About

Drew Goodmanson serves as CEO of MonkDev, creators of Ekklesia 360 used by thousands of organizations worldwide. Drew co-founded Kaleo Church where he served as Pastor for 8+ years and coached five new church plants in San Diego. Drew is a co-founder and Board Member of the GCM Collective, President of the Board at the Center for Church Communication, Board Member of the Entrepreneurship Organization and Internet/Technology Advisory Chair at the Christian Leadership Alliance. Drew brings years of visioning, creating and building numerous organizations that make a substantial impact.

Drew is a frequent speaker and author discussing organizational leadership/structure and focusing in on the intersection of an organization’s mission, culture & technology where he’s appeared on CBS Sunday Morning and NPR All Things Considered. He also writes on non-profit, ministry & church web technology for publications like Christianity Today, the National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) Advanced Research Symposium and the Christian Leadership Alliance’s Outcomes magazine. He wrote the ‘Church Web Strategy’ column for Christian Computing Magazine. He wrote a chapter in Voices of the Virtual World: Participative Technology and the Ecclesial Revolution and contributed content to the Porterbrook Network training curriculum. Drew’s blog is recognized as one of the Top Church blogs. He has been speaker for national conferences such as the Christian Leadership Alliance, the Ministry Internet & Technology Summit, the National Religious Broadcasters, National Outreach Convention, Christian Web Conference, National New Church Conference, Echo Media Conference, Story, Cultivate Conference, GCA & Acts 29 church planters conferences and Total Church conferences.

Kaleo Church is a missional community, multisite church planting movement in San Diego, CA. Drew often speaks about Missional Ecclesiology in a decentralized model and has spoken at national conferences such as The Total Church Conference and several regional Acts 29 Church Bootcamps. He wrote “Sheep & Goats”, a weekly column on churches, religions and spirituality for the San Diego Reader.

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 from a missional community led perspective. I am primarily doing this through 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.