Staff meeting. Wow.  Aren’t you pumped?  Exactly, staff meetings usually are not the things your team will get excited about.  Or maybe not.

For an annual or bi-annual staff meeting, pick a place that ties your focus of the day in with your location.  Our church is currently going through some significant changes.  In rapid change, we wanted to be careful to not lose our grip on the things that are holding us together or “on track,” our mission and our values.

So, we loaded up everyone and headed down to the Union Station, downtown Oklahoma City.  We talked overtly about staying on track.  We took time to soak up the place, to ponder.  We addressed how Union Station is no longer a station; in other words how change impacted what it was and is today.

Everyone came back to the office with a small scale track to put out as a reminder to stick to our mission and values in a time of rapid change.

Dream.  Pray.  Have fun.  Go for it.