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Illuminate Conference News

September 15, 2011 — Leave a comment

This just in…stop…from Mr. Kenny Conley and team…stop…big news out of Nashville…stop…Illuminate…coming to a town near you…stop…read below for all the cats pajamas…stop…you’re welcome…stop…

With two Illuminate Conferences under my belt, one thing is sure… Illuminate is like no other conference. At both Austin (2010) and Birmingham (2011) I heard the same thing over and over.

Amazing!

Incredible!

Inspiring!

Encouraging!

That’s what kidmin volunteers from Texas, Alabama and Georgia all had to say about their Illuminate experience. So, the only logical thing to do is more events, right? That’s what I thought too.

On Saturday, February 18th, 2012… Illuminate comes to the great city of Nashville, TN! Details are still coming together (like speakers and breakouts) but we do have a handful of great communicators already lined up.

  • Jim Wideman (General Sessions and Leader Q & A)
  • Jonathan Cliff
  • Amy Fenton Lee
  • I’ll be there too… plus a few others

So, if you live within a 2-4 hour radius of Nashville, TN, make plans to attend the only event bringing some of the most influential voices in kidmin to the local arena to equip volunteers. It’s one of the best investments you could make in your volunteer team. At the early bird price, you can afford to bring them all!

For more information about Illuminate, check out illuminateconference.tv. For more information about the Nashville event, visit nashville.illuminateconference.tv.

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Attention Birmingham Kidmin Friends

August 22, 2011 — 2 Comments

Do I have any Birmingham, AL Kidmin friends?  If I do, then please go and register RIGHT NOW to take you and all of your volunteers to the most unique, creative, dynamic, and fun place to be this coming weekend!  It’s Illuminate Birmingham!

I’ll be there along with Sam Luce, Kenny Conley, Jenny Funderburke, Amy Fenton-Lee, Jim Wideman, and many, many other Birmingham Kidmin leaders.  Illuminate Birmingham is a premier Children’s Ministry event. Illuminate is the only “volunteer-focused” conference where you’ll hear from internationally known and seasoned kidmin leaders who will inspire, equip and encourage your ministry teams. This is the only kidmin conference where bringing your entire volunteer team is not only encouraged, but actually is possible.

This holds within it the potential to dramatically change your Kidmin team for the better!  Don’t delay and Register TODAY!

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Let’s Illuminate this Thing

April 20, 2011 — Leave a comment

Last year I had the privilege to participate in a new volunteer conference called Illuminate. It was something Kenny Conley and his team at Gateway organized.  In an easy to read way, hear from Kenny’s own heart on why he wants to do this:

Essentially, the idea was to create an incredible experience for our volunteers at Gateway. Many times I’ve walked out of an incredible breakout at a national conference and said, “Wow! I wish all my volunteers had experienced that!” Unfortunately, most churches can’t provide a “national conference” experience for all the volunteers… unless that church brought the national conference to their volunteers. That’s what Illuminate is.

So at this time we’re all happy to announce that Illuminate Austin is coming back!  On Saturday, November 12, 2011, Gateway Church in Austin, TX will host Illuminate for the second time. We are expecting 600-800 kidmin volunteers/staff for this incredible experience. The breakout and speaker lineup is amazing!

But wait… there’s more!

Illuminate is a huge blessing for kidmin volunteers in Central Texas. Why limit it to just Central Texas? Once all the content and program is developed, doing it again in a new location isn’t really that much work, right?

So on Saturday, August 27, 2011, Westwood Church in Birmingham, AL will host the first Illuminate Conference outside the great state of Texas. How exciting is that? We’ll pack in the same great stuff that made Illuminate successful in Texas, but serve it up Southern Style.

But wait… there’s even more!

Last year Kenny recorded every session and breakout of Illuminate.  I hear that he had intended to record every session and breakout from Birmingham and Austin in 2011 as well. So, what is he going to do with all this great video content? You guessed it. Illuminate is going online! He doesn’t yet have specific dates and details yet, but plans are underway and concrete dates will be set this summer. Not everyone can get to Austin or Birmingham… but this video content can help anyone, regardless of where they’re coming from.

This year for Illuminate, I’ve gathered some of the greatest minds in Kidmin: Jim Wideman, Sam Luce, Jonathan Cliff, Gina McClain, Dan Scott, Matt McKee, Amy Fenton Lee, Michael Chanley and more to be announced. That’s a Kidmin Powerhouse!

So, whether you live in Texas or Alabama (or within a couple ours of the locations) or whether you have a computer with high speed internet, plan to connect with Illuminate this Fall. It could be exactly what you’re volunteers need most. Stay tuned for more details soon.

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