Get to know Shaunti Felhahn: What is The Male Factor? We're betting it's not what you think! #HON2011

We're so excited about Shaunti Feldhahn coming to speak at Honolulu 2011, we can hardly stand it! Yes, she'll be talking about The Male Factor. She'll also be talking about lots more!

Shaunti began her career as an analyst on Wall Street and then applied  her background and skills to investigating eye-opening truths that many of us tend to miss.

Stuff like what women don't get about men.
Stuff like ways women in the workplace can avoid unintentional self-sabotage and be particularly effective and influential with male bosses, colleagues, clients or subordinates.
Stuff like how men can cultivate positive working relationships.

We could go on and on but, better yet, watch the video and let Shaunti speak for herself. When you're done with that, sign up for Honolulu 2011, March 24-26, 2011 and come hear Shaunti tell it like it is in person. She'll be participating in the Leadership Forum preconference session - geared toward leaders - Thursday day, March 24, where she'll be joined by the likes of Ken Blanchard, Margie Blanchard, and David Kinnaman of The Barna Group. She'll also be leading several workshops during the main Honolulu 2011 conference.

Find out more about Shaunti here
Find out what Shaunti believes here
Find out what else Shaunti has written, including her “For Only” series. Hint: Guys, there are For Only books for you, including one touted as a “chick manual” for young men. Yes, you read that right. Chick manual. :D
Find out more about Honolulu 2011 on the HIM website, or by contacting HIM at info@himonline.org / 808-988-9777

Working on the Hon2011 Leadership Forum postcard | #Hon2011 Preconference Session – March 24, 2011

Tell your friends in business and management about the Leadership Forum. Church leaders and pastors, we're talking about you, too! The Leadership Forum debuts at Honolulu 2011 with top-tier, national speakers discussing with you the building blocks for well-run, businesses, churches and ministry.

When: Thursday, March 24  |  9am–3pm
Where: The Hawaii Convention Center, Honolulu, HI
Special rates for pastors/spouses and for those registere full-time of Honolulu 2011.

SPEAKERS:
Management guru Ken Blanchard of The One-Minute Manager

Margie Blanchard, former president of The Ken Blanchard Companies  and now head of its "Office of the Future"

David Kinnaman, president of The Barna Group  and co-author of the best-selling book UnChristian , which discusses what young Americans think about Christianity

Shaunti Feldhahn, author of The Male Factor: The Unwritten Rules, Misperceptions and Secret Beliefs of Men in the Workplace and For Women Only: What You Need to Know about the Inner Lives of Men 

Too good to pass up!

Get to know Drew Goodmanson (@dgoodmanson) - #HON2011

About

goodmansonsDrew Goodmanson serves as CEO of Monk Development and as co-founder/pastor at Kaleo Church. Monk is an Internet strategy and development company that created Ekklesia 360 which is used by thousands of churches and ministries. Drew uses his 10-years of expertise in the Internet Technology field to help organizations use web technologies to fulfill their mission. Drew is a recognized expert in this field, he writes on non-profit, ministry & church web technology for publications like Christianity Today, the National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) Advanced Research Symposium and the Christian Leadership Alliance’s Outcomes magazine. He writes the ‘Church Web Strategy’ column for Christian Computing Magazine. He wrote a chapter in Voices of the Virtual World: Participative Technology and the Ecclesial Revolution. Drew’s blog is recognized as one of the Top Church blogs. He is a featured speaker for national conferences such as the Christian Leadership Alliance, the Ministry Internet & Technology Summit, the National Religious Broadcasters, National Outreach Convention, Christian Web Conference, National New Church Conference, Echo Media Conference, Story, Cultivate Conference, GCA & Acts 29 church planters conferences and Total Church conferences.

Kaleo Church is a missional community, multisite church planting movement in San Diego, CA. Drew often speaks about Missional Ecclesiology in a decentralized model and has spoken at national conferences such as The Total Church Conference and several regional Acts 29 Church Bootcamps. He wrote “Sheep & Goats”, a weekly column on churches, religions and spirituality for the San Diego Reader.

