"What did we get ourselves into?"

In June of 2006 we (Grant & Terri; Sabrina & I) were shipped off to church planters boot camp. It was held at a resort conference center in Lancaster, PA. My kind of boot camp. It was 2 1/2 jam packed days of church plant training. Each session was taught by some incredible men of God who had gone down this road before. When we started the first session and they started telling HORROR stories of other churches, the valleys you'd go through, the tasks that had to be completed I literally said in my mind "What did we get ourselves into?". But by the end of the boot camp what had gone from "There is no way we can do this" changed to "Man, we can do this" to "I can't wait to do this". The insights, truth, help, connections, etc. that we learned at boot camp were invaluable. I couldn't tell you all we learned in 100 blogs. It really has helped us stay on task. I would definitely recommend anyone thinking of planting a church, or knows someone who is going to plant to spend the money and get to this boot camp. Otherwise you may end up in the middle of a plant and say "What did we get ourselves into?"