Wondering what we'll be doing when 35,000 people gather in the Super Dome?
Check out this link with details about the artists and speakers who be be entertaining and addressing us:
Have you heard of Rachel Kurtz? Lost and Found? Switchfoot?
How about Nadia Bolz-Weber?
So many great artists and speakers to motivate and inspire us!
Check them out!
I am so excited for all of you who are going to New Orleans.
ReplyDeleteYou asked what we would like to learn from your experience there. I would love to know how the people are fairing. What are their hopes, their fears, their joys. We travelled to N.O. a couple of times during their years of booming success. I loved talking to the residents on the streets (not hard to figure out who was a resident and who was a tourist because the tourists were usually "whooping it up.") Their ease of talking with strangers made conversa-tions flow so easily (probably because we were talking outside of a local bar where the sounds of jazz was the backdrop.) Even the jazz artists playing in Preservation Hall were OK with carrying on a conversation as one set of tourists was exiting and the stands were filling with a new set of tourists.
The backdrop for all of this was the definite divide between cultures which is hard to see in the hoopla in the streets. It is even hard to see in the make-up of the bands because music brought the different cultures together. Ephesians 2:14-20 is certainly a great scripture to headline this gathering.
Be sure to come back with lots of pictures and memories of your conference gatherings, work and "touristing" so you can share them with all of us during an Adult Education class in the fall. Love, Karen Grover