About

Drew Goodmanson serves as CEO of Monk Development and as co-founder/pastor at Kaleo Church. Monk is an Internet strategy and development company that created Ekklesia 360 which is used by thousands of churches and ministries. Drew uses his 10-years of expertise in the Internet Technology field to help organizations use web technologies to fulfill their mission. Drew’s is recognized as one of the Top Church bloggers; he wrote a chapter in Voices of the Virtual World: Participative Technology and the Ecclesial Revolution and has written for national publications like Christianity Today and CLA’s Outcomes magazine. He currently writes the ‘Church Web Strategy’ column for Christian Computing Magazine. He is a featured speaker for national conferences such as the Christian Leadership Alliance, National Outreach Convention, Christian Web Conference, National New Church Conference, Story and Cultivate Conference.

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. 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 thousands 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.