Category: conference

  • How the Church can be Unleashed for the Next Generation

    How the Church can be Unleashed for the Next Generation

    My workshop here at CMC West Coast took place on Saturday 1/03 @ 1:30pm in Royal Palm 2,3,4 (at Town & Country Resort, Hotel Circle, San Diego, California). Yes, the coveted after lunch time slot. Here are the recorded audio (MP3 format) + the presentation slides for “How the Church can be Unleashed for the Next Generation”: Description:…

  • Unleashing the Potential of Chinese American Churches

    Unleashing the Potential of Chinese American Churches

    I’m sincerely grateful for the invitation to speak at the CMC West Coast event this weekend in San Diego. It’s the 2nd time the organizers have hosted this bilingual Chinese Missions Convention. And I’ve got 2 occasions for which I’m invited to speak. One is a 75-minute workshop titled “How the Church can be Unleashed…

  • Mentoring Online for Asian American Christians

    These are my slides for DJ Chuang’s breakout titled Mentoring through Media at the Asian American Ministry Conference “Mentoring for a Lifetime” at Biola University on Saturday, November 8th, 2014 Mentoring through Media @ AAMC 2014 from DJ Chuang Audio Recording (mp3) of this Breakout:: References mentioned: Connecting: The Mentoring Relationships You Need to Succeed…

  • Shape the Future of the Internet at ICANN Meetings

    Hey, conference lovers and Internet lovers. There’s a professionally-produced conference you can attend for FREE. It’s the ICANN Meeting, open to the public, held this week in Los Angeles, California (USA), and I attended on behalf of my work with the .BIBLE TLD Registry (operated by the American Bible Society). The official description of these events:…

  • Does character and integrity still matter in the 21st century?

    David Brooks unpacks a counter-culture to the pursuit of happiness, using rich words like: depth, soul, virtue, character, integrity, love, sacrifice, obedience, grace. David Brooks is a New York Times Op-Ed columnist, a journalist, and culture commentator. And thanks to Bob Buford‘s email update “Museletter,” he included (some of) his notes from Aspen Ideas Institute 2014.First, Bob shared his musings about that talks…

  • iMinistry 2014 is coming October 14-16

    The best (and the only) social media church conference for advanced practitioners is coming again this October 14-16, 2014. It’s the kind of place that Social Media Church podcast listeners would love to gather around in-person and in real-time. The website is coming soon. This is all I can say about that. // [update 6/20/2014] the…

  • Are you tired of Craig Groeschel and Andy Stanley?

    Would you believe Catalyst would dare go off-script? I couldn’t believe my eyes either. Here’s the roster of main stage speakers for Catalyst West Coast 2014:: Francis Chan, Christine Caine, Jason Russell, Simon Sinek, Robert Madu, Henry Cloud, Lysa TerKeurst, Charles Lee, Bryan Loritts, Rachel Cruze, Mike Foster. (Gasp, Craig and Andy are missing!) This lineup doesn’t…

  • How to show Instagram photos on screen for events

    Whether on a second screen like a slide show or projected on a big screen for adding an interactive element to your event, the photo-sharing phenomena of Instagram can be much bigger than the tiny screen of a mobile smartphone. Here’s the web apps (aka websites) that can show photos from Instagram, in an auto-advanced…

  • How to innovate on $0 budget

    Here at the Raw Church unconference yesterday and today, and boy have the conversations and topics been RAW. Covering quite the gamut of the human condition (and some would prefer to use the term human depravity) and the brokenness we experience — adultery, sex abuse, divorce, multiple divorces, unexpected death, mental illness, terminal disease,  race…

  • Work in Process at Exponential West 2013

    I love the Church capital C and all of its complexity, flavors, and even occasional messiness. During the past few days I was invited to teach 2 workshops, an overview of the multi-site church revolution and the Future of the Asian American Church. I love being with church leaders, affirming them, supporting them, connecting them…

  • Future of Asian American Church

    Future of Asian American Church

    Thanks for all who came to our workshop session on the Future for the Asian American Church at Exponential West 2013. Asian Americans are the fastest growing racial/ethnic group in America today, and exponential numbers of next-gen multi-Asian churches are being planted that better reach the next generations of not just Asian Americans but also multiethnic…

  • On-Ramp to the Multi-Site Church Revolution

    On-Ramp to the Multi-Site Church Revolution

    I’m talking at Exponential West 2013 about multi-site churches, one church in multiple locations, at a workshop session this afternoon. The number of multi-site churches has grown exponentially worldwide from around 100 in 1996 to more than 5,000 by 2012. Here are the slides, links, and resources. On-Ramp to the Multi-Site Church Revolution Leadership Network‘s…