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This is part of my notes from the Beautiful Day Conference.
Gary Gaddini is the lead pastor of Peninsula Covenant Church in Redwood, California. His grandfather was Al Capone’s driver. Just thought you’d like to know.
What is “the scorecard” for your church leadership? How does your church measure ‘wins?’ Changing your church [...]

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This is from the Beautiful Day Conference breakout session titled Shifting Culture of Your Church, led by Steve Clifford and Gary Gaddini.
Some background on Steve Clifford. Gary Gaddini is the lead pastor of Peninsula Covenant Church in Redwood, California.
Steve was comfortable not knowing “what” he was going to do to bring about the [...]

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This is part 4 of my notes from the Beautiful Day Conference.
Dan Kimball is the founding pastor of Graceland that morphed/transitioned into Vintage Faith Church in Santa Cruz, California. He’s probably best known as an “emergent author”, his latest book being They Like Jesus But Not The Church.

Where do you spend most of your [...]

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This is part 3 of my notes from the Beautiful Day Conference.
Reggie McNeal is an author, church planter, and all around nice guy. The best book he’s done is The Present Future: Six Tough Questions for the Church.
Most people want to grow, they just don’t know how.
I use the term People-Development vs. Program because [...]

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Rowland who blogs about once an eclipse, immediately came to my mind after reading this post by one of new reads - Stuff Christians Like.
Here’s the bulk of his post. I’ll keep a running tally of Rowland’s score.
1. Has a faux hawk hair style = +1
Rowland doesn’t, but Toby does.
2. Has more [...]

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