VISION & HISTORY

The Willow Creek Association's vision for The Global Leadership Summit is that every Christ-follower with leadership gifts, skills, or aspirations would gather once each year, dedicating themselves to raising their level of leadership on behalf of the local church and other organizations.

We hold a deep belief that if you change a church leader, you can change a church, and if enough churches start changing, you can change an entire region, country, and eventually the world.

In 1995, this belief gave birth to The Leadership Summit. Now, 13 years later, the Summit in North America has grown from 1 site to over 135 sites linked together via satellite and over 65,000 leaders in 2007. And in 2007, The Global Leadership Summit brought together via videocast over 41,000 people in 78 cities and 30 countries.