Leadership

You Can't Program the Gospel
by Drew Goodmanson|13 June 2007|Church, Leadership, Ministry Design
When Kaleo Church first started, there were a number of things we wanted to do because other churches were doing it.  One example is a Film & Theology night.  We desperately wanted our people to see culture through the lens...
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Leading a Movement Not an Institution
by Drew Goodmanson|05 June 2007|Church, Leadership, Ministry Design
How can you structure leadership and decisions in a church to most effectively be on mission?  This is critical because when power/control are centralized in a church, the mission suffers.  Church leaders who micro-manage or want to be involved in...
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Triperspectivalism, Multiperspectivalism & Other Large Words
by Drew Goodmanson|31 May 2007|Church, Church Planting, Leadership, Ministry Design, Triperspectivalism
It's been well over a year since my first post on multiperspectivalism (or triperspectivalism), but more and more people & churches are seeing this as a framework to do effective ministry.  In the Acts 29 forum, there appears to be...
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Elders – Missional Movements, Plurality of Leadership & First Amongst Equals
by Drew Goodmanson|22 May 2007|Church, Church Planting, Leadership, Ministry Design
A group of Acts 29 pastors gathered for our monthly lunch together.  It was during this time we provide just-in-time coaching to those who would like to bring things to the table.  At this meeting three different churches discussed how...
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Missional Eldership – Leading a Transformational Community
by Drew Goodmanson|12 May 2007|Church, Church Planting, Leadership, Ministry Design, Triperspectivalism
Traditional/Centralized forms of church government destroy a church's mission.  At Kaleo Church we continue to re-think the form of our church and our church's ecclesiology for the sake of the gospel. As we do, we must also consider how we...
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Leadership Development
by Drew Goodmanson|09 May 2007|Leadership, Ministry Design
At the monthly pastors meeting here in San Diego we discussed leadership development.  Dick Kaufmann noted that churches need both systemic and systematic leadership development.  Systemic Leadership Development is using your entire organization (the church body) in the process of...
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2007 Multi-Site Church Conference
by Drew Goodmanson|15 March 2007|Church, Church Planting, Leadership, Ministry Design
The 2007 Multi-Site Church Conference just wrapped up.  The conference looked at why do multi-site, different models of multi-site and specifically the Redeemer NY (multi-site) and the Harbor Presbyterian (multi-congregational & multi-site) models.  (No video venues)  Here are some ideas...
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Developing Leaders to Lead (part 2)
by Drew Goodmanson|07 March 2007|Church, Church Planting, Leadership, Ministry Design
This is based on the Developing Leaders to lead from Harbor.  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...
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Developing Leaders to lead
by Drew Goodmanson|18 February 2007|Church, Leadership, Ministry Design, Triperspectivalism
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...
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Kaleo 2007
by Drew Goodmanson|15 February 2007|Church, Church Planting, Leadership, Ministry Design
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...
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