I was not able to attend this year’s Orange Conference but I stayed plugged in through their live feed and social media posts. Here are my favorite tweets from the conference:
Leadership
“You can only lead someone as far as you have gone yourself.”
“Time management hack: Look at your week and ask yourself “What 3 things have to happen for this week to be successful?”
“Saying yes to the wrong things is a momentum killer. Be willing to say no.”
“Language should be: • Relevant • Memorable • Repeatable • Effective.”
The first time you do something should be the worst time. Every other time you should be getting better at it.
“Never fight the battle of the “how to” until you have fought the battle of the value of why.”
“Courage is creating a stop doing list to do something better. Be intentional.”
“There’s an inexorable correlation between leadership and change.”
“You need 2 people in your life: 10 yrs ahead of you to show you potholes. 10 yrs behind to show you where the culture is heading.”
“You can’t fall in love with your method, you have to fall in love with your mission if you’re going to be an effective leader.”
“Change the world by investing in one life.”
“Celebrate what you want repeated.”
“Never apologize for having high standards for your leaders!”
“A healthy team culture, creates healthy church, which creates a healthy community.”
Volunteers
Church: we have the most important mission on the planet. Don’t apologize when asking 4 volunteers.”
“Few things are more demotivating to a volunteer than discovering staff didn’t set them up to succeed. Be organized.”
“Non-financial currencies to pay your volunteers: Gratitude, Attention, Trust, Empowerment, Respect.”
“Remind your volunteers often that even if they can’t always see it – they are making a difference.”
“Do we treat our volunteers well enough that they would recruit others to volunteer in our ministry?”
Taking Care of You
“If your only common ground with your spouse is your kids…they’re going to leave 1 day…then what?”
“Hustle is an act of FOCUS, not FRENZY.”
“Burnout doesn’t happen overnight. Passion fades. Your heart grows hard. Rest isn’t refuelling. Learn self-care, not self-medication.”
Family Ministry
“Parents don’t need something else to do. Give them an activity to do during times they all ready have with their kids.”
“For a blended family, attending church together 26 weeks a year is perfect attendance.”
“Reaching and keeping families at your church demands you plan and create systems so families can take next steps!”
“How to reach & keep families: Visitors will make a decision whether or not they will return within 7 sec of parking.”
“Only 18% of unchurched population fit into “traditional family” category. How does your strategy reach all families?”
“The church should be the BEST place that all parents can go to coached and equipped on becoming better parents.”
“One of the best gifts a church can give a kid or teen is to help parents have a thriving marriage.”
Connecting with Kids
“Kids will forget what you say, they will forget what you did, but kids will never forget how you made them feel.”
Next Gen Ministry
“Teenagers will never believe they are significant until you give them something significant to do.”
“The sooner you get students involved in ministry the more solid their relationship with Jesus becomes.”
You can find more tweets by searching the following hashtags: #OC15, #justaphase, #thinkorange.
Keep the conversation going! Did you follow the conference online or attend the conference in person? What were some of your favorite tweets or quotes?