EP362: Final Preview - Jeff Talks CTRL+ALT+Recover Summit

that is real live exhaustion hey everybody jeff with the church digital to checking my volume i

think i'm a nice strong level i have been running i've been running today today has been the type

of day i looked at my phone at nine o'clock actually i put this on facebook looked at my

phone at 9 a.m this morning it was fully charged when i left my house and at 9 a.m it was like at 67 68

i have been let's see oh you know what i've actually been charging it for a couple minutes

but right now it's at 48 even before lunch like well you know i guess it's after lunch at this

point but it has been a solid solid day for multiple reasons uh first off been doing some consulting

working with a a church i like this church it's a small it's a presbyterian church but they're

they're thinking like presbyterians no offense to presbyterians but it's it's been it's been a lot

of fun kind of working with a different church environment and of course we got the uh control

of recover conference happening tomorrow so i'll be getting into that here in in a little bit but

right now um wanted to uh you know first off literally like ran into the car uh the road that i

was on was under construction and so i had to detour the tesla got me around and and you know normally

i tried to get like 20 30 minutes to prep and i had like less than 10 uh so much so forgot to make a

cup of coffee and uh yeah it's uh it's been that been that kind of day muscle milk for lunch but i am

excited i am excited to get with you and talk about coverage coming up control i'll recover we had

digital neighborhoods was last week it was six days ago it feels like so long ago because we've been

as an organization focused on on their on the recovery conference but digital neighborhoods

we had jason morris jmo was on uh thursday last week talking about it and uh we also had um

oh my gosh jate live is in the house hey jate he's got his streamer voice on ha ha ha i jate man it's

good to see you my friend i i'm excited jate is actually one of the keynote speakers

for our gaming conference on october 8th and so i cannot wait jate it's been it's been way too

long my friends since i have seen and had a conversation with you and so i'm gonna show up in discord on

october 8th kick back and watch you my friend uh with the keynote i'm looking forward with uh european

conference on october 1st and and the gaming conference october 8th i have like very little to do with those

conferences like i i will be a a pretty face and maybe tech support in the background but simon dirks

in europe and and and andy and layton man they've been running with those respective conferences and so

odd man i'm so looking forward to that jate and uh and some others are speaking uh at the gaming conference

and the and the european they've got i don't know 15 actually it was funny last night i actually had a

got a conversation first time i've had a phone call conversation with an artificial intelligence

agent i filled out a form on on a website we were trying to figure out how to do like live translation

uh for the conference and so there's a company that hublo recommends or at least they've worked with and

so called the car reached out to the company filled out the form on the website so i you know i'd hopefully

get a call back i literally and when i press send less than 30 seconds later i get a call and it's like

eight o'clock at night and i'm like that's weird and it was a call from temple texas i didn't know

anybody from temple texas i normally screen calls but for some reason i just decided to pick up that

call and i literally had a 20 minute conversation with artificial intelligence from this company

it was gathering information about me trying to figure out what my needs were how urgent it was

like i it was funny i texted jesse carbo right after it happened i was like dude

like artificial intelligence phone call artificial intelligence agents to collect and disseminate

and traffic cop me to the right people incredible i i would do that excuse me i would do that anytime

that was lunch coming back up in case you were curious i do apologize so we're all about artificial

intelligence agents just a little tip here with the church digital uh but i probably can't afford it but

hey it's it was it was kind of cool to to talk to ai you know it really only made one mistake uh out of

a 15 20 minute phone call my wife as funny she's sitting next to me and she she was like was was the

person you were talking to where were they they have a learning disability and i laughed i was like

no why would you say that she's like because you didn't talk like you normally would talk you talked

very clear and you talked in very precise language uh you normally like you know it's wasn't i was not

conversational talking with ai i was like very precise making sure i gave it the correct props and

she says yeah you were you were not natural at all in the conversation but either way i think ai got

what it needed to get out of it but it was cool like it was it was interacting with me like i said

something and it's like it was asking follow-up questions like that's a great idea how long were the

speakers going to talk and what languages like it was a it was literal conversation it was not

filling out a form it was a literal conversation which i thought was was awesome

but that has nothing nothing to do with the control all recover conference digital neighborhoods which

doesn't have anything to do with it either but i want just wanted to say it digital neighborhoods we

had a great conference uh september 17th last week last week wednesday uh and so had

