Graham Brenna

Right here… in these kids! This is what Jesus looks like today! Kyle, the kid being carried, injured his ankle yesterday playing basketball in the Interaction Center and was unable to attend last night’s large gathering. Today the 6 of us decided to walk over to the French Quarter, which is a good 10 minute walk from our hotel. Kyle started out on his crutches but soon grew tired. So instead of giving up the rest of the group decided to carry him! Jessica thought she had the hardest job

As we walked through the streets of New Orleans like this a lot of people commented on how awesome it was to see our little group pulling together so we could all be together. We didn’t want to have to leave Kyle at the hotel! This was a bonding experience for sure. They carried Kyle like this for a good 5 or 6 blocks!

I saw Jesus today!

SWEET!

I’m sitting in the Starbucks in the middle of the convention center blogging and decided to try a little social experiment. I posted a series of tweets with #JJJ09 in them asking for other Gathering attenders to come and meet me. I was getting a little nervous that my social experiment was going to fail. Finally… @stweston showed up! It was awesome! I created my own little “tweetup” right here in the convention center Starbucks! It was good to meet him! He seemed like a really cool guy! Have a great day buddy!

TWITTER FTW!

Our kids have broken off into their small groups for the day. Some are heading to the French Quarter while others are interacting in the ‘interaction center’. I’m sitting at a Starbucks in the midst of all the organized chaos blogging! I want this post to be more about the Gathering as a whole instead of just our group. Technology has been playing a really cool role in this year’s Gathering. There are TV screens up everywhere in the convention center that are scrolling pictures of people’s groups that they email to a specific address. The screens are also scrolling live twitter updates from the Gathering. Twitterers are typing #JJJ09 in their tweets which allows twitter to search for tweets related to the Gathering. Scott Post explains this phenomenon on his blog. Here is a live twitterfeed of these tweets!

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