If you attended OC13, you probably took a stroll through The Gallery space at the back of the Arena. And if so, we hope you hung out for a while and had a lot of fun. In case you missed it, The Gallery was a first at The Orange Conference. It was an interactive museum divided into three main areas—preschool, children’s and students—and reflected the conference “Focus” theme. Each section was unique in look and in feel, but used the common thread of wonder, discovery and passion, Orange’s three key concepts and teaching tools. Marbles were also featured in each space due to the release of Orange founder Reggie Joiner’s new book, Losing Your Marbles, which stresses that “every week matters” for parents and leaders.

It was a really incredible undertaking, and we were excited to work with a number of talented artists in the process. A huge thanks to these amazing people! Below we’ll list their websites so you can continue to support them from home.

CARPENTERS
Atlanta City Builders
http://atlantacitybuilders.webs.com/

PAINTINGS
Hannah Joiner
http://www.krop.com/kairosoul/

PRESCHOOL PHOTOGRAPHY
Kelley Ryden
http://kelleyryden.com/index2.php?v=v1#!/home

Kelle McEntegart
http://www.kellemacphotography.com

Kathleen Bowie
http://www.kathleenbowiephotography.com

CHILDREN AND PRETEEN PHOTOGRAPHY
Patrick Schneider
http://www.patrickschneiderphoto.com

STUDENT PHOTOGRAPHY
Andy Brophy
http://onenineimages.com

What do you get when you combine Tripp and Tyler with Jon Acuff? A “fun night” at Orange Conference 2013. Here are some entertaining games we learned:

1. Mexican Roulette: Go to a mexican restaurant, don’t look at the menu, order a random number, and see what you get. This is a really good date night idea.

2. Phone Roulette: Take your friends phone, blindly scroll through their contact list, pick one person, press call, hand back to friend. See how long it takes them to figure out who they’re talking to. Rule: They cannot ask the person who they are, nor can they mention this is a game.

3. I’ll Give You a Million Dollars: The next time you’re hanging out with your youth group/ small group/ d-group/ community group/ access group/ accountability group, say, “I’ll give you a million dollars if you can name what (cereal, color, car, just whatever category you want) I’m thinking of. Ready, go.” See how many guesses it takes people to guess what you’re thinking. It may take 10 guesses, it may take 200 guesses, but either way, when someone guesses it, fun times had by all. This is an especially fun game to play in a public crowd—when the guesser says the right answer, make the biggest and loudest scene possible yelling: “You just won a million dollars!” By the way, when they guess the correct answer, the million dollars isn’t real.

Originally posted on April 25, 2013, by Summer Pridemore on Roar.pro: http://roar.pro/tripp-and-tyler-at-orange-conference-shoot-christians-say-with-jon-acuff/

Wanna know what songs were performed during the main stage sessions of The Orange Conference 2013? Download the PDF of all the information!

OC Music 2013

You’ve heard that all good things must come to an end. And so it is with OC13:

This morning we’re opening registration for OC14, and we want you to make plans to be there! These are indubitably the lowest prices we’ll offer, so better get them this week before the increase. OC14 will take place here in Atlanta April 30–May 2, 2014.

INDIVIDUALS PAY ONLY $199. Save $120 off the regular registration rates.

PRECONFERENCE ONLY: $79. Put the “pre” in your conference by spending Wednesday with us at the how-to, hands-on portion of OC.

GROUPS PAY ONLY $189. Having a group-sized experience? Register 15+ this week to receive the lowest pricing available. (Tickets must total 15 or more by 11:59 p.m. on Friday, April 26, and your card will be refunded the extra $10 per ticket off $199.)

PLUS, for the first time ever, you can buy combination Orange Conference/Orange Tour tickets for $239—that’s $170 total savings! Yowza! For Orange Tour dates and locations, please visit OrangeTour.org.

