It's Orange Week, which is a time when a bunch of leaders and bloggers write posts related to The Orange Conference and the Orange Strategy. I'll be at the Orange Conference again this year. If you plan to attend, you'll want to register this week before the price goes up.
One Of My Favorite Things
The thing I love most about Orange, other than the people, is how they are constantly innovating. They're always looking to improve, add, tweak, change, and create in order to help churches win with families. I don't know about you, but our team does not have enough time to do all the things Orange does. However, we do benefit from it. It's a huge help to our church.
The Orange Conference is just over a decade old, yet I can point to numerous innovations over the years from Orange that were released at the conference. All of them have been helpful to our church.
Partnering With Parents
Partnering with parents wasn't a new idea, but the innovation of Orange made it the priority it is today in many churches. They did that by teaching about the importance of the influence of parents, creating resources for parents, and creating curriculums that are based on the value of parents leading their children.
Family Experience
This was an innovation of Reggie Joiner while he was at North Point, but Orange helped it spread to churches everywhere. The purpose is an extension of the previous innovation, the desire to help parents learn with their children and lead them in matters of faith.
Lead Small
“Lead Small” is a phrase coined by Orange to emphasize the importance of having kids and students in small groups with consistent, weekly leaders and peers. Small Groups have been a strategy in churches for some time now, but Orange helped emphasize their importance for kids and students. Our church has small groups for kids from age 3 all the way up through high school, and Orange has helped us tremendously with that effort.
Phase
Phase is one of the biggest and most recent innovations of Orange. It is a collaborative, ongoing, effort assembling classic and innovative research, with practical application for parents and church leaders that can help them understand and lead kids best at every phase of their life.
A New Revolution
Every year, I'm excited to see what's released at The Orange Conference. This year will be no different. The theme is Every Generation Needs a New Revolution and Orange is looking ahead at what the next decade will be like in ministry.
Will you be there?
