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The Forge Conference – Trip Report
Posted on September 29th, 2010 in Church Life, Faith, Ministry Trips, Worship Leadership by Fred McKinnon
Hello from Ocean Grove, NJ.
A rare moment of quiet and stillness in the “parlor” of the place we’re staying here for The Forge Conference gives me this opportunity to catch up on the blog.
I’ll be here the next few days with a list of some super talented and cool leaders in worship ministry, technology, and ministry. We’re leading the 1st-ever “The Forge Conference” and I’m excited.
I’ll be teaching a couple of classes and leading some of the “late night worship” which from my understanding, is a free-for-all praise and worship time for anyone to join in with.
Pretty smooth first day – our flight from Jacksonville, FL to Charlotte, NC was quick and easy. I am traveling with a couple of co-workers from SSCC … Travis Paulding and Shannon Lewis. I’m proud that our church is reaching out and equipping other churches and leaders beyond our 4 walls. In Charlotte we connected with long-time friend McKendree Augustas.
Landing in Newark was cool – I’ve never been to New York City and didn’t realize that Newark was right there by Manhatten and was pretty excited to see New York City and the Statue of Liberty from the plane window. Yeah, I’m just a good ole’ boy from South Georgia.
We were expecting a guy from Ocean Grove to pick us up at the airport and joked for about 30 minutes about this limo-guy walking around with a sign that said “Augustas”. Finally after waiting outside for a half hour, we got a phone call that the limo dude was for us … well, we didn’t have a stretch limo, but we did have a big ole’ black Suburban. I told Travis I felt like I was in a Harrison Ford flick like Patriot Games. Thankfully, no rocket launchers took us out of the NJ interstates.
For those who wish to follow “tweets” and updates on Twitter/Facebook during the conference – we’ll be using the following hashtag, which you can use to “search” the net: #ForgeCon10
More later …
