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Leadership UMC 2017 Peacemakers Presentation How do churches determine the true needs as opposed to simple desires and engage in vital mission outreach within the community? Catherine Cudd, Mcever; Joe Everidge, Bethel; Lesma Gunn Allgood Rd;

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Leadership UMC 2017 Peacemakers Presentation

How do churches determine the true needs as

  • pposed to simple desires and engage in vital

mission outreach within the community?

Catherine Cudd, Mcever; Joe Everidge, Bethel; Lesma Gunn Allgood Rd; David Hardy, Hephzibah; David Harris, St. James Alpha; Ashley Langford, Mt. Zion; Karen Paige, Jones Hill Chapel; Scott Smith,

  • Mt. Zion
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How do churches determine the true needs as opposed to simple desires and engage in vital mission outreach within the community?

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Who can benefit from this presentation?

The short answer is: EVERYONE!

  • Large churches, small churches, new churches, churches

who are struggling with attendance and outreach, and churches who are thriving

  • This is a process we have created to use for any church to

determine what and where they need to go with their next ministry or outreach ideas.

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What is the approach?

1. Prepare 2. Discover 3. Assess 4. Implement 5. Evaluate

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Pray

Pray in the Spirit at all times in every prayer and

  • supplication. To that end keep alert and always

persevere in supplication for all the saints.

  • Ephesians 6:18
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Prepare

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Prepare

  • God is in charge of the mission field, not us.
  • We must pray to Him for guidance and help.
  • We must be prepared to face opposition.

Luke 10:1-3

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Prepare: God is in Charge

  • A. The Self-

Directed Life

  • B. The Christ-

Directed Life

  • C. The Self-

Directed Life

Matthew 6:33

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Prepare: Pray for guidance and help

  • Establish a sound foundation with prayer.
  • Align to His will and with His

empowerment

Ephesians 6:18

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Prepare: Prepare to Face Wolves

  • Matthew 10: 19-20
  • Matthew 10: 26-28
  • Ephesians 6:10-11
  • Ephesians 6: 14-17
  • Joshua 1:9
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Prepare: Respond to God

Four Essential Actions for Prayerful Discernment:

  • Abide
  • Ask
  • Believe
  • Receive

Proverbs 16:3

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Pray

Pray in the Spirit at all times in every prayer and

  • supplication. To that end keep alert and always

persevere in supplication for all the saints.

  • Ephesians 6:18
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Discover

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Discover

  • Look at your facility
  • Does your facility fit the needs of your community?
  • Before going out into the community, take a survey of

interested persons within the church

  • Be sure to look at the spiritual gifts of those interested in

service

  • Two types of data gathering:
  • Qualitative
  • Quantitative
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Discover: Ground Rules of Your Committee

  • Include these Norms
  • Prevent/Limit these Norms
  • If these norms exist, channel those ideas

and behaviors to change via the preparation steps

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Understanding Community Dynamics

Physical and Natural structure Infrastructure Settlement patterns Commerce patterns Industry patterns Community demographics Community history Existing groups and institutions Economics Government and politics Social structure Attitudes, values, and cultures Formal community leaders Informal community leaders

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Ideas for Discovery

  • Mapping Existing Member Networks
  • Interviewing community members
  • Hosting/Serving community events
  • Just get out in the community!
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Pray

Pray in the Spirit at all times in every prayer and

  • supplication. To that end keep alert and always

persevere in supplication for all the saints.

  • Ephesians 6:18
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Assess

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Assess

  • Assess what your discovery process brought to

light and determine how to implement

  • All assessment is perpetual work in progress, and

therefore assessment should follow you every step of the way

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Assess for who?

  • Think about the concerns of those unique

populations in your congregation and/or mission and community

  • Under 35 years of age
  • Over 65 years of age
  • Infrequent attendees
  • Frequent attendees
  • Others?
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Assess

  • Assessment should even include the

volunteers

  • How are they responding?
  • What are their needs? Consider energy levels

as well

  • Do they need additional support? Or do they

have too many?

