Going to the Conversational Evangelism Conference this week

Posted by Helen on: 09.08.2008 /

On Thursday I’m headed to Phoenix for the Conversational Evangelism Conference.

Off The Map began producing this series of conferences for Todd Hunter earlier this year. I was invited to help at this one. My job is leading the Green Apron Team. If you’ve been to an Off The Map event we used to call this the Concierge team. As you might guess it’s the people in green aprons, there to greet you, answer questions, introduce you to other interesting people and generally help you feel welcome and comfortable.

I’m curious about the conference and looking forward to being there. I hope I get to meet Garry Poole, on staff at Willow Creek, and Elisa Morgan, President of MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers). I attended my local MOPS group for a number of years when my children were little and appreciated it. I even wrote a number of articles for their newsletter (which are on my personal website).

That writing was something I believed God wanted me to do. It was intended to be a form of low-key evangelism. I sucked at sharing my faith in person but I could write about it :). A lot of MOPS groups are mostly Christian women but apparently only about half the women in ours were Christians. When I look back at what I wrote now it doesn’t seem very geared to people who aren’t Christians. One or two Christians were enthusiastic about what I wrote.

I’m not sure if the people who weren’t Christians ever read my articles but it doesn’t matter does it? Because it’s not about results but about being obedient to God. At least that’s what I was taught.

Anyway MOPS was significant in my life and so I’m looking forward to meeting its President.

I probably won’t have time to live blog the conference because I’ll be ‘on duty’ leading the Green Apron Team. I’ll write about it after I get back.

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