All right, what's up everybody? Thanks so much for being here. My name is David Perkins, and this is the workshop called Thriving Family. And if you're hoping to be in this seminar, you can stay. If you're looking for a different flight to somewhere else, you can get on a different plane. But it's great to see all of you. Thank you so much for coming. I'm gonna get started. I really wanted to just talk a little bit about family today. And when they gave me the opportunity to share with you, this was really the burden on my heart. I have four children. I have a wife named Renata. And then I have my son named Dawson, Olivia, who is 13, Adalind, who is 11, and then my youngest son, Justice, who is nine. So just curious, how many of you here like you've got kids five and under? Five and under, there it is. Oh, yeah, a lot of you, all right. How about 10 and under, 15 and under, 20 and under, 25, come on now. There you go, 30 and under, all right. We got any grandparents in the house? Just curious, all right, there you go, all right. Come on, that's awesome. That's awesome. Well, let me just tell you, I'll give you in 60 seconds, kind of the preface for this seminar. And then I'm gonna pray and we'll get started. And for me, I spent 16 years in Colorado Springs in ministry. And then felt like the Lord was putting on my heart to plant a church and to parachute into Kansas City and plant a church. And to be vulnerable, I haven't talked about this much until this conference, but the hardest part for me was my kids because everything in Colorado Springs was awesome. My job was awesome, my Colorado was awesome, my house was awesome, everything that we, just where we'd been and God had blessed it and the thought of after 16 years there and for me, 21 years in ministry, to go just drop into a new city and start over sounded really challenging. And for me, the big hiccup for me was my kids. I knew that Renata would be fine. I knew that God was faithful. I've been seeing, he's been faithful to me since I was a kid. I knew that God would be good. I knew that Renata would be fine. But I had these four little precious hearts that I just, honestly, it was a place of struggle for me where I wasn't sure and I wanted so desperately for them to be okay. And so really the preface of this is that we're three years in almost and what God has done in my children has been amazing. And so I don't know if there are some of you in this room that are asking God for faith to make the transition that he's inviting you into. I don't know if you're early on in ministry and you're wanting to just talk about the value of kids and discipling your children as you begin in ministry or maybe you've got that teenager that you're trying to connect with. But my hope is that these few minutes that I have with you can help you in your family. And making disciples of your kids. And that's really the context I'm gonna talk about is making disciples of your kids.  And so I am forever grateful. Oh, he is good to me. And so let me pray and we'll just start it. Father, I thank you for every family that's represented here. I thank you for every husband, every wife. I thank you for every pastor. I thank you for every associate pastor and every leader. And Father, I ask Lord Jesus that each one of their children would walk with you. God, I ask Lord that you would give them strength and wisdom to make disciples of their kids. I pray that you would give them revelation. I pray that you would give them courage. Lord, I pray that you would help them to make the necessary sacrifices to invest in their kids. Even when it's scary and hard. I pray Lord Jesus that even in these 58 minutes that we have left, I pray that you would give thoughts, ideas, just one liners, just one idea about how to invest in their kids to make a difference in their families.  I grew up in Oklahoma City, my dad's a pastor and I was honestly really fathered well. My dad is to this day, other than my wife, probably my closest friend. And so he is 72. And we're tight, we're extremely close. And when I was 16, my dad had made a commitment to disciple his children when we were born. My parents had the shock of their lives in 1976 where they were expecting to have one child and only to find out that they were pregnant with twins. And then at the hospital after two of us were born found out and there's more in there. And I guess technology wasn't great in the 70s. And so then to the shock of my mom's life, another kid came out. And so we are David, Dana and Deborah. I'm four minutes older than Dana. I'm eight minutes older than Deborah. And five years later, they had my little brother, Dan. My mom's name is Debbie and my dad's name is Hal. And so you can tell who won those arguments. But anyway, and so my dad though made a commitment, a decision, he was pastoring a church just outside of Philadelphia to make disciples of his kids and felt that the Lord showed him that his Peter, James and John was David, Dana and Deborah. And so I don't know what Dan is. That wasn't part of the story. I always tell Dan, I'm not sure if he's Thomas or Judas. Either way is bad. Just kidding. All four of us are in ministry. The triplets, the three, my sisters and I were all 42. My brother Dan is 37. And we've all been in ministry all our lives. None of us had a prodigal season. All of us married great spouses. And now my parents are trying to figure out how to influence their grandkids because we all had a bunch of kids. And so my parents are amazing. And so much of what I have to say to you is influenced by them. But my dad made a decision to disciples' kids.  They had their date, their weekly date. And then he took out one-on-one each kid. So I was Tuesdays. David got Tuesdays. Dana got Wednesdays. Deborah got Thursdays. Dan got Fridays. And when I was 16 years old, I was in, we were growing up in Oklahoma City. And 16 braces had a mullet. It was the early 90s, Oklahoma City's, Billy Ray Cyrus days. And I could reach back and grab my mullet. It was so long right there.  And so after about 45 minutes, I'm still just an emotional wreck. And my dad got up and he said, David, it'll be right back. And he walked over to a pay phone. I know you millennials don't know what that is, but he walked over to a pay phone and came back. And he said, all right, we've got the rest of the night. I just canceled my board meeting. Let's connect. And I said, dad, you can't cancel your board meeting. This, it was a congregational style church government. He reported to that board. I said, you can't cancel the board meeting. And he said, I can cancel the board meeting. He said, I want to connect with what's going on in your journey. And I said, but dad, that's your church. And I'll never forget the moment that he looked back at me in my tears in his eyes. He said, hey, son, sorry, you're my church. You're my first church. And it marked me because it wasn't just language. He had lived it. And really that's the preface of the next now, 52 minutes that we have together is I want to challenge you to help you think about how to arrange your schedule, your time and your dollars to make your family, your first church and what it would look like for you to make disciples of your children intentionally in the 1820, 22, maybe 24 years and they live in your house and how you can in the midst of all the pressures, in the midst of all the different things that you have going on. So value them that you disciple them. That it's not a passive way that you're approaching parenting. It's not an authoritarian way that you're approaching parenting, but it is a relational Jesus at the center way of parenting. And that's kind of where I want to go. I think that when we look at Jesus, here we are a couple of thousand years later and the church of Jesus Christ has continued to expand. Right now we know that there are believers in every nation. And so all across the globe, all across the world, we have not reached every people group, but there are worshiping believers all over the world. So we know that without a doubt the church of Jesus has expanded. We know that it's growing bigger. We've got that and yet when we look at the origins, Jesus discipled a few. And so he started with his one John, I heard that from Mark Triska last night and then three Peter, James and John and then is 12. And my invitation to you really, the prophets of this time together is that your kids, your children, the people that you have are your first church. They are your first church. And so to make disciples of your kids and my encouragement would be even to look at the way that Jesus made to disciples and to implement as much as you can reading the gospels, reading the conversations that Jesus has with his disciples, reading how Jesus taught, interacted and thinking in your viewpoint of your kids as your first disciples. And so for me in my journey, that means that I care very much about my lead team. I'm right now in the middle of our church plant. And so we are coming up on three years in September. I've got a great lead team, but that's not my first church. I lead a men's small group, but that's not my first church. My first church is Renata and my four kids. And so that's Dawson and me really digging into his life intentionally, not passively, but I would say in a systematic way. I've implemented in my family the same thing that my dad did, which is to spend one on one time each week. I don't hit it 100%. I probably won't this week because I'm here, but much of the time, if I aim for 100%, I'll probably hit it about 80%. If I never aim, I won't hit anything. And so my boy Dawson, he's 14. He looks just like his mom. He's got brown hair. He's got brown eyes. He's tall, dark and handsome. He's two inches taller than I am, which is creating more insecurity in me because he's only 14. He loves fashion. These are his shoes. And I wore his jacket yesterday. But he's becoming my best bud. And then Olivia, she's 13. I spend time talking with her, engaging with her. She loves ballet. She's very quiet. She's a little bit more like a mom. She's an introvert. Dawson's an extrovert. He's an Enneagram three, like his dad. So we spend our Tuesday time together just looking at each other going, you so handsome. No, you so handsome. No, you so handsome. Man, I love you, I love you. He sits in the back and the production table every, every Sunday that I walk off the stage and walk back there to go tell them the name of the podcast. He looks at me and goes, crushed it, crushed it.   I mean, it's just right there. It's like, you're not sure what you're going to get week to week. But it's like, you crushed it, baby. You crushed it, you know. And every week, I mean, I'm the dad. I'm 42. He's 14.  I think it's because as soon as he got taller, he started looking down at me.   And then my daughter, Adalyn, she's 11. And Adalyn, out of all four kids, she's the only one that looks like me. All of them look like Renata, which thank God for all of them, except for my dear Adi. She looks like me. She's got blonde hair. She's got blue eyes. She's super loud. Needs lots of applause. Chip off the old block. And when she was three, my favorite story about her when she was three, I was so celebrating that we finally had a child that looked like me.  