A few trips
While I was gone Dayna traveled with a Cru group to Milwaukee, Wisconsin for a few days to explore the location for our Cru staff conference next summer. She inspected the potential locations for childcare during the conference. This is the first location change for our staff conference in over 40 years, so there is a lot to learn!
Today I'm headed to Dallas to work with our Unto team for their quarterly off site. I have been facilitating these strategy meetings for the last 5 years. This will be my first ministry trip in 17 months! We both have received our second vaccine shots, so we feel a bit more comfortable traveling now.
Small Steps forward
Cru has begun a renovation of our campus that will allow us to support more staff without building another building. I am leading the team to transform our headquarters from a cubicle based environment, where each department and ministry had their own real estate, and each person had a desk, to a shared neighborhood based environment, based on activity based working.
This was both a stewardship decision, and a decision to support the way our staff are actually working, support increased collaboration, innovation, and to demonstrate care to our staff and visitors so that everyone feels welcome and has a place.
We are one year into a 2+ year project and we have finished the first of 8 floors. Here are a couple of videos of me talking about the project and get a look at the first space.
March 4 Update
June 15 update (your get the early release)
I think it looks great, and I'm excited staff can come in and actually use the space now!
Thank you for investing in our lives and ministry,
