This had been a week of press conferences. Wednesday, MOHELA held two press conferenes, one at the Science Center in St. Louis and the other in the board room of the Metropolitan Community Colleges in Kansas City. Business, education, government, and labor leaders met to discuss national and state recommendations for addressing challenges in engineering, math and science. At these meetings MOHELA announced the details of new investments to help Missouri address these challenges. Following the meeting in St. Louis, we flew to Kansas City to announce the MOHELA initiative on the western side of the state. The press conferences were attended by a capacity crowd in both cities with television crews from three cities in Missouri as well as the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Kansas City Star.
Today, a press conference regarding volunteerism was held in the Holiday Inn in Wentzville, MO. Rick Warren was very interested in what is taking place in the Westplex area of Missouri. One important announcement was that the city of St. Louis is joining in our effort. Governor Matt Blunt has already pledged his support. I made a presentation regarding the characteristics of serving leaders. John Howard, the great American cycilist was present and he shared a bit about his outstanding career and his winning endeavors in three olympics.
God has been opening new doors for me this year and I am grateful for that. It is a good thing to have the opportunity to represent Jesus in the secular world. When I speak of serving leaders, where could I find a better one than the Son of God.
Have a great Memorial Weekend!
3 comments:
I pray every day that God will continue to open the doors so many people will be impacted by what you have to share.
yeah!!! I signed up again under my mac account instead of comcast and it lets me post to you again!!!
Oh happy day! Now I just need to remember my password! I'm not very good at that!
Thank you for sharing your heart! I do read your blogs and now I can post again! All is right in the world. :)
Love ya, Stacey O
John, that is great that God is opening doors for you to influence and encourage our leaders. I really appreciate your heart and I'm thankful that God has you where you are, so that he can work through you. Thanks so much for sharing Sue with us this weekend. We had a great time.
Nick (and Allie)
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