Celebrating DiscipleLife from David Timmons

For me, celebrating DiscipleLife involves refining our Mission Assembly communication and technology capabilities so we can be connected with each another in additional meaningful ways. My celebration is being appreciative of the gifts God has given me and using them to enhance our Mission Assembly experience.

Our 2011 Mission Assembly was a big event. I had the opportunity to break new ground with the introduction of social media into the weekend activities. Our team planned and built and discussed and hoped for the best as we facilitated a new way of connecting with one another previously absent from past Assemblies. What I found most exciting was our live feed of Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube event coverage streaming throughout the monitors of the convention center. Church colleagues were able to keep tabs on everything happening that weekend while engaging with one another in our Facebook group.

Our 2012 Mission Assembly will be even bigger. This year as co-chair, I have had the opportunity to suggest additional new ideas engendering what I hope will be a memorable weekend for our clergy and congregations able to be with us. We will still have our social media team, but now we will also have a geocache event, an infrastructure for accepting videos from our churches, and a few other concepts being worked in the background. And this isn't even mentioning the concurrent Glocal Gathering! We are all excited about that idea!

I have celebrated my DiscipleLife these past two years in part by forming new connections between people through technology. As we move into the future, my hope is the ideas now planted will spring into life and beget even more innovative methods of connecting and informing God's people.

David Timmons
(2012 Mission Assembly Co-Chair)