And so I got down on one knee. She's three years old and I put my hands on her cheeks. And I said, Adalyn, when I look at you, I see me. And she put her hands on my cheeks. Three years old, blue eyes, curly blonde hair. She goes, Daddy, when I look at you, I see you. She's like me in lots of ways. Great looks, not too bright, but just kidding. Take that off the podcast. And then my son, Justice, he's an athlete and he's 11, he's nine. And he's a delight. He's right now, he's a man's man. So he's a tough guy, way tougher than his older brother and me. But I'm just loving each one of these kids. And I wanna invite you to see in the time that you have your kids, get your PhD in each child, know them extremely well. And I wanna look at even some of the ways that I see Jesus interacting with his disciples so that we can intentionally make disciples of our kids. Here's the first thing I want you to get. And that is I want you to value and think about them and speak life into them. Speak life into your children. I was reading Irwin McManus' new book, The Last Arrow, and I just loved, I just fell in love with his dedication. Listen to this, this is just, this is Irwin McManus as he's making this dedication. Long after I rest my bow and have struck my last arrow, there will still be arrows flying true. Their names are Aaron and Mariah. The trajectory of their lives will take them far beyond the ground I have taken. You are the future. This is your fight. I pulled the bow back as far as I could and gave you all the strength I had to send you into flight. Fly far and true, cross enemy lines, hit the mark, set captives free. Yeah, you just, I was done with the book. I was like, all right, let's just pray. I just, I wanna love my kids like that. Someone 27 is where he got that idea of arrows. It's where it says, behold children are a gift of the Lord. The fruit of the womb is a reward like arrows in the hand of a warrior. So are the children of one's youth. And so thinking, reframe, these are not the kids that just fill up the minivan. This is not just a time where I'm going to endure it until they're gone. It's not just to have a fairly passive approach where we endure these years, but to be intentional about making disciples. I see number one in what has meant the world to me and what I see Jesus doing. There's so many different times where we see Jesus speaking life into his disciples. That's the first one. Speak life into your children. But I think that we see even the heavenly father speaking life into his son. And so if you wanna know how to be a father, look at how your heavenly father fathers, right? Look at how he spoke even at the baptism event into the life of Jesus. And I wanna just look at these three phrases, Matthew 3, 16, where it says this. As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water and at that moment, heaven was opened and he saw the spirit of God descending like a dove and aligning on him. And a voice from heaven said, this is my son whom I love with whom I'm well pleased. Few things, I wanna break down there. Look at this, I wanted you to think, God the father speaks over God the son this way. First person of the Trinity speaks over, second person of the Trinity this way. I see three things. I see number one, acceptance. I see him saying, this is my son. And speaking every chance that you get over each one of your children, no matter if they're babies, elementary, teenagers, or adult children, you are my daughter. You are my son. You're mine. And then affection, first I see acceptance, then affection, whom I love, which you just say like a broken record. And then affirmation, with whom I am well pleased. Acceptance, affection, affirmation. And here's, this is the line of great parents. Is we're just like a broken record saying, you're my son, you're my girl, I love you.    And here's what's caught in those three. You belong, you are loved, and you matter. So every time that you can get them to believe that they belong somewhere, it's in pictures, it's in songs. We are big on Sabbath in our family. One of the things we do is every Saturday, we spend together, I'm sorry, every Friday we spend together as a Sabbath. And we have been doing that day since we planted the church. When we lived in the springs, it was on Saturdays. But now in the middle of the church plant, it's on Fridays. And we're doing intentional things to help them feel like they belong. So even we write songs, I know this sounds cheese factor all the way to the roof.  But what I do is I want all my kids to know they belong and there's lots of ways. So they will one day think it's easy, so they will one day think it's incredibly weird that Renata and I took a picture with each one of them with a verse that we put for them and put it over their bed when they were a toddler and their whole lives, the last person they see before they go to bed at night is their parents with a picture of them with a verse. One day they might think that's a little bit crazy but right now they think it's normal, right?  And we love you and we're gonna have some good days and some bad days, but you belong. And so I've never written like, you know, song like Reckless Love like Corey Hasbury. I'm working on it. But I have written a bunch of family songs that we sing in the car. And my idea is, is I'm trying to get them to know this is who we are. So we sing, I mean we get in the car and when we sing take me out with my family, take me out with my friends. We'll sing together and laugh and play. It's gonna be a super fun day cause it's Dawson Perkins, the leader, Olivia Faith, the princess. They're getting older now. Adeline Grace is a movie star. Justice is screaming in the back of the car it's cause he was one when we wrote the song. We haven't changed it. Now he's nine. He never screams. He's like the most quiet kid we have but the lyrics live on. And it's mommy passing out Chick-fil-A. Daddy screams, hip hooray. Let's all start by praising King Jesus for giving us this day. Hooray, right? And then we all scream and thank you very much. Yeah. Thank you. But the idea is, and we've got lots of them. I will only sing one. But we got lots of them and the idea is I'm just trying to create, man put it over their bed. I'm trying to think, let's have the song. This is the family song. But it's this idea. You are ours. You belong. You belong, you belong. And then it's, and you are loved. That's the second one. This is my son, whom I love. And so every single possible way. Text, spray it, say it, put it on their walls, sing it. I mean, depending on how little they are, it's a little bit different. But honestly, I'm gonna be a little vulnerable here. I know it's being recorded. But I remember having a pastor friend of mine tell me I was too affectionate with my sons, right? It's a little too much, right? And I didn't know how to respond to that because it was someone that I really respected. And he was like, yeah, I just, I think you should pull back a little bit. This is when they were really little. And so just today's Tuesday, so just last Saturday, I went over at my nine year old son's basketball game to coach him for just a second on basketball, which I'm not, whatever. And he'd be the judge on how good of a vice it was. But anyway, so he's sitting there with his other nine year old friends. I'm not the coach. I'm just the parent that comes over at halftime that's gonna basically tell him to hustle, right? And I go and I whispered in his ear and he looks at me and he says, thanks dad, kisses me on the cheek. Yeah, you know what's happening to me? I mean, I've got right now, I've got four kids. There's as affectionate as they can be. And I think right now, and I know right now, you're like, well, just wait, high school's coming. You don't know nothing. Why are you talking on parenting right now? I don't know what I don't know. All I know is this, is that we're in the thick of it, but right now I'm seeing God at work and my kids. And I'm seeing a family that's really, really close. And so when Lee says, hey, talk on what's on your heart. I'm like, well, I've been doing, I didn't have been doing prayer seminars for 20 years. I'm gonna just swing the bat and talk about my kids cause this is what's alive in my heart. And right now I've got this family that's really, really close. And I can see some of the fruit of just like a broken record saying, repeating, declaring, hey, you belong. Hey, you are loved. Hey, you matter. And trying to get that in the hearts of my kids. I see Paul doing the you matter thing. So here's how the father says, with whom I'm well pleased, I think every one of our children from mother, from father, they want to know that they're pleasing. They want to know that they matter. And I love the verbal shout outs that we find Paul giving all of his spiritual sons, right? He does it frequently. He says in Philippians, he says, he shouts out Timothy. He shouts out Epaphroditus and Ephesians. He shouts out Taichikus, a brother and a servant. Colossians, it's Epaphrys who's always wrestling in prayer for you. And here's what he's doing. He's declaring to them that they matter. He's helping them understand that he sees them.  And so you are the most important person in your kid's life, and you want to remain that way. You want to be that person that so makes emotional, spiritual deposits in their lives that you maintain that position. And so I mean, my brother's 37, and my brother still says that the person who disciples him is my dad. Both my triplet sisters are 42, and they're both eloquent and they're both small, they're, we're all about the same size actually, but I always say if I'd had the womb to myself, I'd be 15 feet tall. But anyway, so, but they're frequently talking about what it meant that my dad's spent this intentional time one-on-one. So what Renata and I have done is it, I loved what my dad did, and so Renata and I do where we both do this. So she spends one-on-one time, I spend one-on-one time every week, which is a lot. It's a big sacrifice to speak these things into our kids. Sometimes it's privately, sometimes it's publicly, sometimes it's a public shout out like Paul or like the father audibly declaring in Matthew three into human history, his delight over his son. This is my son, whom I love, with whom I'm well pleased, but getting it in there, speaking it. And I think the first step for us is speaking it, saying it, speaking life into your kid. The second one that's big is connect their hearts to Jesus, to speak life into your kids. The second one is connect their hearts to Jesus. Your big win is connecting your child's heart to Christ. It's their personal relationship with Jesus. It does not matter as much if they're a great athlete, if they're a scholar, if they have even great behavior, if they're a good citizen of our country, the number one thing you want, the center of the target is their personal relationship with Jesus, that's your aim. That's your goal. Is it mostly you? No, it'd be great, but here's number one, it's Jesus. You get that and you get everything. Because they will go through some good days and some bad days. I won't tell you those stories because I don't have permission for my kids, but they have gone through some hard days. And if it was just me, I'm not sure exactly how things would go if they were just a relationship with me. But they've each got, I've been working pretty hard, but not I've been working pretty hard in the relationship with Jesus. So even dialing back the conversation is not usually, hey, here's what we want. And as for me in my house, I want you to do this. It's, let's talk about your relationship with God. And what does Jesus think about that? And what's he saying to you? So you get, you want to highlight that. You