Church Planting, Kingdom Business, Catalyst West and A29 Conferences

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Apr 10, 2009 in Church Planting | 3 comments

10 Insights from a Church Planter by David Fairchild
Learn from the mistakes, lessons and reflection of a church planter 7 years into it.

Business for the kingdom by Tim Chester
How do you grow and run a company as a believer?

Conferences to promote:

San Diego Bootcamp
London Bootcamp

Catalyst West April 22-24, 2009 in Irvine, CA. Speakers include: Andy Stanley, Craig Groeschel, Rick Warren, Guy Kawasaki, Ravi Zacharias, Francis Chan, Brian Houston, Erwin McManus, Perry Noble, Catherine Rohr, Jud Wilhite, and Luis Palau . The first day, April 22, will feature Origins in partnership with
Catalyst Labs. These interactive sessions include talks from people such as Dave Gibbons, Alan Hirsch, Blake Mycoskie (Toms Shoes), Erwin McManus, Eric Bryant, Dan Kimball, Jamie Tworkowski (To Write Love on Her Arms), Margaret Feinberg, Mark Batterson and many others.

Register at: www.catalystwestcoast.com or by phone at 888-334-6569. Mention Rate Code BLG and you can save an extra 10% on the ticket price.

If you would like a FREE Catalyst West ticket I’m giving one out, enter to win by commenting on my blog.

Multiplying Leaders on Mission for the Gospel : San Diego Bootcamp

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Apr 4, 2009 in Church Planting | 0 comments

Tuesday, May 05, 2009, 9:00 AM – Wednesday, May 06, 2009, 6:00 PM

Acts 29 Boot Camps are church planting conferences open to the public that focus on the vision of church planting, calling of the planter, mandate to multiply churches and the theological foundation for gospel-centered church planting. The San Diego Boot Camp will be hosted by Kaleo Church in San Diego, CA.

Influence:Multiplying Leaders on Mission for the Gospel

Schedule (subject to minor change)

Tuesday, May 5:
9:00am – registration
10:00am – Welcome | Scott Thomas
10:10am – Worship
10:30am – Session 1: “Influence Through Leadership” РMark Driscoll
11:30am –Presentation | Logos
12:00pm – Presentation | Great Commission Ministries
12:15pm – lunch (provided)
1:00pm – Workshops
1. Wives’ Track Part 1 led by Erin Young
2. Art on Life: Engaging Media Redemptively by Mike Brown
3. Leading the Mission by Justin Anderson
4. Calling by Thomas Young
3:00pm – Session 2: “Influence Through Brokeness” РDavid Fairchild
4:00pm – Break
4:20pm – Session 3: “Influence Through Mission & Vision” РJeff Vanderstelt
5:30pm – End of day 1

Wednesday, May 6:
10:00am – Welcome | Scott Thomas
10:10am – Worship
10:30am РSession 4: “Influence Through Community” РBrian Howard
11:30am – Q & A
12:00pm – lunch (provided)
1:00pm – Workshops
1. Wives’ Track Part 2 led by Erin Young
2. Session TBA by Dave Fandy
3. Setting the DNA for a Multi-ethnic Church Plant by Thien Doan
4. Practical Missional Ecclesiology by Drew Goodmanson
3:00pm – Session 5: “Influence Through the Word & Worship” РMatt Chandler
4:00pm – break
4:20pm –Session 6: “Influence Through Persevering” РDarrin Patrick
5:30pm – Worship

Boot Camp Location:
New Life Presbyterian Church
5333 Lake Murray Blvd.
La Mesa, CA 91942

For more information, please visit: www.acts29network.org/event/2009-05-05-san-diego-boot-camp–may-5-6-2009/

Eldering in a Decentralized Movement

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Jan 19, 2009 in Church, Church Planting, Leadership, Ministry Design | 11 comments

