The annual event of youth ministry leaders that focuses on spiritual renewal, continuing education and Networking
Category: The Extravaganza
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Introducing: The Network App!
We’re really excited about this! Today, the Network introduces our new mobile app! For both the Android and Apple (iOS) platforms, this app is awesome! Features include! A “live” events calendar Direct feed of the Network blog A directory of Network leadership A media library Network News A “prayer wall.” Post prayer requests, and respond! ...
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Prayers for Travel
And today they come. Yesterday, about half of the Extravaganza planning team came in to the Hyatt in Anaheim, along with those leading the Practice Discipleship Initiative, to start the preparation. There were also a few random folks who came in early just to enjoy California. (And in the mid 70’s a beautiful, what’s not to ...
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Extravaganza + Academy Award = Awesome!
Q: “So what did you do at the Extravaganza this year?” A: “Learned a lot…experienced spiritual renewal…connected with peers…oh yeah, hung out with an academy award nominee.” I blogged a couple of months ago about the documentary called “Inocente,” which we will be screening on Sunday afternoon at the Extravaganza. It is the story of ...
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Extravaganza Housing Issue Resolved
Dear friends, I am grateful for your patience as we have worked out our housing crunch. As I’ve said, “it’s a great problem…but still a problem.” I’m sorry that we weren’t able to get you into the Hyatt Regency. We overflowed our original contracted number of rooms and because of a large, city wide convention ...
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E Housing…
It’s a great problem! But it’s still a little bit of a problem. We’re approaching “crunch-zone” for housing at the Hyatt in Anaheim for the Extravaganza. I’m hearing from some folks in the last day or two who are having difficulty booking rooms at the hotel. When we sign a contract with the hotel, they ...
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Film Screening at the E – INOCENTE
The 2013 Extravaganza will host a special screening of the documentary film “INOCENTE” on Sunday, January 27 in the Grand Ballroom at the Hyatt Regency – Orange County. The documentary focuses on the life of a 15 year old girl who grew up homeless in San Diego, and how expression through art, created a way ...
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Yet Another New Marketing Ploy?
Hmmm…we’ll have to think about the possibilities here! Our congratulations to Julie Hagen and Taylor Wilson! The two of them were engaged to be married (to each other) yesterday! As if that’s not fun enough, guess where they met? Go on…guess. No, not there. Nope. Not there either. Yes! That’s it! They met at the ...
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Reflections on Evaluation
This past weekend, the Extravaganza team leaders met at the Hyatt in Anaheim, site of the 2013 Extravaganza, to process the evaluations from the New Orleans event, and to do the organizational planning for ’13. We spent quite a bit of time processing the evaluations, and I just wanted to share a couple of observations ...
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Afterglow
Have you ever had an experience where something you were deeply invested in went really, really well, and it’s all said and done, and everything is boxed up and put away, and you sit back and sigh and you realize “hey, that was really cool…it feels really good to have been a part of that.” ...
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…and there was no room in the inn…maybe…
So if you haven’t yet booked your hotel room for Extravaganza 2012, you might have a little bit of trouble. First, you have to understand that rooming list at a convention hotel in a city like New Orleans is a bit of a moving target. A quick background: When we book an Extravaganza, a part ...
Network is a Verb 