want to make that the center. I think sometimes we don't know what the target is or we think that there's lots of targets. And because we think that there's lots of targets, we got to get them right in all these areas. Then we miss the big one. And I'm fine with there being some other smaller ones. I just want to make us, I'll tell you what I think. What I believe firmly really clear is the center is that relationship with Jesus. I like the story of Matthew Emmons 2004, Olympian shooting, riflery. And it's a great story because he was by far the best shooter, went in, represented America. And in his last shot, he only had to hit, he only had to hit the target. He didn't even have to hit the bullseye. He just had to hit the target to win gold. Went back, made the shot, bullseye. Not just the target, bullseye. Looks up at the scoreboard and he dropped to eighth place. Illogical, doesn't make sense. Wait a minute, hit the bullseye. How can I possibly drop from first to eighth? The story, 2004, he hit the bullseye of the wrong target. Right? Yeah. Listen, if you're not careful, you'll hit the bullseye in the wrong target with your kids. You'll think, well, I need to get all the behavior right or in our culture, a lot of applause if I raise good kids. Here's my thesis, some of you may push back on. I'm not trying to raise good kids. I'm trying to raise Christ followers. And if I get relationship with Jesus, then they may have some dark moments. They may have some moments where their behavior doesn't align with their conviction. But if at their core they have Paul's Confessions and Philippians 310, I want to know Christ. If I get that, I've got it all. And so a lot of times, man, we have stressed some behavioral law and we've missed out on relational discipleship. And a lot of times their darkest moment is your greatest opportunity, right? So my dad discipling me, he took my darkest moments and made it my greatest opportunities. I had a moment where seventh grade, I was four foot three in the seventh grade. And I, we had just moved from Idaho to Oklahoma City. I went from Christian school to public school and I hated life. My sisters were a head taller than me. And we went to this public school where the first day I was shredded. I mean, just, I was thrown into a locker. I didn't even really know. I had been so protected. I didn't even really know like cussing and swearing. I just, I didn't even know. And suddenly I was being called things. I'd never know. And I went through this bullying phase. And I started to become angry. I started to change. I had been a good kid up to that point. And I started to have such anger and hurt inside of me. And my dad took those moments not to change my behavior, but to ask me about my relationship with Jesus. And so I'll never forget there was one kid who was by far the most challenging. And he was, he was the largest bully in my life. And I began to share with my dad in our Tuesday time, in seventh grade, here's this kid that I hate. And my dad didn't, he didn't take that moment to say, hey, you need to not act out. He dug into my heart. It's like pulling on heartstrings, okay? Asking questions. Jesus always asks questions of his disciples, you know? Hey, Matthew 16, who do you say that I am? Right? He's John 21. Do you love me? I mean, do you believe me? Those are the kinds of questions he's always asking. Our tendency is, all right, we're gonna create the guardrails. We're gonna create structure and law. And we're just gonna keep our kids on track until they walk across the platform when they're 18. But I'm telling you, as a 20 year youth pastor and as a father, these are real people. And so you're leaning in and it's your opportunity to make disciples. What do you feel like? What do you, what's the Lord saying to you in this process? And so I looked back at my dad in seventh grade and said, what's the Lord saying to me?  We're gonna get you in a safe place. I'm not letting anything happen to my boy. My dad loved me a lot, right? And he, I mean, I'll never forget him getting down on one knee, looking me in the eyes so he could see his teenager face to face, eyeball to eyeball and saying things like, hey, I know this season seventh grade is hard, but it's in this season that you'll either become a rebel or a John Wesley. I'm not ripping you out of that. This is your opportunity to grow close to Jesus. This is your opportunity. Who does God want you to be right now? I'm thanking God for this season so that you can get close to Jesus. You got a dad like that instead of a dad that's like, just wanting to go, I'll go kick the bully in the teeth, you know, some of that kind of stuff. I had a disciple maker, I had a father that helped me refocus on Jesus and it changed everything for me. And so then when I'm telling him about this kid, he said, what does Jesus want you to do? I said, I don't know. He said, well, let's, let's read Jesus. Do you know, do you know where Jesus talks about how to handle your enemies? Well, I know it's in there, but I don't know where. Do you care if I help you? Okay. All right, let's read it. And my dad shows me, all right, love your enemies, pray for those, persecute you. And I'm like, oh God. I mean, I'll never forget, seventh grade. I'm like, dad, I know this works for you because you talk about this on Sundays and stuff, but he's like, and then it's just, but it's, I was 12. David, is this real? Or is this, is this just theory?   But slowly, not immediately, but slowly. Okay, let's pray for him, developing the language. All right, we'll pray.  That kid became my best friend. That then that kid gave his life to Christ at my house at midnight. Then that kid became the little prayer warrior with me. We started a little prayer meeting that met every day. And I saw hundreds of kids give their lives to Christ in high school. And it started with this, and he was my best friend that then became a missionary when we graduated college. Like, but here's my point. It's this, it all started. Sorry. For me, with a father, he's not just talking behavior and he's not just saying, this is how it's gonna go in my house. This is how we're gonna do, it's pointing me to Jesus.  If you get that, you get everything. And so with my kids, they know I've got a soft spot.  If they say, dad, I want this brand new Bible, yes. And I'll invest it. So, we have a, I drove a car to the airport on Sunday that has a suburban 2,001, 207,000 miles on it. I don't care about cars, but my little girl, she has a journal that was $60. Journal is $60? That's a lesson. Uh-uh. For me, I'm like, no, you cannot have cheese on your cheeseburger. We will not pay the extra 40 cents. But you want a $60 journal? Absolutely. You got it, right? My son Dawson, he just said, hey dad, that Louis Giglow just came out with this really cool new Bible, you know? And I was like, yes, absolutely, right? Cause it's feeding what I care about, right? So, like for them, we have a culture in our family. We spend time with God each day. We don't hit it 100%, but we aim for 100%. We aim for 100%. Then we hit 75, 80, 85, 90, but we're gonna get there. And so our Sabbath day is not that we, and I'm not trying to be offensive, I'm just telling you, this is testimony. It's not, I don't take Sabbath and go, oh, that just means we go water ski, snow ski, or ride bikes, or just put, no, no, no, it's, we pray and play, but we pray. We're gonna get close to God. And so, a part of our culture is, we go sit at one of the hipster coffee shops in town, and that's expensive. That's $4 for a pour over, right? But here's, yeah, the Shekinah, but here's what we're doing. We're having conversations. Tell me about what's going on with you and the Lord. Tell me, let's talk about it. And it's creating, it's creating the, here's the center of the target in this family. Center of the target is not just that you're the preacher's kid that doesn't do bad things. Center of the target is not that you make it through high school without doing some bad things.  But man, I wanna make sure, if you've got a heart alive for God, and then the moment where you start to see it twist, I mean, you do everything. And I know, I know that every single person, it's voluntary love. None of this is forced. You cannot, I mean, you're really dealing with people who have free will, and these are real people when they're nine, and they're real people when they're 11. They're real people when they're three, right? And we had some weird moments, right? I'll never forget the moment. We talked about Jesus all the time. And so, Renata was like doing jumping jacks, you know? Trying to get Olivia. He's like, come quicker. And I'm just, I don't know why I'm telling you this. And all of a sudden Dawson's three years old, he started doing jumping jacks. And I was like, what are you doing, Dawson? He's like, well, you're trying to get Olivia out. I'm trying to get Jesus out, you know? Like, we just, we had lots of conversations. Some was bad theology, right? He knew Jesus lived inside of him. But anyway, sorry. Yeah, that's cute, but not theologically strong. But you had Mark Driscoll last night, so you're fine. So for me, that's my win. So we, so with that end in mind, we kind of form everything around that. So that means each of them have kind of their place where they spend time alone with God in the house. We invest in Bibles and journals and highlighters. It means that on our Friday Sabbath, we have a $20 coffee moment where we talk about what God is doing. It means that I'm not the dad that only teaches my kid how to play baseball and basketball and then never teaches them how to spend time with God. I know I said that in a condescending way. Let me rephrase that. I want to be a father that teaches them what values most, what I value most. And what I value most is it's not their education and it's not if they're gonna be a great athlete or even a hard worker. What I want most is their relationship with Jesus. So I've taught them how to spend time with God. I'm not trying to be pious when I say that. I'm just telling you the center of the target for me. Does that make sense? It's the center of the target. And so that's, if you think about I live and I wanna raise good kids, you will live differently than if you think I want disciples of Christ that know him. If you think mostly about behavior modification, your reputation, you don't want them to go off the rails and do bad things. I'll never forget my dad having a moment with one of my sisters. She was blonde, good looking. We went to a high school with 2,500 kids and she had so many different boys that were pursuing her. She had a guy who ended up playing varsity, NCAA football, he was cool guy. He really liked my sister. He was not following Jesus. And my dad who had made this investment in having a meeting with her since she was in the first grade every Thursday, having conversations with her and his heart breaking as her heart was turning towards this good looking football player that really liked her. And my dad looked at her and said, "'All right, I can feel you starting to shut me out.'" And he said, "'But I'll make a deal with you.  "'You can date him. "'What I care about is that you keep your heart open "'and you keep talking to me about Jesus "'and what Jesus thinks about him "'and Jesus thinks about you dating him. "'And if you're gonna make, end up in a covenant marriage "'with him, if you'll stay vulnerable "'and keep talking to me, "'I won't put a guardrail that says you can't date this man.'" Interesting parenting moment, isn't it? But you know what happened? She made that deal. She made that deal. And my dad discipled her slowly out of the relationship, instead of just law. And so before too long, she was... Nope, he's not the one.  