2006 National New Church Conference

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Feb 19, 2006 in Church, Church Planting | 7 comments

I just bought my tickets to attend the 2006 National New Church Conference.

Twelve front-line, church planting leaders will facilitate our time together through main sessions, interviews, and Q & A sessions. These speakers are leaders in their areas of passion. Gene Appel / Ed Stetzer / Dave Ferguson / Mark Driscoll / Bob Roberts, Jr. / Ron Sylvia / Neil Cole / John Burke / Larry Osborne / Bob Logan / Steve Andrews / Dave Nelson The conference experience is designed to connect, equip, inspire and challenge church planting leaders. Through pre-conference intensives, main sessions, workshops, and networking time you will meet other leaders with similar questions, struggles and passions.

Anyone else plan on attending?

Church Planters Blog

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Dec 11, 2005 in Church, Church Planting | 0 comments

Goodmanson.com was added to PlanterBlogs.com… PlanterBlogs.com is an aggregator of the personal blogs of a diverse group of church planters. It is an opportunity for current and potential church planters to learn from the experiences of their peers. This collection of blogs is meant to offer a range of views in planting style, personality, and theological background.

Church Planting Money

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Dec 8, 2005 in Church, Church Planting | 21 comments

Hopefully this means Acts 29 will continue to aggressively plant churches worldwide:

As chairman of the board for newly formed Vision USA, Mr. Weiss aims to raise $300 million over the next 10 years for aggressive church planting in 50 of the country's most influential cities. The project is well underway in Orlando, where several million dollars of grant money will help open eight to 10 churches by the end of the year. Preliminary efforts have also begun in Seattle, Sacramento, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Denver, Nashville, Charlotte, New York, and Washington, D.C.

…it goes on to read…

Mark Driscoll, pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle and founder of the nondenominational Acts 29 church-planting network, is among a growing list of prominent leaders to join Vision USA, each hoping to combat the roughly 2,500 church deaths in the United States every year. "Church planting is hot right now," he told WORLD. "For years, guys wanted to get out of seminary and go get a church that had a nice salary and would call them pastor. Today, young entrepreneurial guys don't want to take over a church. They want to start one."

Full Article: Disney executive moonlights as director of church-planting effort (Registration Required)

Church Plant Reality Show

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Nov 17, 2005 in Church, Church Planting | 5 comments

I'm sure many of you have seen this: Hi, I'm a casting director with Bunim-Murray Productions (Real World, Starting Over, The Scholar), and I'm currently working on a TV show about a pastor who is starting a new church. I found your church information on the Emergent Church website and since this is the type of church we'd like to document I thought you may have some good suggestions for pastors who are hoping to start a new church in the coming year. We are still in the developmental stage of this process, but we're looking for a dynamic pastor that we can follow as he plants a church over the course of the year. Some of the costs for the first year will be covered by our production company. If this is something of interest to you or if you can recommend someone else with whom I could speak, please feel free to email or call so that we can discuss this further. Thanks for your time. Best, Jaye Pace Casting Director Bunim-Murray Productions [EDIT : I omitted the Contact Information.]

The Long Tail and Power of Church Planting

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Nov 7, 2005 in Church, Church Planting | 0 comments

Bruce Chant tackles one of my favorite concepts, the long tail (For work we're devloping on a long-tail content management system. Not Ekklesia our church content management system.) and discusses it's implications for church planting:

Within my own city, you see “niche’s” of people everywhere, not just geographically, but in terms of demographics, lifestyles and values. And where these niches exist so to does opportunities for new churches to be planted in order to take the good news to these people in indigenous forms. The more new churches and the greater the sum of these churches the greater the total, overall impact for the Kingdom of God. That is the effect of the Long Tail and the power of church planting.

Full Article at his blog: The Long Tail and Power of Church Planting