6 Easy Steps to Enjoying General Conference

For those of you traveling to Fort Worth tomorrow, let me offer you 6 easy steps for having a successful General Conference experience:

1. Don’t forget your hat: Here’s Your Packing List

2. Be prepared to encounter some folks engaged in an unspeakable act: Holy Conferencing.

3. Don’t forget to bring some toilet tissue for the inevitable caucus. (think about it…)

4. If you’ve already closed your letter, open it back up again.

5. Remember, we’re not the only Methodists in the world.

6. Pray.

Oh, there is one more…don’t act like a jerk. The world is watching and making an opinion of United Methodists.

In all honesty, I love you all and bless you as you represent God and His people of the United Methodist Church. Peace.

On General Conference, Lost, and South Georgia

Jay of the Methoblog has already geared up the site for General Conference blogging. There are a good many folks that will be live blogging GC and I think that this will be the first time we can really see what is happening from many perspectives almost instantly. (correct me if I’m wrong here, but we as Methodist bloggers definitely weren’t as connected in 00 and 04 as we are now). This has great implications for transparency–maybe not fully at this conference as the full effect of the instant-publishing blogging community may not be understood for an event like this.

While I regret that I will not get to take part in General Conference this year, I am serving as a district delegate for the South Georgia Annual Conference in June. I will definitely be live blogging our AC, for those who are interested. I’ve found that, even though we are in the geographic area that John and Charles Wesley landed and ministered, we don’t have a great deal of publicity! Well, hopefully I can help share what happens this year at the South Georgia Annual Conference and you all can share with me what happens at yours!

So…. This Wednesday, while many of you will be blogging away at the opening of General Conference in Texas, I will be reading my RSS feed and anxiously waiting for Lost to come back from its short hiatus.

Wi-Fi in Camden Co, GA

Between seminary and church-work, I have a lot of writing, thinking, and researching to do. I really enjoy finding new places to get away with my laptop and do some of this work. SO, I’m trying to compile a list of places in Camden County, GA that have free wi-fi (wireless internet access). I don’t know if there is a list somewhere on line.

If you have a place to add, please comment! (all places in this list should have free wi-fi, not hackable wi-fi!)

Places in Camden County, GA With Free Wi-Fi:

• The Sweetest Things
• St. Marys Down Town Development (though, unless you want to sit on their porch, it’s not much help)

That’s all I’ve got! Help me out!