400 400 plus people show up day of the event we had close to 700 register was excited about that but

400 people showed up for the conference throughout the entire uh throughout the entire day four or

five keynotes jmo and i we we broke it down uh on thursday so check out the last episode whichever

number it was 381 i guess or 361 for for more information on that we also showed one of the

keynotes uh i just blanked on which one we showed which one did we show jeff anderstelt jeff anderstelt

talking about um gospel uh fluency and so really really fascinating conversation if you registered

for the conference you're going to get access to the videos on demand when we when we publish them

probably in the next week or so uh so you know uh if you registered good for you if you didn't

register what the crap like come on bro why why do you hate me so much like i i take it personal at

this point we've talked about the conferences so much you're watching me on the stream and so if

you're not actually signed up for the conference just sign up for one of the conferences here's the

deal go to missionary.digital www.missionary.digital i'm gonna go ahead and go there right now i'm gonna

push the magic button and i'm gonna guilt trip you you need to sign up for the conferences at

www.missionary.digital um yeah uh so sign up for that we've got four conferences coming up

uh we've got why is that cut off let me see if i can get that to look better

nope not that let's do that i have no idea grab there you go for some reason it was cut off on

the screen uh so we've got four conferences coming up uh obviously we did the september 17th it is

done but if you want access to it on demand just register for one of the other three september 24th

october 1st european conference european digital missionary summit and october 8th the gaming summit

on uh to the tomorrow we're going to be talking a lot about recovery uh about what uh christ-centered

recovery looks like in in digital but on top of that let's let's just acknowledge we're we are doing

ministry in addictive platform with people that are addicted to said platform likely addicted to said

platform or are more likely to show addictive tendencies on those platforms because people

are more transparent digitally and we're inviting volunteers to minister alongside us in these

addictive platforms the the reality is that as digital ministers as digital pastors as digital

missionaries we are so likely to get burned out i can even just are just burned damaged fried

done i i i listen if if you know my story you know you know me 2023 was a horrible year where i was uh

physically broken emotionally fried spiritually bankrupt and and really it was coming to terms with that

in that brokenness and god finding me in the midst of that and restoring me and bringing me back

back really is the reason that i'm here today and the reason that i'm so passionate about helping others

that are in said position so like listen if we're just i'm going to be transparent with you here

in this moment if you're broken if you're struggling if you're frustrated if you're damaged if you're

fried if you're burned out if you are something other than like glorifying god like we want to help you

a figure out how to help your restoration begin one two we want to help you figure out how to

get to the point where you can help others that are in this and so like it's if we're gonna if we're

really going to help others we've got to shine the light on ourselves if we're going to shine the light

in the darkness of the digital and the darkness of the metaverse that we got comfortable shining

that light on ourselves and if we've got lingering issues if we've got doubt if we've got um lingering

sin that that's in place we we've got to work that out we've got to shine light on that because it's

amazing when we shine light on that on ourselves god god does something with that transparency and

digitally that is so attractive digitally to be open and transparent vulnerable in digital spaces

it's amazing the beatitudes blessed are the poor blessed are the meek blessed are the persecuted

like if you implement the beatitudes in your digital ministry

the amount of people you can reach the amount of people that are going to engage and connect with you

because you are broken to the point that god can use you in digital space and i'm getting too much

into the conference i don't want to give it away so here's what i'm going to say you want digital

neighborhoods you want to sign up for control alt recover sign up save your spot scroll down here

actually i think it's right up here at the top somewhere in here there's a button that says register

now we're 19 hours away can you believe it 19 hours away click that button and register for the conference

we've got a bunch of keynote speakers we got a bunch of things coming up we got a ton of sponsors i am so

excited about the sponsors that have showed up for this conference uh that have showed up for all the

