Not Forgotten is off to a great start.  Things kicked off last night with Pastor Joel and the Deluge Band.  Pastor Joel shared a powerful word on the conference them, and many hundreds were saved and set free.  It reminded me of a giant encounter retreat with thousands of people crammed into the North Campus.  What a tremendous way to start things off.

We also debuted a couple of new things for a 220 Conference that went really well. One thing that we are doing for the first time is displaying people’s twitter messages about the conference on the Big Screen before sessions.  We select from tweets that have the Not Forgotten Hashtag in them (#Not Forgotten).  This is a great way for us to interact and share the stories of those who are at the conference with us this year.  We also decided to work into the conference something everyone in 220 always looks forward to at our local gatherings, and that is our wacky rules videos.  Seeing Wayne dressed up as Mr. T as apart of the “B” Team is not something that I will soon forget!

We actually just finished our first ever Hippo Water Festival.  At some point we stopped planning a conference, and just plain lost our minds.  The fun everyone is having is only the result.

I am also really enjoying getting to hang out with a couple awesome Aussies: Pastor James Murray and Dan.  Here’s a sampling of some Australian words I have picked up on so far: Marker (mocha), jumping stars (jumping jacks), sunnies (sun glasses), skuns (scones), and bitters… don’t have a translation for that one yet I’m afraid!

More conference updates to come!

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