June 2006

Metro Church Alliance
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Metro Church Alliance is launching. Metro Church Alliance is a city-centered community of churches who are committed to serving and renewing cities through a movement of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We believe that nothing promotes the peace and health...
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Church Website Designs
Ekklesia 360 relaunched our website and we're proud to announce that we have six design companies that are now partners. If your church needs a website here are the companies to contact: Church Plant Media specializes in creating custom web...
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Church Planting Conference & Bootcamp
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The San Diego Bootcamp for church planters and re-planters Kaleo is hosting has released most of the speakers/sessions. The Acts 29 Boot Camp is considered by many to be one of the best available. It is required for Acts 29...
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Americans' circle of close friends, confidants shrinking
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Great article (reminds me of the book Bowling Alone) about the shrinking circle of community in America: "Americans, who shocked pollsters in 1985 when they said they had only three close friends, today say they have just two. The number...
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Taking a Hill – Developing Leaders
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As we (Kaleo) continue to talk about our call to Redeem San Diego by bringing the gospel, I've really been thinking about who are the people in our church who can 'take a hill'? Knowing that Jesus Christ went out...
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Acts 29 Church Bootcamp in San Diego
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Kaleo Church will be the host of our first bootcamp here in San Diego on August 29-31. Speakers will include: Scott Thomas, Director of Acts 29 as well as 3 or 4 other A29 church planters. Dick Kaufmann who came...
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Multiperspectivalism Continues
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Over the last several months, I have had several posts regarding multiperspectivalism (or triperspectivalism) but few people had comments to these posts. Yet, when I've had conversations with people it has been quite helpful to myself and others as a...
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Traits of a Catalytic Church Planter
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Check out David Fairchild's 30 Traits of a Catalytic Church Planter. Here are the top 10 he lists (I don't know if he ordered these in any way). 1- Profound love for Christ. 2- Knows much about Christ theologically and...
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Breaking the Missional Code
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I've been reading Breaking the Missional Code: Your Church Can Become a Missionary in Your Community by Ed Stetzer & David Putnam. What has impressed me about Ed (I don't know David but I have had the chance to meet...
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Deacon Training & Development
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I've had a couple people ask what we do for Deacon Development, so I thought I'd post it for anyone to use. First, we believe that the Deacon (or elder) process is just a confirmation of what God has already...
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