We are just two days away from The Nines, a 100% online, 100% free, conference for church leaders this Wednesday, September 9th, 2009.

Catalyst is partnering with Leadership Network to provide us with this first time ever free event.

Todd Rhoades of Leadership Network &  Monday Morning Insight answered some of our FAQ’s recently on The Show, and you can get a teaser video about social media changing the landscape of Kingdom influencers with Todd & Pastor Charles Lee below:

Charles Lee // Social Networking and Influence from Todd Rhoades on Vimeo.

Check back in here on Wednesday morning for the simulcast and to enjoy over 60 presenters, including:

Reggie McNeal (Leadership Network)
Perry Noble (NewSpring Church)
Leonard Sweet (Author/Speaker)
Ed Stetzer (Lifeway Research)
Mark Batterson (National Community Church)
Alan Hirsch (Forge Mission Training Network)
Dino Rizzo (Healing Place Church)
Greg Surratt (Seacoast Church)
Sam Chand (Sam Chand Ministries)
Jon Tyson (Trinity Grace Church, NYC)
Reggie Joiner (CCO, reThink)
Nancy Ortberg (TeamWorx2)
Mike Breaux (Heartland Church)
Pete Wilson (Cross Point Church)
Neil Cole (Church Multiplication Associates)
Jenni Catron (Cross Point Church)
Noel Heikkinen (Riverview Church)
David Foster (The Gathering)
Mark Bankord (Heartland Community Church)
John Bishop (Living Waters Church)
Rick Rusaw (LifeBridge Church)
Geoff Surratt (Seacoast Church)
Jim Tomberlin (Third Quarter Consulting)
Anne Jackson (FlowerDust.net)
Naeem Fazal (Mosaic Church)
John Coulombe (First Ev Free Fullerton)
Teresa McBean (NorthStar Community Church)
Jason Cusick (Faith Church)
Bambi Encarnacion (First Ev Free Fullerton)
Ken Fong (Evergreen Baptist Church)
Judy West (Windsor Crossing Church)
Scott Wilson (The Oaks Fellowship)
Amy Hanson(Author/Speaker)
Toby Slough (Cross Timbers Church)
Troy Gramling (Flamingo Road Church)
Scott Nickell (Flatirons Community Church)
Jorge Acevedo (Grace Church)
Matt Williams (Grace Church Greenville)
Bob Roberts (Northwood Church)
Dave Ferguson (Community Christian Church)
Matt Carter (The Austin Stone Church)
Lawrence Aker (Cornerstone Baptist Church)
Dan Kimball (Vintage Faith Church)
Ken Fong (Evergreen Baptist Church)
Bill Easum (Easum & Associates)
Bryan Carter (Concord Church)
Jim Burgen (Flatirons Community Church)
Mark Driscoll (Mars Hill Church)
Chip Henderson (Pine Lake Church)
Jeffrey Johnson (Eastern Star Church)
Jim Sheppard (Generis)
Brad Bell (The Well)
Brian Bloye (Westridge Church)
Steve Robinson (Church of the King)
Stacy Spencer (New Direction Christian Fellowship)
Bil Cornelius (Bay Area Fellowship)
Margaret Feinberg (Author/Speaker)
JD Greear (Summit Church)
Scott Hodge (Orchard Valley Church)
Greg Holder (Windsor Crossing Church)
John Ortberg (Menlo Park Presbyterian)
Darrin Patrick (The Journey)
Michael Trent (Third Place)
Scott Williams (LifeChurch.tv)
Steve Robinson (Church of the King)
Nancy Beach (Willow Creek Church)
Keld Dahlman (European Church Planter)

and believe it or not, many more.   Each presenter has nine minutes or less to present based on this thought: “If you could sit down one-on-one with a handful of church leaders, what is the one thing you would want to tell them?”

At last count over a week ago 6,000 leaders had already pre-registered for this one day online event, so make sure you register today.

In addition to being available to those who pre-register, The Nines will be simulcast on these other blogs and websites too:

• Leading Smart (Tim Stevens)
• Tall Skinny Kiwi (Andrew Jones)
• The Digital Sanctuary (Cynthia Ware, yours truly)
• TonyMorganLive (Tony Morgan)
• ChurchCrunch (John Saddington)
  
• Shaun in the City (Shaun King)
• Bruce Reyes-Chow
• Ed Stetzer
• Big is the New Small (Scott “fist bump” Williams)
• bob.blog (Bob Hyatt)
• Bill Kinnon
• Terrace Crawford

At each of these simulcast sites, including here at The Digital Sanctuary, you can watch The Nines online.

More open source, freely distributed church resources coming in through my emails.

This website is for churches worldwide to download and use an entire library of creative materials – absolutely free.  You heard me right.  Cost = 0.  Materials include sermon audio, countdowns, promotional design graphics and opening videos from a wide variety of message series and churches.

Login or create a free account to begin downloading files. Merry Christmas.

When I got an invitation from Online Community Pastor, Tony Steward, and Internet Campus Pastor, Brandon Donaldson, to participate in LifeShare as a prayer host, of course I said yes.  When?  In the morning.  You mean like tomorrow morning?

Oh, yes, believe me, if I had known what was coming, I would have certainly gotten a haircut.  Not to mention re-scotch taped my iSight camera to my cinema display.  Gotta be ready in season and out.