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Missions with qualitative/quantitative metrics

Activity or Mission Metric 1 Metric 2 Source Backpack Buddies Number served Local church Community Garden Pounds donated Local church Festival of Trees Number of trees Earnings Interpreter GED Classes Attendance Number passing test Interpreter And NGC News Health and Fitness Ministry Number of participants Re:VIsion Worship Unbound New worshipers Re:VIsion

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Pray

Pray in the Spirit at all times in every prayer and

  • supplication. To that end keep alert and always

persevere in supplication for all the saints.

  • Ephesians 6:18
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Implement

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Implement

  • “Most churches take an inside-out approach.”
  • “The outside-in approach”
  • “How does it work?”
  • “Whom does it reach?”
  • “How does one reach these people?”
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From Fresh Expressions of Church by Travis Collins

loving and serving building community church taking shape doing it again listening exploring discipleship

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loving and serving building community church taking shape doing it again

listening

exploring discipleship

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building community church taking shape doing it again listening exploring discipleship

loving and serving

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loving and serving church taking shape doing it again listening exploring discipleship

building community

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loving and serving building community church taking shape doing it again listening

exploring discipleship

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loving and serving building community

church taking shape

doing it again listening exploring discipleship

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loving and serving building community church taking shape

doing it again

listening exploring discipleship

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Pray

Pray in the Spirit at all times in every prayer and

  • supplication. To that end keep alert and always

persevere in supplication for all the saints.

  • Ephesians 6:18
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Evaluate

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Recognize

Need Plan

Gather Resources

Finalize Plan Choose Metrics Execute Mission Gather Data

CHRIST

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Summary

  • Pray
  • Look at the needs
  • Look at other churches and the conference
  • Make a plan, gather resources, execute,

evaluate, and repeat

  • PRAY!
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Additional resources and references

  • Mission Insight
  • Simple Church by Thomas Ranier and Eric Geiger
  • Interpreter Magazine
  • NGC News
  • re:VIsion
  • http://freshexpressionsus.org/
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Image Credits

Armor of God Directed Lives Field of Dreams Fresh Expressions

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The next two slides are additional ministry ideas with qualitative and quantitative assessments and evaluation ideas along with the resource the information from which the information was gathered. These slides are meant to be printed out as needed for ideas.

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SLIDE 42 activity metric 1 metric 2 source Backpack Buddies number served local church Backpacks supporting foster families number of backpacks Interpreter Building Beds number built Interpreter Cake decorating service attendance Interpreter Chrismas brunch for needy attendance Interpreter Clothes Pantry participants local church Coffee House attendance NGC News Cold water bottles delivered Interpreter Community Garden pounds donated local church (Mystery Worshiper) Cook off dollars raised number of participants Interpreter Dinner honoring HS Honor Roll attendance Interpreter Family activities (bike ride, reading) attendance change Interpreter Feeding College Students number of participants Interpreter Festival of Trees number of trees earnings Interpreter Fiesta Night attendance Interpreter First responder goodies bags delivered Interpreter Food Coop participants local church Food Pantry participants local church Food sales at county fair dollars raised Interpreter GED classes attendance number passing test Interpreter/NGC News Honoring Healthcare Proffessionals additional attendance Interpreter Hot Cocoa outreach number served new visitors NGC News Jewelry, accessory sale to combat human trafficking attendance earnings Interpreter
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SLIDE 43 activity metric 1 metric 2 source Kayak trips with brief message attendance Interpreter Marathon Bible reading attendance Interpreter Military Spouse appreciation dinner attendance Interpreter Outdoor worship service attendance Interpreter Paintball event participants NGC News Parkinson's dance class attendance Interpreter Prom Princess number served Interpreter Puppetry services attendance Interpreter Recycling program number of items profits Interpreter Repair clinic number served Interpreter Repurposing buildings new projects number of participants re:Vision Sacred Space attendance Interpreter Sacrificial Christmas giving dollars raised number of participants Interpreter School mentoring and partnership new projects number of participants re:Vision Solicit anonymous prayer requests number of requests Interpreter Special parties for children attendance Interpreter Tractor Blessing number of participants Interpreter Trunk-or-treat attendance Interpreter Tutoring number tutored local church Unattended give away number of items Interpreter Veteran's job fair number hired number of participants Interpreter Window puzzles Interpreter Worship Unbound new worshipers re:Vision