Thursday, May 8
The Golden BVD…
Each month, on a Saturday morning, we gather our leaders together for a time of community, vision, and sharing about how God is working in Crossings. We call this time Leadership Community.(By the way, we consider our leaders to be anyone who serves in any area of Crossings. We’ll have between 40-55 leaders there each month)
The highlight of each of these times for me is the awarding of our Golden BVD.
Our BVD’s are our beliefs, values & dreams….these things we believe God wants us to be about in this faith community.
At each of these Leadership Communities we try and honor a person who has consistently lived out these BVD’s in the life of our community. I know it sounds like a ‘cheese-filled moment’, but it is an amazingly emotional time when the winner is described and then announced and everyone stands and cheers for 3-4 minutes. It is an intense time of gratitude for this leader. (to the right is a picture of the very first BVD Award Winner, Lyle Bennett, back in 2.07)
We honor them with a traveling trophy (kind of like the Stanley Cup in Hockey) that goes from winner to winner. They get to keep for a month until the next Leadership Community. (yes, it looks like you’d think it would)
This past month’s winner, Jason Edelen, has decided to take the trophy on a little tour of Knoxville…he has pictures of he and the BVD all over the city on his blog. I can’t wait til the BVD visits the Sunsphere. Mark Nelson at 3:59 PM 0comments