OC Movement Conference

Later today I will show up at the main session of the Organic Church Movement conference in Long Beach, CA (sponsored by CMAResources). I have logged the last 24 hours with some of the leadership of this movement and it has been fantastic.

I am here as a human sponge . . . and I look forward to hearing from:

• Neil Cole (author of Organic Church: Growing Faith Where Life Happens and Cultivating a Life for God) will speak on: "Why didn't I take the Blue Pill: speaking candidly about the darkside of Organic Church"
• Reggie McNeal (author of Present Future: Six Tough Questions for the Church, Revolution in Leadership: Training Apostles for Tomorrows Church, A Work of the Heart: Understanding How God Shapes Spiritual Leaders, and Practicing Greatness: 7 Disciplines of Extraorginary Spiritual Leaders, will speak about: "Qualities of a Missional Leader)
• Alan Hirsch (co-author of The Shaping of Things to Come: Innovation and Mission for the 21st Century Church, and author of the newly released Forgotten Ways: Reactivating the Missional Church) will speak on: "Forgotten Ways: Apostolic Church Planting Movements"
• Ori Brafman (co-author of The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations) "Starfish Organizations: the unstoppable power of decentralized movements)
• Felicity Dale (author of An Army of Ordinary People, Getting Started, and co-author of Simply Church) will speak on: "Mobilizing the other half of the army: Women in leadership roles"
• Wolfgang Simson (author of Houses That Change the World) will speak on: "Thinking prophetically and acting apostolically"

The workshops will be good as well.

• Neil Cole: Breakinig Free from the Institutional Mindset
• Carol Davis: The GlobaLocal Church Having an impact on the world from the very start
• Dezi Baker: Transformation of a town: a case study of organic, incarnational impact on an entire town
• Tony Dale: How to hear and discern real prophecy
• Wolfgang Simson: Organic Church Finances, Part One
• Panel Discussion: Transitioning conventional churches to organic churches (four models)
• Richard Flemming: Marketplace Movements
• Eric Herron: Organic church worship
• Alan Hirsch: Acting your way into a new way of thinking: Leadership and action-oriented learning processes
• Jaeson Ma: Campus Organic Church Movements
• Panel discussion on Organic Church in the Black community
• Wolfgang Simison: Organic Church Finances, Part Two
• Brad Fieldhouse and Eric Swanson: Transforming Cities from the grass roots
• Debra HIrsch: Organic church and the tough questions of ministry in the gay community.

Should be fun.