Ministry Design - Goodmanson

Total Church: I Will Build My Church

Total Church: I Will Build My Church builds off the first Total Church Conference held in San Diego last year. More information will be forthcoming but save the dates of November 17-19 2009. Total Church is a way of thinking about church and mission in the 21st century which sees the local Christian...

The Small Group Host Location is More Important than you Think

Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church, Church Planting and Ministry Design on 07 22nd, 2009 | 5 Comments

Often it may be tempting to pick where you will host a small group primarily on issues such as convenient location, size of house or willingness of the host to open their home. Avoid these temptations. If you agree with the necessity of mission for small groups the host is one of the most important...

Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church, Church Planting and Ministry Design on 07 21st, 2009 | No Comments

At the end of last year I posted a document on Kaleo’s Philosophy of Ministry created by Tim Cain as he worked to plant a new church site as part of Kaleo. As an updated now there is an added section on Vision to the document. This is the shortened version of a longer document but at 58 pages...

Practical Missional Ecclesiology Workshop

Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church, Church Planting, Ministry Design and Triperspectivalism on 05 18th, 2009 | 3 Comments

At the Acts 29 Bootcamp in San Diego I led a workshop on how Kaleo Church desires to build church structures, systems and leadership centered on the gospel in community on mission to the world. Prior to listening to this workshop please listen to Jeff Vanderstelt’s Influence Through Mission &...

Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church, Church Planting, Ministry Design and Teaching on 05 12th, 2009 | No Comments

David Fairchild was invited to Speak at Cornerstone Church where Francis Chan pastors. He presented two sessions: The Gospel Part 1: What’s the big deal about the Gospel? What is it and why should it be central to our community life? David Fairchild breaks down the Gospel and why it’s so...

Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church, Church Planting, Leadership and Ministry Design on 01 19th, 2009 | 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...

2009 Technology & Church Planting Conferences Roadmap

Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church, Church Planting, Church Technology, Ekklesia, General Technology, Leadership, Ministry Design and Monk Dev on 01 8th, 2009 | 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...

Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church, Church Planting, Faith, Ministry Design, Sermon and Teaching on 12 4th, 2008 | 7 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....

Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church, Church Planting, Church Technology, Faith, General Technology, Ministry Design and Monk Dev on 10 31st, 2008 | 8 Comments

The secret is being let out….Cobblestone Community Network teaser site is now up. Cobblestone is more than a social networking site; Cobblestone is designed to engage users in behaviors that help them be the church.

Accessible Missional Ecclesiology by Michael Goheen

Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church, Church Planting, Culture, Faith, Leadership and Ministry Design on 10 30th, 2008 | No Comments

Michael Goheen did his dissertation on Newbigin’s Missional Ecclesiology and now he is writing this as a book that is accessible to those who are missional leaders in their community. David Fairchild and I are going with a group to Big Bear to discuss what he has put together so far and it’s...

Total Church Conference Audio

Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church, Church Planting, Culture, Faith, Leadership, Ministry Design, Sermon and Teaching on 10 14th, 2008 | No Comments

The Audio for The Total Church North America Conference 2008 have now been uploaded. Total church is a way of thinking about church and mission in the 21st century which sees the local Christian community as integral to Christian living and Christian mission. The Christian life is ‘total church’...

Kaleo One Year Later: Why I haven’t been posting as often

Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church, Church Planting, Faith, Leadership, Ministry Design and Triperspectivalism on 09 17th, 2008 | 9 Comments

Over the year or so I have posted numerous entries regarding our shift to a decentralized way of being the church. As we began to go through this shift, I often posted what we were discussing and thinking Kaleo Church would begin to look like. You may have noticed in the last 9 months my posts decreased....

Beyond Total Church (Total Church Session 3)

Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church, Church Planting, Culture, Faith, Leadership and Ministry Design on 09 9th, 2008 | 1 Comment

Total Church Conference Speaker: Tim Chester Session 3: Beyond Total Church QUOTES: Planting new churches isn’t enough, we need to create church planting movements. The model of mission is supernatural. Prayer is the primary missionary activity. The model of living is martyrdom. From incremental...

A Gospel Centered Community (Total Church Session 2)

Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church, Church Planting, Culture, Faith, Leadership, Ministry Design and Teaching on 09 2nd, 2008 | No Comments

Total Church Conference Speaker: Steve Timmis Session 2: A Gospel Community Centered Total Church Session 2 QUOTES: When we use the word ‘church’ we are almost always miscommunicating both to the Christian and non-Christian. It seems we’ve lost the battle with this word. Why should...

A Community Centered Gospel (Total Church Session 1)

Posted by D. Goodmanson in Church, Church Planting, Faith, Leadership, Ministry Design and Teaching on 08 29th, 2008 | 6 Comments

Total Church Conference Speaker: Steve Timmis Session 1: A Community Centered Gospel NOTES: Church planters don’t need a new shtick or new things. What we need is the gospel. What is the Gospel? (Col. 1:3-6) The gospel is the word of truth that works. What does it do? It is constantly...

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Drew Goodmanson serves as CEO of Monk Development and is co-founder/pastor at Kaleo Church. Monk is an Internet strategy and development company. Monk created Ekklesia 360 which is used by thousands of churches and ministries. Drew often speaks at conferences and has written for several national publications about how churches/ministries can use the Internet. Goodmanson.com is recognized as one of the Top Church Blogs. Kaleo Church is a missional community, multi-site church planting movement in San Diego, CA. More about Drew Goodmanson.