CCO Jubilee Conference
well, at the behest of gideon strauss, i've decided to blog about our experiences this past weekend at the coalition for christian outreach jubilee conference (which, if i were a good blogger, i would do anyway). the cco's mission is to "transform college students to transform the world," which makes the organization a kindred spirit of *cino. needless to say, then, we were in great company.
we had a display table (which helped bring interested parties to us), but what was especially helpful was having our friends sarah landini and hank suhr there to introduce us to several incredible, reformational people working with or around the cco. people like byron borger of hearts and minds books and stephen lazarus from the center for public justice (though our relationship with gideon helped a bit on that one).
in fact, at one point we were sitting in a bar with sarah, pete (sarah's husband), stephen, hank, bill perkins (cco alumnus), pam trondson and graeme burk from ics, and anna lensink and brian dijkema from the student solidarity local at redeemer university college. it was amazing to be surrounded by so many people with a shared passion for transforming the world. my spirit is always simultaneously lifted up and humbled after such experiences.
we did attend a small group seminar with luci shaw about writing which convinced me that i need to learn and develop the discipline of journaling. as you can probably guess from this blog, i'm not very good at keeping up with that sort of thing. we also sat in on one keynote address by lakita garth, but, for reasons i don't feel like exploring yet, i wasn't all that impressed.