Orange Conference 2011
I am at the Orange Conference in Atlanta this week. I am here with our Children’s Pastor, Steve Ogle. For both of us this is our second time attending. We have been excited about the conference and after leaving at 6:00 this morning we were especially glad to get to the conference center and checked in.
I will admit though, that after check in, I am very disappointed so far. There is one thing I always look forward to after check-in and that is the conference bag and notebook. The bag this year is from Plywood People (www.plywoodpeople.com). The idea is pretty cool and I like the concept. Don’t know if I will carry around the bag this week though because it really looks more like a purse than anything.
But what I was disappointed about the most was the notebook. In the past years the notebook has been a really well put together resource that is suitable to take notes in and to put one my bookshelf at the office. This year, I feel they tried to cut corners financially (which is odd because the cost of the conference was still expensive) by putting together a “newspaper” look. No room for taking notes and completely pointless to carry around because it is so big and awkward.
I so hope that the conference from here on out doesn’t have a cheap feel. Praying that even if it does, God will still give me the fuel to take EPIC to the next great thing He has for us.