I'm inviting you to think about your when being, you have a relationship with Jesus. I am a disciple maker. I'm helping, I'm, follow me as I follow Christ and I'm gonna help you follow Jesus and you're helping them. You're getting their vertical relationship with Jesus right and you're, it's your big passion about you talking with them, discipling. It's what we see Jesus, Jesus asking questions, one-on-ones conversation. So for me, I taught my kids and this is what they do. And right now we're in a phase where we've even taught some different methodologies about how to spend time alone with God, but I've taught them to start with praise. We moved to thanksgiving, go to confession, go to scripture, then we pray about the next 24 hours. All right, then you've got, I mean, we've taught them, we've taught them about kind of that soap method. You know, there's lots of different ones, but I'm talking about those are the things that they've got an education on. You know where they're like, spending time with Jesus knowing, the scriptures walking with Jesus, number one priority. Very simple idea. I'm just inviting you to think about what does it look like for you to spend your time and your money making sure that the center of the target for your kids is their personal relationship with Jesus and you'll do anything. I promise you this. If you right now have four kids, they're elementary and in their 20s, they're walking with Jesus. You'd rather have a church of 50 and four kids who are alive in God than a mega church and have them say, I forget God, I'm out. So in these precious years that you've got, slow down and be intentional. Think, I'm not telling you to do our methods. I'm inviting you to have methods. What's the way? What's the process? God, how can I make this? I got a 16-year-old boy. God, I got a five-year-old little girl. God, I got a 21-year-old son. And be strategic on connecting their heart to Jesus, helping them connect. Know him. And then the last one is to fight for their heart, is to fight for it. Like, as a parent, giving everything. Ha-ha, guess who called me while I'm talking to you? My dad, told ya, we're friends. He just left me a voicemail. I should read it, just to prove to you. I won't. You're gonna have to fight for it because you are competing with the entire culture, right? The entire culture and everybody's fighting for the hearts of your kids. Your kids will be discipled by something. The question is, will they be discipled by Jesus? Will you help them be disciples of Christ? Somebody's gonna disciple him, right? Whether it's the radio, music, sports, theater, they will end up valuing something. Fashion, I mean, they're going to allow something to influence them. They will give their life something. The question is, will it be Jesus?  Guard your heart, Proverbs 4, right? Guard your heart, for it's the wellspring. I wanna invite you to think about fighting for it. We were on a family bike ride this last year, and I was a 20-year youth pastor, so my kids right now, they're helping me write my sermons, because I'm so stressed out about it. And so we're all on six bikes, and my daughter Adalyn, she says, dad, she's blonde hair, blue eyes, third born. Dad, I've got a great idea for a new series at church. And I said, what is it? And she goes, take me to church. And I was like, ooh, I like that. And I said, evangelism, what are you thinking? What does it take me to church? She's like, I don't know. It's just a new cool song. It's a new cool song? Oh, it is? Yeah. Okay, I'm still believing it. I'm like, YouTube, take me to church. It ain't church. Definitions of words? This is a different game, right? What? So here it is, my innocent 11-year-old girl thinking this perverted song is about take me to church, little hooks. She is a homeschooled church planner's kid. I said, where did you hear this? And she goes, it's in the mall. It's in the coffee shops. I hear it everywhere. You always sit at Barnes & Noble with those leaders and we're listening to the radio. It's like, take me to church, right? She's singing it. Here's my point.  And you gotta fight like crazy. You gotta fight, so you're thinking through in your house. And again, like I just said that we homeschool, my goal is not to homeschool with the whole philosophy of protecting them from the big bad world. I know that's kind of the stereotype of most homeschooling. But here's my thought. Man, I got precious years to make disciples. I want them as much as I can get them, right? I wanna keep them close. And so I wanna encourage you to think even when we read, I mean, Deuteronomy, listen to this language, I'm just gonna read it. I'm just gonna read it in the message because I know you know this well. But just hear this afresh from the message. Eugene Peterson kind of just makes it fresh. Deuteronomy six, attention Israel, God our God. God the one and only. Love God your God with your whole heart. Love him with all that's in you. Love him with all you've got. Write these commandments that I've given you today on your hearts.  That's the most critical piece to making disciples of your kids. If you're not a real disciple of Jesus, then I'll see Jesus in you. Good luck making disciples of your kids. Sorry, I'm kind of harsh today. I don't mean to be harsh. I'm just saying this how it is.  That's what we're talking about today. You get this inside the heart. Talk about them wherever you are. Sitting at home or walking in the street. Talk about them from the time that you get up in the morning to when you fall into bed at night. I'm just telling you, even kind of getting kind of literal about this. I mean, for us, we just try to think morning, noon, night. Like what does it look like? What does it look like for them to spend time alone with Jesus in the morning? And that's an aim. We're not a spends time with them. My wife doing just a little conversation about Jesus and Bible in the afternoon. And then we've got in the evening, I take out one of them and then we do what we call tribal Bible. And we named it when they were three and you know, one, three, five, seven. Now it's kind of weird. We still call it that, right? It's conversations. Let's get the word of God. And I hear lots of pastors that mock that and say, oh, we're never able to do that. It doesn't really work. I'm just gonna go on the other team. I'm gonna say, I like it. I'm gonna say, my dad would do it with us. We do it. We love it. We love having these conversations. It's kind of just pulling out. Okay, what do you think Paul is saying here? What do you think God is doing? It's helping them get that conversation inside of them. And for me, it's just some of this Deuteronomy 6. We're gonna get it in them. I wanna encourage you to think you will have a philosophy on parenting. You already do. You're doing something, right? Like, and I wanna invite you to think not just authoritarian. This is how I see many of my friends, honestly. And they would never, they're saying, well, I'm kind. I'm nice. But the way that they lead, some of my friends, my buds, it's, this is my house and while you're under my roof it's gonna go this way. And I'm just like, that's got a short lifespan. Like, I remember when I was growing up my best friend was another pastor's son in town. And so we both went to the large public high school and he and I were really tight. He was a musician. He was a baseball player, played wide receiver. I was this size and he was a different size. We were tight close friends. And we would talk in high school and I had this tight friendship with my dad. And my dad, who was a pastor, would ask me questions. Did not, did not talk law and behavior. He talked heart and motive and spent time. Let's talk about it. And my dad, I told you the story to start this session. Hey, I'll cancel the board meeting. I just wanna hear. That wasn't even like a, that was me having a crush on a girl that didn't like me. And he was willing to cancel the board meeting. Just hear that. Most of us would not see that as a crisis.  You know them boy, they know. My dad, this is a moment. So why do you like this girl? And what, and how does that make you feel? And how do you think Jesus sees this?  I mean, great Bible teacher. Honestly, probably, I mean, smart, really smart. And I just watched him slowly get cold. Slowly get cold. We were roommates in college at University of Oklahoma together. Just two of us roommates dorm room. And all of a sudden the temptation was on. I mean, I mean, both of us had the exact same ones. And in that moment, I decided there was a place at the top of the dorm room. And I'm gonna go be alone with Jesus a couple hours a day. And he decided I'm gonna go join that frat and we have gone opposite directions. And I'm 42, talking about making disciples your kids. He's living about as far from Jesus as you can. I'm not comfortable saying it. It's that bad. And I wanna tell you, I know, and I don't mean to over spiritualize, overstate. We were best friends. I watched it. I watched about how my dad watched my struggles and my challenges and said, let's talk. And his dad said, not in my house, boy. And both of them use the same Bible. One just said, let's just be relational. One was authoritarian and other parents tend to just be passive, you know, like we're not gonna really have a plan or a strategy. We're just gonna punt on strategy and just pray to God we survive. I wanna invite you not to be passive. I wanna invite you to be relational. Jesus is relational. Jesus with his disciples talking to him.  You love me? Come on, let's talk. Everybody's saying some things. Some say, who do you say that I am? Some say you're like Elijah. Some say you're John the Baptist, one of the prophets. Who do you say they are? Questions. Pull it out of their hearts.  Dialogue, listen. Jesus listened when he made disciples. Your temptation is always gonna be, I'm better, I'm bigger, I'm stronger, I know more. You pull that, it's a short shelf life. It ends. One day they're like, peace out. You don't want my money, my house, my car. You don't want that. Sorry, I'm getting more dogmatic. I was nicer yesterday. I wanna invite you to just, so I'll just close with this. Just tell you this story. So for me, parenting, my kids, planning the church, I have watched small moments that seemed like moments I could quickly correct it, where I just listened, become moments that drew them closer to the Lord, right? And I gave you the examples of my dad. I think we see it in the life of Jesus. And one of them was this, February 2016. We've spent 16 years in Colorado Springs. Dawson was born there in 2004. Olivia 2006, Adeline 2008, and Justice 2010. And we're moving to plant a church. Our kids had a great life in Colorado. Dawson, strong social kid, had a great life, 11 years old. I'm driving the U-Haul. I've got two kids with me. Renata's driving the suburban behind me. I-70 East, it's our move to Kansas City. And Renata calls me on the phone and says, Dawson's not doing well. He's being a problem. And I just can't handle it. Can you take him? So he's pulled over. I put two other kids back with Renata. Just me and my 11-year-old. And this is the moment. This is the moment you can be like, how dare you do that to your mom? And this is a stressful moment. We gotta make this trip and da-da-da-da-da-da-da. You know, all that kind of stuff. Parenting, authoritarian, or passive. Just be quiet. I can't handle this. I'm about to make the biggest risk of my life. And I just can't handle you creating tension right now. Or a relational discipleship. Dawson, what's going on? Nothing. Come on. Talk to me. We got eight hours, brother. And driving across Kansas ain't that pretty. So, 10, 15 minutes in. I just, I don't know. Dad, so when we get there like, when we go to start this church in Kansas City, is it like you don't have a job? Right. Church, so that's different than taking over a church. When we get there, we're gonna start the church in September, but when we get there, there's no job. And he's like, so that means like, like no salary? Like, right. And he's like, 11 year old boy. Dad, you know I'm turning 12 in June, right? Yeah, I know. Are you gonna have enough money to buy me a birthday present? Motive, could have just got behavior.  