conferences and that are strongly endorsing the road that we as digital missionaries are are on

like really as i look at at all of these sponsors i'm going to be honest i see organizations that are

endorsing the idea of digital evangelism of digital discipleship of vulnerability in digital spaces of

doing something different to reach someone different and you know what it freaking makes me excited

because there's opportunities today digitally that we've never had before and here's a list of

organizations and sponsors you're going to meet more of them at the conference here's a list of

organizations and sponsors that are like we want to be a part of what you're doing we want to see the

vision of reaching people in digital space happen in a big way and so sign up for these conferences but

this this is what i want to do i want to give you a sneak peek of what's coming up for the conference

and so you should have gotten i think an email with if you registered an email went today

out today there was there was some confusion on the link if i'm honest where we we sent out a wrong link

uh to to get connected into the conference but right now if you go to recovery uh recovery r-e-c-o-v-e-r-y

dot missionary dot digital recovery dot missionary dot digital it'll redirect and it's going to get

you into the conference listing page and so this is the page where we've got all the information

a for the website for the conference but b tomorrow morning like when the conference starts

11 a.m eastern u.s eastern utc minus four when that starts off at 11 a.m you're going to go to control

you're going to go to recovery dot missionary dot digital

and slide over something in the frame and when you're in here you can start to dig in you can

see all the keynote speakers conrad cooper uh is speaking shepi uh uh uh mfucking i i i got

i i'm to shepi i'm sorry i butchered that shepi mfucking i'll have to get better at that uh for

tomorrow nate graybill talking shepi we'll get into here in a little bit nate's doing a keynote

let's see who else is oh there's the the button there uh laura howe is doing a talk and uh andy

mage is doing one as well here's all the speakers look at this andy mage the church digital's own

andy mage is is wrapping up uh talking about uh what recovery looks like for digital ministry and and

why to be honest vulnerability is so important to any digital minister to any digital pastor and how

attractive it is digitally to be vulnerable to be transparent to be honest conrad cooper is the

um uh founder and executive director of project exodus an organization that we are partnering we

the church digital are partnering with with to do recovery uh season south africa and so excited to

be working closer with project exodus and uh shepi uh is actually one of the people to uh that is has

gone through project exodus and and shepi's going to tell her story about how she went through recovery

she she was damaged she was fried but the recovery process actually amplified it it it it strengthened her

ministry opportunities by recognizing the vulnerability of the situation that she's in great story phenomenal

story can't wait for you to hear it so shepi and stacy knapp tcd's uh uh chaplain and director of care

they do a conversation uh my good friend nate graybill is coming on as well nate is the uh was the national

director of regeneration watermark church dallas regeneration is an incredible recovery process

uh that's working uh globally and so nate's coming on and doing a keynote i think nate's talk

is going to be centered around um what is nate's talk on on the church and and how the church needs to

recognize uh what the church needs to know what the church needs to learn the big c church needs to learn

about recovery and then we've got laura howe oh my gosh uh mental health summit church mental health

summit she's going nuts this week they've got a huge conference coming up friday we're big fans of

the church mental health summit and if you are familiar with them go if you're not go google them

they got a massive conference happening friday but we were so good even in the midst of that to get

laura howe uh to speak laura howe is the uh founder and executive director of hope made strong uh which

is an organization that helps churches and individuals understand recovery she's basically

a networker and connector of of church recovery she's actually in canada and so i'm way up way up way

up north in canada and so um but she's talking about hey if we're gonna if we're gonna shine the light

externally we really got to be prepared to shine that light internally and so what does it look

like to shine that light on ourselves y'all i mean i was really excited i i crafted the conference uh

for missionaries uh digital missionaries digital uh neighborhoods i mean i that was i was really

excited about that i knew the message that that i wanted to portray god did something incredibly

different with that conference and i was so blessed by what happened but in large part it was stepping

back and and letting god do his thing and and in similar ways i'll just be honest with this recovery

uh because i'm i am not a recovery expert if anything i'm a novice uh you know if the hair club

