It’s after midnight now, but I wanted to leave some impression on Saturday before going to bed.
– I went to a session called "Smash Mouth Youth Ministry for Boys" this morning and learned a lot. I went there because I see we have a guy problem in LF and I want to be a part of making things more balanced. This not only gave me some things to do, it also gave me some potential reasons how we’ve gotten in this pattern to begin with.
– I went to breakfast this morning in the hotel. I was just going to bite the bullet and pay the ridiculous prices. When I sat down another convention person asked me if I’d like to sit at his table since he was alone as well. Long story short, he picked up my breakfast and I was thankful. Not only that, but I had a great engaging conversation with a person from Grosse Point. I left that time very encouraged.
– The morning session was incredible. Atmosphere and music was great, talent great, and the speaker was incredible. It was a female who talked about our identity and the identity we should be teaching our students… actually another idea I can implement into LF soon.
– I spent the afternoon doing my research. I spent about an hour at two booths just observing. I learned an incredible amount of stuff…. all very intriguing to me and hopefully helpful to the companies when I present my report later. I’m looking forward to sitting down with the heads of those booths on Sunday and doing the rest of the interview. (Holding back the "who" on this since I’ve agreed to keep stuff confidential)
– Of course, I watched the Michigan vs. Ohio State game. They set up a little tailgate area for the convention folks to watch the game and that was a lot of fun. Marko, from YS, did make good on his dare to wear the Michigan jersey here today…. I give him a lot of credit as it took some guts.
– Tonight I hung out more with my convention pals. Mel, Carl, Chris, and Angela had a great time sitting very near the front tonight. All told, I’ve met about 20-30 YMX people and really enjoyed getting to know Huntington folks and Detroit Youth Workers in a new context. I’ve really felt connected to people here… much cooler than the last time we went. (Sac 02)
– Tonight’s session was special in a lot of ways. I won’t share a lot of details because I know that there is one more to come. But I thought it was great.
– Don’t know a lot of details about this, but we took an offering for a family who does youth ministry, and who has a child suffering from leukemia, and raised $14,000.
Lots of random thoughts!
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