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!

2 responses
Wow, his 3 consuming things are totally totally inspiring. I am so going to go to this guy's seminars!
Indeed great article, by the way I wish to share this. I love to go to church but sometimes it is not possible for me to visit church but our church has software by which I can be in touch with them anywhere, anytime. It is really wonderful to get in touch with church & other member. I think our church use Congregation Builder’s church management software .