Asian American Staff Conference

So every 3 years all the Asian American staff get together, network and address certain ethnic specific issues as well as common issues that it is helpful to go through with other people of the same cultural upbringing. This year it was held in San Francisco so we had some beautiful weather during the conference.
Personally, I had a great time there for three reasons:
1) I got to work with a great team of people doing worship and gained yet more insight into how different people lead. Erna, the worship director for the conference, was on the Urbana 2003 worship team and is a great worship leader. I enjoyed her sense of where the spirit was going and assertiveness to change the schedule in order to do God's will. I also met another young staff named Audrey who has a heart for worship and is working on developing her own worship curriculum to better the training teams receive. I hope we can compare what we both have in the future.
2) The focus group I attended was incredibly helpful and insightful in shedding light onto how one might transform their job on staff to something that is a more custom fit to their specific gifts / call by God. I hope that I, like a few others in InterVarsity, can eventually create a custom position on staff where I can work on the issues that concern me most as opposed to being called to do everything under the sun.
3) I networked and met a number of interesting people - a few of which have a similar desire to work in a more specialized capacity within InterVarsity. I was also invited to put together and team and lead worship at ONS (orientation for new staff) this coming June - of which I'm very excited.

Overall the experience was great if not very tiring as I spent a couple nights up very late trying to get our sound equipment setup and working properly (seems to happen at many conferences I'm at). Please be praying that I get an opportunity to run in a more specialized field in InterVaristy because I feel very strongly that it would benefit both me and the people around me.