On our way...

Our family is on our way to Seattle! We spent the night in Grants Pass, OR with our favorite tattoo artist Jeff Gogue and his family and now we're getting ready to finish out the drive.

I will be attending the Resurgence Cooperative's Text and Context conference this week along with a few of the Acts29 Church Planting Boot Camp sessions. We're looking forward to visiting friends we made during our last trip up to Seattle, visiting Mars Hill Church, and hanging out in the beautiful city of Seattle.

For those who are interested, the Resurgence will be live-casting the sessions from the Text and Context conference.

Here is the schedule for the conference:

Pre-Conference

Sunday - February 24, 2008	1:30 pm	Pre-Conference Check-In
	2:00 – 3:30 pm	Pre-Conference Tracks Begin
		Mars Hill Church Immersion Track Location Title A Frelard Room Panel with Campus Pastors B Paradox Panel with Audio/Video/Satellite Productions C NMR or War Room Panel with teaching/counseling/small groups Pastors
	4:30 pm, 6:30 pm, 8:30 pm	Ballard Campus services
	5:00 pm	Wedgwood Campus services
	5:00 pm	Shoreline Campus services
Monday - February 25, 2008	8:00 am	Doors Open, pre-conference check-in continues
	9:00 am - 1:00 pm	Pre-Conference Continues Location Title Speaker Main Auditorium Biblical Stress Management Dr. Steve Crain
	10:00 am - noon	Location Title Speaker Paradox Room Building Missional Worship Bands Tim Smith & Joel Brown

Conference

Monday, February 25, 2008	1:00 pm	Conference Check-In
	2:00 pm	Session 1 – Mark Driscoll – Text & Context: Humble Incarnational Ministry
	4:00 pm	Session 2 – CJ Mahaney – Text & Context: Pastoral Character & Loving People
	5:20 pm	Dinner on your own
	7:00 pm	Session 3 – John Piper - Why I Trust the Scriptures
Tuesday, February 26, 2008	8:00 am	Doors Open
	9:00 am	Session 4 – Jim Gilmore – Context: Fear and Trembling in the Experience Economy
	10:45 am	Session 5 – Matt Chandler - Text & Context: Preaching the Gospel in the Center of the Evangelical World
	12:00 pm	Lunch at Ballard (provided)
	1:00 pm	Session 6 – John Piper - Text & Context: How My Pastoral Ministry Shapes my Pulpit Ministry
	2:45 pm	Resurgence Networking Break or the following options Time Location Title Speaker 2:45 pm Main Auditorium Session 7 Mark Driscoll - The Ox: Qualifications of a Church Planter (Acts 29 Session) 4:15 pm Main Auditorium Session 8 Matt Chandler - Vision of a Church Planter (Acts 29 Session) 4:15 pm Paradox Room Logos Software Workshop Exposition in HD: the World Premier of the Logos Discourse New Testament (optional)
	5:30 pm	Dinner on your own (Acts 29 assessed registrants will have dinner catered in the Paradox)
	7:00 pm	Session 9 – John Piper - Text: How Do I Distinguish Between Gospel and False Gospel?
	9:00 pm	Q & A with John Piper, Mark Driscoll & Matt Chandler
Wednesday, February 27, 2008	9:00 am	Door Open
	10:00 am	Session 10 – Jim Gilmore – Context: Decoding the Future, the Phoniness, and the Shifting Sands
	11:20 am	Q& A with Jim Gilmore
	12:00 pm	Lunch at Ballard (provided)
	1:00 pm	Session 11 – Mark Driscoll – Text & Context: Preaching Jesus Christ To Pagan Culture
	2:15 pm	Q & A with Mark Driscoll
End of Main Conference -- Post-Conference Sessions Begin
	3:00 pm	Session 12 – Jeff Vanderstelt - Biblical Missiology (Acts 29 Session)
	4:30 pm	Session 13 – Darrin Patrick - Leading the Mission (Acts 29 Session