Wow what a weekend!!

So I spent three days at the end of last week and the beginning of the weekend at the Leadership Summit in Calgary. This leaders conference is put on by Willow Creek a huge church in Illinois. Whatever, all that is just some meaningless info for those of you who care to know.
Bill Hybels, the pastor of this Willow Creek, believes very heavily in the local church and talks about it as the hope of the world. Very interesting and challenging because I work in the local church and wonder what kind of hope we give to the local community. How we are being all that God had hoped we would be?
This may be the first in many blogs about this conference because it has stirred some interesting thoughts and questions in Mark's Mind. So for today and maybe only to start today, what are we doing to bring hope to the local communities we live in? Are we as the "church" self serving or are we serving the community and trying to heal the hurting and bring hope to the hopeless, food to the starving, or water to the thirsty? Remeber Christ came for the sick not the healthy.
Thanks for your time chew on that on for a while and let me know what you think.

Mark