Story Conference Chicago: Don’t Miss
I am not a conference junkie. I do love the experience networking and learning from other leaders, but frankly, who has the time and money for all the conferences available? That’s why I’m selective about the conferences I attend. I wrote earlier this week about Catalyst. I believe in what they do for so many leaders, including me.
Another conference that is much smaller, but has huge potential to help church leaders think is the Story Conference. I attended the first one last year and it truly is different…in all the right ways. This year’s Story Conference promises to be even more challenging. I hope you will consider joining me and others who will be there. I believe in guys like Ben Arment, Story’s founder, because they are young minds who are inspiring us as church leaders to think of new ways to reach people with an unchanging Gospel. (Ben was my first interviewee in my Tuesday series. Read his interview HERE.)
STORY is a conference for the creative class in ministry on September 23-24, 2010 at Park Community Church in downtown Chicago. This church is a cutting edge church reaching today’s generation. The purpose of Story is to fuel the church’s artists, writers and producers in communicating the greatest story ever told. You’ll hear from some of the best creative practitioners in both ministry and the marketplace, from filmmakers and authors to actors and musicians. I love the fresh voices who will speak into my life this year at Story. Presenters include:
- Dan Allender – best-selling author, professor at Mars Hill Graduate School
- Charlie Todd – creator of Improv Everywhere in New York City
- Princess Zulu – AIDS victim from infancy, advocate for the oppressed
- Jason Fried – founder of 37Signals, creator of Basecamp, author of Rework
- John Sowers – president of Donald Miller’s The Mentoring Project
- Shauna Niequist – former creative director at Mars Hill, author of Bittersweet
- David Hodges – formerly of the band Evanescence, award-winning songwriter
- Leonard Sweet – futurist, author of 40 books, professor at Drew University
- David McFadzean – creator of Home Improvement, producer of Roseanne
- Richard Walter – accomplished screenwriter and professor of film at UCLA
- Sean Gladding – member of Communality, a new monastic community
- Andrew Klavan – author of True Crime (Clint Eastwood) and numerous novels
- Gary Dorsey – founder of Pixel Peach Studio in Austin, TX
- Music by Vicky Beeching, Kari Jobe and Carlos Whittaker
Seating is limited to just 500 attendees, which allows you to mingle and network with people there, including speakers, and the event is scheduled on a Thursday and Friday so you can enjoy the weekend in the great city of Chicago. Following its inaugural event in 2009, STORY is now a two-day, main-stage event with no breakouts or workshops; just an intimate audience with the top creative minds. You’ll be able to ask questions during the event and continue the conversation after it’s over. Visit www.storychicago.com.
Will I see you at Story? Come hang out with me in Chicago for a couple days…I’d love to meet you.
