Here is one more "Saturday is for Seminars" that is posted on Sunday.

Take a look at this video:

Connect Conferences: Reaching and Keeping Young Adults

This fall I will be participating in a series of Connect Conferences around the country. These unique gatherings provide a focused discussion about reaching and keeping young adults. Our hope is to provide an intimate opportunity for key leaders to:

• learn more about young adults


• understand some of the many reasons why they leave the church


• network with other leaders in your area


• walk away with practical, promising next steps for ministry

Thom Rainer, Sam Rainer, Jason Hayes, and I will be speaking at the majority of these events. In addition, other speakers include Mark Batterson, Michael Kelley, Heather Zempel, Tim Miller, Jen Hatmaker, Adam Thomason, and more.

Go HERE to learn more about these gatherings and to see who will be in a city near you.

Atlanta, GA - August 13-14, 2009
Nashville, TN - August 20-21, 2009
Charleston, SC - August 27-28, 2009
Washington, DC - September 17-18, 2009
Shreveport, LA - September 24-25, 2009

Hope to see you at one of the Connect Conferences.

Here are some videos about church revitalization. I will be posting more soon.

Back in August, I was invited to record a television program and shoot some video for the Assemblies of God. Both programs were videotaped at the Total Living Network in Aurora, IL.

Larry Griswold and Gary Blanchard from the Illinois District of the Assemblies of God interviewed me for the video. They then took the videos as part of a bigger program and showed it to over a thousand leaders in different meetings throughout the region.

To load them on YouTube, I combined them based on length so each video (after the introductory one) is between 5-10 minutes.

Thanks, Larry and Gary, for the chance to serve your churches and permission to share these videos with my blog readers.

I have included all the videos below.

Introductions, The State of the Church in the U.S, Re-Focusing on the Lost

The Bridge to What God Desires, The Keys to Change

The First 100 Days of Change

The Role of Leadership/Teamwork

Mistakes to Avoid

A Word to Denominational Leaders - Making it About the Mission, Not the Machine

As I mentioned yesterday, we are adding more video here at the blog. Here is my last message from my church. I working through Ephesians 4:17-32 with a particular emphasis on the difference between the gospel and moralism:

Living Life - Ed Stetzer from Ed Stetzer on Vimeo.

If you are interested in listening to my weekly messages, you can do so here and they are also at iTunes.

One of the things you will see in the coming days is a concerted effort to add more video and audio content here at the blog.

To start, here is my message at the Advance09 conference in Durham, NC.

Here is the panel of which I was part.

You can download all of the messages here.

Today is Donna's birthday so I have blown off work for the afternoon and am taking her out. No phone calls, no emails... just the occasional Twitter update.

So, in honor of Donna's birthday, here are some fun videos. (Donna puts the fun in my life.)

Why I enjoy Christian music (don't miss the part about Jesus being like a "mountie"):

Donna likes this one so much she made me play it this morning.

This song is officially stuck in my (and Donna's) heads. We have been singing it all day.

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Here are two teacher enlistment videos our church creative team put together for teacher recruitment:

They are spoofs of the well known Geico commercials. The first involves Mike Stark (knowing his name becomes important in the video):

The second is Miss Dixie, Jaclyn's teacher:

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I am hoping Troy (worship leader) will get moving like this on Sunday:

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Here are two videos I have shown at my church:

Me Church:

Me Worship:

HT: JT

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And, as an extra bonus, I saw this on my Facebook page this morning.

It felt like a guilt-by-association accusation. For the record, I have never met these men and am offended that Facebook would think I might know them:

And, just a thought. Does this put Mark Dever in jeopardy as a second (or maybe third) degree separation issue, proving his critics right? Does Facebook count in the Doctine of Separation?

Grin.

Have a great weekend... and remember, "Jesus is a friend of mine."