The National Youthworkers Convention starts tomorrow here in Cincinnati. I’m pretty excited about it, especially the fact that I’m taking three of our youth leaders with me!

I’m such a big fan of training events like this. They’re great for 1) inspiration and 2) education. There’s nothing like being with thousands of other youth workers to get your arteries pumping! And there’s nothing like getting excellent training from youth ministry experts like Chap Clark, Doug Fields, Jim Burns, etc.

I’m especially looking forward to saying hi to Chap Clark, who was my youth ministry professor at Fuller. And he continues to be somewhat of a mentor to me–I try to get together with him for lunch or coffee whenever I’m back in California.

So I probably won’t get a chance to post again till next week, but I’ll let you know how it goes when I’m back.