MinistryTECH 2008 Review

I was invited to attend a Ministry Tech conference with my pastor in Oklahoma last week. I had a cool time.! I wasn't sure what to expect but the couple of days i spent there was definitely time well spent. Here is a blazing fast recap of that time while I hang with the guru's in the church IT & AV world: Private LifeChurch tour with Miles campus pastor (Rocking Church, cool cross), Tastey BBQ (Porks GooOOD), Jawbone (GooOOD, just don't wear it all the time, eeW) Flying monkeys (See pix and u make up ur mind), Henderson Hills church from aerial looks like USS Voyager (perhaps the perfect shape for all the techies hence the location), Tony Morgan (Hot wife with Stang and duck tape story, boy did that raise a Hullabaloo with the tech guys), 10 Reasons Why Techies Scare me, Monkeys with Glocks (Watch it), Hullabaloo (Tony is this good enough? Hook a brotha up), Server Virtualization (It's GoooOOd), Corner Stone Church (Cool peeps!), Multi-site church solution on public networks using MPLS & QOS protocols (Eric we are going to make this happen), Information: The I in IT (Strategic prioritization & Opportunity costs..he sounds like me...a little), Map Point (Visualize your membership), Jeff Hook on IT Strategy (Careful its a Hot download), Tornado Watch! (Scary), Hideaway Pizza (Perrtty Good), Late night Coffee talking Multi-site with Dennis Choy (Cool Doood very insightful)), Helping the Hotel IT guy (James) til 1pm to fix connectivity in the Hotel (Note to Hotel, Wireless connectivity + IT guys attending convention and sleeping in hotel = Good, No connectivity in Hotel with IT guys going to convention = no network games to play for IT guys, Very Bad), Eggs with Cheeze Whiz (My Pastor Loved these, he just won't admit it), Terry Storch and "Tech[NO]babble"..Doh he changed it to "You need to be an Idiot!" (Great move, GOD lead him and that presentation, (Lord I was listening). I found it fascinating that he looked like a Rock Star talking about Tech..(Oxymoron? ) Oh wait, I know, he reminds me of David Cook from Idol. (hehe can you see the resemblance) all kidding aside he Rocked it), Idiots embrace idiots, Acts 4:13, Idiots are comfortably uncomfortable; "I don't follow a comfortable Jesus!", Idiots exposed their weaknesses, John 10:10, Life Balance, Accountability, Sharpening, Painful, Faith, Weakness, Addiction (The LORD has something planned for me, I TRUST Him!), Offline With Terry Storch (He's Normal), Basic Equipment To Start a Multi-Site Church (interesting), Overcoming Technology Challenges In a Multi-Site Church (More of the same). Key takeaways in words, inspiring, encouraged, productive, innovative, kind, collaborative and authentic.