Todd Engstrom

Author: Todd Engstrom

  • Kids and Life Transformation Groups

    Perhaps the single most frequently asked question I receive with respect to missional communities is “what do we do with our children?”.  For this next series, I’m going to focus on answering that question from multiple different angles: Why involve your children? Kids and the Family Meal Kids and LTGs Kids and Third Place Kids…

  • Kids and the Family Meal

    Perhaps the single most frequently asked question I receive with respect to missional communities is “what do we do with our children?”.  For this next series, I’m going to focus on answering that question from multiple different angles: Why involve your children? Kids and the Family Meal Kids and LTGs Kids and Third Place Kids…

  • Missional Communities and Kids

    Perhaps the single most frequently asked question I receive with respect to missional communities is “what do we do with our children?”.  For this next series, I’m going to focus on answering that question from multiple different angles: Why involve your children? Kids and the Family Meal Kids and LTGs Kids and Third Place Kids…

  • Jesus and Mission

    I’ve spilt quite a bit of digital ink over the last few months working through the reasons why we pursue missional communities, the core practices of missional communities, leadership systems for missional communities, and a variety of other practical things related to missional communities. For today’s post, I wanted to share a sermon that my…

  • Identifying a Mission

    How Do We Identify a Mission? In a comment from the post on “How to Multiply a Missional Community“, I was asked: Would you consider a post on identifying the mission and the process of clarification, especially in the context of starting a new MC?  If you have a workplace focus, what about your neighborhood?…

  • How to Multiply a Missional Community

    Multiplication is a critical piece of effectively making disciples, and foundational to a movement.  This series of posts will explore different different questions about multiplying a missional community: Why multiply missional communities? When to multiply a missional community? When NOT to multiply a missional community? How to multiply a missional community? —– How to Multiply…

  • When Not to Multiply a Missional Community

    Multiplication is a critical piece of effectively making disciples, and foundational to a movement.  This series of posts will explore different different questions about multiplying a missional community: Why multiply missional communities? When to multiply a missional community? When NOT to multiply a missional community? How to multiply a missional community? —– When NOT to…

  • Top 5 Posts for July

    For the month of July, the Missional Communities Practices Series continued to be the most read posts.  As for content posted in July: Questions to Answer in Transition A Theological Reason for Missional Community What Next for a New Missional Community? Establishing Healthy Rhythms in a New Missional Community The First Four Weeks of a…

  • When to Multiply a Missional Community?

    Multiplication is a critical piece of effectively making disciples, and foundational to a movement. This series of posts will explore different different questions about multiplying a missional community: Why multiply missional communities? When to multiply a missional community? When NOT to multiply a missional community? How to multiply a missional community? —– When to Multiply…

  • Multiplying Missional Communities

    Multiplication is a critical piece of effectively making disciples, and foundational to a movement.  This series of posts will explore different different questions about multiplying a missional community: Why multiply missional communities? When to multiply a missional community? When NOT to multiply a missional community? How to multiply a missional community? —– Why Multiply A…

  • Considering Multiplication in a New Missional Community

    At The Austin Stone, the process of connection to multiplication follows a general pattern that usually takes approximately two years. It generally goes something like this: What’s Next? The First Four Weeks Processing a Preferred Future Establishing Healthy Rhythms Thinking Critically about the MC Considering Multiplication This series of posts will explore what comes after…

  • Thinking Critically About a New Missional Community

    At The Austin Stone, the process of connection to multiplication follows a general pattern that usually takes approximately two years. It generally goes something like this: What’s Next? The First Four Weeks Processing a Preferred Future Establishing Healthy Rhythms Thinking Critically about the MC Considering Multiplication This series of posts will explore what comes after…