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There's a world yearning to experience Jesus
through authentic relationships. The question is ...
Will the Church release
its members?
God has gifted and
called all believers to be
ambassadors within a hurting and broken world
so as to offer the hope of Jesus Christ in our
daily relationships. Our desire is to serve local
churches by uniting believers in neighborhood
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A Unique Approach
Our Executive
Staff partner with pastors and church leaders to fully equip
and mobilize your members. Utilizing the giftedness of
all believers, everyone serves within their unique ministry
calling.
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Personalized
Discipleship
Most churches offer endless
elective studies. We, on the other hand, have four courses
designed to commission graduates in meaningful ministry and
mission within 18 months. |
Collaboration & Cooperation
If a local church becomes
pre-occupied with maintaining their ministry programming they
can become numb to the outside world. Local churches need
not be all things to all people. What makes a local
congregation unique? And, how can we creatively leverage its
resources to make a community-wide impact?
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Quotables
Multiple
authors mention the necessity for congregational renewal. |
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A New
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Our creative
staffing services for Christian churches and organizations is
both personal and virtual.
The
E-Church Network is a blessed opportunity to disciple
and be discipled. This online forum offers collaborative
discussion forums, unique e-learning opportunities along with
team building resources and assessment tools.
TeamWork
Live
allow our clients to minimize 7:00pm meetings. Ministry
teams can work on unlimited projects online at a time convenient
within their personal schedule. Because we value family
time and being available within our neighborhoods, you can can
fully participate from your home or during your lunch break at
work.
Our
Virtual Library System is a comprehensive online
library database linking your personal library with an
increasing number of other Christian libraries. Just as
you can borrow books at your public library through an
inter-library loan, we have a system for library patrons to
effectively share our resources (books, DVDs, curriculum, etc.)
to further the Kingdom of God. And, best of all, you can
allocate resource money towards missions!
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To
provide local churches with creative staffing solutions necessary to
fully mobilize Christians
to obediently serve the Lord within their family, school, career,
neighborhood, and community.
P.O. Box 66;
Forest Junction, Wisconsin U.S.A.
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(888) 255-2761
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(800) 725-5276 |
In
Christian Schwarz's Natural Church Development: A Guide to Eight
Essential Qualities of Healthy Churches, 58% of growing/high
quality churches have pastoral leaders who 'regularly
seek counsel from a trusted outside source'"
(p.23).
63% of growing/high quality churches offer training to lay ministry
volunteers for their specialized ministry (p25).
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"When pastors attempt to transform a generic church into a discipling
church, they face a major task ... A
national support network for an ongoing consultation will be necessary to
sustain real change ... In the long run,
sustained real change that focuses on discipling will be lay driven.
Disciple-making pastors must pass on their vision and leadership to the
laity who will remain in the churches after the pastors leave.
Otherwise, pastoral change may kill the vision" (p12-13).
"Discipling leads to reproduction and
finally multiplication, which
are God's design and method to reach the world. Because the church
has largely ignored this process, the cause of Christ has greatly
suffered" (p13).
Hull, Bill. The
Disciple-Making Church. Grand Rapids: Fleming Revell,
1990.
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"If you are looking for a quick fix for a struggling church, you will
not find it in the equipping model. If you are looking for truth and for
church as God designed it to be, you will find it in the equipping church
model a biblically sound, historically tested, and workable vision for the
body of Christ in action.
But
getting there won't be easy.
That's
why a shared vision for what can be must be part of the original
plan."
Mallory, Sue. The
Equipping Church: Serving Together to Transform Lives.
Grand Rapids: Zondervan / Leadership Network, 2001. p22
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"Congregational
transformation is essential, but it will only occur when leaders commit to
personal transformation. Personal transformation has a very real
cost, but so does failure to change ... A question for all leaders to
ponder, 'If you keep doing what you've been
doing, you'll keep getting what you've been getting. Can you live
with that?'"
Herrington, Jim et al. Leading
Congregational Change. San Francisco: Jossey Bass, xiii
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John 13:34-35 says, “A new command I give you: Love one another. As
I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know
that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” Do you see how high
the stakes really are? Do you grasp why we can’t settle for anything less
than Jesus’ dream for community? The
credibility of the Gospel is at stake!
Stanley, Andy and Bill
Willits. Creating Community: 5 Keys to Building a Small Group
Culture. Sisters, OR: Multnomah Publishers, 2004. p44 |
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