Come on, we don't act like that. We don't drive our sisters crazy. We don't talk back to our mom. What's going on? What's going on? Talk to me. Pull it out. Ah, okay. So it became a great moment. Let's talk about it. What is God like? Has God provided in the past? What do you, do you think God will provide? I know we've always worked at a big church, but right now we're gonna see how this works with starting churches in cafeterias. Like let's just go, you know. All of a sudden, what do you believe in? Do you think God can? I think God, yeah. I think God cares. I think God cares. Do you think God cares about your birthday? Same as me when I was 12. Yeah. Skip forward four months, four months. Out of nowhere I get this invitation to speak at a church in Houston. It's on his birthday. His birthday was on a Monday. Dawson loves to come with me. I said, hey, I got your birthday present. You're coming with me to Houston. He's excited. He's grateful. He's sweet. We get to Houston. We walk into our hotel room, gift for Dawson. The very gift he had wanted with things as happy birthday Dawson. The next day, I'm preacher of the church. Said, hey, I'm flying out tomorrow night, Monday night. My boy's birthday tomorrow is 12. Like got any ideas of what I could do in Houston? Just something fun. For his birthday, we're gonna party together. Just he and I.  I'll plan it for you. Okay? Just so happens, he has a very successful businessman in his church. That businessman pays for the day I'm about to tell you. This businessman picks us up in his truck and he and his personal pilot fly us in a helicopter to his ranch. Where we get off a helicopter, like a helicopter. And a guy who works at a ranch takes us to shoot guns, which I've never done before. I'm like $4 lattes, you know, in theology books. We're shooting guns. He takes us fishing in his private lake. We get back in the helicopter to go back to Houston. And I'm talking in the little intercom, I don't know. Headset to Dawson, I looked at him and I said, hey Dawson, happy birthday. So you remember when we were talking in the U-Haul? He goes, he goes, yeah, God's good, isn't he? I said, this is my first time on a helicopter. He must really like you. And then last year, when he was 13, he preached his first sermon.  And then he starts talking about how God wants to give his children good gifts. And he's looking at 17 or he's 13. He's looking at his teacher in our youth group, God wants to give you good gifts.  I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I got a prosperity preacher in my house. Hold on a second. Let's have a conversation. You know, like every obstacle that you go through with them, it's your chance. Let's talk. Let's point this back on Jesus. I am not saying you won't have hard times. I know everybody in this room, the subject of parenting seems overwhelming. I just want to invite you to make disciples. Don't just be passive. Don't just be authoritarian. Take the time. Make less money. Have less influence. Spend more time. Disciple the children in your home. Amen. Amen. Be blessed. Thanks for coming.


such as these, the Royal Highnesses, Bundespräsident Oli Maurer, distinguished heads of state, heads of government, Excellencies, dear friends. A very cordial welcome to the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum 2019. Welcome to the summit at the beginning of the year to look at the state of the world and to work together to improve the state of the world. We are here a true multi-stakeholder community. I welcome particularly our business community, our partners, our members. I thank you for your engagement and for your loyalty. I welcome very cordially the representatives of international organizations and governments who are here in a record number. I welcome, very important for the forum, the representatives of civil society, the NGOs, the cultural leaders, the Red Union leaders. Very important, the participation of scientists of experts. And Sisiir, again, we have the participation of the young generation of social entrepreneurs. And I'm so pleased that we have social entrepreneurs, as you will see, and global shapers, young global leaders to be the co-chairs of this meeting. With half of the population below 27 years old, we have to listen to the young people and start what we will do during this meeting. This meeting is not only a multi-stakeholder meeting, it's also a multidisciplinary meeting. We want, at the beginning of the year, to look at all the global challenges and you have seen them in the introductory film. And to look at those challenges in a systemic way. It's very important to see the interconnections, the world and the issues are interdependent. For this reason, we have 400 different sessions, 200 sessions which are related to specific outcome-oriented work streams of the world economy forum. This meeting is also a truly global meeting. And I'm very pleased that we have record participation from emerging nations. I welcome particularly the strong Chinese delegation here. This meeting is also different because we want to use our energy and shape the future. We want to be future-oriented and not absorbed just by crisis management. Too much of the global energy at this moment is going into crisis management. But we are at crossroads of history, of humanity. We have now to shape the future and that's what we will do over the next four days. We are also purpose-oriented and our purpose of our presence here, of our work is encapsulated into the theme of this annual meeting which is globalization 4.0, shaping the global architecture for the age of the forced industrial revolution. I want to make a differentiation between globalization and globalism. Globalization is a fact. Globalization will increase. We are part of a global community. We are interconnected. And particularly in the digital world which doesn't know boundaries, our global interconnectedness will increase. Globalization is different. Globalization is the philosophy with which we approach globalization. The World Economic Forum never stood for unfitted globalization. We feel that globalization 4.0 has to be more human-centered because we are now, in some way, in a battle between robots and humankind. We don't want to become slaves of the new technologies. So globalization has to aim at being human-centered. But globalization has also, globalization 4.0 has also to be more inclusive. Let's not forget, multilateralism has helped to lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. But today, we cannot afford anymore to leave people behind in the age of social media and if we take our consciousness of social justice. But very important, globalization 4.0 has also to be much more sustainable. This is the reason why we put so much emphasis on environmental issues during this meeting. And let me close just saying, we need also a remoralization of globalization to recreate a values-based approach to globalization. I now have the great honor to welcome the President of Switzerland, Mr. Oli Maurer. The Federal President has been a member of the Swiss Federal Council for over 10 years. You came for the first time seven years ago. At that time, you were Minister of Defense. Today, you come as a Minister of Finance. For me, you are a kind of symbol. A symbol of how one combines the old with the new. In your New Year's address, this is the point you made. We've got to be able to create bridges. And Switzerland is well-known as the country, which is able to do just that. And on the basis of its values, it tries to create bridges. And in this context, I would like to thank you and the Federal Council, as well as the Count of Graubünden and the municipal authorities of Devils for the hospitality that you have extended for so many years. And I'm sure that that has contributed massively to our success. I'd also like to include in our thanks the hundreds and thousands of people who really make our lives here so productive and so safe and secure. Mr. Federal President, may I ask you to come forward and address us in order to hold the opening speech. Professor Schwab, Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of the Swiss Government, allow me to welcome the World Economic Forum here in Switzerland and more specifically here in Devils. You are our guest and it is an honour for us and it is wonderful for us to be able to welcome you in our snowy mountains. The CF has been one of the most important platforms for the economy, for society and politics for a long time. The fact that we have an opportunity to engage in discussions with one another over the next few days can be traced back to the initiative of one man. Professor Schwab, you have managed to realise your vision and you have created a unique network. Dear Mrs. Schwab, I'd like to thank you personally but also on behalf of the Swiss Government and on behalf of us all. And I'd like to thank you on behalf of the thousands of participants for this initiative. What you have achieved is to be able to organise a meeting without a hidden agenda and in an independent and balanced way in a neutral place, in a neutral Switzerland and to allow us to be able to develop personal contacts here. And it is these personal meetings and contacts which will allow us to contribute to a better understanding of one another. The World Economic Forum has been fulfilling for the last 50 years the clear and growing needs of us all and that is all the more amazing as the World Economic Forum has been able to develop its important role in spite of the fact that there is an incalculable number of other private and state-based forum at all levels in the world. Globalisation 4.0 The Fourth Industrial Revolution Our day-to-day lives, our politics, our economics in fact society at large are all influenced by the galloping pace of technological change. Now although new technologies offer us immense opportunities and give birth to dreams at the same time they raise uncertainties and many people are worried by these developments. The World Economic Forum has been looking at these issues in particular. A few keywords I have just mentioned are well known in Switzerland. After all we have an innovative and competitive economy. Our universities and colleges of technologies of excellent level as well as an integrated economy in global networks are driving forces for the new technologies. Together with the scientific and business community the government attaches much importance to creating a favourable environment to the dynamic development which is important for