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 

Return from Seattle & Tacoma

Posted by D. Goodmanson on May 13, 2008 in Church, Culture, General Technology | 3 comments

I returned yesterday from the Seattle/Tacoma trip.  Here are a few of the highlights:

Mars Hill Reunion 

I spent Saturday night with Jamie Munson an elder and Lead Pastor (Mark Driscoll is preaching pastor) at Mars Hill in Seattle.  Mars Hill has gone through a bit of transition and Jamie and I spoke about that.  We also spoke about how to create systems that reflect an organizations vision/values.  Through many seasons, Jamie has much to offer in this area of thought.  Lastly, he showed me a demo of their site, "The City" which was exciting and good timing since we launched a similar set of features with Ekklesia for churches and their members.

Soma School

Finished a week at Soma School.  Capped the week with lunch with Caesar Kalinowski and Jeff Vanderstelt. I continue to grow in my appreciation for the friendship and shared vision between Kaleo & Soma.  On Sunday I was able to spend the day with a family from Soma Community, Mark Tilden who took us (Bryce & Chad from Sojourn in Louisville pictured below, their wives inside in the warmth) on his yacht to Vashon Island.  Mark has built and sold internet companies, his latest venture is FlightStats.com so he and I spoke about entrepreneurial things together.

Heather & Family

My parents flew up from Sacramento and we all spent Friday/Saturday together at my brothers.  My wife, Heather and I took a walk around around the last place we lived in Seattle, Greenlake.  As you can see we weren't quite ready for the 'summer days' of Seattle, having been spoiled by San Diego's weather.  In all of our years in returned visits (we moved in 2001) we always run into people we know here, and this trip was no exception.  

All-in-all a very profitable trip connecting and learning from others.  I look forward to my next conference in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Life in Tacoma

Posted by D. Goodmanson on May 9, 2008 in Culture | 8 comments

Walking the streets of Tacoma, WA and ran into this nice little work of art:

Vintage 21 & Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary

Posted by D. Goodmanson on May 9, 2008 in Church | 2 comments

David Fairchild & I are heading to Raleigh, NC.  It will be a couple day whirlwind trip to visit both Vintage 21 and Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (SEBTS).

Wednesday

• 9:00-11:00am SEBTS Q&A on Church Planting
• Rest of Day Acts 29 Regional Conference @ Vintage 21

Thursday

• Tentmaker Training @ SEBTS

If you are in that neck of the woods, drop on by one of these. 

UPDATE: Conference details are now posted at Acts 29.