What is the Next Conference for Church Planters

Posted by D. Goodmanson on May 15, 2006 in Church, Church Planting, Culture | 4 comments

We've gone to the National New Churches Conference and the Resurgence conference. What's next? What other conferences would you recommend? Here's my vote:

Leadership Network – Resurgence & Emerging Book Deals

Posted by D. Goodmanson on May 15, 2006 in Church | 0 comments

Linda Stanley has a number of posts/notes from her experience at the Resurgence conference. Each post also includes pdf notes she took for each session. Leadership Network also announced a long-term book deal with Zondervan to target emerging church leaders and church planters. The first book is Mark Driscoll’s Confessions of a Reformission Rev: Hard Lessons From an Emerging Missional Church.

Funding Your Church Plant

Posted by D. Goodmanson on May 15, 2006 in Church, Church Planting | 22 comments

Session from the National New Church Conference
Teacher: Dr. Tom Jones, Regional Director Stadia East

This session went over an introduction to raising funds for a church planter. Dr. Jones outlined different finance models such as the Mother church, Associations, Denominations, Network, Self-Support, Lay Launch teams, Business-supported and other models. When it comes to raising funds Dr. Jones suggests that you "Make sure you are clear about your call and vision, asking questions such as:

Imago Dei Community

Posted by D. Goodmanson on May 14, 2006 in Church Technology, Ekklesia | 0 comments

Imago Dei Community (designed by their community with the Ekklesia Church CMS backend) launched today. This is one of the more ambitious Ekklesia installs to-date with a large site, 1,000+ people in the community and tons of data. Congrats to them on their hard work and the new launch. While you are there, I recommend Rick’s preaching to anyone!

[Speaking of re-designs, I changed the look at Goodmanson.com too!]

Reform & Resurge (Resurgence) Conference

Posted by D. Goodmanson on May 11, 2006 in Church | 2 comments

The Resurgence conference just ended and what a week it has been. Steve McCoy (aka Reformissionary) has a few posts on the conference. It was good to meet bloggers such as Steve, Kevin Cawley, Pete Williamson and Bruce Chant (All the way from Perth down under!) [Click for larger picture of blogging group. Picture from Steve.] Great sessions, which I’ll have to digest and post on (along with the ones from the National New Churches Conference two weeks ago). Praise God I’m taking next week of to head to Palm Springs and can take some time to reflect….hopefully I’ll come back with some post-worthy topics, but I do know that I have two big announcements I learned at the conference that I hope I can post soon…..