Kalos Conversations

The landscape across the globe has changed dramatically in the last two weeks.  Churches are creatively embracing how to love and disciple their people, while social distancing is ordered and the threat of sickness present.  Seven Mile Road has had to pivot and shift church.  In that, there have been evidences of how our work in discipling the women through the Kalos track has readied them for this moment.  Matt and Patti take some time to address the upcoming release of what What Church Can Be in this unique time and why the message of the book is needed more than ever.  They also share some on the ground moments of how the whole church is benefiting as women embrace where God has called them and look to serve and love those in need.

One of the questions we often get is, "How can we establish the kind of culture at our church where something like Kalos Track or Kalos Team can actually happen?" Well, we wrote a book on that! In this episode, Patti and Matt talk about the soon-to-be-released "What Church Can Be" book which walks the reader through both the theological vision and boots-to-the-ground practice that has formed the cultural "soil" at Seven Mile Road in which our Kalos work has thrived.

In this episode, we hear about Patti's weekend serving the women of Remnant Church in Richmond, VA. We also touch base on how the months post-Kalos-Conference have been and what's on the horizon with our work. 

Jesus intends for the women in our churches to become holy and feminine forces for gospel advance. In this talk, Patti Rosell cast a big, beautiful, and Biblical vision of this for us.

Jesus' women have always advanced the gospel by saying "yes!" to the glories of their God-assigned femininity. In this talk, Matthew Kruse surveyed the Scriptures to show how partnership in ministry is driven by a woman wholeheartedly embracing (not denying or muting) her unique callings.

One way of confessing Christ is by delighting in and living out God's creative intentions for us as men and women. In love and wisdom, God created our race male and female, equal yet distinct. In this talk, Matthew Kruse unpacked some of the glory of that reality.

Jesus' people have always labored side-by-side as men and women for gospel advance in their homes and churches. In this talk, Patti Rosell spoke about how seeing the church as a missional family engenders partnership in gospel work.

We pulled together a few of the women who have done Kalos Track and are serving on a real live Kalos Team to hear their experiences and insights.

We built in some unrushed time for conference attendees to ask anything that they wanted. This was the second hour of question and answer.

We built in some unrushed time for conference attendees to ask anything that they wanted. This was the first hour of question and answer, which covered topics from loving single women to how to read those passages that address women (or men) only to what real life hospitality looks like.

We opened our first-ever "Women As Forces For Gospel Advance" conference with some gospel and prayer.

On the Friday night of our "Women As Forces For Gospel Advance" training event, we experimented with a live podcast! It was fun in that "never tried this before let's see what it's like" kind of fun way! We got to hear from a few of our listeners who were able to make it to Boston for the weekend and set the stage for the full day training event that followed the next day. Good times!

In this episode, Patti and Matt give glory to God by recounting many of the highlights of our time together at the first-ever Kalos Conversations conference. If they sound giddy, it's because the day was extraordinary --- beyond any of our expectations.

In this episode, we hear the stories from two women who have gone through the Kalos Track. Andea, who shared on an earlier episode with her husband, Clint, is co-leading a Kalos Track at their church,  Seven Mile Road Waltham. Chelsea serves on the Kalos Team at Seven Mile Road Melrose. Both women share their unique experiences about spending a year going through the Kalos Track. This wraps up season 4, Kalos Stories. 

In this episode, Patti talks with Margaret Kruse, aka Matt's mom, aka one the most holy and feminine forces for gospel advance our church has ever seen, about the impact that valuing young women in the church and modeling for them how an embrace of their feminine callings can drive forward the mission of God.

In this episode, we hear from some pastors who serve at Seven Mile Road Church. Justin is the Executive Pastor for all Seven Mile Road churches as well as pastor/elder for Seven Mile Malden. Tim serves as a pastor/elder for Seven Mile Melrose. Patti, Justin, and Tim talk Kalos culture within the church from a pastoral perspective. Many questions we are asked revolve around pastoral presence. How exactly does that work? Not only do we have a pastor lead the women through the Kalos Track, but we also have the Kalos Team work directly in partnership with the pastors for gospel advance. Pastors Tim and Justin share their story and give a snapshot of what it's like to serve in a church where the women are mobilized to be co-laborers in the gospel.  

In this episode, we hear another Kalos Story. Patti sits down with Matt and Laurel Moran to talk about their experience with Kalos. The Morans were instrumental in the early days of developing the Kalos curriculum at Seven Mile Road Melrose. Matt was on staff as pastor/elder and Laurel was among the first group of women to go through a year together with the Kalos content. Together, they are now leading Kalos Track at their church outside of Buffalo, NY. In their conversation with Patti they share some realities of leading together, as a married couple, and how they've adapted the Kalos content for their own unique make-up of women and church context.  

In this episode, Patti sits down with Clint and Andea Patronella to hear their Kalos Story. The Patronellas are native Texans turned Bostonian when they planted Seven Mile Road Waltham. They share about their vision for leading Kalos early in their church plant and their commitment for equipping the women they are given towards gospel partnership. We also hear about Andea's own experience going through the track at Seven Mile Road Melrose. 

In this episode, Patti and Matt give us a big picture preview of what we can expect at our "Women As Forces For Gospel Advance" conference in May. This includes information about Friday night's pre-conference and a special snapshot of the content on Saturday. Patti also tells us what we can look forward to in Season 4. You can expect to hear a variety of voices who tell their own Kalos story, including other pastors, teams who are leading Kalos, and different women in the life of our church. 

In this episode, we work another case study.You are in a gospel community where several of the men and women are fans of craft beer. Conversation naturally flows in the direction of the intricacies of selecting, brewing, consuming, enjoying different kinds of alcohol. At the end of one specific night together, one of the member’s most recent batch of craft beer is consumed by a few people. Over the course of the next few weeks, it becomes apparent that one couple has removed themselves from all communication/participation with the community. You find out it is because they have taken offense over the community’s disposition toward alcohol. In a brief conversation, you become aware that his parents were strict teetotalers, her father was an abusive alcoholic, and they’ve felt pressured/bullied by the community for their disinterest in/abstinence from alcohol. They do not feel that a truly Christian gospel community would be a place where alcohol is consumed. They have no intention to rejoin the group and are l