for men i'm not just the president i'm also a client like i i am if you don't know what hair club for men is

never mind but the the fact is that i came into this thing really hands-off asking a lot of questions

and saying even in the creative process okay god what do you want to do here what message do you want to

tell what is the takeaway how can a recovery a digital missionary recovery conference how can that help people

today and working with stacy working with andy working with laura how working with nate working

with project exodus working with so many of these people conrad cooper and the project exodus team it

has been so exciting to see how the ideas have developed and formalized i was really excited about the conference

last week for a selfish level because like that was my brain child and and and i really wanted those

ideas to to come out i may be more excited about the conference this week than that one because i

believe god's going to do something really phenomenal in in the time that's about to come up and so

stay tuned all right stay tuned don't i don't know what but come to the conference if you haven't signed

up uh go to www.missionary digital to get signed up for that let's swing by here uh and see what else we

have on the conference page i have lost my mouse is anybody my mouse is down on an ipad how the garbage did

my mouse get on the ipad and now it's gone everything's gone i am so confused right now

seriously my mouse got to an ipad oh there it is and i don't know how all right

technical issues that should have been resolved in advance but we did not that that is on me okay all

right let's look at what else we got here oh my gosh all the sponsors um y'all straight up i'm asking

a favor click in these virtual booths check out the sponsors that are here download their stuff have

conversations all of these people one they buy into digital mission work two they buy in and they're

supporting us to help us help you three the stuff that they are promoting the tools that they're

they're getting out there are so helpful they're so beneficial they're so meaningful to you their

stories are so encouraging for you there is incredible opportunities for for you all to to dig in here and

so check out global church movements uh tcd of course jesus film uh promoting next steps an incredible

tool there god tools an incredible tool true center is is coming up for this one i'm excited to get you all

connected to true center right now media come to the conference and we're going to give you a right

now media account for free i'm going to go and tell you right now the church.digital slash right now

media the church.digital slash right now media go and sign up for your free right now media account

by the way true center take your free true center account the church.digital

slash true center the church.digital slash true center like people are giving stuff away can you see what

i'm doing here like this is an incredible opportunity for you to get resources to help you do ministry

better and to have your team do ministry better or if you don't have a team let's recruit a team

so you can do ministry better like you see how this is working like dig into this conference invest in the

right now media uh reliant fundraising uh cherith bam portals excited about them regeneration we

talked about earlier project exodus we talked about earlier mission alliance is is one of the primary

sponsors for the european conference coming up lots of opportunities y'all lots and lots of lots of

opportunities all right i'm gonna see if i can do this let's let's see if i can do this on camera you

ready i'm gonna try to do oh yeah i gotta push the button back i i'm trying to do the exact same

you ever do that where you're like how what was i doing

to come up with that on on the thumbnail like i don't i don't understand what i was doing that's me

talking naturally okay like i'm doing this like i was i was a minute two minute long video and and

it decided to freeze me on itself when i'm doing this what was i saying that this is my my my visual

response that i would do this by the way if you're listening on audio podcast you are so lost right

now i just want to draw attention to that you should totally be watching this over on youtube so come

over to youtube youtube.com slash the church digital by the way subscribe when you're there follow like

you know like do that and and i'm much more enjoyable on on youtube than i am audio podcast

check this out we didn't dig into this much uh with the last conference but we're going to

uh for this one leaderboard yeah i like i like to goop off goof off i'm a competition guy and so uh

with the conference uh the more that you engage with people the more that you chat the more meetings that

you have the longer you spend the keynotes the the more points you get and there's going to be

a winner at the day right now i'm i'm in the lead because

i built a conference i guess um and i built it under my login which is why i'm in the lead

but i totally want to give it over to somebody else i'm trying to think i don't actually remember who won

the last conference it's a great question don't know hey listen if you go to uh um

oh let me show you this this one last thing all right this is very important all right

uh tomorrow when you sign up when you when you show up or tomorrow at any point if you have tech issues

or if you have um questions on schedule or you're just lost in general and don't know what to do

down here at the bottom there's this little red orange chat bubble thing you can start to see it