businesses as well as the Swiss population. We think that we are able to make an appreciable contribution to global growth and in particular with our business partners throughout the world. And if I could just paraphrase Albert Einstein when he once said those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are busy doing it. I further important element in how we are dealing with the new phase of globalization is our political system of direct democracy which always forces us to engage with the population. We thereby define a common path for future development. For example, in a popular vote held a few years ago Swiss voters rejected an initiative to give everyone an extra week of vacation because more vacation is not the answer to the new challenges in working life. The right answer is the will to perform and adapt. That is our understanding and those are our values. That is what we are building on. Also the dialogue between elites and the people is important. I'm talking specifically about dialogue and definitely not about the monologue from top to bottom. The democratic process can take a long time but they lead to balanced solutions and acceptance of the results. In addition, we all struggle to find balance in our daily lives, in our families, in the political field and in the business world. Switzerland is an open economy. We want free and fair trade in goods and services. We are also open to a free exchange of opinions. New ideas must be discussed and tested. We reject dictates. The most used word in our constitution is freedom. We are proud of that. But freedom is most of all a duty. We are free to assume responsibility for ourselves and others. We are looking now forward to the 2019 World Economic Forum, the candid discussions in freedom among equals. Let us build the future based on our values, making wise use of new technologies. Personal relationships are probably our most important tools today. They open doors. Let us open them together. I wish you good days in Switzerland. Have fun and pleasure. Thank you for your coming. Thank you very much, Bundespräsident Ullimar. We proceed now with the introduction of our co-chairs actually. I would like to start with Satya Nadella, who, together with me, even much more represents the older generation here on this stage, but you represent business, and I think we couldn't have found someone representing business also particularly in its positive form. You have revitalized Microsoft. You are known for your modest management style, and you are particularly known for your social responsibility and taking care also of issues outside your narrow, very business interests. I could introduce, I had the opportunity to meet the Global Shapers. I was very impressed by all the stories behind. I could introduce you, but I think it's much better you introduce yourself very shortly, and if you know the motto or the purpose of the forum is improving the state of the world, and if you also say some words, how you improve the state of the world, and after the introduction, Satya will take over and the discussion, and we will hear particularly from you what you propose to the other leaders here in the room how to improve the state of the world. Now, Basima, do you want to start? I just want to say you are coming from Iraq. Present yourself, please. Thank you, Professor Schwab. Thanks for the forum for this opportunity. My name is Basima Abdu-Rahman. I am a Global Shaper from Erbil, Iraq. I have started the first green building company in Iraq, and the idea of starting this initiative first dawned on me when I was back in August 2014. On the night when the terrorist group called ISIS, also known as Daesh, occupied some of the main big cities in Iraq, I still had another semester to finish my graduate degree in the States. On that night, I couldn't sleep. I feared for my family and country, and I felt ashamed and sad by the news. Then suddenly, without warning, clarity comes over me in a way that I haven't experienced before. I am overwhelmed by the lucidity I feel. I decided to go back to Iraq in this critical time to do something positive and impactful. So, that's what inspired me to start CESC. Since we are going to address how my business is addressing the challenges of the globalization 4.0, we have 12 years to limit the climate change catastrophe, and since buildings emit one-third of the greenhouse gas emissions, which contribute to climate change, designing them to meet sustainability features is one of the key strategies to combat this big challenge we are facing today. Since I am coming from Iraq, which is a country that's been going through decades of war, sectarian conflict, and dictatorship, we are finally on the brink of a new era to rebuild our country and economy. $100 billion is the estimated budget to rebuild Iraq, so we want to make sure that the service is available on the ground to build and invest green and sustainably. So, this is my mission, how we're trying to address the globalization 4.0. Thank you. Juan David, you are coming from Colombia. Yes. Thank you, Professor, for the invitation, and thank you, all of you, in advance, because I know for sure that at Friday afternoon, we are going to have some solutions for what is happening to the world. So, thank you. I am from Colombia, from the Coffee Region of Colombia, and my grand-grandparents, they have this entrepreneurial spirit, so they started a coffee business, like a century ago, and they started to export. They were very, very prosperous. They created wealth for them, for their family, and for the community. But when I was 15 in our hometown, what happened was the prices of coffee were so low. They were going down. The commodity prices were so low. So, we started to see what happened when a community depends on a community. People were losing their jobs. People were migrating to the States, to Spain. So, I started to see what happened when you have these beautiful green hills coming like a ghost town. So, then I decided like I want to do something because we have this abundance mindset that was not working for us. We have to change to a productivity and sustainability mindset. It was not the price of coffee, it was the external forces were not the fault of what is happening to us. We were the ones who created that situation because we were not ready. So, the last few years I have been working to engage people, young people, to teach them and to equip them with the skills that they are going to need for the future. We use entertainment, we use technology, and of course we use education. But I think all of you know that we have a learning crisis. Young people are not learning what they need. Today, each month, 10 million young people are graduating from high school and what are the 10 jobs for those young people? So, we have a problem right now in the education system because people are not learning. But here you have people with dreams but they don't have the right skills to fulfill those dreams. So, when we are talking about our situation right now, the globalization, we have to understand that we have to fix the learning system. If we don't change the education system in the world, I think we are going to have a huge humanitarian crisis and an economic crisis. People are feeling that they are getting behind and I think we can solve that. Because I think, you know, when we talk about machines, I think machines are fast but humans are creative. Machines, they could tell us about the past but as humans, I think we can build the future and I think that's what we should discuss this week. How can we build a future where we have the learning system that works for everyone? Thank you, Juan David. And Noura, you are the representative of the global shapers here from Europe. I just would like to say one word. So, six global shapers are part of a community which now counts nearly 10,000 young people who want to construct a better future organized in the World Economic Forum Global shapers community represented in 400 different cities in the world. But Noura, the floor is yours. Thank you, Professor Schwab and thank you for the invitation. My name is Noura Beruba. I'm 24 years old. I come from Stockholm in Sweden and I'm a global shaper. I want you for one second to look at the walls next to you or any walls and imagine all the people that are outside of these halls. The billions of people that we just saw on the screen were facing struggles or part of our communities and I want you to think these are not threats, these are not problems, these are change agents and opportunities and if we want to create a world where we tackle our common challenges we need to work with the people outside of these halls. I believe in the power of people and I believe in a society where everyone is empowered to shape their own life and that of their community and society and because of that I'm proud to be running a youth parliament which is a youth-led, volunteer-led organization in 40 countries in Europe where we work to give young people access, tools, information and inspiration to take on their societies, to shape their societies, to become change agents, to be given agency because when I look outside of these halls that's what I see. I don't see problems, I see opportunities and what we do practically is we believe in active citizenship education and we believe in civic education and we are not doing enough to give people the tools to engage in politics, to engage in business. I also believe in friendships across borders. My region, Europe right now we might think it's one of the most peaceful regions in the world but historically we've been a region of hostilities and conflicts and maldourishment so it's important to not forget where we came from so every day we work to bring young people together across borders Ukrainians and Russians people from Azerbaijan and Armenia Cypriots from both the Turkish and the Greek Cypriots side because we believe that young people today they must see also from other nations as friends and every year young people between the age of 16 and 25 organize 600 projects bringing together 30,000 people where they equip each other with these tools where they see each other as opportunities where they mobilize each other and I know that politics is personal from personal experiences I know that conflict is personal but it needs a political solution I know that food security is a political and a personal issue and we need to make sure that everyone in the world realizes that they have a stake in politics and in shaping their societies I want you to continue this mindset of seeing people as opportunities throughout the week and joining us in the European Youth Parliament and in civil society across Europe and beyond to lift people into empowerment and give them agency Thank you, Noura Julia, you are coming from Chicago Yes Hi everyone, I'm Julia Lescom I'm from the great city of Chicago and I'm director of strategic initiatives at Feeding America we're a non-profit working to end hunger in the United States through a nationwide network of food banks I've gotten to spend a lot of time with this inspiring group and it really strikes me that we share a common purpose which is to live fulfilling lives help others to live fulfilling lives and to steward the planet and growing up in the United States it's been relatively easy for me to live a fulfilling life I grew up in a successful loving family that set me on a path for an excellent education and everything that comes with that but growing