Archive - April, 2009

Orange Conference {day 2}.

April 30, 2009 in life, photos with 0 Comments

Wow – what a great day! Things are in full swing here at The Orange Conference! I Had a great day connecting with so many awesome people talking about creative ways to use social media to connect with the students we minster to – among many other things!

Since I am about to fall asleep on my laptop, and I’m not sure drool is covered under my warranty; I’m going to keep this post rather short. However, I did want to share one thing I heard today that really today that really impacted me.

It was from Francis Chan’s (who is a CRAZY cool guy, by the way – and author of the book “Crazy Love” ) talk this morning. In his talk he said the book of Acts was his least favorite book of the Bible because he “never reads it, and says ‘Wow – that looks allot like my church!” He went on to talk about how we act like the things in the Book of Acts were just “for back then.” How we act like God doesn’t move like that today; or that we shouldn’t expect God, or The Holy Spirit, to work like He did in Acts. I’m going to talk about this in more detail later in a video post because it really got me thinking – so stay tuned!

Question : Do we REALLY trust God to move like they did in Acts? Do we REALLY believe He can move in such powerful ways TODAY? Do we REALLY believe in the power, and work, of The Holy Spirit?

And one last question – Do we REALLY preach as BODLY as we see the people in Acts preaching? (If your answer is no – why don’t we?)

That’s it for now – but I have much more to say. Soon, very soon. But in the mean time take a look at a few images from today!

Orange Conference {day 1}.

April 30, 2009 in life, photos with 7 Comments

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I wanted to share some pictures from the first night of Orange ’09.

I also wanted to share a little bit of what Reggie Joiner from ReThink talked about as well.  He spoke on how as student ministers we must equip parents to “do” ministry with their kids.

His entire talk was great – but one fact that really stood out to me was this. We get to spend an average of 40 hours a year ministering to one student. That’s it. Each student will be around the ministry around 40 hours. However they will be with their parents around 3000 hours a year! What we have to do is find ways to equip parents to use that 3000 hours well!

Also  - there are no picture perfect families. (The Cosby show was scripted by the way – it was NOT a real family.) We need to let families know that there are no PERFECT family.  It’s OK to be NOT perfect.  God is not interested in PERFECT families – He is interested in life change. He is interested in His story. His story in the life of that family. This is huge!

Anyway, there is more to come – and that is just 1/100 of what Reggie shared, but think on that. How can we equip parents to “do” ministry “with” their student? Ideas? Thoughts? How are you doing this?

{and enjoy the pictures!}

Good Morning Orange – Day 2

April 30, 2009 in videos with 3 Comments

Well here we are.  Orange 09 – Day 2.  If you are here – come up to the top of the main building – I’d love to meet you.  If your not here – enjoy the video!

Orange Conference – It’s time..

April 29, 2009 in life, videos with 2 Comments

Well here it is – Orange Conference 09. I made it. I’m here. Are you? I am upstairs in we are calling the “bloggers lounge.”
Do I know you? Do you know me? Do you want to be friends? Come visit me (and other neat people) upstairs….and as the saying goes…”I’ll be here all week…”

Here is a little video I shot when I got here. (Due to the schedule being so tight, all the videos will be raw footage – but you can call it “indie” if it sounds cooler! {enjoy}. – {Rick}.