This week.

And we’re back…This week look for a sneak peek of one of the videos that will play at the Live Love Conference.  If you are working on a video for the conference tour leet us know…. Lets see what else…We are planning on twittering from the conference tour and I’d like to post your photos that you take here on the Blog.  You will be able to email them to creative@studentlife.net…more on that later.

Peace

Tags: Live Love, Video

Yes it is The Stuart Hall

Yo! What’s happening? This is Stuart Hall dropping a dime to let you know how excited I am to be joining Student Life, my dear friends Kristian, Tim, Joe, Alex, and Matt, Francis and hopefully you on the Live Love Tour this spring. It really is an honor to be able to hang with you for a few days and consider what it means to live love. A monumental task to say the least…

I am a nobody, so Drew wanted me to give you a 411 heads up of who I am, where I am from, and what I am about. I am originally from Mobile, Alabama. Atlanta is home. Played basketball in college. Probably should have played football. Have worked with students for 20 years. Right now I provide vision and leadership for two really cool non-profit organizations (XP3 & DASH INC)… deeply desire to develop spiritually influential students that engage culture… partner with great organizations like the Fellowship of Christian Athletes to develop students as leaders… travel and speak to lots of students and leaders each year… have coauthored three books (The Seven Checkpoints: Seven Principles Every Teenager Needs to Know, MAX Q: Developing Students of Influence and Wired: For a Life of Worship, Leaders Edition)… am working on authoring one or two more by myself when I grow up… love to laugh incessantly… coach both of my daughters’ basketball teams… relish watching our son play football and basketball and our daughters play basketball and soccer… and love my beautiful wife Kellee with every fiber of my being.  You know… normal stuff.

This may sound weird, but to be really honest, if I can figure out how, I would love to get out of this “ministraaaa” deal and coach or teach or run a skating rink (NASCAR on training wheels). Don’t get me wrong: I am very passionate about what I do. I just don’t believe it is the most effective way to live love. Or at least to those that need most the love we have. Too much is made of people who stand in front of others and speak. And men and women that work in ministry don’t spend the majority of their time loving others personally. That is why, if you are not in ministraaaa, you are in the most enviable position. What we have to figure out is what it really means to live love. And that’s why I would love to meet you during the Conference, because I really think those two words sum up what it means to follow Jesus.

Looking forward to getting to meet you! Hopefully I’ll be checking back in occasionally to lay down a new beat or two (like that music lingo, don’t ya?) When we see each other, make sure you introduce yourself as that guy or girl that read this blog entry. That way I’ll know exactly who you are : )

Peace!

Tags: Family, Live Love, Stuart Hall