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07-31-2015, 02:44 PM
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Re: $50 - $75 To Attend UPC General Conference!
GC is a $3-5 million dollar event just for facility rental and everything that comes along with that (rigging,sound,stage,lighting,worship leaders,musicians,band,tech people,etc). Not to mention airfare....
Just from what I know about hosting an event on this caliber, it's not cheap.
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07-31-2015, 05:29 PM
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Re: $50 - $75 To Attend UPC General Conference!
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Originally Posted by unitedpraise10
GC is a $3-5 million dollar event just for facility rental and everything that comes along with that (rigging,sound,stage,lighting,worship leaders,musicians,band,tech people,etc). Not to mention airfare....
Just from what I know about hosting an event on this caliber, it's not cheap.
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Wasn't it always expensive? I went to the GC went it was last time in Nashville, I wasn't charged a cover. So the obvious question would be what has changed?
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07-31-2015, 06:40 PM
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Re: $50 - $75 To Attend UPC General Conference!
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Wasn't it always expensive? I went to the GC went it was last time in Nashville, I wasn't charged a cover. So the obvious question would be what has changed?
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I think the tech side of the conference has gotten a bit more expensive and extensive. To reach people in the 21st century, we must embrace technology. It's a part of everyones lives. You do have a valid point though, considering that we are renting out smaller facilities than we used to.
Marketing the conference is also a huge expense. There are a lot of huge behind the scene expenses that people don't even think about.
If you think about it, everything is alot more expesive than it was 10-20 years ago. It would be impossible to offer an event on this calliber today with free admission. It just couldn't happen.
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07-31-2015, 07:39 PM
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Re: $50 - $75 To Attend UPC General Conference!
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GC is a $3-5 million dollar event just for facility rental and everything that comes along with that (rigging,sound,stage,lighting,worship leaders,musicians,band,tech people,etc). Not to mention airfare....
Just from what I know about hosting an event on this caliber, it's not cheap.
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While I believe it is expensive to put on this kind of event I would be willing to bet the farm, my wife, my car and pickup truck that the UPCI does not spend 3-5 million dollars on General Conference. They couldn't if they wanted to.
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07-31-2015, 07:43 PM
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Re: $50 - $75 To Attend UPC General Conference!
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Originally Posted by unitedpraise10
I think the tech side of the conference has gotten a bit more expensive and extensive. To reach people in the 21st century, we must embrace technology. It's a part of everyones lives. You do have a valid point though, considering that we are renting out smaller facilities than we used to.
Marketing the conference is also a huge expense. There are a lot of huge behind the scene expenses that people don't even think about.
If you think about it, everything is alot more expesive than it was 10-20 years ago. It would be impossible to offer an event on this calliber today with free admission. It just couldn't happen.
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General Conference 1999 in Nashville was in a Hockey Stadium that must of cost a lot of money
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07-31-2015, 07:45 PM
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Re: $50 - $75 To Attend UPC General Conference!
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General Conference 1999
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What about GC 1999? It was also held in Nashville and the last one I attended.
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Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
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07-31-2015, 07:48 PM
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Re: $50 - $75 To Attend UPC General Conference!
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What about GC 1999? It was also held in Nashville and the last one I attended.
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What was the stadium?
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07-31-2015, 07:59 PM
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Re: $50 - $75 To Attend UPC General Conference!
In 1999 the Nashville GC night services were at what was then called the Gaylord Entertainment Center, home of the Nashville NHL hockey team the Predators. That is now called "Bridgestone Arena". It seats around 15,000 people.
I thought that would be where they would have it this year but it turns out that not only will the exhibits be at the new Nashville convention center (right next to Bridgestone Arena downtown) but the services will also be held in the convention center.
This leads me to believe that they must not be expecting a large enough crowd to fill the arena where they held it in 1999. The new convention center is supposed to be very nice (I have not had a chance to go there yet) but I don't know what the seating capacity is in Hall D or if it will be like a hotel ballroom with a flat floor and raised stage which makes it harder to see the platform over peoples heads than stadium style seating.
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"I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
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07-31-2015, 08:11 PM
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The PDF rider I linked to earlier has a size requirement of up to 10,000 people.
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Venues should have seating for 10,000 persons.
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07-31-2015, 08:54 PM
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Re: $50 - $75 To Attend UPC General Conference!
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The PDF rider I linked to earlier has a size requirement of up to 10,000 people.
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So, still a smaller place by 5,000.
Would that 5,000 be the WPF? 
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