The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

I loved Echo last year and I expect it to be even better this year. As cool as the breakout sessions and keynotes are, the best thing I expect to take away from Echo are the conversations that I will get to have with leaders who are right in the middle of the same things I am in the middle of.

Internet ministry leaders usually have to settle for a few sideshow breakouts at most conferences since we don’t have our own national gathering…I would say that Echo has become THE gathering for internet ministry.

I’ll be leading a conversation on Internet Ministry

Church in Two Minutes: Delivering a Complete Story on Internet Time
The internet and social media are fantastic platforms for spiritual content, but we have to redefine what a ‘church’ experience is for the internet. We can’t simply serve up the same content that we deliver in a real life experience. This is an amazing opportunity to redefine how we communicate the Gospel to our culture and I think we haven’t quite nailed it.

This will not be a presentation, but an open conversation, so come prepared to ask questions and help us come up with some answers. After all, even the veterans of ministry on the web have only been at it a few years.

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Echo Conference

April 9, 2010 in Ministry with 0 Comments

Echo Conference

I went to Echo Conference last year and it was a pretty cool gathering; I think it was their second year putting it on (I’m probably totally wrong about that so let me have it in the comments).

Story is the keyword at Echo. If you are a part of the telling of stories at your church, then you need to check it out. Whether it be on Sunday mornings, through music, film or on the web.

It’s basically a gathering of creatives.

Chances are you’re saving your budget to attend a more glamorous conference like Catalyst, but if you’re like me and you’re a little burned out on leadership conversations and you’re a creative, Echo is worth a look.

Oh yeah, I’m also hosting a conversation about online ministry at Echo.

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When did we lose the plot?

July 31, 2009 in Critical Thinking with 8 Comments

I have been at the Echo Conference this week and a common theme that surfaced was story. More specifically, the God story.

The question that keeps coming up in the conversations is; why has the ‘C’hurch failed at telling the story with quality, especially in the mass media realm?

I have come to a conclusion on this thought…for now at least.

The Church has struggled to bring quality to the story because we fail to trust the fact that God IS telling the story already, we’re just here to be used by him.

This causes the Church to feel the pressure to make sure peripheral doctrines of our theology are included when we tell the story in film, music, literature and other mediums regardless of how it effects the quality.

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Echo Conference | #echo09

July 24, 2009 in Ministry with 1 Comment

I’ll be heading up to the Echo Conference next week in Dallas Texas. It looks like its going to be an amazing collision of creative and tech people, which is right in my zone.

The big question on my mind is; who else is going? Or, maybe you’re in Dallas and you want to kick it.

Tweetup anyone?

Its going to be tough to choose which sessions to attend, but I can tell you I will be at the panel discussion to see what Cynthia, Los and others have to say.