As a reminder, these deals are only available this week! To purchase, please visit TheOrangeConference.com. All cards will be charged on Friday, May 3.

And don’t forget—we’re still knee-deep into OC13, so stick with us. Today will be packed with more keynote and breakout sessions, so follow our bloggers through their websites, as well as their Twitter pages (search hash tag #OC13). You can find us on Twitter and Facebook, too. Also, be sure to follow the live stream of the event at OrangeLeaders.com. You can view the schedule here. Besides terrific content, you might just win yourself a little something.

As if there wasn’t enough shiny and new each year at The Orange Conference, we work diligently to create and debut resources while we’re all there together. Here is a list of what you can expect to see in our on-site store. These items will be available online around mid-May for the retail price.

BOOKS
Losing Your Marbles/Playing for Keeps: A Lot Can Happen in a Week. by Reggie Joiner, Elizabeth Hansen, and Kristen Ivy
Retail: $21.99             OC13 Special: $16.99
Whether you’re a parent or a leader, you’re making history. The question is: What kind of history are you making with the kids and teenagers who are closest to you? Losing Your Marbles combines a short story about a kid named Simon with a few key principles to help you discover how you can make history this week. Based on this year’s conference theme, this book highlights six things every kid needs from the parents and leaders who are closest to them.

Leading A Special Needs Ministry: A Practical Guide to Including Children and Loving Families by Amy Fenton Lee
Retail: $18.99             OC13 Special: $15.99
This book serves as a practical “how-to” handbook for the family ministry team working to welcome one or 100 children with special needs. Easily referenced guidance is offered for expressing care for parents who are learning that their child has a diagnosis all the way to developing programs, policies and education for volunteers working with children with disabilities. Example ministry documents are provided throughout this resource guide.

Skeeples ’N’ Lomes by Greg Payne
Retail: $17.99             OC13 Special: $15.99
This is the story of how yellow Skeeples, and the red Lomes learn to work together to help a child in trouble. It may look like a kid’s storybook. It may even sound like a kid’s storybook, but it’s a great way to communicate the Orange Strategy to volunteers, parents and leaders.

Minutes Matter: Adventures That Help Parents Shape Faith ^{COMING SOON}
Retail: $25.00
Parenting is an adventure full of ups and downs, open highways and hairpin turns. It’s the ride of your life, and there’s never a dull moment! Each and every one of those moments is important, for they influence the person your preschooler will become. In just a few minutes, you can influence and shape your preschooler’s faith. In just a few minutes, you can begin a foundation that will last a lifetime. In just a few minutes, you can create a memory that will live forever.

Designed for families with preschoolers, Minutes Matter equips parents to capture the time they already have to influence their kids. Each monthly card gives parents three options for fun, interactive and purposeful activities that will shape their family and their faith. Choose one or do all three based on your family’s schedule and circumstances.

Know God: A 28-Day Devotional Experience for Kids.
Retail: $14.99            OC13 Special $9.99
What do you give a kid who takes a first step in his or her faith? Whether they just prayed a prayer, got baptized, or just started showing up and asking more questions, you want to help them discover how to have a growing relationship with Christ. We think there are four faith skills that can help any kid Know God more, which is why we created this four-week experience to help them begin to: HEAR, PRAY, TALK, LIVE.

Know God: A 28-Day Devotional Experience for Students.
Retail: $14.99             OC13 Special: $9.99
What do you give a student who takes a first step in his or her faith? Whether they just prayed a prayer, got baptized, or just started showing up and asking more questions, you want to help them discover how to have a growing relationship with Christ. We think there are four faith skills that can help any student Know God more, which is why we created this four-week experience to help them begin to: HEAR, PRAY, TALK, LIVE.

VIDEO
Playing for Keeps: Six things every kid needs . . . over time. DVD/Book Bundle
Retail: $49.00             OC13 Special: $39.00
Playing for Keeps is a video resource created to remind, inspire, and challenge leaders, parents, and anyone else who is investing in the next generation.

