Ministry Design

Leadership Development in Community – Prophets
by Drew Goodmanson|13 December 2007|Church, Church Planting, Leadership, Ministry Design
Kaleo Church is a movement of people seeking to change San Diego by the power of the gospel.  As we have examined what it means to be the church, Kaleo has shifted our emphasis to people living together being the...
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Church Structures in lieu of Community
by Drew Goodmanson|29 November 2007|Church, Church Planting, Ministry Design
I spent the morning with Eugene, who heads up our missional communities at Kaleo.  One of the challenges we've faced as a church centers on discipling people and seeing leaders emerge to give their life to be on mission.  The...
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Domains: Beyond Missional Meandering
by Drew Goodmanson|09 November 2007|Church, Church Planting, Leadership, Ministry Design
Last night, David Fairchild and I spent the evening with Bob Roberts.  He had just returned from Hanoi to speak at a conference here in San Diego.  He laid out a vision for how he believes churches will truly change...
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New Forms of Doing Church
by Drew Goodmanson|07 November 2007|Church, Church Planting, Leadership, Ministry Design
Session: Things that make (Steve Timmis) go 'Hmmmm...' The first thing that makes Mr. Timmis go hmmm is the fascination with new ways of 'doing church'.   It doesn't take much to see a number of new books, blogs and...
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Church Planters NOT as Pastors – ReThinking Leadership
by Drew Goodmanson|05 November 2007|Church, Church Planting, Leadership, Ministry Design
Session: Elders & the Local Church One of the sessions Steve Timmis led at the Total Church conference centered around the challenge to plant missional churches and develop leaders fast enough to plant additional churches.  The Crowded House, Timmis' said,...
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Total Church Conference – Summary
by Drew Goodmanson|04 November 2007|Church, Church Planting, Leadership, Ministry Design
I returned last week from the Total Church conference in England.  (I wanted to post earlier, but was having some technical difficulty).  In attendance there were 50 church planters from around the world, many were hybrids, traditional churches looking to...
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A Day in the Life of a Church Planting Movement
by Drew Goodmanson|21 October 2007|Church, Church Planting, Culture, Leadership, Ministry Design, Teaching
I haven't posted in a while, but wanted to share some of what is going on: Total Church Conference - Monday, David and I leave to England to participate in this conference.  We will be joined by kindred-spirits from Acts...
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The Church as Movement – Organizing Decentralization
by Drew Goodmanson|03 October 2007|Church, Church Planting, Leadership, Ministry Design
How do you lead a church as movement rather than a program-centered church? While most churches have a centralized program-oriented approach to ministry, we continue to explore how to be a decentralized church.  Why?  We want to transform our city...
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Church Planting Discounts & Offers
by Drew Goodmanson|17 September 2007|Church, Church Planting, Ministry Design
It pays to be a church planter.  Church Planting Resources has a limited time offer of (requires registration): 50% off all purchases at Highway Video for a limited time! Biblically based and artistically inspired, Highway Video's top-quality sermon and worship...
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Transforming Cities – The Church beyond the Spiritual Box
by Drew Goodmanson|22 August 2007|Church, Church Planting, Culture, Ministry Design
When most people think of church, they envision a place where Christians gather on Sunday.  A building dominates the mind of both Christians or non-believers.  Today, the concept of church has been de-clawed of it's full of meaning.  The gathered...
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