Innovate 2

In my previous post I was in the middle of a session at the Innovate 2007 conference with dudes from CCC. Here's some of the notes I jotted down regarding the Big Idea and planning for the weekend:

More information = less clarity
One Big Idea = more clarity and action

Goal of the Big Idea - a community of transformation not information.

Big Idea Planning Timeline:
One year out - meet with lead team, teaching pastors and those involved in areas that will be affected by planning of messages - 2 day meeting to plan a year.

10-13 weeks out - teaching team takes lead and creates a document (mini essays) that talk about the series, topics, paragraphs, scriptures of what will be talking about. Big Idea drafts. These are sent out to everyone. This is the beginning document.

9 weeks out - day of creative meetings - brainstorm adult experience. Beginning middle and end of service planned, focus times, sketch ideas, message outlines, etc. Kids and small groups (and students) experiences are hammered out during this week as well.

5 weeks out - reviewing what we've learned regarding the planning of this big idea. Taking a look at what we said 4 weeks prior, do we have video shoots put together, dates scheduled for the various elements, does it all still make sense. Review.

3 weeks - manuscripts of teaching is completed and sent out. The teaching pastor receiving it finalizes it and adds/subtracts to make it personalized from them. Media pieces developed for message at this time.

2 weeks - cue sheet, transitions, reviewing. Sometimes things don't work but meticulously going over every piece to make sure it is all together.

1 week out - changes if necessary, but everything else is just a thumbs up to make sure that everything is good to go and working properly.

Thought this was a really good session. So if you ever get a chance to check out a Big Idea session with these guys, I recommend it.

I actually heard some things from Dave and Eric this time that I did not pick up on before. More on this in another post.