Kaleo Church began with a vision of preaching the Word and gathering people to be on mission to the world. Originally our dream amounted to being the ‘Mars Hill’ of San Diego, where I had come from and the church that planted us. For a variety of reasons this vision shifted as we saw the tensions of growing one large service here in San Diego. It was through the influence of Harbor Presbyterian we felt gospel-motivated to change our vision to become a multi-site church planting movement with elders preaching the Word at each location. We felt smaller bodies of people gathering together made more sense. It allowed a more intimate community, contextualization, greater volunteering, and participation and a wider presence throughout the city as we started new sites. At this time we took a group of people and started a second site at the San Diego State University campus. Kaleo now was a multi-site church with two service locations in San Diego. In this new model we envisioned elders would primarily live out their ‘eldering’ in a specific site. As we began plans for a third site several elders were to go with the new location.

Through prayer and through a process of re-imagining what forms of church would best assist the forward progress of the gospel the vision of Kaleo shifted a second time. Kaleo, with the influence of Total Church and our friendship with Soma Communities began to examine how believers could ‘live out the gospel’ centered on the Word in community on mission to the world. It was at this time we disbanded the few Bible Studies meeting mid-week throughout the city and began forming ‘Missional Communities’. As this process has taken place we now have Missional Communities throughout the county of San Diego some have been a half-hour North or East of San Diego but at each one 8-30 people gather throughout the week to share their lives one-to-another, to be on mission and to grow in their gospel understanding. The primary ethos of ‘being the church’ is now in the small home gatherings throughout the week that gather together with other Missional Communities on Sunday’s for a celebration service.

In this shift the role and responsibilities of the Elders had to change. How should an elder express his role in the decentralized life of Missional Communities?

Here is our beginning thoughts: (click on below image for larger view)

An elder primarily expresses his role through the oversight in the life of a local community. This is done as follows: (~20-60 people)
• Overseeing 2-3 Missional Communities.
• Being on mission and teaching people how to live missionally.
• Counseling people
• Teaching
• Active discipleship of leaders who lead MC and other areas.
• Leading people in prayer
• Ensuring mercy ministries are occurring locally and that people are meeting needs of the church community.
• Being active in the marriage, funerals, baptisms, teaching of sacraments and baby covenant service of your local community.
• Conducting new member interviews for those in their area.
• Demonstrating hospitality and encouraging others to be hospitable.
• Visiting people, following-up when people seem to be missing.

An Elder secondarily expresses his role through a local site:
• Regular attendance at the weekly site gathering.
• Serving communion at the site gathering.
‚Ä¢ Ensuring the needs of those who attend the ‘service’ but are not part of a MC are met.

Lastly, Elders also are committed to the vision of the movement and are involved in helping the corporate body.
• Lead the movement in one ‘cause’ area. (Eg. Apologetics class, Premarital Class, Site Director)
‚Ä¢ Attend regular movement-wide elder meetings and elder/deacon meetings. Kaleo recognizes this role requires a tremendous commitment to meet with people, build relationships, answer emails, phone calls, visiting people, attending meetings and functions. The role of elder requires the flexibility and time to invest in these things. It is because of the primary focus of being involved in the life of local MC’s that Elders have the option to opt-out of these movement meetings but can attend at any time to provide their input.

2009 Technology & Church Planting Conferences Roadmap

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Jan 8, 2009 in Church, Church Planting, Church Technology, Ekklesia, General Technology, Leadership, Ministry Design, Monk Dev | 3 comments

Here are a few good conferences coming up that are on my roadmap:

[REVISED 5/11]

National Religious Broadcasters Convention & Exposition (February 7-10 Nashville, TN) The NRB annual Convention & Exposition is the largest nationally and internationally recognized event dedicated solely to assist those in the field of Christian communications. This international event networks thousands of Christian communicators, from program producers to authors, pastors to engineers, directors to vendors. NRB’s professionals emphasize strategy and innovation to tap the power of new media ministry models. The dynamic Exposition consists of over 300 companies and is an active marketplace for those seeking tools and services to expand their ministries.