right there go ahead and click on that it'll open up and there's an opportunity to chat with some of

our volunteers in in tech support and so uh some tcd volunteers will be manning uh the chat bot and

happy to answer questions as they come up uh and so feel free to dig in ask questions chances are me

and some of the others uh you know our pockets may be vibrating with the mobile app or we'll be able to

engage with it i just found out it's cool like this actually automatically translate multiple languages

and so next week with the european conference um we get to have uh yeah i'll be able to have

conversations with spanish and portuguese and all these different languages uh via text chat ai

really cool man i'm excited about some of the audio translation stuff that's come out

even um i haven't done this yet in miami but having the um the live translation in the airpods these are

the twos not the threes but i i think with the firmware update it still works so lots of cool

opportunities coming up with the conference tomorrow remember like this is what's coming up if you've got

questions feel free to click the chat thing down at the bottom but there's a menu bar up at the top

that's going to give you all the directions that you need receptions kind of an overview page

of everything that's happening in a video from me to tell you kind of what's up there's the schedule

you can click on and in the schedule gives you a full-on listing of each keynote in the sessions

and the times uh there's no breakout so primarily everything's either going to be scheduled or in

tables there's a sponsorship sponsors where there's a section with all the sponsors once again you can

access everything that they got working on here with the sponsors you can click on the tables and

their sponsor tables there's prayer tables uh prayer tables here there's general conversation

tables open tables like you know me the church digital like we the the the way to maximize the

conference is to talk to each other engage learn something and so we really want to maximize the

conferences that are happening here by having conversations with people and so you can just

simply click on uh this may break something we'll see uh but you can simply click on um and i'm just

going to join uh real quick and so right now i'm sitting at this table and it's just me but if somebody

else was in here um let me see if i can change the view no i can't change the view because somebody else

was sitting at this table then i would be able to see them it would pop up like at a google meet

type view and i could have a conversation with them so yeah engage with people dialogue learn things

like here's here's the chance be open transparent learn learn a little bit talk with somebody

um in maybe unique way happening now everything that's happening in real time hey i'm lost where

am i supposed to be happening now is a great place to do that and then the engage is that competition

where where you get points for chatting and so we want to we want to see people chat uh there's some

things across the top here um if you want to with each of that on the schedule you can a check this out

on the schedule tab with the keynotes you can add it to your calendar as in google cal let me zoom in on

this so that make it bigger uh you can actually like add it to your calendar like google cow and so

click on it and put it on the calendar to remind you you can take a note or you can add it to my schedule

uh the the app has a built-in scheduler right here and so if i were to say hey i got to remember to

add this to my schedule click on that down here it's saying agenda added to the schedule calendar

and now if i click on it oh my gosh here it is in 11 to 12 and i've got the the place to go to

it now it says join as host it's because you're not cool like me because i'm a host and and and you're

not it'll it'll just say like join as a normal person i don't know whatever i would say

you got notifications hey some people been checking me out alexander jesse here's an opportunity for me

to check them out back jesse velez excited my friend here in miami excited about that uh he's

even got some meeting slots where he's open to like meet with people and wants to do that and so there's

lots of opportunities to engage people as as we've said these conferences are all about meeting other

people and dialoguing with them and so mr pete coming in saying greetings uh you know mr pete in

in vr uh big space and so once again i mean it's a great opportunity uh even to to connect with people

like like mr pete and hey mr pete tell me about what you're doing in vr and listen to some of his

stories and and i'll tell you i mean this guy's like the godfather of ministry and virtual reality

there are so many people that i've talked to in vr and um you know i don't think i heard of mr pete

until the spring conference when he bootlegged the the spring digital missionary conference uh and uh as

i've talked with others in the space mr pete is so prevalent sir you are doing a phenomenal work in

in virtual space i know it's it's hard work vr is hard work we're going to talk about that at the

conference tomorrow but what you are doing sir is is so important and so be encouraged in that and so

hey look we've got uh my schedule uh we've got notifications here we got messages dms all this is is

