Things you don’t know about Catalyst

October 08, 2008

- Volunteers drink more than 960 Cokes, down more than 3100 bottles of water, take care of more than 40 pounds of chocolate candy, and polish off more than 500 Chick-fil-A biscuits during the week of Catalyst.

- Almost every person on the Catalyst team has large blisters on their feet by about 3 p.m. on the Monday of Catalyst week.

- More than 300 people voluntarily arrive at the Arena at 5:30 a.m. on Thursday and start working. They probably won't stop working until after 6 p.m. that night, and they'll do it all again on Friday. Many of them actually started working on Monday morning at 9. Did I say they weren't being paid? Because they aren't.

- Sometimes merely the sight of the traffic signs near the Arena reading, "Expect heavy delays on Thursday and Friday due to Catalyst Conference" can bring our team to happy tears.

- The sight of 12,000 leaders worshiping will inevitably bring someone on the Catalyst team to full-on tears. Usually more than one person. And not always the girls.

4 Comments »

i have never been to catalyst. i’m going this year. i can’t wait to see what its all about.
see you there!

Comment by jess - Oct 08, 2008 @ 01:35 PM

Per Google I’m 1,846 mi – about 1 day 3 hours away from Catalyst and just reading this “- The sight of 12,000 leaders worshiping will inevitably bring someone on the Catalyst team to full-on tears. Usually more than one person. And not always the girls.” made me teary eyed. Yeeessss, I’m a girl.

Praying God blesses and moves stronger than ever.

Comment by PPLandis - Oct 08, 2008 @ 01:43 PM

Just wanted to get the word out on a Catalyst related free book offer:

FYI, for those that are at Catalyst, you can get a free copy of Will Mancini’s book, Church Unique. Also have one copy for those not able to be at Catalyst—details are in this blog post:

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