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This video has been making rounds on the interweb the past few days…
And if you ask me, I think in under 4 minutes it presents a rather compelling reason why you, as a church leader, and your church MUST engage with social media.
The revolution is coming.
It’s already here.

Where did the summer go?
I Tweeted about a week ago that I think September is the new January, especially in the church world… how do you all feel about that?
I don’t know about your churches, but at Park, September is when we officially kick off the ministry year. Summer is a major down time for [...]

Drew has a passion to help churches use technology to do outreach, build community and advance the Gospel.
2,600 churches use Monk Development technology.

I’ll post Drew’s notes on this when I get them, they will be more accurate than mine!
Are church websites effective tools for outreach and evangelism?

John 17:18… as you have sent them [...]

John Dyer lives in Irving, TX with his beautiful wife and awesome new son. He works at Dallas Seminary as the director of web development (meaning “main code guy”) where he also earned a theology degree. He is actively involved in several open source web projects, builds ministry resources such as www.bestcommentaries.com, and blogs about technology [...]

Drew Goodmanson serves as CEO of Monk Development and is co-founder/pastor at Kaleo Church. Monk is an internet strategy and development company. Drew often speaks at conferences about how churches can use the internet, his blog is recognized as one of the Top Church Blogs, he wrote a chapter in Voices of the Virtual World: Participative Technology [...]

Well besides my little Twabbatical, I’ve been busy the past month or so… here’s
a quick rundown on things I would have Twittered or blogged about…
A Month in 10 Points…
1 – Our website was stolen. Park’s website was stolen by another church. Like for real. It was a valuable experience in learning that imitation can be [...]

The Great Commission.
At the end of the day, no matter what capacity you serve in the Church or in ministry, that is why we do what we do.
The “world” as we know it has changed.
We no longer need to go to the world to reach the world.
Well, of course we still need people “going” [...]

I made a quick trip to my hometown of Peoria to my former church, Riverside Community Church for their Related Leaders seminar with Leonard Sweet.
Len is an author, futurist, and all around incredible thinker in the church world. I’ve had the privilege of getting to know him as a friend and have always been challenged [...]

Well, as the Eve of 2009 is upon us, I thought I’d do a quick re-cap of a year in the life of yours truly.
2008 has been incredible. Definitely had its share of challenges and “moments”… but I’m so incredibly thankful for all God has done in my life over the past year and am [...]