YS hits the road!

By Adam McLane on April 20 2010

Starting next Sunday, I'm hitting the road up the West Coast! I'm driving up I-5 from San Jose, California to Seattle, Washington for the sole purpose of meeting up with as many youth workers as I possible can. 

Along the way I'll capture stories from hard-working youth workers in their local contexts. In other words, I'm showing up at people's churches and checking out their youth groups! Tune in here on the blog, on Facebook, and Twitter, to keep up with all the fun. 

Here's my route:

View YS West Coast Road Trip in a larger map

Here's the meet-ups I have scheduled. (Livermore CA, Foster City CA, Berkeley CA, Portland OR, Seattle WA, and Burlington WA. To make it even more fun, Tic Long will join me in Foster City &  Berkeley.) 

Live along my trip route? I'd love to meet you! If you can't make it to one of the scheduled meet-ups, shoot me an email at adam@youthspecialties.com and I will do whatever I can to arrange to stop and get a cup of coffee. 

Am I traveling alone? Nope! YS blogger Shawn Michael Shoup is coming along for the ride. He's never been to the Left Coast, so why not get to know it by driving it! 

What? No love for my area? This is a pilot. if you'd like us to continue hosting meet-ups, help me get a ton of people to this one!

Is this some kind of high dollar fancy thing? Absolutely not. This is youth worker-style. No hotel rooms, no steak dinners… we're still looking for a few churches to crash in. So if you know a church we can crash at in San Jose, Redding, or Portland… let us know! We're just two youth pastors in a rental car driving north and meeting fellow youth workers. 

Comments

From PK (kids call me "PK" for "Pastor Kevin") on April 22, 2010

Since you’re in San Jose, if you’ve got a moment to come to Mountain View (about 20 min. north of SJ), I’d be more than happy to host you for a few moments. I’d love to hear about what you’re doing, (YS as a whole), and if you’d like, I can give you some feedback regarding our process and journey through YS (why we’re not attending the conferences this year).

I’m not really a part of a youth network, but I could get you connected to two that I’m aware of on the Peninsula if you’d like (I didn’t see one listed in your list above), so I’m sorry I don’t have any resources for “crashing.” But I can definitely feed you. 650-625-1505 if you’d like to chat first, to see if it would be something of interest for you.

Blessings,

From Aaron on April 22, 2010

so when’s the East Coast road trip??

From Adam McLane on April 22, 2010

PK- I’d love to see you at our Forest City meet-up. It’s in your neck of the woods. Here’s the link to RSVP: http://peninsulayouthworkersmeetup.eventbrite.com/
Tic Long (the head dude in these parts) will be there for that one, you won’t want to miss it.

Aaron- This is a pilot. If the west coast swing goes OK, than I will schedule others. So please help me get people to show up!

From Billy on April 23, 2010

No southern Cali?  Bummer!

From Adam McLane on April 23, 2010

@billy- where abouts are you? I’m thinking it’d be pretty easy to do something in SoCal considering we are from San Diego…