Dr. Bria Cobs Dr. Chuc McAister Kriste White Aroud the word, thousads of peope groups exist. We do t questio whether each ethic peope group eeds to hear about Jesus fro those who spea their aguage ad uderstad their cuture. Whe we regard our ow eighbors spiritua eeds, however, we fai to see the aazig opportuity we have to te about Jesus. Eve though we ow their aguage ad ive i their cuture, we ve cocuded we ca t effectivey reach the peope i our hoetows. We do t ow how to get started. Affiity Evageis is a strategy to hep churches fid excitig, iovative ways to share Jesus to the peope groups i their couities. These groups are t ecessariy ethic i ature; the groups are ade up of peope who have a coo Affiity a siiar iterest, hobby, eed, or cocer. Whe churches desig appeaig ways to ispire, educate, or equip peope accordig to their Affiities, they fid a ope door to buidig friedships ad hepig peope ecouter Jesus. Page1
Tabe of Cotets Affiity Evageis Quic Start Guide 3 What Is Affiity Evageis? 6 Why Shoud My Church Cosider Affiity Evageis? 7 How Do We Get Started? 10 The Affiity Evageis Process 12 Assess Where You Are 12 Estabish a Strategic Leadership Tea 14 Discipe & Be Disciped 16 Idetify Your Couity s Affiities 17 Locate the Least of These 20 Liste to Your Couity 22 Host a Creative Visio Sessio 24 Aayze Itagibe Forces 27 Choose Your Focus Miistry 28 Coit ad Pa 29 Affiity Evageis Proect Paig Sheets 30 Coduct Foow-Up 33 Appedices Appedix A: Sef-Assesset Survey Appedix B: Church Survey Appedix C: Spiritua Maturity Survey Appedix D: Couity Survey Appedix E: How to Host a Wid Gae Dier Recoeded Readig A Scripture quotatios, uess otherwise idicated, are tae fro the Hoa Christia Stadard Bibe. Copyright 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003 by Hoa Bibe Pubishers, Nashvie Teessee. A rights reserved. This traiig aua is provided by the Ketucy Baptist Covetio Evageis ad Church Patig Tea. The KBC is fueed by the Cooperative Progra ad exists by churches, for churches, to hep churches reach Ketucy ad the word for Christ. If we ca hep your church or associatio uderstad, evisio, ad pa Affiity Evageis strategies, pease cotact us at evageis@ybaptist.org, or (866) 489-3576 (Ky. oy) or (502) 489-3576. Page2
Quic-Start Guide What Is Affiity Evageis? A Affiity is a group of peope with a coo iterest. Affiity Evageis is a strategic pa to obiize God s peope to effectivey procai the Gospe to a atios. Affiity Evageis happes whe a church istes to its couity ad discovers the iterests, hobbies, eeds, ad cocers that peope ta about ost, the fids ways to aid or ispire couity ebers i those areas through oe-tie evets or ogoig progras. Why Affiity Evageis? Jesus ad His discipes used Affiity Evageis, eetig peope where they were at church, i the aretpace, by the sea. Jesus preached, heaed, ad perfored iraces where the towspeope were gathered, ot ust i the church settig. Whe Pau visited Athes (Acts 17:16-34), Ephesus, ad other cities, he preached body i the aretpaces, coectig with the peope by startig with what was iportat to the. He foud a way to use their iterests as a i for the Gospe. The resut? Peope i etire regios of the ow word heard the Gospe because Pau put hisef where the peope gathered. Because Jesus, Peter, ad Pau iteracted with their couities ad egaged ureached peope i areas of atura iterest or eed, they touched ives ay ives, ot the scat uber we typicay see coig to Christ through our churches each year. We ust chage our curret ethods of reachig peope with the opportuity to ecouter Jesus, because we re ot beig effective. Affiity Evageis is bibica, uitiidatig, effective, ad upiftig. Page3
Assess Where You Are Tae the Sef-Assesset (Appedix A). Pray that God wi show you if it is tie for a Affiity Evageis strategy at your church. If you sese your cogregatio is t ready, what ca you do to hep the get ore excited about Jesus Christ ad givig others the opportuity to ecouter Hi? Estabish a Strategic Leadership Tea Pray with itesity for God s eadership i your evageizatio pas ad for His Spirit s wor i your church. Idetify ey peope who woud be a good fit for this tea. Iterview peope you are cosiderig for the tea, to see if they share the visio for Affiity Evageis ad have a wiigess to cotribute their tie ad efforts. Ivite peope to oi your tea. Ipeet teawor ad discipeship pas for your tea ebers. Discipe & Be Disciped Reaize the priority that persoa growth i Christ ust tae i your church to have a effective evageis strategy i your couity. Use ad proote resources that ecourage spiritua growth, ad set the expectatio for growth i Christ for your Strategic Leadership Tea ad cogregatio. Idetify Your Couity s Affiities Map your couity geographicay ad by eeds, iterests, gatherig paces, ad ocatios of your church ebers. As the 20 Questios of Reevace (see page 20). Have your church tae the Church Survey (Appedix B) ad the Spiritua Maturity Survey (Appedix C, optioa). Tae the Couity Survey (Appedix D). Mae a ist of the greatest eeds ad iterests i your couity, the ist istitutios ad orgaizatios that egage those iterests ad eet those eeds. What is eft? Who is hepig i a ieffective or iora way? How ca your church eet the reaiig eeds or egage the couity i a heathier way? Page4
Locate the Least of These What groups of peope are ot represeted i your church cogregatio? What are ideas for how to reach the ad show the your church is a ivitig, wecoig pace soethig they eed i their ives? Liste to Your Couity Coduct surveys, casua coversatios, ad braistorig sessios to draw peope out. Record a the ideas, cocers, ad iterests that peope i your couity share. Host a Creative Visio Sessio Reew your church s attitude toward evageistic outreach. Ivite peope with a variety of iterests ad ead the through steps of braistorig to fid excitig ways to give peope i your couity the opportuity to ecouter Jesus. Aayze Itagibe Forces God s Word tes us that our strugge is ot agaist peope, but agaist usee spiritua forces (Ephesias 6: 12). Sata s desire is to crube idividua ives ad cause chaos i couities. What socia, ecooic, poitica, ad eve reigious forces are at wor i your couity to deceive peope ad set up a barrier to peope coig to Christ? Pray ad strategize agaist these forces. Choose Your Focus Miistry Where do you see coectios betwee the stregths ad affiities of your church ebers ad couity? What areas eep resurfacig? Coit ad Pa Pic a evet, soga, ocatio, date, ad tie. Choose a speaer or cosutat to hep you with your evet (cotact the KBC Evageis ad Church Patig Tea for assistace). Start aig pas for a successfu evet usig the Affiity Evageis Proect Paig Sheets o page 32-33. Coduct Foow-Up Hostig a successfu evet is ust part of hepig your couity ecouter Jesus. Be ready to wecoe ew beievers ito your cogregatio; provide sa, effective discipeship groups; schedue baptiss; ad visit with faiies of those who accept Jesus Christ as Savior ad Lord. Page5
Go, therefore, ad ae discipes of a atios, baptizig the i the ae of the Father ad of the So ad of the Hoy Spirit. Matthew 28:19 Affiity Evageis is a thoughtfu ad strategic pa to obiize God s peope to effectivey procai the Gospe to a atios. Affiity Evageis happes whe a church istes to its couity ad discovers the iterests, hobbies, eeds, ad cocers that peope ta about ost, the fids ways to aid or ispire couity ebers i those areas through oe-tie evets or ogoig progras. A Affiity group is a group of peope with a coo iterest. Affiity Evageis is siiar to targetig a peope group, fidig coectios with ureached peope ad usig those coectios to buid friedships ad ceary expai about the hope ad savatio foud i Jesus Christ. Through these, the church ca hep the peope i its couity ecouter Jesus. A Affiity shoud egage a arge seget of the popuatio of your tow. It does ot have to be eed-based, such as a cothig or food ba iistry. For exape, if a sa tow is proud of its schoo syste or pars, a church ca show service ad support for these causes i creative ways. Me i your couity ay eoy hutig or gofig. How ca a church use these iterests to coect with uchurched e? Your tow ay have recety experieced a widey-ow tragedy reated to atura disaster or disease. How