06.17.10
Bill Donahue Interview III... Bill's Future
Over the last few years we've lost some very influential voices in the small group space. My first thought when I heard Bill was leaving Willow Creek was that we were going to lose yet another important influencer. The kingdom and movement needs Bill Donahue. I think you'll be thrilled with what you read below.
Rick: Bill, many of us have been deeply affected by your ministry, training, and writings. We're hoping you're going to continue to help churches. What are your plans for the future?
Bill: I continue to want to do the same things that I've been doing at Willow Creek. That is coaching leaders of groups and of churches, consulting with organizations, mostly churches, and speaking and writing about biblical community and leadership development. So many of the functions I was doing will continue, but I'm gonna do that more through a combination of partnerships with organizations that share those values and with some personal stuff that I'm building. People can see what I'm doing by going to drbilldonahue.com. But yeah, I'm not changing a whole lot. I'd like to devote more time to writing and clarifying what I've been learning over the years and getting that out there.
Rick: And will you be working with individual churches too, Bill, not just larger organizations?
Bill: Yes. I will be continuing to coach churches and, church leaders and am going to be available to consult with churches, church leaders, and continuing to foster and build group life across the church in North America and around the world. I've got a thing I'm doing with Henry Cloud in Germany in October and, I've been asked to do something in April in Sweden and also in South Africa.
Rick: Bill, is your only focus of attention small groups, or what other aspects of ministry are you available to help churches with?
Bill: Yeah. I think my areas of expertise and focus are leadership development, strategic ministry alignment around church-wide goals and what the church is trying to achieve, and thirdly around building infrastructure to support the practice of community in the church.
Small groups, teams, missional communities—you know, it's not just groups.
Rick: So you could do team building experiences and training for management level executive staff on how to build teams, that kind of thing?
Bill: Yeah, uh-huh, yeah.
Rick: Just one more time, Bill, how can churches and other organizations find out more about your work?
Bill: The best way to go about it is by going to drbilldonahue.com, and that actually articulates services and support I provide to ministry and non-profit organizations as well as some corporate leaders and organizations. They can also go to my blog site for regular updates and all that.
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