Total Church Conference Registration Open

Posted by D. Goodmanson on May 31, 2008 in Church, Church Planting, Culture, Leadership, Ministry Design | 3 comments

I'd encourage all church planters to attend one of the most important church planting conferences to come. This one is a must attend for church planters who are thinking about planting missional churches to reach our culture. The Total Church North America Conference 2008

REGISTER EARLY BENEFITS!

1. Registering prior to July 12th and receive a discounted rate.
2. Immersion program.  Lodging for out-of-town registrants will be provided by members of Kaleo Church on a first-come first-served basis as long as we have lodging available.  Space is limited.  This will save on hotel costs for the conference and give visitors an opportunity to see the life of the community at Kaleo.

Be the Church

Total church is a way of thinking about church and mission in the 21st century which sees the local Christian community as integral to Christian living and Christian mission. The Christian life is 'total church' – our identity is communal.

Why Attend?

- Create a community centered on the gospel, equipped to do the work of the ministry.
– Make your community a community of church planters.
– See what it means to be the church on mission through ordinary life with gospel intentionality.
– Dialog with missional church leaders from across the world.
– Learn from seasoned practitioners how to form missional communities and transition traditional churches toward mission.
– Did we mention its in San Diego?

Dates: August 12-14, 2008

Location: San Diego, CA

Main Sesssion Speakers: Steve Timmis and Tim Chester are the authors of Total Church: A Radical Reshaping Around Gospel and Community (Crossway). They lead The Crowded House, a family of church planting networks that started in Sheffield, England. They have also started The Porterbrook Network to train people for mission and church planting in the context of ministry.

Break-out Sessions will be led by church planters/practitioners from The Crowded House, Kaleo Church, Soma Community & Providence Community.  Break-out sessions will be added but will include:

• Beyond Total Church – Sowing the Seeds of a Movement
• Moving from Traditional to Missional – “What do I do next?”
• Engaging the Domains of Society – From Business to Media and Beyond
• Communicating in a Post-Christian Culture
• Evangelising the Urban Poor
• New ways of funding a plant & planter in a missional movement.

Stay-tuned as more break-out sessions are added.  There will be several tracks for people being introduced to a missional mindset all the way to those who have formed missional communities to learn from others around the world leading missional movements.

The first Total Church was held in Sheffield, UK, in 2007 at the end of October, hosted by the Crowded House. The conference is named for the book, Total Church -A Radical Reshaping Around Gospel and Community which will be released in the Fall in the US.

Learn more: Total Church North America Conference 2008

“Missional Community” Formation

Posted by D. Goodmanson on May 30, 2008 in Church, Church Planting, Ministry Design | 0 comments

Check out the conversation at Jeremy Pryor's blog regarding how to form Missional Communities and the potential challenges: Five Questions for my “Missional Community” Friends

Dwell Conference | London

Posted by D. Goodmanson on May 30, 2008 in Church, Church Planting, Culture, Leadership, Teaching | 1 comment

If you have a chance I'd encourage you to attend the Dwell Conference in London.  Many of you already know Mark Driscoll & Scott Thomas, but maybe some of you haven't been exposed to Steve Timmis.  I've had the opportunity to visit Steve in England and I strongly encourage you to learn from him.  At the Total Church conference in England, his sessions were provocative, a bit edgy (in a good way) and caused many of us to go home re-thinking what we are doing.  Keller fans- Redeemer is bringing Steve & Tim Chester to NY in '09 to train all their leaders on being the church formed around the gospel, on mission in community. 

For those of you in the US, Steve and Tim will be joining Soma Community, Providence Community & Kaleo Church at the Total Church North American Conference.  Space is limited!

Shapevine Interview : Goodmanson & Fairchild

Posted by D. Goodmanson on May 22, 2008 in Church, Church Planting, Leadership, Ministry Design | 3 comments

On June 24th at 4pm EST (1pm PST for locals) join David Fairchild as we are interviewed on Shapevine.   From Shapevine, they requested to "dialog about your leadership models (Priest, king, prophet, etc.) I think you are helping form a new language, and practical way of doing MC's that many people have struggled to find in their practices."  So the topics include:

• Triperspectivalism (Prophet/Priest/King) and how this shapes a local churchs ministry philosophy.
• Our transition from a more traditional church to missional movement.
• Practical Missional Community structure and decentralizing.

If you have questions you'd like us to discuss, post them here.

Jeff Vanderstelt starts Missional Musings blog

Posted by D. Goodmanson on May 21, 2008 in Church, Church Planting | 0 comments

If you've been following my blog for any time, you'll know how blessed I've been by Soma Communities.  Jeff Vanderstelt who I recently posted a number of missional resources from has begun to blog.   Add his feed to your list!  Jeff is a church planter and equipper of church planters. He loves to see the mission of the gospel bring about transformation of neighborhoods, cities and regions.  Jeff is one of the Elders in Soma Communities. Jeff also serves on the Board of Acts 29, a church planting network.

According to Jeff "I will begin to put my training material and issues that I am working through in church planting up."  Expect a lot of great missional thinking….now we'll just need to wait for Caesar's.

Jeff Vanderstelt's Missional Musing Blog