The first Innovate session today is the one I've been looking forward to the most. We are trying something that, as far as I know, has never been tried in a conference before. Here's the deal:

• Early this summer we invited four churches to join us for the Arts Mash-up.
• They are churches of different types, sizes, styles and denominations.
• They paid their way to come!
• Each church will take 12-15 minutes to do an artistic presentation on the same topic.
• Thirty days ago, we gave them the topic assignment.
• It is not a contest--it is a celebration of the diversity and creativity in the church!

It starts at 8:45am (EST) today. I'm so jazzed.

Not here? That's okay, join us to watch it live. Reading this too late? We'll post videos of the session as soon as possible.