November 2007

by Drew Goodmanson|29 November 200729 November 2007|Church, Church Planting, Ministry Design

I spent the morning with Eugene, who heads up our missional communities at Kaleo. One of the challenges we've faced as a church centers on discipling people and seeing leaders emerge to give their life to be on mission. The...

Domains: Beyond Missional Meandering

by Drew Goodmanson|09 November 200709 November 2007|Church, Church Planting, Leadership, Ministry Design

Last night, David Fairchild and I spent the evening with Bob Roberts. He had just returned from Hanoi to speak at a conference here in San Diego. He laid out a vision for how he believes churches will truly change...

New Forms of Doing Church

by Drew Goodmanson|07 November 200707 November 2007|Church, Church Planting, Leadership, Ministry Design

Session: Things that make (Steve Timmis) go 'Hmmmm...' The first thing that makes Mr. Timmis go hmmm is the fascination with new ways of 'doing church'. It doesn't take much to see a number of new books, blogs and...

Church Planters NOT as Pastors – ReThinking Leadership

by Drew Goodmanson|05 November 200705 November 2007|Church, Church Planting, Leadership, Ministry Design

Session: Elders & the Local Church One of the sessions Steve Timmis led at the Total Church conference centered around the challenge to plant missional churches and develop leaders fast enough to plant additional churches. The Crowded House, Timmis' said,...

Total Church Conference – Summary

by Drew Goodmanson|04 November 200704 November 2007|Church, Church Planting, Leadership, Ministry Design

I returned last week from the Total Church conference in England. (I wanted to post earlier, but was having some technical difficulty). In attendance there were 50 church planters from around the world, many were hybrids, traditional churches looking to...