GCM Collective – Discussion about the Gospel forming a Community on Mission

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Sep 23, 2010 in Church, Featured Articles | 0 comments

It has been six months since we went live with the GCM Collective website and already there has been tremendous fruit. As of today, we have emails for 10,131 church planters and missional leaders who are somehow interested or connected to the collective. Of these 1,422 are part of the community site participating in the hundreds of discussions, praying for one another, sharing resources and events. Have you joined the collective to take advantage of this valuable exchange of ideas and resources?

Why Join the GCM Collective?

A Community of Missional Thinkers

Over a thousand missional leaders and thinkers are gathered together online to share insight, experiences, resources, prayer and more to help you in your effort to lead a local community on mission. Engage in meaningful conversations with others from around the world or who live near you.

Discussions & Messaging

There are numerous groups that allow you to join the conversations that are most important to you. Get a daily email digest of new conversations, reply to email to post or login to interact. A few of the groups discussions include:

• Bible Teaching in a Missional Church
• City Renewal
• Community Life
• Everyday Mission
• Fostering a Missional Culture
• Planting Missional Churches
• Transitioning to Missional Church
• World Mission
• and many others to chose from!

Resource Sharing

Upload and share resources. The community site has an open source policy toward exchanging files. Grab the resources you see on this website and many others and edit them for your local needs. Request the resources you need to fulfill the mission. Join and download files such as:

• Contextualization Assessment Starter
• Understanding and Studying the City
• Intergrating community and mission into your normal routine
• Mission through community
• Questions to help you understand your neighbourhood
• The difference between gospel communities and house groups
• Missional Community Leader Role Description
• Small Groups. From Participant to Leadership
• Missional Community Formation
• and many others.

Prayer & Needs

Share prayer requests and pray for one another. Prayers that are posted can include the urgency, be tagged to include the people or primary areas that need prayer. People can respond with encouragement, scripture or even let the person know they prayed for them.

Post the needs you have for resources or help for others to jump in to assist you.

Keep aware of important Missional-minded Events

Stay aware of the important missional events throughout the year on one site. Be in the know of the large national conferences but also the local training events to equip your missional community leaders. Connect with others in your city to reach the city with the gospel.

All this and much more!

Join now by going to the GCM Collective community sign-up page.

Porterbrook Missional Training launching at Kaleo

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Jul 21, 2010 in Church, Featured Articles | 5 comments

The Porterbrook Network is a developing initiative aimed at contributing to a wider church planting movement by equipping individuals and churches to rediscover mission as their DNA through training, and resourcing.

Kaleo is launching the program to students in the Southern California area.

Porterbrook: San Diego

The course is delivered through distance learning with an introductory day and 3 residential weekends throughout the year. It will require about 5 hours study each week. The full course is over two years, comprising a foundation year and advanced year. Students can join either year or both years depending on their needs and circumstances. The advanced year is for people who have had some previous theological training or experience of church leadership or have completed the foundation year.

There will be assignments to prepare for each residential weekend, either in the form of a short presentation or as a written assignment with notes for discussion. The aim is to help students keep on track, apply their learning to their context, and learn from other students who are applying the material to their church and context.
We require each student to have the support of their local church, and where possible, would look for some level of involvement from the church leader(s).

Dates 2010 – 2011
Introductory day 25th September 2010
Winter residential 3rd – 5th December 2010
Spring residential 25th – 27th March 2011
Summer residential 8th – 10th July 2011

Fees: $1,250 per year, which includes a CD of the materials, and accommodation and catering for residentials.

Below is the year one syllabus (click image to see the second year).

GCM Collective 2010 Conference Schedule in Austin

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Jul 15, 2010 in Church, Featured Articles | 0 comments

The GCM Collective will be hosting their first GCM Conference in Austin, TX this October, bringing together church planters, pastors, and leaders to collaborate on the practice of missional communities. This three-day conference will feature main and breakout sessions under the theme of GOSPEL, COMMUNITY and MISSION.

You will get to hear from, meet and interact with leaders who are daily practitioners, living in gospel communities on mission in their cities. This is a unique experience that will present the why, what and how-to of starting, leading and multiplying missional communities. Interactive plenary sessions, breakouts and unique training experiences will fill our days both on-site and off.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28TH
3:30 – 5:00PM Pre-Conference: Forming a Collective Drew Goodmanson
7:00 – 9:00PM Main Session ONE: GCM Collective Vision Panel Discussion
9:00PM – Meet-Up at Gingerman Pub

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29TH
9:30 – 10:30AM Main Session TWO: What is the Gospel? David Fairchild
10:45 – 12PM Breakout Session [ 1 ]
12 – 1:30PM Lunch Break
1:30 – 2:45PM Main Session THREE: A Post-Christendom America Ed Stetzer
3:00 – 5:00PM Breakout Session [ 2 ]
5:00 – 7:00PM Dinner Break
7:00 – 9:00PM Main Session FOUR: Gospel Rhythms Caesar Kalinowski
9:00PM – Downtown Experience

