Todd Engstrom

Author: Todd Engstrom

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Book Review | Adopted for Life

    The third book I had the opportunity to read through was Adopted for Life: The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families & Churches by Russell Moore. As a short synopsis, Moore paints the theological foundations of adoption in the first portion of the book, asking the church and Christians to consider our calling to serve…

  • Buy a Book, Support a Mission

    College Students: As you are preparing for you return to campus and your fall classes, inevitably you are going to purchase your textbooks. Makarios, one of our partnering organizations in the Dominican Republic, has set up a site where you can purchase your books through Amazon and they receive a percentage of the proceeds. Friends:…

  • The Austin Stone’s New Pastors’ Blog

    The Austin Stone has just launched a new blog to which I will be contributing called “God, Gospel, Mission”.  The idea is to communicate both pastorally and informatively about how God is moving in our pastors lives individually and how God is moving corporately in our body.  On a broad scale, each post would fall…

  • Discipleship and Ministry

    I’ve been spending some time lately reflecting on my ministry and the coming season.  As my role has continued to change and our church has continued to grow, the pressures have changed and my time is increasingly spoken for. In addition, it seems like there is always a person or a task that needs immediate…

  • Manhood | Matt Adair

    I just watched Matt Adair’s talk from the Fight Club 09 conference, and thought it was an excellent sermon on corrections to our perspective of Jesus and biblical manhood. I’d encourage you to give it a listen: http://www.fightclub09.com/home/medi/ It is session #4.