Brian Thomas, Kaleo Church's worship lead and founder Semper Reformanda Records began a series asking worship leaders 10 questions. Check out the first one: 10 Questions for Worship Leaders
Ed Stetzer has released the second part of this study. (Read the previous post on Church Planting and Survivability.) In the study, expectations were the largest determining factor to survivability. Expectations might not seem like they would make such a...
How do you develop leaders at your church? This is a common challenge for churches, who must utilize the volunteer pool to lead important ministries in their church. Harbor Presbyterian, Kaleo Church and a group of other church planters meet...
This is our second survey on the missional nature of our church (read the first one about Sunday service & individuals) and we wanted to examine how missional our small groups are and the people who attend. We sent out...
Once a year Kaleo preaches a 'state of the union' address of where our church is and where it is going. This was done in a dialogical format by David Fairchild and I last Sunday. In it we were able...
Found this article on evangelism/outreach methods from EllisonResearch published in the 2007 January/February edition of Facts & Trends magazine. The findings are from a representative sample of 811 Protestant church ministers nationwide. Here is a snippet: The methods churches are...
Church Planting Resources posted a paper that "sets out a new paradigm for church planting that may help create such a culture. Missionary and Missiologist Roland Allen calls the kind of church planting movement referred to in the MNA church...
Inside Anne Rice's vampire series is an important missional lesson for churches. Lestat as a vampire had lived well past his generation and was having difficulty with the transitions of the culture. He no longer understood and connected with the...
"The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few..." (Matthew 9:37b) How do you raise and recruit leaders to change a city? Dr. Steve Ogne states that, recruiting is NOT a long term solution. Ogne believes that effective leadership development...
Speaker: Dr. Steve Ogne Ogne's session presented a framework for raising up leaders in a local church. One of the thoughts I've had for a month or so (I mentioned it about re-thinking the role of elders that I still...