Amanda Pelser… Ramblings of a Communications Director …

Speakers:
Matt Johnson

from Liquid Church
Motivation for using social media: Take church to the people.
Phone call – 6 days
Email – 6 hours
Facebook, Twitter, Text – 60 seconds

Anthony Coppedge

Former tech director
Now at Fellowship Technologies as Director of Communications
Attends Gateway Church
Writer, blogger

Session points and highlights:

It not about the tech, it’s about my people.
Communicating with people in real time all [...]

I had so been looking forward to this keynote!  Mark Batterson is the pastor at Nation Community Church in Washington, DC.

A mind stretched by a new idea never returns to its original shape.  – Oliver Wendall Holmes

As Jesus was getting ready to send his followers out he told them to be shrewd as snakes and [...]

Chris Hodges is the pastor at Church of the Highlands in Alabama.  He described himself as a business man turned pastor.
2 Timothy 1:13-14
2 Corinthians 3:17-18
From Revelation
4 Faces – The Glory of God
Ox – Face of a Servant

Have an experience for the outside not the insider.
Make the whole experience easy.  See Acts 15.
Generosity
Wrote margin into their [...]

This was a panel discussion with Kurt Evin from Central Christian Church in Las Vegas and Matt Johnson from Liquid Church.  We’re wanting to open an online campus at Southbrook…  Wow is my brain on overload!
There was a lot of bouncing around.  I won’t be able to easily attribute ideas to each of the speakers.  [...]

I was late to Anthony Coppedge’s coffee discussion.  I rushed over my previous session, but unfortunately missed about half the discussion.  I was mortified that I was late, especially consider that he’s the reason I’m here…  So sorry Anthony!
Here’s a few things that caught my attention:

Pastors timid about getting involved in Twitter and social media: [...]