San Diego A29 Bootcamp Sessions

San Diego A29 Bootcamp Sessions
The main session videos from the San Diego A29 Bootcamp, Influence: Multiplying Leaders on Mission for the Gospel are up! Session 1: “Influence Through Leadership” - Mark Driscoll (Sound did not work properly, no video.) Session 2: “Influence Through Brokeness” - David Fairchild Session...

Triperspectival Leadership Diagram

Triperspectival Leadership Diagram
Leon Chingcuangco distilled David & my talks at Vintage 21 down to a chart “Triperspectival Leadership - Fulfilling the Offices of Christ“. In it the offices of Prophet, Priest and King are contrasted to examine Characteristics, Positive Tendencies, Negative Tendencies, Eventual Outworking,...

OGRE - Organization of Gospel-Centered Reformed Entrepreneurs

OGRE - Organization of Gospel-Centered Reformed Entrepreneurs
I’ve been looking at joining The Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO). I have had several friends who have or currently are a part of this and speak highly of it. A few of the benefits they suggest include: I need to find other people like me; those who understand what it’s like to own...

Eldering in a Decentralized Movement

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...

2009 Technology & Church Planting Conferences Roadmap

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...

Accessible Missional Ecclesiology by Michael Goheen

Accessible Missional Ecclesiology by Michael Goheen
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

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

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)

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)

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)

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...

Missional Leader Curriculum

This weekend David Fairchild, Tim Chester, Steve Timmis, Jeff Vanderstelt, Caesar Kalinowski & Mark Moore and I head out of town Friday - Sunday to work on the The Porterbrook Network Curriculum to develop missional leaders. Looking forward to spending some time with this international crew.

Total Church Conference - 5 Spots Left

There are only 5 spots left until the Total Church Conference is sold out. Register now if you plan on attending. 8/7 Update: CONFERENCE SOLD-OUT

Total Church Schedule, Sessions & Breakouts

The conference is almost sold out. Here is the schedule for the Total Church Conference next month: Tuesday, August 12th Main Session #1: A Community-centered Gospel – Steve Timmis The gospel is about a King who died to rescue a people who would reveal his character by their shared lives. In keeping...

Importing Elders

This year we have had several people who served as pastors/elders at other churches move to Kaleo and a few more who intend on making the move. I’m currently writing a document on what it means to be an elder at Kaleo (qualifications, expectations, process). Our desire is to have these elders...

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