Six of us from Living Stones Church attended the Innovate 2008 Conference put on by Granger Community Church today. Always good to get away as a team. Highlights:
- Drama in Mark Beeson’s talk that illustrated a church caught up in “church business” instead of the urgency of our mission.
- Loved the times of worship.
- Shawn Wood of Seacoast Church had the second session. Loved his introduction he made about himself. Very unique. The key to getting a strange audience to like you is to make them laugh by revealing things about your life.
- Lunch at Chipotle. They should move to the South Side of South Bend.
- Went to the Children’s Ministry breakout. They are for spanking in the classroom. I agree. I can’t wait until Sunday (this is a joke).
- Favorite talk today was by Tim Stevens. He talked about his book Pop Goes the Church. He used some excellent video illustrations. They were brilliant.
- Got to see a great friend and encourager to me and LSC…Steve Miller.
- Most of us stayed for the film festival where churches from all over send in their videos for a contest. Some very good videos. I still believe Doug should send in some of his videos. My 12 year old son came to watch the film festival with us. Making videos is his passion.
- Kelly endured the day with me even though she has an ear infection. Had to leave a little early for a doctor’s appointment.
- Tired. We wake up and do it all over again tomorrow. But I’m looking forward to it.
“Uncle Steve” also got lot’s of time with baby Gee and mom. Very cool.
For me – Living Stones is a living example of loving God enough to make changes that may hurt people that we love. I love to tell about Living Stone’s story to our visitors at Wired Churches. Some of them face challenges similar to where you were just a few years ago. And while they love what they see at GCC, our size makes things seem out of reach. So I use your story as an example they get. I hear you set an all time attendance record on the wettest weekend in history. THAT ROCKS!
So truth is – we are a great encouragement for each other.
Keep taking your next steps.
As a side note – Kelly does class you up!
By: scmiller on September 22, 2008
at 4:19 pm