Here’s screen capture of the prayer portion of my LifeShare guest spot from Saturday’s LifeChurch.tv’s LifeShare Challenge.

If you scroll down far enough on the LifeShare tab home page, you’ll see all the trackbacks & links to the blogs currently covering the event.

Did I mention that we’re also on Read/Write Web?

Although, I’m getting to be a regular microblogger, I often forget to status update on a larger scale and post on the projects I’m working on.   September could be a skimpy blogging month and here’s a brief update on why in case I forget to give you the details.

Currently, I’m writing presentations for my breakout sessions at the Group Life Conference (Willow Creek) and the Internet Ministry Conference (Prince Conference Center/Grand Rapids).  This is no small task as Seth Godin has raised the bar for all presentations.   Both are in October and my acceptance of these conferences caused me to have to forgo Catalyst.   Ouch!  But, it will all be worth it and I’m happy to get the chance to speak at both these events. (Plus, I know that Catalyst is coming to the West Coast next year).

Additionally, I am still hoping to attend at least one day of GodblogCon in Las Vegas at Blog World & New Media Expo.   I declined their speaking offer because I just felt it would stretch my month beyond what my family could sustain – and there’s always next year (Dustin you are good to me).  I’m particularly interested in going just to see my dear friend Rhett Smith talk about his chapter in the new book, The New Media Frontier.  We’ve been waiting for this one for what seems like forever.

Additionally, there are several other speakers worth checking out there including John Mark Roberts, Hugh Hewitt and Tall Skinny Kiwi (aka Andrew Jones) who I got the privilege of interviewing a few weeks ago broadcast via podcast from The Scriptorium (btw – sorry for the sound quality of that interview).

Of course you will still find me posting here and at Digital (the Leadership Network blog) and several of you have asked about the writing projects.  I am working on 4 chapters for a spring book (more on that and the publisher later) and two magazine articles that should come out before the year’s end.

Lastly, it looks like the Church TechCamp for the Los Angeles area is coming together soon.  As the final confirmation comes in, I’ll give you all the details and invite you to come be my guests.

Click here to view the embedded video.

If you enjoyed our interview with the Tall Skinny Kiwi a few days ago, then your sure to like this overview video designed to promote GodblogCon.

Gabe Taviano has put up Episode 44 at God's Mac.com and on iTunes!

Gabe says' "Futurist, pastor, speaker and author, Erwin McManus, join us this week.  Erwin is the the pastor of the multi-site Mosaic Church in Los Angeles, California.  Be sure to check out his various ministries' websites in the episode links on our website as well!" 

In the technology segment this week they offer some iPhone application reviews, as well as a look at the new updates to the Drobo storage devices.

Episode links include:

Erwin McManus
Mosaic Church
Wide Awake Products
Soul Cravings Products
Mosaic Alliance
Bart Lewis
Parents, Geeks & God
Drobo Storage Device
YouVersion.com Bible
YouVersion Bible for iPhone
Pandora Radio for iPhone

There are a couple of new podcasts up at Churchy Media.  Check out their archives here.

Episode #17 with Greg Atkinson of Church Video Ideas (& also the technical arts director at Bent Tree Bible Fellowhship) and episode #18 focusing on College Ministries are the two most recent.

In case you've been hearing the term SXSW and still don't know what everybody's always talking about, this is a great time to check out the wrap-ups as another year draws to a close.  SXSWeek is the nine-day sensory overload that occurs in Austin, Texas every March.

The fun begins on Friday, March 7, which is the first day of the SXSW Interactive Festival and the SXSW Film Conference and Festival.  The SXSW Film Conference and the SXSW Interactive Festival run through Tuesday, March 11, and screenings for the SXSW Film Conference run through Saturday, March 15.  The world-famous SXSW Music Conference and Festival begins Wednesday, March 12 and runs through Sunday, March 16.  Established in 1987, the SXSW Music Conference and Festival is one of the world's largest music industry gatherings, featuring more than 1300 bands from across the nation and around the globe. 

In recent years the internet crowd has begun to populate the event and lately, it seems like emerging technology is taking a front seat more often.    You can quench your thirst for all things SXSW Interactive by checking out the SXSW Podcast Page, which contains tons and tons of FREE audio content.  Then make sure you are subscribed to their SXSW Podcast RSS Feed.

If you want some personal impressions from a technology leader with a Christian worldview, you can check out Terry Storch – he's been blogging snippets for days.

It's time to depart for Imagine – Foursquare NextGen Summit '07.

The goal of the Summit is to spiritually awaken students so they are empowered to change their world.

More details here at the Foursquare events homepage.   In the meantime, think about this:

More importantly, come and pledge support for the Not For Sale Campaign like we did with the proceeds of Wikiklesia: Voices of the Virtual World.

If you weren't able to go to Atlanta for the Catalyst Conference, you can check out all the other online resources for access.  Here are some options:

Main site: Catalyst Conference, Catalyst MySpace and the Catalyst Podcast.

Some of the previous podcasts include: 

Andy Stanley | Rob Bell | Erwin McManus | Donald Miller | Eugene Peterson | Tim Sanders | Craig Groeschel | George Barna | Louie Giglio | Rick Warren | Gary Haugen