I was inspired the other day to think through what areas do I want to dedicate my life-work to?  I identified three things I believe will consume the next twenty years of my life.  These things are:

1. I want to be involved in local church planting movements. I am primarily doing this through my elder/pastor role at Kaleo Church.  I want to participate in discussions, encouragement and prayer with others who have a passion for church planting and seeing cities changed by the gospel. 

2. I want to help the church use technology to further the spread of the gospel.  This involves primarily helping guide the church to effectively create church websites, engage in online outreach and send people on mission online.  I call this being a church technology missiologist.  Some of this thought is worked out in a Church Content Management & Outreach System called Ekklesia 360.

3. I want to help develop gospel-centered leaders in both my roles in church and through my company. 

HIM loves introducing great speakers with great content. That's why we've invited Drew Goodmanson to Honolulu 2011. Drew will be leading 3 workshops at Honolulu 2011:

• The near and distant future of online ministry
• Blogs, Websites, Social Media and your church
• Creating "missional communities"

Might as well start getting ready your questions for Drew now!

Are you familiar with the Barna Group's 6 Megathemes in the Church in 2010?

December 13, 2010

Change usually happens slowly in the Church. But a review of the past year's research conducted by the Barna Group provides a time-lapse portrayal of how the religious environment in the U.S. is morphing into something new.

Analyzing insights drawn from more than 5,000 non-proprietary interviews conducted over the past 11 months, George Barna indicated that the following patterns were evident in the survey findings.

1. The Christian Church is becoming less theologically literate.
What used to be basic, universally-known truths about Christianity are now unknown mysteries to a large and growing share of Americans--especially young adults. For instance, Barna Group studies in 2010 showed that while most people regard Easter as a religious holiday, only a minority of adults associate Easter with the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Other examples include the finding that few adults believe that their faith is meant to be the focal point of their life or to be integrated into every aspect of their existence. Further, a growing majority believe the Holy Spirit is a symbol of God's presence or power, but not a living entity. As the two younger generations (Busters and Mosaics) ascend to numerical and positional supremacy in churches across the nation, the data suggest that biblical literacy is likely to decline significantly. The theological free-for-all that is encroaching in Protestant churches nationwide suggests the coming decade will be a time of unparalleled theological diversity and inconsistency.

2. Christians are becoming more ingrown and less outreach-oriented.
Despite technological advances that make communications instant and far-reaching, Christians are becoming more spiritually isolated from non-Christians than was true a decade ago. Examples of this tendency include the fact that less than one-third of born again Christians planned to invite anyone to join them at a church event during the Easter season; teenagers are less inclined to discuss Christianity with their friends than was true in the past; most of the people who become Christians these days do so in response to a personal crisis or the fear of death (particularly among older Americans); and most Americans are unimpressed with the contributions Christians and churches have made to society over the past few years. As young adults have children, the prospect of them seeking a Christian church is diminishing--especially given the absence of faith talk in their conversations with the people they most trust. With atheists becoming more strategic in championing their godless worldview, as well as the increased religious plurality driven by education and immigration, the increasing reticence of Christians to engage in faith-oriented conversations assumes heightened significance.

3. Growing numbers of people are less interested in spiritual principles and more desirous of learning pragmatic solutions for life.
When asked what matters most, teenagers prioritize education, career development, friendships, and travel. Faith is significant to them, but it takes a back seat to life accomplishments and is not necessarily perceived to affect their ability to achieve their dreams. Among adults the areas of growing importance are lifestyle comfort, success, and personal achievements. Those dimensions have risen at the expense of investment in both faith and family. The turbo-charged pace of society leaves people with little time for reflection. The deeper thinking that occurs typically relates to economic concerns or relational pressures. Spiritual practices like contemplation, solitude, silence, and simplicity are rare. (It is ironic that more than four out of five adults claim to live a simple life.) Practical to a fault, Americans consider survival in the present to be much more significant than eternal security and spiritual possibilities. Because we continue to separate our spirituality from other dimensions of life through compartmentalization, a relatively superficial approach to faith has become a central means of optimizing our life experience.

