- First of all, He moved the earth - No really, He did. Friday morning I experienced my first earthquake ever as I was awakened to my whining dog and my rolling bed around 5:30 am. I guess God didn't want me to oversleep ...
- At 9:00am we began our workshop. Around 40 arts leaders, pastors, and volunteers came from all over the Midwest to hang out with my team as we talked about how GCC is leveraging the arts to reach people for Christ.
- First session I spent some time talking about the importance of defining and understanding your focus audience - this is a passion area of mine.
- Second session Jeff Petersen and I shared our planning process and programming ideas - it was fun doing "director's commentary" on the arts elements we have created over the last year.
- Lunch was delicious and the conversation around the table even more tasty.
- Third Session we conducted breakouts. Tech people hung out with Adam Callender to learn about our gear. Arts leaders hung out with me. Jason, Dan, and Trace spoke with those influenced.
- We ended at 4PM with a session called "10 Things we are learning" ... as pastors on the arts team; Jason, Dan, and I shared some of the tougher lessons we have learned over our three years together.
I was amazed at the hearts of the people who attended. Every encounter with an attendee seemed like an encounter with Christ. I am so thankful that God is building His kingdom using humble and amazingly gifted artists.
Our next Maximizing the Arts workshop is in November 14, 2008. I hope you can make it; I think you will find it helpful. Between now and then we have many other workshops you can attend including our INNOVATE '08 two-day conference. Check out our Wired Churches workshop schedule.
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I'll definately be there in November...Can't wait!
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