Portland Bloggers: Leadership Summit ‘08
This is my first chance to be a part of Leadership Summit, put on by Willow Creek. It is this Thursday and Friday. Almost everyone that goes either has to travel to Willow or to one of the satellite locations. The great thing is that I work at one of those locations (Portland, Oregon-Sunset Presbyterian Church). I am definitely looking forward to it. As usual, lots of great speakers. And I get a chance to be somewhat behind the scenes, in helping our satellite location be a great host.
A good blog friend of mine, Brent, is coming up. He and I talked briefly about trying to have a dinner for bloggers going to the Portland Summit to get together (not paid by us though obviously). We decided that Thursday night after the last session (scheduled to end at 5:30pm) we would head over to Oak Hills McMenamins. It is either a 10 second drive, or a 2 minute walk from the church, your choice. I know Brent and 3 of his friends are going to come, and I’ll make sure lots of my friends from church head over too. Let’s make this a great night to connect with people at the conference. Help me get the word out by blogging about it too.
Jess and I will be there… McMenamins sounds like fun. You buying?
Awesome Chad. It will be great to see you and Jess. And obviously I’m not buying…keep dreamin buddy
Just so you all know, Tyler bought me lunch at McMinns before. Not to rub it in off course
Thanks for coordinating this! Can’t wait to read about it!
Wait, I thought you were buying
Yonas- That is true…and it was actually dinner.
Brent- You wish!
You are going to love the leadership summit!
Well, I guess we’ll come to dinner if you cover half. It will be a good conference. Jess and I went last year and we really enjoyed it. We’ve already seen the fruits of using some of the things we learned about there.
See you all there…
Tyler
Take good notes for me. I’ve been to LS the last 5 years and this year is the first year I will miss (it got sandwiched between 2 other church events and a family vacation…so something had to give).
I’m blogging this week–the Best of Leadership Summit…so help me out with this year’s talks.. I’ll be reading your updates.
since you are behind the scenes–give us the schematics for the stage design at the satellite locations..they usually send along some drawings and such so the locations look similar to South Barrington–usually something very doable by local churches.
blog on man!
jim
They mandate quite a few things. They provide most locations with a projector that is up to a specific level of specs (brightness etc). They also want one large screen on the stage instead of multiple screens. This makes the experience feel more normal.
I will be here locally so I guess the dinner is out.