We are always asking God to use the Catalyst conference to create life change. Here's an email we got from Jesse Anderson, a Catalyst leader in Nebraska, sharing the things God has done with him recently that were sparked at Catalyst West in April...

I attended Catalyst Conference West Coast in April 2010 with a group of people from our church here (Heartlands Church) in Lincoln, NE and was incredibly impacted and motivated to take what i learned at the conference and live more alive to Jesus. Not just a Jesus-filled vacay to Cali, but a heart transforming experience. To think what Jesus thinks about, have my heart break for what breaks God's heart, and live it out in a Jesus fashion that continues to change the world.

One thing i asked God to show me, while sitting in the Denver Airport waiting for our plane to Cali, was a way that i could influence some people in great need anywhere on this globe. I asked God to show me how i could change a little piece of this world, and see those who were in great distress and DO something about it.

So, while sitting at Catalyst, Scott Harrison from charity: water came on stage and talked about how 1 billion people on this planet don't have access to clean, safe drinking water. While i was listening to that, I had a bottle of purified water in my hand that made it hit home a little harder. The very thing i have access to in endless ways while sitting in a church, 1 billion people in this world don't have at all. And its killing them. And destroying lives. Wow. So God showed me, he answered that prayer in a very specific way.

Our team went back to the hotel that night and shared "action-steps" that we were going to take when we got home, on the top of my list was raising enough money for a clean water well to be placed in a developing nation. Hopefully to raise $5,000 that would help a village of 250 people and change their lives forever.

So the journey began, May 1st the "RAT TAIL CLEAN WATER CAMPAIGN" started. I had been growing a rat tail since July of '09 and decided to leverage everyone's hate toward the tail to donate money to the clean water campaign agreeing to cut it off if the goal was met. About 3 months later the campaign ended...

$6,110 was raised to help 305 people. It blew me away. People responded, friends gave, family donated, strangers wrote checks, it was as if God was saying..."i'm here to make it happen, i just need people to step out and DO something."

God did it. But he used you guys. I hope that anyone and everyone who plays a role in putting Catalyst together can hear these words...

"Thank you!! because of your work, dedication, passion, leadership, influence, and endless hours of planning details to make the Catalyst Conference happen, you helped change the world!! God is using you for eternal purposes. Believe that HE can and will make it happen, but he just needed YOU to step out and DO something, and you did!! thank you catalysters!!"

As promised, the RAT TAIL had to be cut off. I was sad to see it go, but blessed to see the outcome! God is great. =) If you'd like to see the video of the tail getting chopped - see below.

So there it is, some of the "world changing" events taking place here in Lincoln, NE. A lot was accomplished, but its only the start of continuing to make a major difference in this world for Jesus!

I hope to make it back to Catalyst at some point, but regardless, keep up the incredible Kingdom work, and....

"Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain."

1 Corinthians 15:58

Jesse Cuts the Rattail. from Jason Nabb on Vimeo.