Cultivate and Story Conferences This Week (And One Nate!)
This week I am excited to learn and network at two great conferences.
Cultivate describes itself as follows:
It is said the collective wisdom of a group is more valuable than the expertise of one. Cultivate is a collective wisdom. It brings ministry and marketplace leaders to the table and asks them to leave their formal presentations at home.
Cultivate is about bringing you together with the skilled, the experienced, and the insightful, and together you will drive the content. Together you will discover breakthrough insights.
Cultivate is about organized conversations, and each conversation will be designed to nurture collaboration without confining the experience to a box. Expect to be stretched. Expect to be challenged. Expect to culivate a new way of thinking.
If you are creative, strategic, and responsible for influencing how your church communicates, there is a chair waiting for you.
Story describes itself as follows:
STORY is a first-of-its-kind experience for communicators on Wednesday, October 28, at the beautiful Paramount Theater near Chicago. Over 1,500 church leaders, pastors, teachers, artists, and authors are coming to learn from some of the most effective communicators of the Gospel – the greatest story ever told.
Bring your creative team to hear from six master communicators in this theatrical conference experience. You’ll be entertained. You’ll be enlightened. You’ll never communicate the same way again.
Go deeper in STORY. Register for a follow-up day of workshops on October 29 with some of the leading filmmakers, scholars, designers and thought leaders in ministry. You’ll be guided through a creative journey where you can ask hard questions and learn the latest breakthroughs in communication. Space is limited.
Of course, one of the benefits to a conference in Chicago is I have a very special connection here. Nate Edmondson, my youngest son, is here studying at Moody Bible Institute. Anyone that knows me well knows I am a hard worker and rarely take days off, and this is certainly not a play week for me. I hope to learn and connect a lot this week, but I can promise you my nights will be occupied with one special young man!
Hello Chicago!
3 responses to "Cultivate and Story Conferences This Week (And One Nate!)"
How did it go? Did you hear anything from God? Did you learn anything?
.-= Jesse Phillips´s last blog ..#Cultivate09 & #Story09 – Summaries & Pictures =-.
Jesse, I will do a follow up post with some thoughts from both. It’s different from Catalyst and yet similar in other ways. Bottom line to your questions (Great questions BTW):
Did you hear anything from God? Yes, I heard affirmation of His heart for people and His desire for me to use my life experiences for His glory even more than I’ve been willing to do. I’ll share more about this later.
Did you learn anything? Honestly, because we are doing a lot of the things these type conferences encourage, I can’t say I was stretched a great deal, but I did reinforce some of the principles, especially in the communication and technology part of what we do. I also learned (or was reminded) that the online presence doesn’t always capture a person’s real story. One difference in the conferences this week was size, so I was able to meet a lot of the speakers I only know online. I heard a few of their stories. Very encouraging towards the first question above. I wrote about some of that HERE
Thanks for making me process more. More later…
taking time with your son is never considered a day off