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30TH
9:00 – 10:30AM Main Session FIVE: Making Disciples on MIssion Jeff Vanderstelt
10:45 – 11:45AM Breakout Session [ 3 ]
12 – 1:30PM Main Session SIX: Stealth Church Steve Timmis

Total Church 2.0 Conference Audio

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Mar 29, 2010 in Church, Church Planting, Featured Articles, Ministry Design | 1 comment

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 Session 1: The Cross and the Missional Church (coming soon) Michael Goheen
The crucifixion has often been interpreted simply in terms of its benefits for individual people. While true, this is inadequate. When the cross is placed in the context of the literary structure of the gospels and in the context of the whole biblical story, the cross has cosmic and ecclesiological significance. This talk will unfold the cosmic scope, communal significance, and the transforming power of the cross, all of which produce a missional people.

Main Session 2: The Significance of the Cross and Resurrection for a Missional Church (Part 1) Michael Goheen
The crucifixion has often been interpreted simply in terms of its benefits for individual people. While true, this is inadequate. When the cross is placed in the context of the literary structure of the gospels and in the context of the whole biblical story, the cross has cosmic and ecclesiological significance. This talk unfolds the cosmic scope, communal significance, and the transforming power of the cross, all of which produce a missional people. Like the cross, the resurrection has often been shorn of its ecclesiological and missional implications. The resurrection stands at the centre of history with cosmic and communal significance, and this lecture also opens this up with an eye to its missional importance.

Main Session 3: The Significance of the Cross and Resurrection for a Missional Church (Part 2) Michael Goheen
The crucifixion has often been interpreted simply in terms of its benefits for individual people. While true, this is inadequate. When the cross is placed in the context of the literary structure of the gospels and in the context of the whole biblical story, the cross has cosmic and ecclesiological significance. This talk unfolds the cosmic scope, communal significance, and the transforming power of the cross, all of which produce a missional people. Like the cross, the resurrection has often been shorn of its ecclesiological and missional implications. The resurrection stands at the centre of history with cosmic and communal significance, and this lecture also opens this up with an eye to its missional importance.

Main Session 4: A Phenomenal Dependency Steve Timmis
The church wasn’t some idea that emerged out of Paul’s missionary journeys. Jesus came to create a new stand-out community that would model to the world what it actually looked like when Jesus ruled. When we read his manifesto known as the Sermon on the Mount, we see that it was (and is) something altogether phenomenal. In these sessions, we take a close look at just what it means to be the people of God.

Main Session 5 : The Commissioning of the Risen Christ: Defining Our Identity Michael Goheen
All the gospels end with a commissioning by the resurrected Lord. Often these commissions are interpreted as sending individuals to do evangelistic or mission work. Yet these are words that define the church in terms of its identity and its role in the biblical drama. This session opens up these comissions in terms of the way they define a missional community.

Main Session 6: A Phenomenal Obedience Steve Timmis
The church wasn’t some idea that emerged out of Paul’s missionary journeys. Jesus came to create a new stand-out community that would model to the world what it actually looked like when Jesus ruled. When we read his manifesto known as the Sermon on the Mount, we see that it was (and is) something altogether phenomenal. In these sessions, we take a close look at just what it means to be the people of God.

Gospel Community Mission – GCM Collective

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Feb 11, 2010 in Church | 3 comments

The increased conversation about ‘being missional’ is exciting. Recently over 2,000 church leaders gathered in Austin (Verge) to discuss missionality. In the tweets to follow, there still were several who are convinced they want to be missional but aren’t quite sure how to do this.

Enter the GCM Collective. Launching in March as a collective (originally comprised of Soma Communities, The Crowded House and Kaleo Churchat ) it will centralize resources to help communities exchange ideas, resources and encouragement in a move to being the church as a community, centered on the gospel on mission to the world.

1. Sign-up at GCM Collective to be informed of the launch.
2. Join the FB page and follow GCM on Twitter.

We’re excited to see the idea exchange about creating a people on mission, discipleship, training missional leaders, forming a community on the gospel and much more…..stay tuned!

GCA Church Planting Conference

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Jan 8, 2010 in Church, Church Planting | 1 comment

I’m going to be presenting two sessions with Timmy Brister at the GCA Church Planting Conference January 26-28th 2010 in Orlando. If you are a church planter, this is a highly valuable conference to attend.

Planting in a Post Christian World: The culture is changing and therefore there new methods of church planting are required. This session will help you learn how to effectively minister in a post-Christian context. Come learn the key values of this Post-Christian generation, the idols that enslave them and effective ways to communicate the eternal and unchanging gospel message.

The Internet and the Sovereignty of God: God has used major technological and cultural shifts to bring sweeping change. As our culture moves increasingly online, this session will help your church effectively use the internet to be missionaries to unbelievers, gather the unchurched and connect with your community. Come learn how to use this powerful tool to change the community in which you are called to plant a church.