Todd Engstrom

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  • Mobilizing Your Community to Sunday Service Teams

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    Over the next few weeks, I’ve asked several members of our team at The Austin Stone to write on different aspects of missional community in different contexts and ministries. Today, Brendan Thompson is going to share some learning points from practicing missional community in conjunction with service teams, specifically in our Children’s Ministry.  Brendan serves as our Children’s…

  • Two Ways to Transition Your Church

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    The Austin Stone didn’t begin as a church committed to missional communities.  Through several years, we have transitioned our church from a traditional community/small group model to our current model of missional communities.  This series of posts will help you understand how we made that transition over time: Transitioning Your Church to Missional Communities Two Ways to Transition…

  • Transitioning Your Church to Missional Communities

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    The Austin Stone didn’t begin as a church committed to missional communities.  Through several years, we have transitioned our church from a traditional community/small group model to our current model of missional communities.  This series of posts will help you understand how we made that transition over time: Transitioning Your Church to Missional Communities Two…

  • Fall Alignment Series at The Austin Stone

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    Each fall at The Austin Stone, we take some time as a church family to do three things: Align our church to our vision through integrated preaching, resources, and missional community discussion Invite visitors to engage in a missional community and live the life of a disciple in community on mission Define practices we will…

  • Churches Planting Churches

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    This Sunday, The Austin Stone joined with many other Acts 29 Network churches to preach to our congregations about church planting and support the mission to make disciples and plant healthy churches. I continue to be grateful for the Lord’s grace in my life to participate in church planting.  As we prayed for our entire…

  • Verge Conference 2013

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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWz048RwAAg This coming weekend I have the tremendous privilege of participating in Verge 2013.  The conference is focused on Disciple Making this year, and will be an excellent shot in the arm for anyone who desires to make much of Jesus. You can join in online by live streaming the conference here: http://www.vergenetwork.org/webcast/ Join us…

  • Together For Adoption – 2010 Conference

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    This fall, the Together for Adoption Conference will be October 1-2, 2010, in Austin, Texas, hosted by The Austin Stone Community Church and Hill Country Bible Church (the conference venue), and in partnership with Hope for Orphans. The theme is “The Gospel, the Church, and the Global Orphan Crisis” and I have the privilege of…

  • Lessons from a Razor

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    As many of you know, I was in a South Asian country with two other pastors from The Austin Stone, and we had an unfortunate incident with some youth.  My friend who was attacked has written his reflections, and I highly encourage you to read them.  Here is a short snippet: Unexpectedly, one of these…

  • Verge Conference

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    The Austin Stone is hosting a National Missional Community Conference called Verge. The Verge Conference is unique in that it is committed to the development and multiplication of missional communities. The theme of the Verge Conference is The DNA of Gospel Movements, and will focus on movement strategies and practices to help pastors, church planters,…

  • Avoiding the Bureaucratic Death Spiral | What’s Best Next

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    Matt Perman pulled a great quote from a book that I love, Good to Great by Jim Collins, over at What’s Best Next.  The basic gist (for those who won’t read below), is that bureaucracy kills entrepreneurial spirit, while discipline sustains it. Entrepreneurial success is fueled by creativity, imagination, bold moves into uncharted waters, and…

  • Summary of College Ministry | Gentrified

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    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:…

  • The Austin Stone’s New Pastors’ Blog

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    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…