I'm heading to Chicago on Tuesday to attend a pair of conferences: the and the . I'm staying with my good friend and , . Like the National Youth Workers Convention last fall, I'll be blogging my experience throughout the week.
Here's a rough (and flexible) schedule of what I'll be doing this week.
Wednesday
[Shift Conference]
9:00 - 10:30am -- Brian McLaren, Everything Must Change; worship with Charlie Hall
11:15 - 12:45pm -- Mark Yaconelli, Failure, Frustration & Loss: The Youth Worker's Path to Holiness; worship with Charlie Hall
2:15 - 3:45pm -- Shane Claiborne, The Scandal of Grace; worship with Charlie Hall
Thursday
[Shift Conference]
7:45 - 8:30am -- Shane Claiborne, Jesus for President
9:00 - 10:30am -- Brian McLaren, Onramp to the Postmodern Conversation
11:00 - 12:30pm -- Scot McKnight, Missional Jesus
2:00 - 3:30pm -- Tommy McClam, Mentoring Students in Your Ministry
4:00 - 5:30pm -- Kara Powell, Deep Justice in a Broken World
[Wheaton Theology Conference]
7:30 - 8:30pm -- Kevin Vanhoozer, Keynote Address #1
Friday
[Shift Conference]
7:45 - 8:30am -- Aaron Niequist, Worship Songwriters Unite!
9:00 - 10:30am -- Kara Powell, Deep Ministry in a Shallow World; worship with Brandon Grissom
11:15 - 12:45pm -- Dan Kimball, They Like Jesus, But Not the Church; worship with Brandon Grissom
[Wheaton Theology Conference]
1:30 - 3:00pm -- Mark Husbands and John Franke, The Trinity as Social?
3:30 - 5:00pm -- Robert Lang'at and Keith Johnson, The Trinity and Mission
7:30 - 8:30pm -- Kevin Vanhoozer, Keynote Address #2
Stay tuned to JakeBouma.com this week for updates from the conferences. Any fellow bloggers going to be at either of these conferences? Leave a comment and let me know; I'd love to meet up.
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i envy you.
didn’t you just get done with a sweet conference, blake?
i did. but it wasn’t laden with all the superstars that yours is. i admit it, i’m a conference junkie.
haha! i’m pretty excited that they’re superstar-heavy.
who knows if we see each other. i will be there as well.
I will be blogging from Shift as well. Maybe we will run into each other. Hope you enjoy it.
Jason
I don’t know about those conference sessions, but this Brandon Mick character sounds interesting!
gavin & jason: maybe we’ll run into one another… i’m not sure how big this thing is.
baron: please leave my blog.