Posted on October 5, 2011 by Frank Wooden
Note: Part 1: How My Church Is Starting Three Churches In One Year was posted on October 3, 2011. After John 3:16, the next most quoted verse might be Proverbs 29:18- Where there is no vision, the people perish. The problem is- too many leaders have no idea what their vision is. I didn’t, and [...]
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Posted on November 5, 2010 by Frank Wooden
I just attended the first ever Multi-Ethnic Church Conference held in San Diego. MECC provided me an opportunity to see old friends and make new ones but more importantly, my commitment to diversity was renewed. As a pastor of a multi-ethnic church, I’m not an advocate for multi-ethnicity because it is cool or it is [...]
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Posted on February 26, 2010 by Frank Wooden
I had a great time on Wednesday meeting with three pastors from the Anaheim area- an Anglo, Guatemalan and Filipino. They are hoping to merge their three congregations into one in the fall. They made the drive to San Diego to explore how we do things. One of the greatest things we can pass on [...]
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Posted on December 4, 2009 by Frank Wooden
I just participated in a video conference yesterday with some extremely creative ministry leaders organized by Mark DeYmaz and Mosaix. We were discussing how to take multi-ethnic ministry to the next level nationally in 2010. Mark shared a great goal for the multi-ethnic movement: That 20% of churches would be at least 20% ethnic by 2020. I [...]
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Posted on November 2, 2009 by Frank Wooden
Yesterday was “Be The Church” day. After a brief time of worship- teams from Sweetwater River Church conducted outreaches in Chula Vista, National City and San Diego. I think that church leaders often make outreach something that is time consuming and costly. Each of our outreaches was done in 60 to 90 minutes and and were simple [...]
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Posted on October 8, 2009 by Frank Wooden
I looked at our worship team this past Sunday and I counted the following ethnicities: 4 blacks, 4 whites, 4 Asians and 3 Hispanics. That’s the color of worship. The diversity of Sweetwater River Church has become attactional to new people. Friends can be invited from any ethnicity and know that they won’t stand out in a [...]
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Posted on March 2, 2009 by Frank Wooden
Young adults aren’t as messed up spiritually as their parents might be. That’s the good news. The bad news is that many churches might be too messed up to take advantage of this fact. A read through “Lost and Found: The Younger Unchurched and the Churches that Reach Them” by Ed Stetzer comes which facts, [...]
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Posted on March 2, 2009 by Frank Wooden
We’ve developed a saying at Sweetwater River Church… The next idea should be our best idea. The reason is that we cannot rest of what has been working…we need to project into the future. But waiting for the best idea is not a guarantee that it will be the best. If we wait until we [...]
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Posted on February 18, 2009 by Frank Wooden
I just had a meeting with our nominating committee to select new deacons. We are blessed with some great people who will make great leaders- we are going to expand our board one or two slots. The nominating process made me think about some of the variables that make a great leadership team: Seasoned leaders [...]
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Posted on January 22, 2009 by Frank Wooden
San Diego Hope is our vision to revitalize San Diego from the inside out. Too many churches began decades ago near the city centers and moved out to the suburbs, following the middle class. Years later, these same churches saw the brokenness back int he city and began to do outreaches where they once were [...]
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