My meeting with Bobby

As promised, here is a little debrief. Bobby's title is Innovation Leader at Lifechurch.tv. Sweet title I know. Other than coming up with ideas and making sure they happen, he also does some other stuff at the church. He is the public relations guy, he approves budget, he helps out with new campus development, and many other things. He loves hi job. He said that anyone can come up with ideas, but there are not a lot of people who make those ideas happen. He tends to be one that makes them happen. We talked about where Lifechurch was headed and some cool things they were doing. My main purpose of going was to talk to him about youth and how he thinks it will look in the future. I wanted to get his opinion because he is not part of the youth team. He had a lot of great points, and recommended some sites to check out. Being the tech guy he is. He thinks that youth ministries should be doing way more online than they are. This is where our youth are. we need to engage students where they are in the internet environment. This means Myspace, Facebook and Youtube. But there is more than just posting on these sites to come to church on this night at this time. we need to find a way to reach the students that won't step foot into a church. We need to give students a way to grow spiritually online. Mom and dad need to be more involved. We have to use the web and more technology anyway we can.
He also broughtup the point that the church is about 2 steps behind the rest of the world. The church use to be at the forefront of technology and reaching as many people as possible. The church needs to come up with more ways of reaching more people. We need to come up with things that the world will want to use. Not vice/versa. If anyone reading this keeps up with what churches are doing. Pay attention to Lifechurch in the coming month. They have some really awesome stuff they are doing.
I hope this makes sense. Here are 2 sites he recommended.
1. ChangeThis
2. Google Reader this is for if you read a lot of blogs. I checked it out today and am still tryiong to figure it out, but it is pretty sweet.
And for you all that read a lot of blogs to learn. One thing he said was to read as many blogs as possible.

SNYDER