Total Church 2.0 Conference Audio

The Total Church 2.0 Conference: I Will Build My Church audio is up. This was our second Total Church Conference and it took much of what we discussed in the first Total Church conference and tried to move it forward to see what it looks like to live in Jesus community on Jesus mission motivated by the Gospel of Jesus Kingdom. Main...

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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 community as integral to...

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The Small Group Host Location is More Important than you Think

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 elements to being missional. In...

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Kaleo Vision and Philosophy of Ministry

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 it has some weight to it. ...

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Practical Missional Ecclesiology Workshop

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 & Vision, also suggested is...

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Gospel-Centered Church

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 important to how we live in...

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Eldering in a Decentralized Movement

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...

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2009 Technology & Church Planting Conferences Roadmap

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...

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Creating a Philosophy of Ministry

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...

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Cobblestone Community Network

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...

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