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Archive for March 16, 2012

NYLC 12: Behind The Scenes with @MarkBatterson, @JudahSmith, & @JeanneMayo.

Living in the great city of Dallas, TX, I get the opportunity to attend quite a few conferences considering some would call Dallas the buckle of the Bible Belt. I also get the chance to attend a few conferences in Hotlanta because the majority of my family lives there. And for the first time, I was invited to do speak during a small session at Jeanne Mayo’s National Youth Leaders’ Conference where we had speakers like Robert Madu, Reggie Dabbs, Andy Stanley, Perry Noble, and Judah Smith spoke along with Jeanne Mayo.

I could talk and type for hours about the unique things about this conference and how Jeanne’s team really did a great job setting people up to connect with other pastors and experience a touch from Jesus, but in our modern day culture, we often want to know what “celebrities”(inside Christian Hollywood or the normal one) are like off the stage. Because I was invited to speak at the conference, I was able to meet and hang out with a few of the speakers that really challenged a few areas of my life. 

The 1st one was: Mark Batterson. His talk was on prayer. One thing he said on stage that help me put a larger emphasis on prayer in my own life was: “You are literally one prayer away from a completely different life.” Off the stage… I was blown away at how kind, down-to-earth, and personable Mark was with EVERY single person he met. He acted like he had a church of 25, and had written an article or two in a school newspaper. AND, he stuck around for other speaker’s sessions and took notes. 

The 2nd one was: Judah Smith. His talk was on what you do when you feel like your soul is vexed, exasperated, and tired. His ability to communicate is stupid good. But off the stage… he made everyone feel important. He wasn’t just kind, he was interested in other people. His family has a motto: “We are the Smiths. We are kind and encouraging and we look for lonely people.” I saw the motto with my own eyes. His youth pastor, Elijah Waters, and him were genuinely IN the room. 

Last, but not even close to least, there was: Jeanne Mayo. She spoke 3 times and had a special touch on each. On the last night, they had a boxing ring on stage, and she encouraged youth pastors not to give up the fight. They passed out boxing gloves… to everyone. Off the stage… she’s my youth pastor, my white mocha mom, and my friend. And there’s about 1,000 plus people that would say the exact same. Her goal with the entire conference wasn’t to get youth pastors to hear great speakers talk about how to do youth ministry better… (although that did happen) … Her goal was to get youth pastors to spend significant time with Jesus. And that happen. It’d be easy for the goal to be to get people to like you and your conference, but for Jeanne, her strategy was to get the man upstairs involved in youth ministries. 

I walked away wanting to make others feel important and heard. And I also walked away asking myself, how much of my life is about me succeeding, and how much of it is about connecting with Jesus.