Seats still available for leadership summit at Sumter church

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Looking to improve your leadership skills?

Seating is still available for this week's renowned, world-class leadership training event that will be available at one local church.

Mark Partin, administrative pastor of Alice Drive Baptist Church, 1305 Loring Mill Road, talked last week about the church serving as a satellite location for the two-day simulcast event held annually at one of America's largest churches near Chicago.

On Thursday and Friday, Alice Drive Baptist will be a local host site for The Global Leadership Summit, which will be broadcast live in HD from the campus of Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Illinois.

This year's theme for the leadership summit is "Everyone Has Influence," according to the summit's website.

The event runs from 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday and from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday.

Keynote speakers include presenters Craig Groeschel, co-founder and senior pastor of Life.Church, which is also one of the country's largest churches with multiple locations in nine states, and John Maxwell, a Christian leadership guru. Other keynotes include best-selling author Simon Sinek, Pastor T.D. Jakes and restaurateur and hospitality industry TV host Danny Meyer.

More than a dozen speakers are on the event lineup from various sectors including church, business, nonprofits, academia and government. The conference is Christian-based, but lessons can be learned by people from all walks of life, event organizers say.

The leader of the summit this year will be Tom De Vries, who is in his first year as president of Willow Creek Association.

If interested, Partin said the best way for people to register for the two-day event is through Alice Drive's summit event website, www.sumterleaders.com. Registration will be available until Thursday morning, he said.

The individual registration rate is $209. If a person is a member of the Greater Sumter Chamber of Commerce, a discounted rate of $139 applies. Discounts also apply based on the size of the group registering, Partin said.

For military, educators and high school/college students, the rate is $89, he said.

Each attendee will receive a conference packet, which includes biographies on all the speakers, highlighted notes from the individual talks and space available to take your own notes from the sessions, Partin said.

Lunch each day is on your own, Partin said, but coffee, water, tea and snacks will be provided each day in the morning and afternoon.