4. Among Christians, interest in participating in community action is escalating.
Largely driven by the passion and energy of young adults, Christians are more open to and more involved in community service activities than has been true in the recent past. While we remain more self-indulgent than self-sacrificing, the expanded focus on justice and service has struck a chord with many. However, despite the increased emphasis, churches run the risk of watching congregants’ engagement wane unless they embrace a strong spiritual basis for such service. Simply doing good works because it's the socially esteemed choice of the moment will not produce much staying power.

To facilitate service as a long-term way of living and to provide people with the intrinsic joy of blessing others, churches have a window of opportunity to support such action with biblical perspective. And the more that churches and believers can be recognized as people doing good deeds out of genuine love and compassion, the more appealing the Christian life will be to those who are on the sidelines watching. Showing that community action as a viable alternative to government programs is another means of introducing the value of the Christian faith in society.

5. The postmodern insistence on tolerance is winning over the Christian Church.
Our biblical illiteracy and lack of spiritual confidence has caused Americans to avoid making discerning choices for fear of being labeled judgmental. The result is a Church that has become tolerant of a vast array of morally and spiritually dubious behaviors and philosophies. This increased leniency is made possible by the very limited accountability that occurs within the body of Christ. There are fewer and fewer issues that Christians believe churches should be dogmatic about. The idea of love has been redefined to mean the absence of conflict and confrontation, as if there are no moral absolutes that are worth fighting for. That may not be surprising in a Church in which a minority believes there are moral absolutes dictated by the scriptures.

The challenge today is for Christian leaders to achieve the delicate balance between representing truth and acting in love. The challenge for every Christian in the U.S. is to know his/her faith well enough to understand which fights are worth fighting, and which stands are non-negotiable. There is a place for tolerance in Christianity; knowing when and where to draw the line appears to perplex a growing proportion of Christians in this age of tolerance.

6. The influence of Christianity on culture and individual lives is largely invisible.
Christianity has arguably added more value to American culture than any other religion, philosophy, ideology or community. Yet, contemporary Americans are hard pressed to identify any specific value added. Partly due to the nature of today’s media, they have no problem identifying the faults of the churches and Christian people.

In a period of history where image is reality, and life-changing decisions are made on the basis of such images, the Christian Church is in desperate need of a more positive and accessible image. The primary obstacle is not the substance of the principles on which Christianity is based, and therefore the solution is not solely providing an increase in preaching or public relations. The most influential aspect of Christianity in America is how believers do--or do not--implement their faith in public and private. American culture is driven by the snap judgments and decisions that people make amidst busy schedules and incomplete information. With little time or energy available for or devoted to research and reflection, it is people’s observations of the integration of a believer’s faith into how he/she responds to life’s opportunities and challenges that most substantially shape people’s impressions of and interest in Christianity. Jesus frequently spoke about the importance of the fruit that emerges from a Christian life; these days the pace of life and avalanche of competing ideas underscores the significance of visible spiritual fruit as a source of cultural influence.

With the likelihood of an accelerating pace of life and increasingly incomplete cues being given to the population, Christian leaders would do well to revisit their criteria for "success" and the measures used to assess it. In a society in which choice is king, there are no absolutes, every individual is a free agent, we are taught to be self-reliant and independent, and Christianity is no longer the automatic, default faith of young adults, new ways of relating to Americans and exposing the heart and soul of the Christian faith are required.

