Compassion International is 57 years old, but in the last 4 years (from the first year that their team attended the Leadership Summit) CI has doubled.
Stafford was asked to speak about pain this year.
Calling, mission, purpose in life, and greatest act of obedience came at the age of 10. Raised at a boarding school in Africa, living there for 9 months per year. The leaders were missionary failures who were given charge over the boarding school because they could not do anything else.
There isn’t a way to write what Stafford is telling.