The Digital Sanctuary

Leadership Network is offering a free church conference online called THE NINES on (you guessed it) 09/09/09 at 9:09am CST.
You’ll get to hear from 47+ speakers all in one day!
Each will each spend 9 minutes giving their best leadership advice.
A tiny preview of the speakers includes:
* Mark Batterson :: National Community Church
* Dave Ferguson :: [...]

Catalyst’s West Coast debut ended yesterday and will never be back!  At least not in the same venue.  As you can clearly see from the photo below, beloved #catwest outgrew it’s Mariner’s Church facility offering nothing but standing room only by day two.

Here’s a shot of Erwin McManus on the Catalyst stage yesterday.  Erwin, a [...]

Today marks the “official” launch of Catalyst West Coast – a huge, inspirational party designed to feature some of the speakers listed in my last blog post.  And create a venue for many innovative ministry related products and services.
You can join us with your very own all-access pass through the Catalyst Green Room site.

Candid shot [...]

Here’s a link fest for those of you who want to familiarize yourself with some of the Catalyst West Coast festivities….
Wednesday evening Before Party hosted by:

Carlos Whittaker

Worship with:

Hillsong United
Steve Fee
Aaron Keyes
Joel Auge

Speakers include:

Andy Stanley
Craig Groeschel
Rick Warren
Guy Kawasaki
Ravi Zacharias
Francis Chan
Brian Houston
Erwin McManus
Perry Noble
Catherine Rohr
Jud Wilhite
Luis Palau

Interactive sessions with:

Dave Gibbons
Alan Hirsch
Blake Mycoskie (Toms [...]

Today I’m presenting “Leveraging Technology to Support Community” at the Group Life Conference.  I’ll upload it to SlideShare when I have time so you can access it.  My experience at Willow Creek has been amazing and being with scores of people who are desperate to learn how to serve others better has been invigorating.
Yesterday, in [...]

Early morning for me today headed over to the Group Life Conference at Willow Creek.  Going to moderate a “coffee discussion” (I think) as a pre-conference warm up.  Hope they’re well stocked because they have no idea how much coffee I can actually drink.
Then going to check out session topics for Mark Batterson & Heather [...]

Last Thursday night, I had the privilege of hearing Washington D.C. Pastor Mark Batterson speak at the ECHO Conference in Dallas, Texas.  Mark is the Lead Pastor of National Community Church, widely recognized as one of America’s most innovative churches.
NCC meets in movie theaters at metro stops throughout the city, as well as in a [...]

A conference for church leaders that love using media, technology, and the internet to be more effective in sharing God’s story.

This Thursday through Saturday, Dallas will host the ECHO Conference.  If you have interest in using media, technology and the internet to be more effective in ministry, then Echo is for you.
Hosted by Watermark Church [...]

Although I only got to go for 1 day, causing me to miss a couple of the speakers I had hoped to hear, I had a great time at the Awaken 2008 Conference put on by Mosaic in Pasadena.  Erwin McManus did the hosting and I did get to hear an evangelism panel discussion with [...]