Do Christian Conventions exist?

I know google exists, but asking on here is more fun, lol

I’m really into conventions, a convention is a event where people that like the same stuff, gather to have fun. For example, anime conventions will typically contain a videogame room, a dealer room to buy lots of anime merch, panel rooms where people/anime companies can talk and give out info, sometimes a “Maid cafe” where maids serve you drinks/food, Butler cafe for the ladies, a dance hall to do a dance party, cosplay hall for people to enter their cosplays into cosplay contest, a hall where artists can sell artwork, etc.

I’ve been to Retropalooza (The Houston one, not the Arlington one), San Japan, Delta H Con, Anime Matsuri, A-kon, Oni-con, and Ikkicon.

I’m guessing that a Christian convention would be selling Christian artwork, panels on people expressing how to apply bible lessons to life and other Christian stuff, a Christian band performing on one of the three days (If it is a big event), and a dealer room selling Christian products.

So share your experience if you have actually been to a “Christian Convention”, or if you haven’t just share some of your convention stories, for fun ^_^

I keep thinking conference when it's conventions, lol, because I'm watching a conference all this week.
At one Christian convention I remember, there was a make-over booth for ladies who wanted to change their look. Lots of handmade quilts and raffles. Tons of sweets and Christian books. They are pretty cool and you meet a lot of fun people. Of course prayer booths are a must.
Oh and yes they exist, my church had one last year.

Yup, conferences. Our UPCI has their General Conference, complete with workshop classes through the day on everything from puppet ministry to running the graphics for the big screen during service. Different companies set up booths - Pentecostal Publishing, certain bible colleges, some guy over in the corner selling christian-themed knick-knacks...

We didn't do that this year though. >.>

I had to smile because this post and parts of Sarah's original post immediately made me think of the many potlucks and church picnics I had to go to as a kid...

So yes, I guess you could basically call Lutheran potlucks and picnics "Christian Conventions".

Great thread, Sarah!

Figured I would post what I’m used to seeing at the conventions I go to:





Sometimes I’ll take photos of cosplay:



Sometimes anime conventions will have Itasha-cars, its apparently a whole culture of its own, to decorate your car with tons of anime/Videogame stuff:



Panels are fun to go to, this panel had the voice actor, Vic Mignogna, and is actually a Christian. Which is cool, and he was super nice, I gotta try to get him to autograph something he was in one day:



So yeah anime conventions and videogame conventions are tons of fun, but because anime conventions tend to let everything in (I actually just noticed the pride flags in that one group shot I did, I guess the lord made me notice them in June 2019, when I was at Anime Matsuri, for my own good) I’m not going to them as much, or none. There is a small part of me that wants to go to MechaCon and Anime North, but that’s basically it. Once I do those, I’ll probably be done forever with anime conventions. But I can still do Videogame conventions, nothing too offensive as far as I remember. Well, maybe besides seeing “Action figure Jesus”, lol.

But yeah, for Christian stuff, I’ve honestly haven’t done much, I think I went to visit a Christian camp one year, cause my cousin was in Christian camp, but I hardly remember anything, I just remember they were by a lake, and trying to swim in said lake was a horrible idea, lol 😅

I know I’ve been to my church’s “Dinner meetings” before, but I really wouldn’t call that a convention, but a gathering.

back in my youth group days, we went to youth convention each year. we arrived on a thursday, left on saturday. it was nice, but tiring lol.

theres conferences and weekends away (retreats) and camps, but I havent been to a convention. The Kewsick convention is a well known christian one in the UK which has been going since 1875.
Quakers always organise a nationwide camp they call summer gatherings, which are at a different location each year.