Havana Global Leadership Summit Day 2

If you’ve been to the Summit, you know that feeling at the end of the conference where you are so full and inspired, and you have been challenged to take what you’ve learned and apply it to make a kingdom difference. You’re ready to take on the world and itching to apply what you’ve learned. We experience that in spite of abundance of resources at our fingertips. Now imagine how a Cuban church leader who has no internet access besides email (only the government and hotels for tourists have internet), rarely travels far from home and has limited access to books feels leaving the Summit. The ones I talked to had never experienced anything like it. They loved it. And they’re ready for more. 

This was not a Willow-run event, per se. The team from Primera Iglesia Evangelica "Los Pinos Nuevos" (First Evangelical Church, New Pines), in Old Havana, where we held the conference ran the event.

Willow usually does a two-day training for the administrative and technical leaders from Latin American churches in Guatemala or Mexico, but they didn’t get to do with this team. So with only a little training before the event, one Willow technical advisor from the Dominican Republic and a huge rented projector from the States, a team of dozens of volunteers pulled this off. They did a superb job, too. And they’re ready to take it on the road to other cities.