Why Orlando?

In choosing a location for a national conference, we inquired of many people for a good location to have the conference. When we mentioned Orlando, everyone gave us a thumbs up on the location.

Let’s face it, how many people do you know that will drive for two days to go to a weekend conference and then drive home for two days? Not many at all.

But our desire was to invite grace believers from all over the country and so we had to come up with a place that would make it worth their time, money, and effort.

Orlando, Florida is a vacation destination city. This is by far the most popular vacation destination in the country. There are many theme parks and other activities that can done in this area of the country. There are the Disney parks, Universal Studios, Seaworld, Busch Gardens in Tampa and just to the east of Orlando there are seaports with cruise ships.

In our research, I asked a brother from the state of Ohio about the conference. Kansas is in the middle of the country and would be a central location for everyone for a national conference. I asked him if we had it in Kansas would he go or if we had it in Orlando would he go. He said he would go to Orlando but he would not go to Kansas and these places are about the same distance from Ohio. He said he always wanted to go to Orlando but there was nothing to do in Kansas.

So the interest for people to go to Orlando for the conference and then stay for a few days of vacation and fellowship is really high. So the vacation destination outweighs the centrally located destination.

Plus, if we are going to have a national conference and invite people from all over the country we are going to need a fairly large facility to hold everyone that attends. The facility that we have chosen has 650+ rooms and can accommodate up to 1400+ people for a meeting. This facility should give us plenty of room to grow in the future.

Another thing that might possibly matter is that having it at a hotel is a neutral location. We are inviting all brethren from various different grace groups and independents that hold positions from Acts 2 to Acts 28. Having a neutral location would make some people more comfortable about the event.

For this year’s conference, after the conference is finished we already have a group trip planned to go into the Disney parks for good Christian fun and fellowship.

Come join us for the conference. We have a great line-up of preachers to speak, plus some very interesting topics, plus you get to ask those really tough questions that you always wanted an answer to.

And if you desire to do so, stay for a few days with us after the conference and just have some good old fashioned fun and fellowship with your Christian brethren as we tour the Disney parks. Hey, everybody deserves a break every once in a while.

If you decide to stay for fellowship after the conference, check out this link for some pretty good deals on rooms and tickets and such from our very own Christian Travel Agent: Louise Rumfello, Travel Agent Extraordinaire. She is also a Disney Destination Specialist.

Fellowship After The Conference

She already has some rooms reserved and she is getting us a group discount on rooms and tickets. Come join us, it’s going to be a blast!