Hi, everyone. My name is Pete Scuzaro. I want to welcome you today to the Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast.

And our topic today is the key to unlock passionate mission in every member of your church or ministry. The key to unlock passionate mission

in every member of your church or ministry. So Jerry and I just finished a two-week

vacation in Ireland. And at the end of which we did a meet and greet with pastors and leaders, both in Northern Ireland

in Belfast and then in the Republic of Ireland, in the South in Dublin. It was just fantastic.

Learned so much. But we spent a couple of weeks prior to that, traveling around the country and

visiting just the wonderful people and so many sites around that country.

But in particular, we visited a number of monastic sites that really give a great foundation

to the history and the culture of Ireland, and especially Celtic Christian spirituality,

which goes back to St. Patrick in the fifth century and that great

move of God, which changed the whole history of Ireland. Now, the last two weeks we spent on Elijah

and the hidden power or the power of a hidden life in God. And we talked about the cave, the cave as

the heart and the center of all leadership. And out of that flows mission. And so,

and as Elijah stood at the mouth of the cave, we talked about how we in a sense have got to get to a

cave or a cell or a place where the presence of God passes by and we hear him out of which we then

lead other people. And so Patrick offers us

another whole angle of unlocking passionate mission, not simply for us, but as well as for those

that we lead. And so about 21 years ago, I spent time in Northumbria, England, and north

of England, there's a community there.

And again, built on Celtic Christian spirituality, going back to Patrick and learned a great deal,

did a great deal of reading at that time.

And so I used this trip as well to review and read a couple of books on Patrick.

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