There are approximately 968 weeks from the day a child is born until he or she graduates high school and probably moves out into the world. If you’re a parent or leader, you are running out of time. Your days of influence are limited. That’s why we think it’s time to get serious about what you do with your time. Each 10-minute video in Playing for Keeps identifies one thing you are probably already doing, that has the potential to make a significant impact if you keep doing it. This item is currently only bundled with the book, Losing Your Marbles/Playing for Keeps.

Do For A Few: A Training in How to Lead Small DVD
Retail: $69.00       OC13 Special: $49.00
Discipling the next generation is a BIG challenge with a SMALL solution. That’s why you organized your ministry relationally. You understood that multiple leaders committed to do for a few would have more potential than what you could ever do for many.

Do For A Few is designed to give you everything you need to invest in and train your small group leaders. Contents include: Event guide, videos by Reggie Joiner, video outlines, discussion questions, Do For A Few Prezi, slides and graphics.

Leading Change Without Losing It: A Study Guide for Leadership Teams DVD/Book Bundle
Retail: $29.00             OC13 Special $19.00
Use this study guide to help your leadership team master five strategies that can transform how you lead change when facing opposition. Disc includes: Video overview by the author about Leading Change Without Losing it; 12 videos by the author that will take you and your team deeper into the change process; and study guide with questions and exercises designed to help you and your team evaluate where you are in the change process and how to move forward.

All videos are available in DVD and QuickTime formats. Study guide is print, Evernote, and iBook friendly. Product bundle includes: Enhanced DVD and one print edition of the book, Leading Change Without Losing It.

MISCELLANEOUS
XP3 Basic Truth Posters Retail: $24.00             OC13 Special: $18.00
These posters enhance your environments, as well as reinforce the Three Basic Truths. This pack consists of three 24”x36” posters.

Legacy Countdown App
FREE
Visualize time. This App was designed for anyone who works with kids or teenagers. Why not put a visual number to the time you have left? When you count the weeks you have left with a kid, you stand a better chance of making your weeks count.

We’ll also have some awesome sales on existing resources on-site, and special offers like YouLead for only $129. Don’t miss this opportunity to save some cash!

Our new resources will be available in our online store after The Orange Conference, so look for them around mid-May. Pricing is subject to change. Please visit OrangeStore.org for our full line of resources.

Whether you’re joining us in Atlanta this week, or following The Orange Conference through various Twitter feeds, our live stream, bloggers, or via this blog, here’s some helpful and important information.

ATTENDEES

• Remember to assign tickets, select breakouts and print tickets before arriving at on-site registration. Need help with any of that?
  • Download Ticket and Welcome Kit
  • Assign_Tickets
  • Name_Change
  • Add_Preconference
  • Select_Breakouts

(If you need to reset your username or password, click “Forgot password or username?” on the login page.)

• The official Orange Conference Twitter hash tag is #OC13.
• Support our social justice exhibitors in the Convention Center: DOOR Network, Land of a Thousand Hills Coffee Co., Operation Christmas Child, Rice Bowls, and The 410 Bridge.
• Participate in on-site contests.
• Be social at any of our Gatherings.
• Visit our amazing marble display and Gallery in the back of the Arena.
• Most food trucks accept credit cards with a minimum purchase.
• Download the iPhone App. (insert App logo)

NON-ATTENDEES

• Download the iPhone App to keep the conference with you wherever you go. (insert App logo)
• Follow our on-site bloggers for unique perspectives.
• Watch our live stream at OrangeLeaders.com. It’s also a good idea to sign up here for additional information and offers.
• Follow @OrangeLeaders on Twitter during the conference.
• Follow The Orange Conference Twitter hashtag, #OC13.
• Check Facebook for updates and pictures.

PLEAE NOTE: If you attempt to reach any staff members between April 23 and 26, response will be delayed. We will be in touch with you as soon as possible.