up in Chicago I also saw how that many people were being left behind there was the time I met Maria a second grader at a volunteer event who told me that the lunch at school would likely be the only meal she would get to eat that day the street I grew up on on my side had only white people and on the other side of the street an affordable housing complex had only black people these were just a few of early exposures I had growing up in a big city to the deep-seated systemic inequities that I continue to see in my community my country and the world I'm sure you see them too day in and day out and like me you must wonder and constantly ask the question what would I want the world to look like if I was born into different circumstances what supports would I want to be available if my situation changed and me or someone I was close to fell on hard times what systems and processes would I want to be in place if I like my fellow co-chair Muhammad was a refugee and didn't have a passport I am committed to using my place of privilege to drive greater equity and empower others to live fulfilling lives and I'm so fortunate I get to do that today in my work at Feeding America we serve the 40 million people in the United States that are facing hunger even in the richest country in the world one in eight people and one in six children do not have the food they need to thrive and this is despite plenty of food being available last year Feeding America rescued 3.5 billion pounds of food prevented it from going to waste and provided it to people in need and there's more out there 40% of the food we produce in the United States goes to waste we need to drive a more sustainable and equitable global architecture that should be our priority it's the priority of the young people we're representing here today we need to make sure all food produced is put to good use we need to focus on the most vulnerable populations and develop solutions targeted them and the communities they live in this is something I'm passionate about as well food insecurity in the US varies significantly by population and community rural communities in the US in some cases one in three people are food insecure there's populations that are particularly disadvantaged seniors, the disabled children we serve 12 million children each year with solutions targeted to meet them where they are at home and at school and this is what will drive a more equitable future and I'm this is around the world and it's a pressing issue and we know that to create the more equitable future that our generation desires we need to make sure that at a baseline everyone needs to have the food they need to thrive thank you Akira from Japan thank you very much professor so I'm Akira Sakana and I'm enjoying this moment that no one has ideas where I come from I'm based in Kamikatsu which is a very small tiny town in Tokushima Japan and it's just an example of many rural communities around the world that is having struggles that young people leave from the community to seek for better opportunities outside and our population is only 1500 but more than half of the population is above the age of 65 and you can count how many years we can still survive but what is unique about our town is that we are the first municipal town or the government that declared for the ambition to be zero waste by 2020 what is zero waste? it is a policy and initiatives to make no waste out of our community how do we do that? we enroll every residents in the community to bring their waste into one waste collection center then segregate them into 45 different categories which is massive but that's really motivated not only the residents but the local businesses to enroll into waste reduction initiatives and we actually are 80% there for their resource recovery and I myself is not originally from the town I moved in from the city and because I believe in the possibilities I believe that showcasing by what such a small community can do and we can all believe in what individuals or what a small group of people achieve so much and we are actually 80% there but the rest of the 20% everyone asks me that is zero waste actually possible by 2020 and I would say yes but only if we enroll everyone on board because we are so interconnected in this world and then we cannot close the loop only by our community itself because it's in from the outside and then we can't deal with the materials which is not designed to be recyclable or not designed so that it can be recovered in the end then that needs systemic change in the rest of the world and then I believe you have the power to change and yes, thank you very much then that really strikes me because we have a certain economy and we know we need to have a make a change but how can we be fast enough thank you Akira now introducing Mohamed usually I mentioned where you are from but I think when I say you are from you are living now in a refugee camp it shows already let's say the seriousness of your life can you tell us a little bit more about it thank you professor for inviting me to come to the World Economic Forum it was difficult to get to me here and that speaks of the story of my life my name is Mohamed Hassan and I am a refugee from Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya and I've been in that camp for more than 20 years of my life and after Davos I go back to that camp and I don't live in that camp by myself I live with 185,000 other refugees from 10 different nationalities people hear the word refugees and they think it's only immediate problems that people run and they need immediate shelter but what happens to the forgotten refugees those of us who are in the camps for decades those that people would rather not talk about and pretend that we don't exist I come from that place and I believe it's crucial we have more voices like me involved in the discussions about globalization and moving forward people talk about ethical and sustainable development what does that mean to me refugee camps are not ethical they are not sustainable they are not fit and they are not conducive for human growth people want to be ethical to robots they want to discuss those solving death and we don't want to focus on the human suffering for some people it's easier to move around my mother Dirk Abdulahi after my father was killed in the civil war in Somalia, tribal violence she was in the camp she made bread she baked and she sold it for 5 shillings so that me and my siblings could have a life so that we could go to school and she always wanted more for us she wanted to get out of the camp she wanted to move around after 27 years she died in the camp recently about 15 months ago and that is what keeps me up at night will I also die in that camp will my siblings the one who is 10 years old will he be there for the next 18 years what happens to us why are people so afraid to open their doors and to let us in we are not animals we are not criminals I don't think it's fair and I shouldn't have to beg for that and where I come from in that camp I am a community leader and growing up in that camp I've had to make an active choice I had to choose especially after the death of my mother about how I wanted to frame my story about the kind of life that I wanted to lead to have a victimhood mentality to have self-pity and to feel sorry for myself or to stand up and be counted I decided to stand up I am a community leader I am a refugee advocate and I'm also a global shaper and I work with fellow refugees and what we do basically is preserving hope so we're trying to stay alive and it's hard for some people to understand that living in confinement and uncertainty not knowing where you will go it's difficult and on a day to day basis that's what I do with my fellow refugees we have talented people who are denied access to humanity people don't want to open the doors and we feel like we feel unwanted and no one really cares so please as you go the next couple of days as you attend the meetings and as people discuss great lofty ideas think about those of us who are on the sidelines watching in we're not asking for much I'm just looking for a place to call home thank you thank you also for having built insights a global shapers community Satya how do you react as a business leader what I mean we are powerful when you listen to all those aspirations how do you feel how do you react yeah I mean first it's such a privilege I would say to be part of this panel to listen to you and your stories and your vision for a better future for all of us the initiative you've taken and Mohammed's sort of capstoneing of that energy that drive is moving and I love the line you sort of said your stories are inspirational but the question is what are we going to do as inspired recipients of what we just heard for me I start quite frankly with I think a real need that all of us have as a global community to drive in some sense economic growth that actually has been stalled if I look back to that period that a lot of people refer to between 1870 and 1940 where there was this amazing development in the world we need to get back to even I would say the core challenge of economic growth but we know we have a second perhaps even more important challenge going forward as exemplified by all of what was said which is this next phase of globalization does need to deliver economic growth but really needs to deliver it such that there is equitable growth that's it we have a dual challenge going forward so what's that architecture that allows us to tackle both on the first one I'm very optimistic because this fourth industrial revolution in some sense the core force of it is a much more malleable resource the technology that can drive economic growth and the innovation that's needed I don't sit here thinking that all of the innovation that is needed is here but I'm optimistic that this malleable resource can perhaps more democratically make things more accessible whether it's for countries whether it's for small businesses large businesses big sectors private sector all of that so I feel more optimistic I also am clear-eyed about some of the big challenges I mean in the industry I work in in digital tech we have very big unintended consequences privacy cyber security ethics around the development of technology those are all things to be tackled skills we know that the jobs of the future really equip the people the youth of the world for these jobs but the real question that you all raised is markets work but there are limits and the question is in order to drive this economic growth in an equitable way we also have to deal with the decoupling that's happening the decoupling between economic growth and productivity growth and jobs and wages and so this is really the challenge of our times and I would say each of us will have to play a role so I start even from my own responsibility so for example in Microsoft one of the things that I've recognized is instead of just talking about all the things that we do outside starting with our own employees their own benefits are we doing the right thing with parent to leave with sick leave Microsoft has full-time employees and many part-time employees are we in fact doing our job to make the benefits that we provide available to even the part-time employees just last week for example we also started saying look people who work at Microsoft many of them are software engineers in well-paired jobs but we also have cafeteria workers shuttle drivers what about housing needs for them the