General Session Two

I’m sitting in the Digital Cafe, provided for FREE here at the National Pastors Convention, transferring photos from my CF cards to my laptop. While I’m typing this Ken Medema is singing one of his fabulous solos to wrap up the second general session here at NPC 2007. Tonight’s session was just about as amazing as this afternoons and John Eldridge provided an excellent speech covering God’s creation and story. I can’t wait for the CD to hear him again.

Next is Late Night here at NPC. On tap tonight is Christian Comedy with Taylor Mason, Ron Pearson and Bob Stromberg. Ron was also in General Session two and was funny as well as amazing . . . catch the photo with him balancing a ladder on his face while juggling!!

I’m off to photograph again . . . see ya soon

Afternoon Sessions

I managed to find each of the 16 afternoon seminars . . . thanks to one of the other volunteers who pointed me to a part of the resort I’d not yet been to. Most of the sessions were well attended – some brimming over with people. It was truly hard to not become engrossed in a few of the seminars – particularly Dan Kimball’s “They like Jesus but not the church” and Doug Pagitt’s “Wild Goose Chase: Pursuing a Wide-eyed, Hope Filled Christianity.”

Both Dan and Doug managed to pull me into their discussions and I found it difficult to move on to the other sessions. I’m certainly going to try and get more time at any other sessions they do . . .

General Session One

WOW . . . WOW . . . WOW

SIMPLY AMAZING!

The first general session was fabulous. Imagine almost 1,800 pastors worshiping God while being led by an amazing gospel group. I thought worship on Sunday mornings at my church was awesome . . . and it is, although this was simply unbelievable! If you missed it – don’t miss the webcast!

The emcees were great, and funny too. The worship singing amazing. Brian McLaren gave a wonderful opening session monologue right on target and Ken Medema closed out the first general session with one of his amazing praise and worship songs.

I’ll get more details up in a bit – I’m off to photograph the first of the seminar series, all sixteen of them. Check back in a bit for more info and pictures.

Photo Review and Critical Concern Groups

I met with TJ from Zondervan today and went over the photos I’ve shot thus far. He gave me some additional areas to focus on and we headed out in tandem to the Critical Concern Groups that were meeting around the retreat. TJ took video while I snapped still shots. It always amazes me that I can take 100 photographs and about 10 will be decent. Today was not different.

Here are a few of the shots from the Critical Concern Groups: