Staff Meeting (2)

Visitors & Prayer Requests

Visitors

Prayer Requests

Missionaries:

C&K – South Asia

J&M South Asia

Pastor Biju – South Asia

Brian Palumbo US

Kevin & Jan Smith

Jason & Sara Tierney

Chris & Jamie Freeman - Zambesi

Kalman & Julia Kovacs

Jack & Lyndsey Campbell – Ivory Coast

Richard & April Rivenbark – Baltimore

Jay & Kathy Shafto – IMB Sub Saharan Africa

Russell Abraham – Queens, NY

Yesmin Farida - Queens

Kody Aten - Boston Area church planter

Devotional

CMT training

I want to challenge everyone to

look at the ministries you represent

and see how we are doing with the Core Missionary Task.

As a reminder, there are six headings to look at

Entry, Evangelism, Discipleship, Church Formation, Church Leadership, and Exit

The goal is to be working ourselves out of a job.

Let me start with the end in mind, exit.

to state the obvious

every one of us is replaceable.

On a very worldly level

we work for a volunteer organization

And we can create all the spiritual things we want about our jobs

but in the end, if they don’t like what we do

they can get rid of us at any time.

There are other pieces to thinking with the end in mind as well.

Not only are we replaceable

but we all won’t live forever.

That means we should be training up people

to take over for us should God decided to call us home.

At the very least, we should be training up people

to take over for us when we go on vacation,

need to take time for health reasons, etc.

That then should drive the rest of our ministries.

That means we need to train up someone for the leadership positions

and that may mean discipling someone

and that may mean that there isn’t anyone ready yet

so we pray for the person to take over

and then we lead them to Christ.

That may mean we need to find that person that needs Jesus

And that’s just our personal role.

within our ministries, there are the same strategy aspects.

How are we preparing people to exit our ministry well?

People go to college

People going to the next grade level

How are we reaching those that we don’t know?

entry work? We call it outreach

But I like entry rather than the come and hear mentality

it means we go and get people for

becoming a part of the body

rather than absorbing someone into the community.

What about evangelism?

How are we training our people to share the gospel?

How are we teaching them to use music to reach people?

Discipleship

How are we allowing people to help

use their gifts to administrate in the office?

Church Formation

How are we inviting people to be part of our ministry?

These are the evaluation points for all of us.

Sunday Review

AM Service

PM Service

Ministries

RPCA

Hispanic Ministry

Pastor Currie and I have met last week.

I will be sharing the Core Missionary Strategy

with specifics to whoever wants to come

before the missions meeting on March 16th.

This is the interest meeting

to share the vision and direction for the Hispanic ministry.

We will be using several different opportunities for entry work.

The first is the ESL class on March 31st.

Banners for the class go up on March 14th following the car show.

Flyers will go out this Friday to five area schools.

Patricio will be here from April 7 - 30th with his family

He will also be doing some entry and evangelism work while he is here.

I’m going to have him preach on April 12.

I need to move the Discovery Class to April 19th

Next Generation

Music

Office

Audio - Visual

Long Range Committee

Missions

Upcoming Events

Calendar

Until next Meeting

Looking Ahead