I haven’t blogged this week because I’ve been wrapped in thought about how to best sum up our amazing experience at the National Worship Leader Conference last week. Finally, with a lot of help from my trusty friend Lee, I figured the best way to sum it up was with a video. Remember, no one made you watch it :).
Our workshop yesterday went awesomely. I don’t think that’s actually a word but it went really well. We had about 75 people attend and only about 60 seats, so it was standing room only. We talked about making your media matter and the big idea for us is that all the media you use should serve the message and shouldn’t be used simply because it’s cool. When used properly, media can work hand in hand with all of your programming to build a theme for your service that perfectly sets up the pastor’s message. We ran a mock Creative Team meeting. We gave away a free Programming Pack to everyone who attended. It was great.
We also kicked off our session with a video we shot on the first day of the conference. It was a Man On The Street Video where Lee asked people at the conference what they thought about eleven72. It was our fun way of introducing ourselves. Check it out:
Feedreaders, here’s the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7rWjnp7p7g
Here’s Vlog #2. Still getting the hang of this little camera and wrapping our heads around the whole concept of vlogging. We did shoot a really funny little bit today asking people, “Who is eleven72?” It’s a little Man on the Street from the conference. We’re going to use it to introduce ourselves tomorrow, but once it’s done, I’ll drop it into the blog here for your enjoyment. Until then, here’s Vlog #2:
Have I told you that Lee and I are presenting a couple of sessions/workshops/whatchamacallits at Worship Leader Magazines’ National Worship Leader Conference? It’s true, we are. You can scroll down through all the presenters to see our ugly mugs and bios here. That proves it.
Seriously, though. We are honored to have been asked/invited by Worship House Media to present a couple of sessions at the conference. We’re calling our session “Stop Substance Abuse: Make Your Media Matter.” The basic message will be style over substance. We’ll be talking and having a dialogue about using all the media in your service to support the overall theme. How all of your media can work together to set up and support the message that the pastor has for everyone. We’ve got a basic outline, but we’re still working on the details. Whatever happens, I know it’s going to be a lot of fun and I can’t wait.
The conference is July 23-26th right here in river city. That’s right here in Austin, TX, where we live and love and play. We’re looking forward to having such a great event right here in our hometown. And we’re really really excited that we get to be a part of it. If you’re going to be in Austin for the conference, let us know. We would love to have a chance to meet any and all the folks who happen by this blog and who happen to be coming to the conference.
For more information on the conference, click here to go to their site.