Coming soon

It is now just two weeks until the beginning of the conference and we are really excited about the way that everything is coming together. Make sure that you come and join us with your thinking caps on and your creative juices flowing. Karen Ward and Mark Pierson will launch our time at 9am Friday with a great worship experience. Shane Claiborne and Tom Sine will help stir us into action and other presenters will give us glimpses of the weekend and send us out into the creativity sessions. We are looking forward to some great discussions about issues of justice, worship, enviromental issues, and who knows what else to keep our creativity moving and help s develop new ideas for life & ministry.
The urban experience is shaping up to be a wonderful opportunity not just to stretch our legs but to literally get ourselves out of the building and experience where God is at work in the communites around us. We heard today that the gym (our coffee space) is being wired for internet connection - another answer to prayer, so make sure you come prepared to blog the event too.
This has not been an easy event to get ready for. As I mentioned in a previous posting, working to make the conference represent our values and our concerns has raised many chllenges for us - but exciting to see how God has worked to help us maintain these values. We have ordered our green bags & are working on the recycled mugs. We will have copies of Geez magazine to put in all the registration pckets & Heroessubs.com is making some wonderful sandwiches for us (yes we all do better with good food) and we will also have some great coffee & tea available. Our one big challenge is that we want to record the sessions and do not yet have enough digital recorders to make this possible - so still something to pray about but then why would we need faith if everything turned out right the first time?
Blessings
Christine