For you lovers of the written word, we’ll be hosting a few book signings with some of your favorite authors, and ours. They’ll take place outside on the lower level in front of the buildings, for both the Convention Center and Arena.

Thursday, April 25, 2013, AT THE CONVENTION CENTER

12:40 p.m.
Andy Stanley (tentative)
Ken Coleman
Kara Powell

4:55 p.m.
Jim Wideman
Craig Jutila
Carey Nieuwhof

Friday, April 26, 2013, AT THE ARENA

10:30 a.m.
Bob Goff
Doug Fields
Jeff Shinabarger

12:30 p.m.
Sherry Surratt

3:15 p.m.
Brad Lomenick
Perry Noble

This schedule is subject to change so please be flexible on-site.

Core Essentials Contest

Want to impact kids and families in public schools? Imagine challenging the students that you work with to go on a mission trip every day in their public school. This is Core Essentials Values. And they want to help you realize your dream.

Stop by their booth at OC13 to sign up for free coaching! The winner of each giveaway (children’s and student ministry) will receive step-by-step coaching from the Core Essential Values team. Packed with enthusiasm and resources, a Re:Co (middle/high school) or a Core (elementary) Specialist will come to YOUR CHURCH for one full day. They will make their efforts custom fit to your needs. You can talk through the partnership one-on-one, have them present at your staff meeting, take them along to your partnering school, and more. The possibilities are endless, and so are the rewards.

They will even take care of their own travel expenses and arrangements within the domestic USA. Coaching is available between May 2013 and March 2014. For more information, click here.

OC Through Your Eyes

What does The Orange Conference look like to you? We want to see it through your eyes. Your experience is as unique as you are, and we want to be a part of it. And, we imagine, so do your friends, family and co-workers that can’t make the trip with you. When you check-in at OC13 Registration, we’ll provide you with a list of photo suggestions to use as a lens, but feel free to make it up as you go along. Who knows? We may even love one of your photos so much that we give you a gift for it, or use it on future promotional pieces.

There’s going to be a lot of activity going on at the Gwinnett Center in a couple of days once OC13 gets started. In this frenzy, many things will be happening simultaneously, and we want you to stay in the loop as much as possible. One of the best ways to do that is to not only watch the live stream from your home or office, but follow our bloggers throughout the experience.

Here’s who you can expect to tell you all about their experience and the latest from OC13:

• Amy Fenton Lee, The Inclusive Church (Special Needs)
• Anthony Price, WestCoastCM (Children’s Ministry)
• Ben Read, YouthMin (Youth Ministry)
• David Lyons, MinisterSearch (Helping Churches Find Leaders)
• Elle Campbell, Stuff You Can Use (Youth Ministry and Resources)
• Jared Massey, Small Town Kidmin
• JC Thompson (Preteen Ministry)
• Jeremy Lee, UthMin (Middle School Ministry)
• Joe McAlpine (NextGen Leadership)
• Jonathan Cliff (Children’s, Student, and Family Ministry, Leadership, Parenting)
• Kenny Conley (Children’s Ministry)
• Matt McKee (Technology Leadership)
• Matt Norman (Children’s Ministry)
• Michael Bayne (Student and Family Ministry)
• Nick Blevins (Family Ministry and Leadership)
• Ryan Reed (Mission, Church, Culture, Student Ministry)
• Justin Wise (Leadership and Social Media)
• Terrace Crawford (Student Ministry)
• Tom Pounder, Ministry Blackboard (Student and Family Ministry)
• Tom Shefchunas, Coach Shef (Middle School Ministry)
• Tonya Langdon, KidMin1124 and SpecialNeedKidz (Special Needs, Mental Illness, Behavioral, Developmental)
• Wendy Douglas (Children’s Ministry, Moms Ministry, Parenting)

You can also follow everyone along on Twitter by searching #OC13 and #thinkorange.

CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE LIVE STREAM (Streaming begins at 7:20 p.m. EDT on April 24, 2013)

Over 5,500 of you will be joining us in Atlanta this week—a sell-out crowd! And while we’d love for everyone reading this to be here in person for OC13, we realize that’s not always possible. So, we’d like to offer you the next best thing: tune in online. You’ll be able to see on and off-stage action, including session streaming, speaker interviews, mayhem and hi-jinx, resource updates and giveaways, and perhaps even win a ticket to OC14!

Sign up to receive additional information and perks. We will not spam you, or sell your info. That’s just rude.

And if you will be on-site with us, you’ll be able to watch the interviews and live stream action in person this year from upstairs in the Convention Center and in the YouLead Lounge!

Be sure to sign up so you have every little detail your heart desires, including special offers. And don’t forget to invite you friends to watch with you!

Schedule subject to change—note the aforementioned mayhem and hi-jinx.

Updated 4.22.2013

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24

7:20 p.m.                  Welcome to OC13!

7:30 p.m.                  Conference Opening & Main Session #1

THURSDAY, APRIL 25

11:00 a.m.                  Welcome

11:05 a.m.                  Ken Coleman Interview

11:25 a.m.                  Pat Barrett and Ben Smith Interview

11:40 a.m.                  TBD Interview

12:00 p.m.                 Kevin Ragsdale Interview

12:15 p.m.                  Yancy Richmond Interview

12:30 p.m.                 Denise Downs Interview

12:45 p.m.                 Craig Jutila Interview

1:00 p.m.                   Kenny Conley Interview

1:15 p.m.                    Tom Shefchunas Interview

1:30 p.m.                   Brain White Interview

1:45 p.m.                    Re:Connect Team Interview

2:00 p.m.                   Core Essentials Values Team Interview

2:15 p.m.                    Doug Fields Interview

2:30 p.m.                   Land of a Thousand Hills Coffee Co. Interview

2:45 p.m.                    Cindy Fiala Interview

3:00 p.m.                   Jon Acuff Interview

3:15 p.m.                    Kara Powell Interview

3:30 p.m.                   Lanny Donoho Interview

3:45 p.m.                   Ted Lowe Interview

4:00 p.m.                   Brad Lomenick Interview

4:15 p.m.                    Jeanne Stevens Interview

4:30 p.m.                   Break

5:25 p.m.                    Family Experience Showcase Introduction

5:30 p.m.                    Family Experience Showcase

FRIDAY, APRIL 26

10:30 a.m.                  Welcome

10:35 a.m.                  Adam Duckworth Interview

10:45 a.m.                 Sue Miller Interview

11:00 a.m.                  Jeff Shinabarger Interview

11:15 a.m.                  TOMS Shoes

11:30 a.m.                  Bob Goff Interview

11:45 a.m.                  Amy Fenton Lee Interview

12:00 p.m.                  Perry Noble Interview

12:15 p.m.                  Sherry Surratt Interview

12:30 p.m.                  Skeeples ’n’ Lomes

12:40 p.m.                  Charles Jenkins Interview

1:00 p.m.                    Kristen Ivy Interview

1:15 p.m.                    Stuart Hall Interview

1:30 p.m.                    Ben Crawshaw Interview

1:45 p.m.                    TBD Interview

2:00 p.m.                    Michael Bayne Interview

2:15 p.m.                    Pat Rowland Interview

2:35 p.m.                    M.C. Haggis and Shamus McFamous

2:45 p.m.                    Heather Zempel Interview

3:00 p.m.                    John Huber Interview

3:15 p.m.                    Carey Nieuwhof Interview

3:35 p.m.                    Break

4:00 p.m.                    Intro Main Session #7

4:05 p.m.                   Main  Session #7

Are there some unfamiliar names? Well, they could just be your new favorite speaker in waiting! Check out their bios over at TheOrangeConference.com.