there are some voices and songs that i connect with and i rarely figure out why. jackson browne is one of those artists and "the load out / stay" is one of those songs. maybe it was the idea that i was a good singer when i sang along with his songs. maybe the depths of his songwriting i never understood, but there was still a resonating with the soul. i think the connection with this song is the appreciation for the people behind the scenes of a performance..
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in case you missed them : weekend linkage
unless the rain continues this may be the last blog post for the weekend. these are some links of interest that you might have missed, i hope not too.
before the big list. two things
- the wifey has started blogging as a hybrid of business and her own commentary. go say hi to my fabulous half the "bug babe." my music city blogger friends should take notice. she will have some great stuff once she gets going.
- if you have been following our conference whoa’s of late with a restructuring and ‘new vision’ for children and youth ministry. check out jay’s recent posting on what he sees that it will take for reconciliation between youth, children, camping, young adult, older adult ministries practitioners and our conference leadership.
- will on the connection between art & ideology
- why young clergy are important
- ian with the "worship team hero" game
- why tim doesn’t make announcements at youth
- creative anti-war action by shane claiborne and friends
- easter at life church tv in second life. maybe i need to take myself for a visit.
- allan on modern dichotomies that christians reject
- marko fleshing out his youth ministry 3.0
- emergent village blog picked up on the "mergents." much like i did, i hope this doesn’t name us
- dixon has some new podcasts, he has a great way of framing things. worth the listen
- thunder found john cusack going off.. in a very nice way
- go topless in meetings for team focus… maybe not
- asbo Jesus takes on fresh expressions.. which i think is funny
- twitter makes you dumb.. it very well might
- emergent village picks up on pentecost project.. which is cool. i think we should listen to them.
- win an ipod at modern parables
some rainy days
had an early morning today with crimson, our youngest and largest dog, jumping into our bed because of the lightning and thunder storms. the storms continued for the day. lots of flash flooding area. i have a video project i am working on for worship on sunday that needed some filming. so david & i happened to make it over to the creek that runs into old hickory lake. needless to say. the water was a little high.
so i added this one to my project 365.
christian educators fellowship : look for me
so it is pretty much official. i will be teaching two workshops (social networking & another tbd) and doing a few other ongoing cool things at the christian educators fellowship conference at albuquerque new mexico in october.
cool, thing, current plans are that erin will be coming with me. i never make it out west, so this is a treat and i look forward to seeing some new folks and new scenes. so make your plans to look for me. &:~D
jonathon & a bunch of other local friends will be there doing stuff.
they have a running blog as part of their site.
shift away paper : willow creek student ministries conference
in two weeks jason and i will making a trek to willow creek for their "shift" conference. which is their student ministries conference. if you are going, let me know, i’d love to meet up. i am sure that i will be blogging the event. it is kinda a cool thing, i am going as a guest of the willow creek student ministries staff. they are covering my registration costs for me. i thought that was very nice of them.
so i’m picking up the room tab, jason is getting the car and we are going to have a heck of a road trip. i look forward to hearing from some people i call friends and being challenged, inspired, and maybe agitated by some new people and scenes. should be good times!
one thing that they are doing that is super cool. they are not doing any handouts as a conference. everything is pdf. this is a cost saving thing sure, but for someone like me or those people who have blackberries & iphones this works perfectly to save on a thousands and thousands of pieces of paper.
In an effort to "go green" this year, we’ve made a lot of choices to
cut back on how many printed items we hand out at the conference.
This
year, for the first time, paper copies of breakout handouts will not be
available. While some speakers may choose to bring handouts of their
own to their breakouts, the only handouts the WCA will be making
available will be in PDF format and are now available online here.
i applaud the effort. there is just no need with the tech savy that is generally found in most student ministers. plus, myself & others can check into the event before it even starts.