Author: Todd Engstrom
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Freshman Ministry at The Austin Stone | Gentrified
Ever wondered what The Austin Stone is doing with Freshmen this fall? Check out what my friend Logan Gentry and the College Team have cooked up for Freshmen below: — We’ll be dealing with 6 issues that focus on Gospel, Community, & Mission and answering the essential questions of what it means to believe in…
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The Spiritual Openness Continuum | the SENTinel
My new friend Steve Lutz has done some good work on articulating the relative breakdowns of students at Penn State on their “spiritual openness continuum”. I’d suspect it looks fairly similar on most state university campuses (±5%): +2 Actively looking, open people (churched, professing Christian, or on the verge). 3% of the student population +1…
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Obedience Is Key | Learning to Trade
I love doing College Ministry, but more importantly, I love it when men whom you have invested your life into apply what they have learned to their lives. Below is a post from a student whom I discipled as he is entering into the world of day trading: I’m 100% sure that trusting God will…
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Discipleship and Ministry | Part 2
For my initial thoughts on the challenges of remaining faithful to discipleship in the midst of ministry, go here. I’d like to expand a little more fully on my thoughts from the last post. In brief, I’ve found that it can be extremely difficult to continually cultivate the centrality of discipleship, or the process of…
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Summary of College Ministry | Gentrified
Ever wondered what we’re up to with college this time of the year? Check out my friend Logan Gentry’s post on what’s happening, starting with Austin Stone on Campus. Below is the twitter chatter from ASOC…good stuff! — Realtime results for “austin stone” 0 more results since you started searching. Refresh to see them. toodus:…
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Launching a Church Adoption Fund Webinar | ABBA Fund Blog
My friend Jason Kovacs from The Abba Fund is doing a webinar on setting up an adoption fund at your church (something we have done recently at The Austin Stone). ThE webinar will provide an overview of how to establish a simple yet effective church adoption assistance fund. The webinar is happening September 15th, 2009,…
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Labor Day Links
I’ve been slacking on this blog lately for two reasons: I’m struggling with my next set of posts, and can’t seem to nail them down. We’re right in the heart of Fall insanity, and I’ve been working some long hours. Excuses, exschmuses. For Labor Day, I figured I’d provide you with a few links to…
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People Work and Task Work
I’m learning a lot this week about the similarities and differences of people work and task work. My role has been shifting into a managerial and oversight role over a significant number of people, and this has required much more personal interaction and meeting than I have had in the past. Here’s a few things…
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Multisite Church | Christian Standard Interview
If you have been interested in the multisite discussion as a missional church, then I’d recommend reading the article below. Todd Wilson does a great job of highlighting the upside of multisite planting, and a holistic perspective on how it fits with church planting strategy. Christian Standard Interview – Todd Wilson on Multisite I think…
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Ethereal Thought Train Summer Review
As summer winds down, I figured I’d do some highlighting of the blog over the past few months. In no particular order, here are some of my favorites and yours: The 5 Big Issues in Campus Ministry | Innovation – This post contains most of my responses to Steve Lutz’s post on the 5 Big…
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Benefit for Missionaries to Sudan
Local Austinites – please consider supporting my friends Jonathan and Lauren Ramirez as they pursue God’s call to work with the Didinga people in Sudan! Ramirez Sudan Benefit Night @ Dominican Joe Friday, September 11th, 2009, 7:00 – 11:00PM Music Performances by: Aaron Ivey and Aaron Peace — Armed with wide eyes and a desire…
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Not Being Able to Do It All | Kevin DeYoung
From Kevin DeYoung’s post On Mission, Changing the World, and Not Being Able to Do It All: Maybe it’s because I’m Type A or left brained or a beaver or an ESTJ or a good pastor or a people-pleasing sinner, but I often feel like I could, perhaps should, be doing more. I could do…