About the Research
This summary is based upon a series of national research studies conducted in the Barna Poll by the Barna Group throughout 2010. Each study was conducted via telephone interviews with a random sample of adults selected from across the continental United States, age 18 and older. With one exception, each study included a minimum of 1,000 adults; the exceptions were one study among 400 adults, and one among 603 adults. Each survey included a proportional number of interviews among people using cell phones. The data set for each study was subjected to minimal statistical weighting to calibrate the aggregate sample to known population percentages in relation to several key demographic variables.

Mosaics are individuals born between 1984 and 2002. Baby Busters are individuals born between 1965 and 1983.

Barna Group (which includes its research division, the Barna Research Group) is a private, non-partisan, for-profit organization that conducts primary research, produces media resources pertaining to spiritual development, and facilitates the healthy spiritual growth of leaders, children, families and Christian ministries. Located in Ventura, California, Barna has been conducting and analyzing primary research to understand cultural trends related to values, beliefs, attitudes and behaviors since 1984.

If you would like to receive free e-mail notification of the release of each new, bi-monthly update on the latest research findings from the Barna Group, you may subscribe to this free service at the Barna website (www.barna.org). Additional research-based resources are also available through this website. 

© Barna Group 2010.

Copyright Disclaimer: All the information contained on the barna.org website is copyrighted by Issachar Companies, Inc., 2368 Eastman Ave. Unit 12, Ventura, California 93003. No portion of this website (articles, graphs, charts, reviews, pictures, video clips, quotes, statistics, etc.) may be reproduced, retransmitted, disseminated, sold, distributed, published, edited, altered, changed, broadcast, circulated, or commercially exploited without the prior written permission from the Barna Group.

Find out more and personally ask Daivd Kinnaman, president of the Barna Group, about these themes when he speaks at HIM's Leadership Forum and at Honolulu 2011 (March 24-26, 2011, The Hawaii Convention Center).

Don't know Honolulu 2011 speaker Dave Gibbons? | 10Q with Dave Gibbons of Newsong Church

10Q with Dave Gibbons

Dave Gibbons is the senior pastor of Newsong Church, an international multi-site church with 8 campuses located in California, Texas, Mexico, United Kingdom, India, and Thailand. He is an entrepreneur and owns YangDang and Xealot. And he is the author of The Monkey and the Fish.

ABOUT NEWSONG CHURCH

Year Began: 1994
Locations: 8 Campuses – Irvine, CA / Culver, CA / Fullerton, CA / Dallas, TX / Mexico / London / India / Bangkok

10Q WITH DAVE GIBBONS

1Q = What is Newsong Church’s chain of command from the senior pastor to the church volunteers?

The Leadership Team comprised of both volunteer leaders who represent the congregation and support staff guide the church but all under the submission to the Holy Spirit. The congregation affirms major decisions.

2Q = For big decisions, what is Newsong Church’s decision making process?

Depends. The big decisions can originate from our members or from the leaders of the church. But eventually, there is affirmation with Leadership teams, Management teams and the congregation.

3Q = How does Newsong Church market itself?

Mostly word of mouth and via technology.

4Q = What is the most effective thing Newsong Church has done to reach people?

Created an ethos that is dependent upon the Holy Spirit and empowers the people to be the front line of God’s movements locally and globally.

5Q = What is your leadership style?

Intuitive and collaborative.

6Q = Your book, The Monkey and the Fish, discusses third culture. What is it?

Third culture in a word is Adaptation. In two words, Painful Adaptation. The longer definition is “the mindset and will to love, learn and serve in any culture even in the midst of pain and discomfort.”
A short view of this can be found at 3culture.tv.

7Q = What is a Third-Culture Church?

It’s a church that is able to flow with the Holy Spirit, choosing to live out the two great purposes of the church: Loving God and Loving Her Neighbor. The Neighbor though being someone NOT like you even someone you would hate or not want to forgive. It’s a church that chooses obedience over passion  as well as radical sacrifice over comfort.

8Q = How can a church become a Third-Culture Church?

