SAconnects, Volume 6, Number 2 — March/April 2020

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Danielle Strickland’s Boundless Ministry by Warren L. Maye

In 2018, she appeared on stage in front of a live audience of about 7,000 people. Danielle Strickland was one of several speakers at the annual Global Leadership Summit (GLS), the world’s largest leadership conference. Because it is also accessible by any location with internet service, thousands more watched via livestream as she thoughtfully paced the massive stage or stood behind its plexiglass podium at the Willow Creek Community Church Worship Center. It was the year Bill Hybels, pastor of the Chicago– based church and founder of the Summit and its network, resigned amid allegations that he had sexually harassed members of his own staff. His departure came just weeks before the Summit would broadcast around the world.

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