housing burden in Seattle for example we also have market failure so we just announced support for building affordable housing so that anybody who works in our community can find housing in the community itself so I would say for us starting in every company in every community that we work and live and doing our part and then finding this new architecture for this next phase of globalization but we do figure out a way to drive that equitable growth supporting initiatives that all of you talked about I mean there is no reason why the world needs to have a refugee crisis but there needs to be political will there needs to be many other things that need to fall in place for us to resolve there is no reason why in Chicago we should have a challenge of food security yet we need the systems a new way to tackle these challenges Satya what would be your question to the young generation here and after having listened to all the extraordinary stories and by the way when we were choosing among who should represent the global shapers I have to say we had so many examples like the people sitting here around what is your question just sitting here listening to you I was thinking how did that inspiration come how did you take action but really the thing that I would say I'm most curious to hear from you is what advice would you have for leaders like me for leaders like professor Schwab and the leaders in this room what should we do to architect this next phase of globalization so that the initiatives the vision you have for a better future is going to be fulfilled maybe you can start Mohammed in my context coming from a refugee camp and growing up in that camp I'd like people to think about the fact that money capital and goods move around the world very easily and yet people can't move in decades so how do you go away from keeping people in camps where we have the idea the idea is fostered on dependency on aid and you just have a sack and you're waiting for food at the end of the month and that's not sustainable how do you go from that to making people self-reliant to giving them skills and marketable skills and higher education so that they can make a life for themselves so that's and I think the private sector the government's responsibilities but I also think that the government can look at the camps like the place I come from 185,000 refugees we finish high school and then what do we do we're just sitting idling in the camps and I think with human beings and we have the potential the capacity to do more and we'd love to do more if we're given access so it basically comes down to access access and equal opportunity access to higher education marketable skills and also provide like there are two ways for durable solutions make things easy make it easier for me to travel so that maybe someday hopefully I can come back to Davos once again so that's so for me the private sector and hand in hand with global leaders and governments they can step up and also address the issues that are happening back in our countries of origin like I come from Somalia originally so provide make it safe to my country, but also so that gives me the tools I need to make a life for myself in the camp and make it easier for me to access opportunities out of the camp, that's my idea, I would say. Yeah, go ahead. So for me, every global leaders needs to be localized because the globalization 4.0, I would say, it needs to start from localization because that's where you see what is happening and then that's where you can see the first step moving forward, how you can support. And then I would say, work with us. I mean, we are the, I believe, most uncomfortable people that you will be working with. Then that's where it can really start, making dialogues, making action, and then we can find the mutual steps forward and that's how we can actually make a change. That's all I can say. Right, thank you, Julia. So my advice would be to go all in in understanding the needs of the communities where you operate, where your consumers are and work with your teams to find new innovative ways to address those needs. Coming from a nonprofit organization, I can also speak to the fact that the social sector is working towards ambitious goals with limited resources and for all the work that we wanna do in our communities and around the world. No one can do it alone. So we can't think about this as a set of isolated initiatives. We need to really think about a movement in an organized effort that brings together strong commitments from the social sector, the public sector, and the private sector to work on these issues. For food security in particular and Professor Schwab, as you mentioned, this is just one of the many intersecting issues. Food security is foundational to building that equitable future. It intersects with climate change, job creation, et cetera. And there's so many opportunities from the private sector to lean into this work, really optimizing how we use data and technology to match the supply and demand of food, increase access points, and measure our impact, finding new ways to include people facing hunger and different constituents in designing these solutions. And then I think importantly too, to really drive this systemic change and understand and attack the kind of root causes of food insecurity, we need to get comfortable with long-term investments in systemic change, which I know may be different from how we operate kind of looking towards that annual report. So really getting comfortable making those long-term investments and telling that narrative would be my advice too. I have two advice. The first one is it's time to be uncomfortable and bold. Let's not fool ourselves. In front of me is so much power, whether it's political power, financial power, influence, or something else. So when we talk about issues this week, we can't just talk about them as issues that we could solve because we are the ones that should solve those issues and people outside of Davos are expecting results. The real success is not measured by the amount of meetings, it's measured by the real impact for people on the ground. Let's leave the ego behind. Let's leave short-termism behind. Let's be bold, attentive, and ambitious. And the second thing connecting to this theme is in building a new global architecture, we also need to look at the current global architecture. And to me it is very frustrating seeing how we're gonna solve all of these issues when we're seeing the dissolution of the very institutions and ideals that are supposed to tackle these issues. Corruption, countries moving away from multilateralism in a time of increasing global challenges, increasing inequalities, the demise and backsliding of democracies, we're seeing both that the quality and quantity of democracies in the world, they're decreasing. We need to address those system changes if we want to address those issues. We can't fix the problems if we don't have a system in which to solve those issues. So I hope you take this as a challenge for this week to prove to people outside of these halls that you take these issues seriously. So I think all of us, we want to thrive, we want to be better tomorrow. And I don't think that I have an advice, maybe I think like all as a global society, as leaders, we have to learn new skills. So the first one is like we have to change the questions that we are making in the rooms. When I was coming, I was with a senior guy and he was telling me, I was telling him about education and he said, really, can you change education? And I said, that is not the question that you should be asking me. The question that we should be answering is, how are we going to change education? So we have to shift from can we do it to, how can we do it? That is the first thing that we have to have, that is skill, new questions. Second, I think we have to listen more. What happened in Colombia with the peace referendum? What happened in Brexit? What happened in the United States? All that happened because we were not listening. And what is happening in education is, we are not listening. We are not listening what young people are thinking. So we have to listen more. And the third one I think is about energy. And what I mean by energy, all of you have a mood, have an energy that can change our room. So how do we inspire ourselves to the greatness when we don't have nothing less? And I think it's inspiration. So sometimes we feel this paralysis analysis, but there are a lot of young people, social entrepreneurs, companies who are doing a great job. So we have to share those tools. And this is also for the media leaders. We have to show the good things that are happening around the world too. So I will say that those are the three skills that we should be learning. I would try to be very short. While we're trying to find and design solutions for globalization 4.0, let's think collectively and let's be wide in our thinking. Let's think human, animals, plants. Think beyond your personal benefits, your families, your race, your region. To urban developers, I would say, let's think of making buildings, let's work on making buildings produce rather than consume. Only in this world we'll be able to prosper. So imagine with me a world where buildings are decentralized, clean energy generators, food producers, rainwater harvesters, and biodiversity conservers. This is the world that we want to be living in. And this inspired us to start an initiative that re-envision existing buildings in my city to help inform the government decision in the rebuilding of Iraq. Saltya, we are coming to the end of this opening session. How would you summarize the message going out from this panel? I think what I take away is the core need for innovation. And when I say innovation, I use it in the broadest sense. It's not just about any one technology. It is about really innovation and its impact in our broadest society. And that's ultimately going to come back to I think what all of you said is the advice to us all as leaders and as participants, which is how are we going to take what is innovation in our hands and really take action so that we can drive the outcomes that we all desire as a global community? So that's I think what we need to really take away, which is this is the time to act with ingenuity that you all have shown in a constrained environment you have shown us that you can make progress. So instead of sitting and saying, let's accept status quo, let us all take the inspiration that you have given us and really challenge the status quo with innovation and ingenuity. I would like to thank not only the panel, but also global shapers because I know our global shape of communities at the moment drive over 1,000 projects all over the world. It's just remarkable. I would also encourage you to engage because during the meeting, I know there are many temptations, there are many opportunities offered but as I mentioned, around 200 sessions which are really output oriented. We may not make, it's a solution to speak questions, Brexit or whatever it is, but I think it's important that during this week we make very small but very important steps towards the future. And so steps have to be, and that's the essence of the World Economic Forum, have to be carried by a stakeholder approach which means by a collaboration between business governments and I should add the wonderful young generation. Thank you very much for having participated at this opening session. I wish you a very good annual meeting 2019.