Orange Conference Recap

May 3, 2009 in Ministry with 6 Comments

Orange Conference Recap from JC on Vimeo.

My week at The Orange Conference was a thrill. It was such a great time of inspiration and learning, as well as meeting all kinds of wonderful people. If you’ve been reading my blog then you’ve already seen my summaries from some of the breakouts and hopefully you’ve read some of the live blogging posts while me and many others sat in large sessions. I promise to pull back on the twitter rate that I kept up last week, and I’m suspending the daily twitter summaries as blog posts.

Here are some of the things I learned at Orange this year:

  • Matt McKee really does indeed own and wear white pants.
  • Purchasing a Macbook may have indeed been the best technology decision I’ve ever made. I used this Macbook around the clock, and never once had to reboot to help it recover from a crash. Nice!
  • Kenny Conley is very, very tall.
  • That I can indeed live on only 4 hours of sleep a night. (at least for 3 days or so…)
  • Gina McClain is very, very short.
  • That I really enjoy telling our story of collaboration to others in “the industry.”
  • If you twitter 100 times in one day, that your thumbs get very sore.
  • Sam Luce does some great impressions. In the week I witnessed a spot-on imitation Jim Wideman, Kenny Conley and Matt McKee. I also heard the Indian, Irish, and English Cockney accents he has as a part of of his mad humor skills.
  • That others are as disturbed by puppets as I am.
  • I really enjoy having an espresso machine at my disposal for the entirety of a conference.
  • Cash Clan Japan

    Hey, wanna know something interesting??? You know those big white circle things on the set at Orange? Those were designed and created and set up by Blue Nova Designs, which happens to be Matt and Maria Tipton. Remember them? Maria was my maid of honor, walked right before that pretty girl of yours in my wedding. God gave them the idea for the business a few years ago, and it has exploded the last two years.

  • Matthew Hart

    Dude I'm soooo jealous! Wish I could have gone.

  • http://www.childrensministryonline.com Kenny

    Okay… did any one notice the close up of JC’s moleskin. See how the ink was all splotchy? I did that. I threw a giant koosh ball at him and missed, but I shattered a glass of water right beside his moleskin. That’s what he get’s for for having a moleskin near water… and koosh balls.

    Okay, I didn’t hear Sam’s impression of me. I want to see it! Did anyone get it on video. I’m sure he was rubbing his chin. :)

  • http://www.jonathancliff.com admin

    It does include quite a bit of chin rubbing and head nodding!

  • http://www.jabberfrog.com Gina

    Not sure how I feel about the reference to my height. I had the best time at Orange mostly due to all the blog and twitter people I got to hang out with. A-maz-ing!

    Btw… what’s with the overuse of ‘indeed’? Sounds like the baptist preacher I grew up with.

    Gina´s last blog post..Building Faith Skills in Kids (5 of 5)

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