Week one… complete!
Sorry it’s been kind of quite on the blog lately. As most of you know, I started my new job as Next Generation Pastor at Gateway Community Church last week. It was a great first week. Really, of the first weeks I’ve...
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Orange to Texas Large Church Forum
Since I left Orange a few days ago, I’ve been traveling from Atlanta to Austin. Now my wife, my 11 month old boy and 70 pound chocolate lab are settled in an Extended Stay in Austin as I’m now up in Dallas, TX....
Read MoreOrange 2008: Session Five
Unfortunately, I had to take a phone call with my new church right when Louie Gigleo got up to speak. My phone call lasted almost the entire message. I came in just as Louie was talking about some trees in a courtyard in China...
Read MoreOrange 2008: Synchronizing Volunteers
This session was led by Craig Jutila. Someone said that most of this information is in his book “Daze to Knights.” I knew he had this book, but I didn’t think this was about volunteers. I’ve heard Craig...
Read MoreOrange 2008: Rethinking Family Ministry
Like the Rethinking Children’s Ministry, this breakout was more of a round table discussion. On the stage was Mike Clear from Discovery Church in California, Daren Kaiser from Scranton, PA, Dave Fox from Indiana and Reggie...
Read MoreOrange Overload!
I’m wiped. Really, totally wiped. It’s 12:45 AM and I’m pooped. I still need to blog two breakouts and another session… but I don’t have it in me. Tomorrow I’m attending the Orange facebook...
Read MoreOrange 2008: Session Four
Session four was a discussion/interview with Andy Stanley. Not sure if it’s just me, but it seemed like it wasn’t planned… almost like Andy was a fill-in. I only say this because this was the only session that...
Read MoreReggie Joiner… I apologize.
Okay, probably one of the most embarrassing things happened tonight. I’ve been hanging out at Orange with an old friend… a youth pastor I served with several years ago. Like many youth pastors, he’s a little...
Read MoreOrange Meet-ups (continued)
I had so much fun connecting with people today. I was actually having so much fun, I ended up skipping one of the breakouts. Actually, it was because the restaurant was slow, but the company was really fun. The Kidology folks...
Read MoreOrange 2008: Session Three
Donald Miller spoke to us tonight about leadership. It was a very interesting talk. He had a very interesting, dry humor… the type that people would laugh at several seconds after he made the remark when people figured out...
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