monvee will Reshape Spiritual Formation

June 19, 2009 in Growing Strategies,Technology with 9 Comments

Yesterday, I had the opportunity to sit around a table at Panera and talk about the future of spiritual formation in local churches. I heard the vision from Mark Bankord, the Directional Leader and co-founder of Heartland Community Church in Rockford, Illinois, and Eric Parks, the Chief Creative Officer of monvee.

Here are a few things that distinguished monvee from anything else I’ve seen to help people growth in their faith:

  • It’s web-based. People can access it at any time.
  • It doesn’t involve the creation of new church programs, but it connects people to their local church.
  • It walks people through a discovery process to identify their personalized spiritual growth plan. This is not a one-size-fits-all strategy or program.
  • It recommends resources and practices to help people experience growth through their time, their mind, their experiences and their relationships.
  • Even though this is a web-based solution, it helps bring people together.
  • It is built to get smarter and recommend better resources as more people use the system.
  • It measures spiritual growth rather than ministry participation.
  • It has helpful dashboards built into the system to help church leaders monitor their spiritual growth of their people.
  • Oh…and it doesn’t hurt that guys like John Ortberg and Dallas Willard have been involved in shaping the solution.

monvee is in beta right now. In fact, your church may be interested in participating. If so, church leaders can learn more about the beta phase and apply to join.

I’ll try to keep you posted as I learn more about this new tool to help churches help people grow spiritually.

9 Responses to “monvee will Reshape Spiritual Formation”

  1. Robb Gorringe June 19, 2009 at 8:41 pm #

    Sounds very cool. Thanks, Tony for taking time to let us know//.

  2. Chris@(Churchpunk) June 19, 2009 at 9:30 pm #

    I would love to see how this can be helpful to the non-staff ministry workers like volunteers and small group leaders. I am not a staffer, just a regular guy who loves serving in ministry.

  3. Aaron June 20, 2009 at 8:08 am #

    i like the new look of tonymorganlive.com

    good work @blankenship

  4. mj June 20, 2009 at 9:52 am #

    our church had a chance to do a demo session with monvee about a year ago, and see how the interface works — it was a very cool experience, and I think the system will be pretty awesome

  5. Doug Lake June 20, 2009 at 10:37 am #

    Tony:

    I am diggin the new design of your blog. Clean, useful, and … clean! Really made for easy navigation.

    Great job and much success in your consulting endeavors.

  6. John (Human3rror) June 20, 2009 at 10:52 am #

    new look is dope.

  7. Jim June 20, 2009 at 6:54 pm #

    i concur…new look is suped-up dope! had to look around for the blog…thought you went to a landing page…i was like…nah…got to be around here somewheres?

  8. jeremy strang January 13, 2010 at 12:28 am #

    Can you tell me where the name monvee originates or what the meaning of the name is?

  9. M J Cline November 10, 2010 at 6:46 am #

    jeremy strang says:
    January 13, 2010 at 12:28 am
    Can you tell me where the name monvee originates or what the meaning of the name is?
    —————-
    Strange, no one here has answered jeremy strang’s question, which is also my question. And here it is 10 months later!

    I’d certainly like to know the answer…if this forum is still alive and well and someone knows the answer…