Orange Tour Recap

I’ve been meaning to post a recap of the Orange Tour at my church, Cornerstone Family in Orlando, aside of all the excuses I can come up ultimately I’ve just been slacking.

So here we go.

The main auditorium was packed with over 300 leaders from across Florida and perhaps beyond. There was an excitement brewing in the air in anticipation of something Orange. I sat with friends from my previous church, we were Orange back then and we are excited that our new church home is now rethinking their process, their system. And that’s exactly what Reggie spoke about! Hmmm, was that a coincidence, strategic planning by our leadership or was it God’s sovereignty? We’ll debate that in another post.

Reggie Joiner and his team were incredible. Reggie urged us to rethink and reconsider our current system and encouraged us to make the appropriate changes to remain relevant in our children and student ministries. He noted that, “people change when the pain associated with the status quo becomes greater than the pain associated with the change.” Why are Christians always the last ones to adopt their systems to new cultural norms? Is it due to fear? Reggie points out that “We’re too afraid of who may walk away instead of who will come.” I agree we need to establish a system that is focused on those in our communities that are NOT coming to church. Whoa, what a selfless paradigm shift, huh?

I can go on and on, but then you’ll eventually stop reading. So let me conclude. In addition to the great main session that Reggie Joiner engaged us with, Sue Miller and Kevin Ragsdale did an awesome job speaking with us about Children and Student ministry at the breakout sessions. If you have NO idea what Orange is I encourage you to read “Think Orange.”

We want to thank the Orange Tour for coming and for the video collage.

For additional info visit: www.orangetour.org | www.orangeleaders.com | www.theorangeconference.com.