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Post-Idea Camp Rodeo: Collaboration + Participation

March 6, 2009 //

I’ve been having a hard time writing down some coherent thoughts about The Idea Camp because it was such an incredible experience for me. I’m still trying to wrap my head and heart around it all. It’s a bit like herding cats.

In any case, before too much time passed, I wanted to at least begin recording some of my thoughts and impressions. I’m going to borrow newly-hairstyled Dave Ingland‘s format and break my reflections down into separate posts.

So, here’s the first round of my post-Idea Camp rodeo (each post will be titled in the both/and spirit of The Idea Camp)…

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I loved the ethos of open-source collaboration + participation.

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Categories church, communication, community, design, hope, indie, innovation, leadership, third way

Idea Camping Live: Final Main Session

March 3, 2009 //

Just to continue my twitter-ified summaries of my “live” blogging from The Idea Camp, here are some glimpses of the final main session…

David Ruis

Worship session with David Ruis – solo, but brought along tech team of synth, drum machine, trusty Macbook (and I’m guessing sequencers, and other music-y stuff like that). David did an incredible job of bringing together worship, mystery, tech, and a heart for justice to the evening session.

Eugene Cho

Charles Lee interviewed Eugene Cho. It was really interesting that, although these two influential leaders had been blog friends for awhile now, this weekend was their first face-to-face interaction!

Why do you blog? Many reasons… pains him to see friends in print business, but shift in how we obtain info, how we learn things, blogging is part of that change
Why did you start your anti-poverty organization?
- Born out of family life, developing compassion
- His kids, watching poverty on TV, asked him, “Is this real?” Yes. “What are you doing about it?”
One Day’s Wages
- Their family gave up one year’s wages — selling off other assets to give $100,000; encouraging people to give up one day’s wages in fight against global poverty
- We’re not asking people to do anything we’re not willing to do
- Over 300,000 in Facebook group — everyone might not give up one day’s wages, but there might be 500,000 hits on their website
- Exciting because shows how world is connected
- Your ideas and your perseverance will be tested

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Categories asian american, church, communication, community, hope, innovation, leadership

Idea Camping Live: Leadership

March 1, 2009 //

I’m still a total Twitter newbie (despite my total Twitter avalanche – Twit-alanche? — from The Idea Camp). And yet, I already find my writing being Twitter-ized… 140 characters or less! So, here are my bullet-pointed, tweetified notes from the panel discussion on leadership with Eugene Cho, Scott Hodge and Dave Gibbons.

What is leadership?

Dave Gibbons: leadership is servanthood; servanthood is building trust and bearing pain
Eugene Cho: simply a leader is someone who leads, but the key question is really how do you lead?

Can you share what contrarian church leadership looks like?

David Gibbons: typically, structure is hierarchical
Usually focus on strengths, giftedness, passion – end up with consumeristic perspective on a person
Look at what is their weakness and pain instead – listen to metanarratives of a person’s life to find out who they really are
Important to search out obedience – so how do you promote obedience?

What is the Third Culture mindset and will?

Dave Gibbons: Third Culture in a word, “Adaptation”; in two words, “painful adaptation”
It is a supernatural thing to love someone not like you

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Categories asian american, church, communication, leadership, ministry