The Idea Camp (February 27-28 Irvine CA) The Idea Camp is a FREE, open source hybrid conference designed to help people move from the realm of ideas to implementation. We are gathering some of the most innovative and creative leaders from around the country (this means YOU!) to share ideas, intentionally network, and move collaboratively into idea-making. Whether your passion is church leadership, non-profit work, social entrepreneurialism, technology, media, creativity, culture making, church planting, spiritual formation, compassionate justice, etc., this is the conference for YOU. Session:

• Church Planting

BibleTech:2009 (March 27-28 Seattle, Washington) Join us to explore the intersection of Bible study and technology. This two-day conference is designed for publishers, programmers, webmasters, educators, bloggers and anyone interested in using technology to improve Bible study. BibleTech 2009 is an opportunity to meet others who share your interests and hear from industry leaders. Session:

• Content Distribution Strategies: Getting the word out online

Christian Leadership Alliance Conference (April 20-22 Atlanta, Georgia) offers Biblically based fundraising and stewardship courses for leaders of Christian nonprofit organizations. Session:

• Leading Website Development

Catalyst West Coast (April 22-24 Irvine, CA.) a conference to inspire the next generation of leader.

National New Churches Conference (April 20-23 Orlando, Florida) Come and learn with us… as we experience the stories of those who are in the middle of movements… as we discover what God is “up to” around the globe and what He wants to do through us.

• Using the Internet to Gather, Disciple and Create Community
• Websites, Technology and Church Planting

Acts 29 Bootcamp (May 5-7 San Diego, CA) Kaleo will host a Boot Camp beginning May 5th of 2009. Are you considering planting a church? Are you ready? The Acts 29 Boot Camp can help make the difference between success and casualty. Speakers for this event will include Mark Driscoll, David Fairchild, Scott Thomas and many more.

Echo Church Media Conference (July 29 Р31 Dallas, TX) The ECHO Conference will challenge and inspire the way you do ministry. ECHO will encompass all things media – visual, web, music, technology – and hopes to resound the truth of Christ through the power of media and technology. It will be a gathering place for church leaders to discover new and creative forms and uses of media. Engage in a community of creative believers seeking to change the world through the use of media and technology that communicates the truth of Christ.

• The Truth about Church Websites and Effective Online Outreach
• Beyond the Web 2.0 Noise: How to use the Internet to Disciple & Create Real Community

Christian Web Conference 09 (September 11-12 La Mirada, CA)

• What does the Gospel have to do with Social Media?

Cultivate October 27 Chicago, Illinois)

• Session on Web Strategy

STORY – Gospel Communication October 28-29 Chicago, Illinois)

• Workshop on Social Media, Web & the Church

National Outreach Conference (November 4-6 San Diego, CA)

• Leveraging the Internet to Gather, Disciple and Create Community

Creating a Philosophy of Ministry

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Dec 4, 2008 in Church, Church Planting, Ministry Design, Sermon, Teaching | 8 comments

Tim Cain is part of the Kaleo Movement. This last year he and his wife journeyed to Bethlehem Baptist to be the church planting intern at John Piper’s church. While he was there he has had the opportunity to plan a church plant and lay out what that will look like when he returns to San Diego. A lot of this writing includes material from Total Church, our conversations, Tim’s convictions and what Kaleo envisions for new church plants.

Tim’s Philosophy of Ministry document includes items such as:

- Building a ministry that reflects three expressions of being the church.
- Core theological convictions that shape the people.
- The practices and life behaviors of the community.
- Mission, Gospel & Community interactions.

Philosophy of Ministry (pdf)

Aside: If you’d like to connect with Tim drop a comment with your email and I’ll forward it on to him.

Driscoll, Acts 29 Bootcamp in San Diego 2009

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Nov 19, 2008 in Church, Church Planting | 2 comments

Acts 29 will host a Boot Camp beginning May 5th of 2009. Are you considering planting a church? Are you ready? The Acts 29 Boot Camp can help make the difference between success and casualty. The San Diego Boot Camp will be hosted by Kaleo Church in in San Diego, CA. Speakers for this event will include Mark Driscoll and many more.