This process is definitely the work of the Holy Spirit! To ask people to enter into pain and suffering, eat foods they don’t like, hang out with people that make you uncomfortable is counter-cultural. I would say the key is for the one who does get it to start living out the third culture life. Personally, before the movement became church-wide, I felt God telling me I had to live it out more intentionally. So my family and I moved out to Bangkok. It starts with leadership and prayer.  As one engages real suffering and poverty, clarity emerges.

As you live out third culture, invite others with you on the journey. I still remember taking a group of friends with me on a third culture vision trip about 5 years ago. We have never been the same. The impact now goes beyond personal to people all over the world. These men embody third culture.

It’s a journey there are many other ideas contained in the book.

9Q = What is the greatest ministry lesson you have learned?

The Primary Task of a Leader is to “build trust and bear pain.”

10Q = What is the best advice you have for church leaders?

Explore the world. Listen, Observe, Ask Questions. Do it now. Then be willing to give it all away to act upon what you experience. The whole time praying, “Father, break my heart with the things that break your heart.”

Be sure to check out Church Relevance’s “10Q” category to read previous 10Q interviews.

We're excited to host Dave as a Honolulu 2011 general session and workshop speaker. In fact, Dave will be opening the conference on Thursday night!

Thursday night of the Honolulu Conference is always AWESOME! Awesome worship, awesome speakers, AWESOME GOD! Hope we'll see you and your friends.

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Paring down Ken Blanchard's bio for Honolulu 2011 is a tough one. The "One Minute Manager's" managed his minutes well!

KEN BLANCHARD 

Few people have impacted the day-to-day management of people and companies more than Ken Blanchard. A prominent author, speaker and business consultant, Ken is universally characterized by friends, colleagues and clients as one of the most insightful, powerful and compassionate men in business today. Ken speaks from the heart with warmth and humor and is a polished storyteller with a knack for making the seemingly complex easy to understand.

For nearly four decades Ken Blanchard has been recognized and read as a premier thinker and writer on leadership. The three-dozen or so books (including The One Minute Manager, Raving Fans and Gung Ho!) he has authored or co-authored find places of prominence on bookshelves and bestseller lists here and abroad. He is a coveted and celebrated guest in national media and in major conferences and conventions. Many of the most significant national and international corporations engage Ken Blanchard for strategic counsel at the most critical levels. For more information about The Ken Blanchard Companies visit the website at www.KenBlanchard.com .

Since coming to a personal faith in Jesus Christ – “suiting up,” as he terms it – Ken Blanchard’s passion and priority has become inspiring and equipping people to lead like Jesus.  Ken has come to recognize and lift up Jesus as the greatest leadership role model of all time. Along with Phil Hodges, his friend of many years, he founded The Center for Faithwalk Leadership in 1999, now better known as Lead Like Jesus. The mission of this ministry is not to run ministries or businesses or to start churches. It has one mission:  To inspire and equip the leaders who do so that, God is glorified, people are served, and organizations are more effective in impacting the world for the Kingdom of God.  Out of this small, not-for-profit organization, a movement – Lead Like Jesus – came to life with Ken as its chief champion. Visit the website at www.LeadLikeJesus.com.

A Cornell University graduate with a PhD, he has been a college professor, an entrepreneur, and business guru. He is an avid golfer and a friend to anyone who crosses his busy path! Ken and his wife Margie call California home where he is the co-founder and Chief Spiritual Officer of the Ken Blanchard Companies – a global leader in workplace learning, employee productivity, leadership and team effectiveness. 

Ken will be leading a session at HIM's new Leadership Forum, Thursday, March 24th - a separate preconference event prior to the main Honolulu 2011 conference. He'll also deliver a plenary address Friday. We are very honored to have Ken and his wife Margie, as they are very selective in their speaking engagements.

We hope you'll come to Honolulu 2011 and hear Ken's whole story!

Contact Hawaiian Islands Ministries at info@himonline.org. Call 808-988-9777