About

I was inspired the other day to think through what areas do I want to dedicate my life-work to?  I identified three things I believe will consume the next twenty years of my life.  These things are:

1. I want to be involved in local church planting movements. I am primarily doing this through my elder/pastor role at Kaleo Church.  I want to participate in discussions, encouragement and prayer with others who have a passion for church planting and seeing cities changed by the gospel. 

2. I want to help the church use technology to further the spread of the gospel.  This involves primarily helping guide the church to effectively create church websites, engage in online outreach and send people on mission online.  I call this being a church technology missiologist.  Some of this thought is worked out in a Church Content Management & Outreach System called Ekklesia 360.

3. I want to help develop gospel-centered leaders in both my roles in church and through my company. 

Some of my current & past experiences include:

• I founded a web development company called Monk Development.  Monk has built several church apps such as Ekklesia 360, a web-based Church CMS which hundreds of churches and ministries use. We also created Sermon Cloud a web 2.0 sermon site and Church Cloud.
• I am co-founder and pastor of a church in San Diego called Kaleo Church.
• I wrote Sheep & Goats, a weekly column on churches, religions and spirituality for the San Diego Reader. I discontinued writing this column in 2006.
• I served as Managing Partner at SanoBioscience International, a boutique search firm.
• I served President/CEO at Pangia, Inc. a technology/consulting company back in the venture capital, fun, internet bubble days.
• I served as President at The Fulcrum Group, a staffing/recruiting company in the Northwest.
• My wife and I owned Dotted Line Notary Professionals, a network of notaries, many from the Escrow & Mortgage industry, who are experts at signing loans.  We sold this company in April 2005.

Read a collection of my top articles/posts on categories like the Gospel & Self,  Church, Mission & Ecclesiology, Church Planting & Ministry, Technology & the Church or The Future Church.