Anybody else seen the Catalyst Conference box?

Serious props!

They are ridiculously good at what they do. I’m a huge Catalyst fan. In fact, we take our entire staff to Catalyst every year. It is our “spiritual renewal” retreat. It’s like getting an IV that pumps leadership right into your veins.

For what it’s worth, I’m taking our team to several other conferences in 2006.

We did C3 in January. I’m speaking at MinistryCom in September. I’ve wanted to hit the Innovative Church Conference at Granger for years and this is the year. And I’ll take some of our team to Drive at Northpoint in November.

We’ll also doing a staff play and pray retreat in July. And we’ll do our annual planning retreat in early December.

We have a development strategy going into every year. I never want us to become a closed system at NCC so I’m extremely intentional about doing reconaissance at a variety of conferences and churches throughout the year.