ca your church offer practica cofort ad spiritua hope i ties ie these? Affiity Evageis is a about deteriig what woud egage ad ecourage your couity the ost, the eadig your church to reach peope for Jesus Christ i these ways. Affiity Evageis ca focus o hobbies ad iterests, such as hutig, fishig, sports, crafts, or hoe decoratig. Your Affiity Evageis pa ca address reievig hua eeds, such as rebuidig hoes after a atura disaster, or providig bacpacs ad sacs for eedy chidre before schoo starts each year. Or Affiity Evageis ca tae ito accout the eeds of a deographic group, such as ecouragig edery peope, providig chid or car care to sige os, or hepig deveop chidre through offerig tutorig or suer caps. Your Affiity Evageis pa ca focus o oe arge evet with effective foow-up, or severa sa actio proects to reach saer Affiity groups. We expore possibe Affiity Groups ad proects ater i Host a Creative Visio Sessio. Page6
To the wea I becae wea, i order to wi the wea. I have becoe a thigs to a peope, so that I ay by every possibe eas save soe. 1 Corithias 9:22 Moder Pacagig Heps Moder Peope Coect to Christ Thi for a oet about oatea. What s differet about oatea ow tha whe your gradother was a gir? Now, you ca buy istat oatea pacets i deicious favors. You ca grab a cruchy, soft, or chocoate- or yogurt-dipped oatea bar. Ad you ca sti purchase odfashioed oats but the graphic o the box is fresh, eat, updated. Though peope sti eat oatea, ie they have for hudreds of years, the presetatio is differet. The essage that we wat to share about Jesus Christ is the sae true essage that God pictured way bac whe He ased Abraha to sacrifice Isaac. God s essage of savatio foud i Jesus Christ reais the sae. But we ust be cuturay aware how we pacage it to be the ost effective we ca be i reachig as ay as we ca. We ust be reevat. We ca o oger assue our eighbors have heard a cear expaatio of savatio. Affiity Evageis heps us coect peope with the Gospe i effective ways. May churches argue that it is ubibica to use oder eas ad iterests to reach peope. But eve Jesus ad Pau used what was popuar i their cutures to eet peope where they were. Jesus Gave Us the Exape of Meetig Peope Where They Are Jesus ad His discipes et worshippers i the Syagogues, but ore ofte they wet out ito the couity ad et peope at popuar gatherig paces ear wes, arets, paces where beggars gathered. Whe Jesus couicated with the crowds, He used stories, word pictures, ad cocepts they woud ie. Soe of His stories coud eve be cosidered the etertaiet of that age purposefu, but aso ausig. He ifueced peope by spedig tie with the ad taig with the about their iterests, cocers, ad, ost iportaty, their spiritua eeds. Whe Jesus first caed His discipes, He et the aog the shore, i the aretpace, ad at their obs. He did t wait for the to coe to Hi. He started the coversatio with the Saarita woa (Joh 4). He iitiated reatioships with peope sti trapped i si, owig that eetig Hi was the oy way they coud get free. Page7
You Ca Reach a Etire Geographic Area, Too Peter ad Pau cotiued Jesus exape. They buit the Church by taig to peope both i worship settigs ad out i society. They preached i the pubic square, ot ust i churches. They egaged the arger popuatio, but they did t preset the Truth of Christ radoy, without thought. They were sart, aware of how peope operated cuturay, ad the used cooy accepted eas to preset the Gospe. At the tie Pau preached, pubic debate ad phiosophica teachig was extreey popuar, so that s how Pau egaged the peope. Pau gives us the ode for Affiity Evageis i Acts 17. Whe Pau visited Athes, verses 16-17 te us, he becae grieved at the uber of idos the peope worshipped. His respose? He preached body i the aretpace, coectig with the peope by startig with what was iportat to the. Though Pau was grieved by the idos i Athes, he was t itiidated by the. He foud a way to use their obsessive iterest as a i for the Gospe. Pau oticed oe of the atars the Atheias had buit to their fase gods had the iscriptio, To a uow God. Pau expaied that he was there to ae the true God ow to the. He used popuar poes fro the tie to reach this zeaous couity, which was ow to i phiosophers who said thigs they did t wat to hear. The Atheias did t i Pau they isteed, ad Pau pated a church. Whe Pau iistered i Ephesus, he repeated Affiity Evageis. He taught i a secuar schoo of phiosophy for eary two years. Durig that tie, Scripture says, A the ihabitats of Asia, both Jews ad Grees, heard the essage about the Lord (Acts 19:10, ephasis added). A the peope heard Pau thus the Gospe because he put hisef where the peope gathered. Soeties we hesitate to use popuar sogs or edia ethods to coect with peope. We give ay reasos soe ratioa, ay base i fear. But because Jesus, Peter, ad Pau iteracted with their couities ad egaged ureached peope i areas of atura iterest or eed, they touched ives ay ives, ot the scat uber we typicay see coig to Christ through our churches each year. Whie we shoud t use popuar issues sipy for attetio-getters, Affiity Evageis heps us thi about how to get ito the word of ureached peope, eet the where they are, ad ta to the about the Lord i a way that s iterestig to the. Our otive is givig the the opportuity to ecouter Jesus. Lie Pau, Souther Baptists, with a heart for the peope groups of the word, have bee carefu to respect cutura differeces. We ve goe to great egths so that ethic peopes a over the word ca hear about Jesus i a way they ca uderstad. Now it is tie to brig that cutura sesitivity hoe, fidig ways to egage ureached peope a aroud our churches i cuturay reevat ways. Let s go where our eighbors are gatherig ad ta with the about what s iportat to the. We caot afford to be borig, to use ethods that are o oger worig, or to igore the spiritua eeds of our eighbors. Peope Are Beig Ifueced Soeties churches give up o evageis before they eve start. They assue peope do t wat to hear it. Just because peope i your couity do t atted a wee-og reviva does t ea they do t have a iterest i hearig about Jesus Christ. I fact, studies show that ay Aericas beieve i heave; they sipy do t have a cear uderstadig of how to get there. Peope are sti beig ifueced. Seve cutura chaes ifuece peope today: arts ad etertaiet, busiess, church, educatio, goveret, edia, ad the socia sector. Though the church s voice ad ipact i our couities does t see as oud as it oce was, peope sti appreciate the ove churches show, the hep they offer, ad the vaues they uphod. They are aso curious about the God they worship. Ca you iagie your tow without churches? Eve ost uchurched peope do t wat to see their couity without your ifuece. So be cofidet ad Page8
be active. Mae your ipact oticeabe! The state the essage of God s grace oud, cear, ad ovigy. Ad fid uique ways to ivove your church i the other six chaes of ifuece. Why Woud We Wat to Be Ieffective? Fro the begiig of Geesis to the ed of Reveatio, we see God itetioay, utirigy reachig out to us, eetig us where we are. As beievers i Jesus Christ, we have a resposibiity to do o ess. I our churches, we ca cotiue to do thigs as we have aways doe, expectig peope to coe to us if they are iterested. Or we ca foow Christ s exape ad show iterest i the, iitiatig hepfu, supportive friedships. We ca deveop a ore itetioa ove fro our church ebers to the waitig, watchig word. Affiity Evageis provides outets ad otivatio for church ebers to reach out. Why woud we wat to be ieffective? The essage of Christ s forgiveess is the greatest ews of a. Yet, we stad at a crossroads, at a critica tie i our deoiatio ad atio. We cotiue to be ieffective at evageizig. Why? Ofte, it s because we have t ade peope our passio. We have t prayed for His Spirit to covict siers. Do we, whe we tae a hard, hoest oo, see a heart to hep others ecouter Jesus? Or do we sipy ot wat to do it? Maybe our hesitace stes fro past faiure, exhaustio, or a ac of zea about the aazig grace Jesus has show us. Wherever the resistace stes fro, repet of ethargy ad begi prayig for a reewed visio ad ove for your couity. Psa 37:4-5 says, Tae deight i the Lord, ad He wi give you your heart s desires. Coit your way to the Lord; trust i Hi, ad He wi