Weren't able to make it out to Catalyst West Coast? No problem, our blogger friends covered the conference from a dozen different angles. Here's a listing of speaker recaps and blogger reflections of Catalyst West:

Catalyst Green Room - recap pictures and behind the scenes videos.

Speaker Recap & Reflections:

Tony Morgan's "Scribble" notes of: Andy Stanley, Craig Groeschel, Perry Noble, Erwin McManus, Jud Wilhite, Guy Kawasaki at Catalyst West Coast
Bubba Smith Origins, Day 1, Day 2
Kevin Beers Day 1, Day 2: session 1, session 2, session 3, session 4, session 5, session 6
David Lawrence's Andy Stanley and Rick Warren recap
Becky Laswell on Craig Groeschel and Andy Stanley, Guy Kawasaki, Ravi Zacharias, and others.

Dawn Carter's Cat West reflections, part 1
Charles Lee's reflections on Catalyst West
Matt Doan's reflections on Catalyst West

Pictures:

Cynthia Ware's pictures and Catalyst West reflections here, here & here
Lots of CatWest pictures from Kevin Beers
Catalyst Green Room pictures.
Lots of pictures from Ben Arment

Did you blog about Catalyst West Coast? Share your links in the comments below.

John Sampson recently blogged (THANKS RHETT!) 6 reasons why he likes the bi-vocational model - where ministers/staff choose to work a regular job and do a church job on top of that (for free?).

WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT TO DO THIS!!?? What do you think? Here's what John said:

1.Shared Responsibility: All Christians have a job to do.  We can’t leave the ‘ministry” side of life to the paid “sage on the stage.”

2.More Money Goes To Ministry: Less overhead forces/enables people to look at what God is doing around them and see how to serve and bless others.

3.A Good Kind of Messy: Removing the strong “staff vs everyone else” divide flattens the power structure, which may usher in more conflict. But it’s conflict that would be there in any model–It’s just hidden in others.  Here, people are forced to deal with problems instead of ignoring them.

4.It’s Sustainable: If you’re planting a church, it’s tempting to grow quickly to become self-supporting.  But often that leads to shortcuts that transfer Christians rather than reach out to engage people outside of the church.

For the other two, go to our buddy's blog: RhettSmith.com

What do you think?

Shane Hipps spoke last night to wrap up day one at Q and did a brilliant job. Talking on the “distraction of technology” and how it pulls us from being “present in the moment.” So true. I find myself constantly checking twitter, email, facebook, safari, wordpress, and whatever else I have on my phone the minute I find myself bored or have at least a small window of margin in my time during the day. Is this healthy? Not sure. Does it help in creating true community? Again, not sure. Really wrestling with this. In many ways, we’ve become addicted and controlled by our phones, computers, and clocks. Shane argued last night that this is not healthy, nor is it Biblical. 

Really excited about Shane speaking at Catalyst in October in Atlanta. Get ready to be challenged!

Shane Hipps spoke last night to wrap up day one at Q and did a brilliant job. Talking on the “distraction of technology” and how it pulls us from being “present in the moment.” So true. I find myself constantly checking twitter, email, facebook, safari, wordpress, and whatever else I have on my phone the minute I find myself bored or have at least a small window of margin in my time during the day. Is this healthy? Not sure. Does it help in creating true community? Again, not sure. Really wrestling with this. In many ways, we’ve become addicted and controlled by our phones, computers, and clocks. Shane argued last night that this is not healthy, nor is it Biblical. 

Really excited about Shane speaking at Catalyst in October in Atlanta. Get ready to be challenged!

The first ever Catalyst West Coast was a HUGE sucess!  Check out pictures and videos highlighting last week's monumental moment from the Catalyst West Coast Green Room hosted by our good friend, Brian Wurzell.  Thanks to Brian for providing live streaming and real time updates on all that was happening during Catalyst West...stay tuned for more exciting details on Catalyst West 2010!  This is just the beginning...

Catalyst West Coast Green Room