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Everyone is welcome to attend one of three discipleship workshops with Caesar and Tina Kalinowski in Wellington, Christchurch and Whanganui in early November.
Caesar and Tina Kalinowski
The US-based neighbourhood mission couple have helped start several churches and coached thousands of people in discipleship and missional living.
Caesar has authored a number of books including the top-selling The Gospel Primer and has trained people in over 30 countries in discipleship and mission as a lifestyle.
"We love to help those with a high commitment to intentional living in the areas of their family, discipleship, and mission acquire the leadership skills and tools necessary to succeed and leave a lasting legacy," say Caesar and Tina.
Archdeacon for Mission and Ministry Gendy Thomson first came across the Kalinowskis through listening to their podcast, Everyday Disciple, and then joining their Everyday Discipleship Incubator. It was through the Incubator that she got in touch with Caesar and began a conversation about him and Tina coming to New Zealand.
“His way of discipling is really aligned with our Dio DNA and the application is very grounded in everyday life. It’s the freedom of ‘we get to’ of living the gospel rather than ‘we have to’.
“It’s some fresh input to encourage us on the journey we’re on,” Gendy says.
Caesar and Tina have been living an everyday disciple lifestyle for many years, as parents, now as grandparents, and as spiritual parents to many people they have discipled, invested in, and released to go on and lead others in living a life as a Jesus follower in every part of life. Other books Caesar has written include Transformed, Bigger Gospel and Slow is Fast. He also produces resources for discipling leaders, and as a couple offer he and Tina offer coaching and specific discipleship training.
Gendy says we are blessed to have Tina and Caesar come and invest in us through their ‘Everyday Discipleship – Making Disciples in the Rhythms of Everyday Life’ workshop.
“Being an everyday disciple is first and foremost about who we are – our identity in God, and therefore what we ‘get to’ do. Out of this gospel identity, its about intentionally living and using our everyday life to be a blessing to others – we eat 21 times a week – who could we be eating with to bless, encourage, and be a ‘living gospel’ to?
“We have homes and family or wider household members, how do we use our homes and live as a household who welcomes, disciples and blesses others?,” Gendy says.
Rev Pete Hull of South Wairarapa Parish says his whanau discipleship group has benefited from using the Everyday Discipleship resources.
“He is really engaging with his comments which are relevant to our context. It’s been great for group discussion and reflection,” Pete says.
These workshops will invest in your community’s journey of missional discipleship in everyday life. They will benefit those wondering how to start, those needing a reminder and boost on the journey, and those needing to multiply your missional community to bless others for God’s glory. Those who have been part of a 3DM (Good Soil Collective) learning community will recognise some similarities, the teaching aligns well to the missional discipleship toolkit – expanded and with very grounded and lived out gospel and practical application. This is an excellent refresher for communities who have been on a missional discipling journey.
