The following is an invitation to a typical Leadership Training Seminar for LCMS
  pastors in the Michigan District. The announcement is sent from the Michigan District
  Office.
  As you read the announcement please notice that:
    - The meeting will be held in "The People's Church."
 
    - The presentation will be from a nondenominational leadership training organization
      headed up by Dr. John Maxwell of INJOY.
 
    - The meeting has absolutely nothing to do with Lutheranism because we now have of other
      more effective ways to grow churches.
 
  
  The message from the District Office reads as follows:
  
  
    We have been notified that the location of the Leadership 2000, Lansing, MI scheduled
    for March 31, 2000 has been moved from the Breslin Center to The People's Church; 200 W.
    Grand River Avenue; East Lansing. If you are registered you can find more information
    related to this conference by checking out their web page at:
    
    click on "Lansing, MI March 31, 2000" located under the Leadership 2000 heading
    found on that page. [Note: The link for Lansing is no longer present
    since the conference has already taken place.]
    If you are not registered and are interested in attending, contact Lavern Kruse,
    Minister of Assimilation at St. Matthew Lutheran Church, Walled Lake. He is the point
    person with Injoy for Michigan District congregations and is coordinating registrations
    for group rates. You may contact him at: lavern.kruse@st-matthew.org.
    (LCMS) Debby Fall
    Michigan District, LCMS Communications
  
  
  If you read the site they list above for INJOY you will find the following information
  about "the law of growth." One hardly needs the Gospel when the Law will do very
  well, thank you.
  
  
    Go to www.leadership2k.com Now!
    Leadership 2000 The Conference for Leaders
    Attend Leadership 2000 and bring your team!
      - Master Leadership Development Skills
 
      - Discover the Keys to Effective Team Building
 
      - Experience the Law of Explosive Growth
 
    
    Experience the Law of Explosive Growth
    The new millennium is dawning with more changes and greater opportunities than ever
    before. With all the change we have witnessed, one thing hasn't changed... Everything
    still rises and falls on leadership! Getting ready for the new millennium requires
    reproductive leadership. Not just any kind of leadership - but rather one that offers
    positive changes with priorities on multiplication, not addition. If you do the math -
    Leader's Math - you'll see that only one equation makes sense: to add growth, lead
    followers; to multiply growth lead leaders. Leadership 2000 with John C. Maxwell allows
    you and your team to experience this principle in a revolutionary new way. Building
    Authentic, Reproductive Teams Best of all, you can put the principle into practice by
    bringing others with you. It's based on the idea that explosive growth will occur as true
    multiplication is set in motion. Leadership 2000 is designed to build authentic and
    reproducing teams, not autocratic, restrictive leaders. Every session of this supercharged
    one-day conference targets true synergy, by focusing on equipping the individual and the
    team to achieve optimal results.