I had a great experience at the 2009 Extravaganza. Lots of wonderful moments, including:
- Keynote speakers Chris Scharen (video divina) and Leslie Hunter (Pencil & the Pen)
- Varied styles of worship, all led by the incomparable Pastor LeAnn Stubbs
- Talking about cultural shifts in communication during my Facebook 101 workshop
- Seeing people that I had “met” on-line, but never had a face-to-face encounter with
- Hanging out with the Unholy Half Dozen + 1
- The best meal I’ve ever eaten (Sunday jazz brunch), courtesy of Court of Two Sisters in the French Quarter
- Reconnecting with people I haven’t seen in years
- Dancing and singing until the wee hours
- Lost And Found giving away a disc of PDFs of all their songs
- Willy the Bike Man
I didn’t take any pictures while I was there, but there are about 500 shots from E’09 over on the ELCA Youth Ministry Network site. And, for those people who wondered why two of the pictures I posted earlier were with women who aren’t my wife…here I am with DotCom hanging out at the Wartburg Seminary booth.

February 11, 2009 at 8:34 am
1. I like being the +1.
2. DotCom’s name has forever been changed.
3. Willy has the voice of an angel.
4. That’s a nice picture.