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May 24, 2008
Foursquare Convention 2008
Filed under: Brad Works
Jamaica and I arrived in Houston yesterday for the annual Foursquare Convention. We're here for eight days, mostly because of all the pre-convention logistics to work through. So while Jamaica gets some focused study time for her upcoming LSAT, I'm swirling in event minutiae. There are just over 3,000 people registered and we'll have close to 3,500 in total attendance.
A few things I am anticipating...
- The Monday night opening is going to be quite dramatic. We've partnered with the local arts district here in Houston and several singers/actors are helping out.
- Houston Mayor Bill White is bringing greetings Monday night.
- Israel & New Breed are live Tuesday night--almost 20 people in their crew!
- Mr. Smiley (a.k.a. Joel Osteen) shot a video greeting that we're rolling on Monday night.
- Kirbyjon Caldwell--of recent Bush wedding fame--is speaking Thursday night.
- We've got a special guest from NASA sharing on Wednesday night.
- The Foursquare national leader from Myanmar (Burma) in town. He'll share updates on Monday.
- We're debuting a new video on Thursday night about Foursquare that people are going to love.
I'm grateful for the hundreds of volunteers that have gathered together from Foursquare churches in the Houston area to help pull this thing off. And special props, as always, to the core convention crew: Steve Cauble, Mitchie Sarmiento, Mike Fullerton and the rest of my team for making the journey enjoyable.
Here we go!
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Brad, it was great to meet you this week. We really enjoyed being at the conference. You have a great team! Congrats to you and your entire team on a job well done! Grant
Posted by: Grant at May 28, 2008 2:00 PM
Thanks Grant. You guys did a great job last night!
Posted by: Brad Abare at May 28, 2008 2:29 PM