Blog Stats & Demographics

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Sep 30, 2008 in Church Technology, General Technology, Monk Dev | 1 comment

A lot of bloggers can become stats monsters. Looking at how many unique visitors, links, page views, feed readers, etc. Well along comes a new research tool for gaining demographic information from your users and site visitors from Crowd Science.

There are a few invites left at Mashable if you want to try it out.

Kaleo One Year Later: Why I haven’t been posting as often

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Sep 17, 2008 in Church, Church Planting, Leadership, Ministry Design, Triperspectivalism | 9 comments

Over the year or so I have posted numerous entries regarding our shift to a decentralized way of being the church. As we began to go through this shift, I often posted what we were discussing and thinking Kaleo Church would begin to look like. You may have noticed in the last 9 months my posts decreased. This is because I wanted to actually do what we were talking about.

“Tell him the one who puts on his battle gear should not boast like one who is taking it off” (1 Kings 20:11).

Now, as this transition (and much of what I wrote in theory) has begun to take shape (in ways we imagined and ways we did not imagine). In fact, the beginning of this year has been very difficult where we lost about 1/3 of our people due to varying circumstances. In contrast, the last 3 months have been more of a blessing to me than any period of Kaleo’s existence as much fruit has been seen in the live’s of people around me.

I am currently working on a shared document to re-communicate the ideas from these posts from what we learned through our own experience as well as from our interaction with communities we share values with. It should deal with the way we do church, eldership, community and develop people within these structures. I hope by posting it we are able to continue to learn from one-another and share the vision of how we plan to do what we believe it means to be a local church.

There are a couple things that are still in theory. For example, at the end of this year we will endeavor to begin the planting process as discussed in Organic Movement – Reverse Church Planting. So this will still be an area where we will need to learn as we go through this process next year. Secondly, we are actively re-thinking our discipleship process which we see as core to the future of the Kaleo Community. So this will be very much a work-in-progress.

If you missed much of the last year, here is a abbreviated listing of the transition at Kaleo:

• The Decline of the Western Church and the Call to renew your Church‚Äôs Ecclesiology
• Missional Eldership – Leading a Transformational Community
• Triperspectival Ecclesiology – Being the Church as Corporate, Intimate & Group
• Leading a Movement Not an Institution
• The Church as Movement ‚Äì Organizing Decentralization
• Leadership Development in Community – Prophets
• Leadership Development in Community – Priests
• Leadership Development in Community – Kings
• Multiplying Missional Communities
• Organic Movement – Reverse Church Planting
• Shared Values of Missional Church Communities

Stuff Christian Culture Likes

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Sep 15, 2008 in Culture | 10 comments

Check out Stuff Christian Culture Likes, with posts like:

#42 Drama Teams
#40 Frosted Tips
#39 Side Hugs

Beyond Total Church (Total Church Session 3)

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Sep 9, 2008 in Church, Church Planting, Culture, Leadership, Ministry Design | 1 comment

Total Church Conference
Speaker: Tim Chester
Session 3: Beyond Total Church

QUOTES:

Planting new churches isn’t enough, we need to create church planting movements.

The model of mission is supernatural. Prayer is the primary missionary activity.

The model of living is martyrdom. From incremental discipleship to martyrdom. We are called to take up our cross daily. We can often feed people’s idolatry with religion.

The model of the church should be reproducible. Every Christian should say, “I can do this.” There should be rapid incorporation of new converts into the church. People should be put into leading sooner than we are used to.

Notes from Simply Missional.

Audio/video sessions coming soon…

New Church Websites launched

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Sep 8, 2008 in Church Technology, Ekklesia, Monk Dev | 1 comment

Our client’s church websites continue to receive awards and recognition. For example, Church Relevance lists the top 90 church websites and numerous Ekklesia clients are on the list. On ChurchBeauty one-third of the sites on the current home page are on our system. Even the Ekklesia 360 admin interface was deemed one sexy interface on this list of 10 inspiring admin interfaces for a CMS. A couple new sites launched on Ekklesia 360 that I really like the design of. They include:

College Park Church

Park Community Church

Second Presbyterian Church