & Gospel Breakout Artist of the Year

A discounted registration fee is offered through July 24, 2012. For more information or to register to attend the live telecast at College Church of the Nazarene, North Campus, contact Lorna Guimond at 815-928-5484 or lguimond@olivet.edu. Later registration and walk-in registration on the event days is also available.
--Olivet Nazarene University

 

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