set up and uh we are good to go hey mr pete are you gonna are you gonna broadcast our conference

tomorrow on big screen i'm actually fine with that we need to get you the uh a login if if you do want

to um i'm trying to figure out how to do that uh can you connect with andy major myself offline

if you're interested 11 to 5 tomorrow uh it would be okay good it would be a good one tomorrow mr pete is

saying yes he is going to broadcast tomorrow so we're we're excited about that mr pete make sure

andy gives you the hookup you should be good to go with that so we'll be in big screen um i think

we're also going to be in twitch uh we were in twitch last time which is fine and uh i mean i'm done

fine i'm excited about it so check out those platforms uh if you want to engage in that it's uh tomorrow's

talk is going to be a lot of keynotes not a lot of breakouts keynotes and tables and so we'll have to

help facilitate some of that in vr and some of the other spaces too okay i'm trying to think i don't

know if there's anything else i wanted to talk about today like really i'm excited about the conference

i hope you are too uh we've got five keynotes that are coming up tomorrow and so looking forward to

seeing those fives happen in in real time and um even beyond that we've got we're going to celebrate

where i'm doing a stream on thursday thursday doing a stream on thursday uh with stacy knapp to celebrate

the conference and we'll highlight one of the one of the keynote talks on that as well and so if you've

not signed up for the conference one more time just to reinforce for the person that's like wait i didn't

hear you i'm not sure go to missionary dot digital push the button i got so many buttons forgot which

button missionary dot digital come down here to recover missionary dot digital slash recover

recovery will get you there as well and you can just click that register now button uh be sure to do

that before the next 19 hours and 23 minutes and 59 seconds

doors open 10 a.m tables will be open keynotes start at 11. doors open at 10 a.m of tables will be

open for conversation for meetups and uh sponsors will be in place and then keynotes will start at 11.

are we clear are we good is there anything else be praying about the conference tomorrow i i feel a weight

on this one that i haven't felt with the others um i feel a tension i feel a burden um i just i feel

yeah i guess i can say this i feel more out of control in this one than i have the others that

i've produced honestly than any of because i've done work outside of the church digital i feel less in

control for this conference than any other conference i've worked with in my career um and and and that's

that's okay that's intentionally that's okay god what are you going to do like i i can as as a you know

long-time producer i can make stuff happen um but um my my prayer for me and maybe the prayer for for

you if i can ask so nicely um pray that god is going to do something incredible through the control

all recover conference tomorrow all right all right i think we're gonna wrap short one today excited about

this we've got control all recover on the 24th we've got europe coming up october 1st and we've got gaming on

october 8th more information at www.missionary.digital uh it's funny i'm actually monday i think

i'm meeting with my uh church digital leadership we haven't met it feels like a year it's probably

only been a couple weeks but conference conference conference conference conference is just kind of

enveloped to everything which i don't like to be honest like i we've got to we gotta fix that moving

forward like i can't i've been so focused on conference and the organization been so focused

on conference we haven't been focused on other things and i don't want to be in that position

again don't want to be in that position again we got to get where we're a missionary sending agency

equipping and mobilizing missionaries that does conferences we can't let the tail wag the dog the dog's

gotta wag the tail all right that's the lesson that's the leadership lesson for today

tail does not wag the dog the dog wags the tail remember that although when ray my dog wags his tail

like the entire butt swings and so i'm not sure that is actually scientifically accurate with my dog

but um hey what are you gonna do so we're gonna land the plane listen i've enjoyed hanging out with

you today missionary dot digital slash recovery is the conference coming up tomorrow 10 a.m

doors open 10 a.m eastern 10 a.m u.s eastern utc minus four doors open 11 a.m u.s eastern utc minus

four is when the keynotes kick off probably go for five hours or so and then we'll call it a day

see you at the conference wednesday see you at the stream uh highlighting what's happening on

thursday and then we'll gear up and do it again for europe so for everybody in europe this is and

everybody who needs recovery basically everybody on the freaking planet hey this is jeff reed

the church digital thanks for jumping on the stream today we'll see you next time on the show you have a good one