14,047 Feet.

Climbed my first 14 thousand foot mountain - Handies Peak in the San Juan Mountains, Southern Colorado.

Good friend Bob Andrews was my guide - he's climbed ten of these massive peaks!

It was an 8 mile climb, starting at 10,400 feet... really a great thrill.

We were close to the summit when a storm with hail and 50 mph winds chased us down - we waited in a safe area just below the snow line, then pushed up when we saw blue sky - with just seconds before another storm hit - it was closing in from below and above us - we summited and then with hail hitting hard, chased down the ridge line to a safer area until the storm passed... it was an awesome moment.




Thanks Bob Andrews -
and, blessings to all our friends -

keep climbing!

paul

WashDC - Dulles area Men's Event Cranked!

WOW - what an amazing group of guys at Arlie Whitlow's dynamic church Community Church in Ashburn, Virginia - (Dulles area of Washington DC) - we had an incredible day - 12 men renewed or first time committed their lives to Christ! These were strong men - mature men - it was awesome!



Pastor Arlie and his son Pastor Charlie Whitlow - with Josh holding down the creative/music stuff are building a strong men's movement in the Dulles Virginia area - we'll meet again next year to commission some of his key guys - it will be AMAZING!

REally great to see Doug Clark -and had Lt. Col. Rob Hrabak (ret) give his customary "GET FIRED UP!" segment - it was great!

Came out of this day just buzzing - and what was equally great is there's a 'FiveGuys' hamburger place in the Dulles airport - wow, that was a blessing!

We are in an powerful season of the men's movement - I will post two testimonies tomorrow - from military leaders seeing spectacular results in their regiments... one is in Afghanistan - it's awesome!

WHEN is the right time to launch your men's ministry? IF you're in the Northern Hemisphere - START RIGHT NOW. Start in the middle of the summer - get it going with a few guys - then launch it in Sept to the entire church/group = If you're in Southern Hemisphere - START NOW!

will also post this week event we just did in Savannah area - amazing group -
follow me on Twitter - paullouiscole - lovya!

grace/peace
paul

Moral Failure is gunning for YOU.

This post by Geoff Surratt is very important... using the example of what has just happened to one of our brothers in the Lord, Geoff lays out from his own perspective, the real war we face, and the safeguards we must put into place....

this is a timely and important article -

take three minutes, read it - then, send to some friends...

copy and paste this into your browser...

http://geoffsurratt.typepad.com/inner_revolution/2009/06/an-open-letter-to-pastors.html


grace/peace
paul

The Men's Movement

Brandon sent me a link that was on the Ragmuffin site - it shows in detail the birth and exponential explosion of a movement... the pioneers, the early adopters, the large group of joiners in the middle of the curve, and the excitement generated by one guy who was willing to stand out - speak out, act out - what he believed in with enough passion, it pulled everyone else in...

The guy who started it was not trying to start a movement - but, the next guys in had a bit of an idea - they begin to wave to others.. motion..
It starts with you personal passion - infect others - then, get them to bring others - if you are trying to start it, and invite it wont grow - if you are trying to control it, it wont grow -

WE MUST MINISTER WITH OPEN HANDS - LET GOD TAKE THIS MOVEMENT OF MEN AROUND THE WORLD - AND, WHETHER WE CAN DANCE OR NOT - GET UP AND DANCE... BECAUSE, NO ONE CARES IF YOU CAN DANCE... ARE YOU PASSIONATE ENOUGH TO GET UP AND DO IT!? AND, KEEP GOING EVEN WHEN IT DOESNT YET LOOK SUCCESSFUL?!


PASSION OVER PERFECTION.

Keep dancin.

pc

LIONS Roar 2009 - Epic!

WOW = still totally over the top about the strategy summit in Dallas...
Leaders representing 42 nations and over 60,000 churches met in Dallas at the Lions Roar strategy conference.

The Lions Roar conference has really thrust CMN into a new level of action, effectiveness, power and focus. The strategy sessions were highly productive... creating a high impact and increasingly effective men’s movement in every continent of the world. We went over the key areas of new initiatives, and what it would take to get there... it was awesome...

Doug Stringer said, “Human impossibility is Heaven’s opportunity!” That we must go after the men of our world, regardless of what it looks like, because, “we are the Church and we have taken the responsibility of reaching preaching the Gospel and establishing the Kingdom!”

Another leader said, “We have set into motion a new wave of the global men’s movement that will challenge the culture and change the hearts of men around the world!”

The key area of next generation was brought back to the front again - as we committed to The Timothy Project with strong resolve to get it done, on the web and in the church with a coherent strategy by the end of the year... very excited about this - this is huge...!

More reports on this... and if you subscribe to our emails - you'll get more... brilliant!

Feeling very positive... thanks for your friendship and for being an ally.

grace/peace
paul

Peru -Amazing Men's Conference!

Just landed in Miami - 3 hours late - still rejoicing over the week - over 60 men commissioned in Lima, Peru - Robert Barriger and team taking the nations - talks centered on new intitiatives in Columbia and Paraguay...

It's an awesome time in the Kingdom of our Lord!

Listen - your future is so bright, a king died so you could achieve it!

Here's a couple photos from Lima - running to another plane - more tomorrow ..

Following up huge intiatives from Lions Roar - amazing... awesome.


stay strong.

paul

Whoaaa!

man - had no idea I was this far back on the blogging thing... so, over next two days- we'll catch up the last month - IT HAS BEEN EPIC! From an amazing series of events in Honduras to a dynamically new level LionsRoar in Dallas - it has been simply spectacular!

The Lions Roar 2009 in Dallas was huge - the quality of leaders that were present - the numbers of churches they represented and the FORWARD THRUST that was the result of prayer, strategy and inspiration ... if you follow cmnworld on twitter or myself - Robert Barriger, Brandon Cole, Niles Holsinger or others - you saw the quotes flying out of the LionsRoar event - I still need to go back and rehearse what God did - it was so big, hard to digest in one moment.

Now, today at the United Pastors Network meetings in Maryland with Robert Barriger, Dale O'Shields, Dino Rizzo, Karl Barancik and other great friends and men of God - Stovall Weems hit great word -

"We are not leaders who serve, we are servants who have the opportunity to lead"

That's the spirit of the meetings...

AND - it's the spirit that kicked off our event in Dallas - ok - more blogs to follow with more details -
BOONVILLE, INDIANA was great - and other events have been awesome ...

HEADED TO PERU IN THE MORNING - PLEASE PRAY WITH ME OVER THE NATIONAL MEN'S EVENT - CHARLES NEIMAN, CHUCK BREWSTER AND OTHER GREAT LEADERS SPEAKING... COMMISSIONING OVER 100 MEN! CHANGING THE NATIONS - ONE MAN AT A TIME...

Lions Roar dates for 2010 - November 1,2,3 in Dallas!

strong toward the finish line...

pc