act. What greater desire coud we have tha for peope to coe to ow Hi? It s beyod tie to fid what wors. Affiity Evageis is a too that eads your church ebers to becoe ethusiastic about coectig with their eighbors for the purpose of hepig the have a ecouter with Jesus. Affiity Evageis Is Effective ad Uitiidatig Affiity Evageis taes itiidatio out of evageizatio both for doers ad hearers. It heps church ebers see that they do t have to ta i ways they re ot used to about cocepts i which they re uiterested. It heps the see outreach as a atura, eve eoyabe, extesio of their ives. Evageis starts by sipy buidig friedships with a circe of peope who ove to do what we aso ove, or have a cocer about soethig that we re cocered about. If evageis itiidates us, who are acquaited with the igo, thi how it fees to coe to church for a uchurched perso. A hurtig a or woa who has ade istaes, ay ot oo presetabe, ad does t ow churchy aguage fees isecure ad fearfu before he or she ever eters the doors. That s why ay do t coe. We ust go to the with the opportuity to hear, uderstad, ad ecouter Jesus. Our eighbors ay o oger atted wee-og reviva services, but they do oo at Faceboo. They ay ot be iterested i eetigs or progras that were effective a geeratio ago, but they ay coe to a oe-tie evet or a othy gatherig of peope with the sae hobby or cocer. Istead of ettig these chages bother us, we ca everage what peope are iterested i as a way of hepig the ecouter Jesus. Keep i id, though, that the evet you use today wo t be effective toorrow, because peope s iterests chage. God s essage is uchagig, but it s oay o, essetia for us to use whatever ethod we ca to reach as ay as we ca. Page9
Do t you say, There are sti four ore oths, the coes the harvest? Liste to what I teig you: Ope your eyes ad oo at the fieds, for they are ready for harvest. Joh 4:35 So, if Affiity Evageis is effective, how do you ead your church to decide o a Affiity group to serve? The foowig tweve steps wi hep you i the process of eadig your church to be evageistic i a ew way, with a reewed oy ad coitet. Assess Where You Are 1. Where are you persoay? 2. Where is your church? 3. What is your first ipressio of the Affiity Group with the greatest opportuity to reach i your couity? Estabish a Strategic Leadership Tea 1. Who shoud serve? What are character idicators to oo for i tea ebers? 2. What are expectatios ad goas for the tea? 3. How do they prefer couicatio to happe? Discipe & Be Disciped 1. How wi you ad tea ebers participate i persoa discipeship? 2. What heathy boudaries wi you estabish ad proote? 3. What ode of discipeship wi ew beievers use i foow-up? Idetify Your Couity s Affiities 1. Where is your church physicay (ocatio)? 2. Where is your church deveopetay (istitutios ad services)? 3. Where is your couity reatioay (socia gatherig paces, attitude toward church)? 4. Who heps who i your couity? 5. Ca you parter with ay existig istitutios/orgaizatios/iistries to reach a Affiity effectivey? 6. Are ay Affiity groups ureached by couity resources? Locate the Least of These 1. How does the deographic aeup of your cogregatio copare to that of your couity? 2. What are the eeds of the peope groups that are ot beig egaged by our church? 3. What ca your church start to egage these peope groups effectivey? Page10
Liste to Your Couity 1. Who ca you as about iterests ad eeds, ad how? 2. What questios woud be hepfu to as? 3. How ca you ecourage survey/iterview copetio ad use eve this as a for of outreach? Host a Creative Visio Sessio 1. How ca you stregthe or reew your visio to reach the ost? 2. What ideas do peope of a ages i your church ad couity have for stregtheig your couity? 3. What do peope i your couity ove to do ad respod to? Aayze Itagibe Forces 1. What forces are at wor behid the scees i our couity (socia, ecooic, poitica, or reigious)? 2. How have these forces previousy bee a barrier to your church reachig out? 3. How ca your church everage these issues ad address the with a Affiity Evageis evet? Choose Your Focus Miistry 1. What is the oe Affiity that eeps resurfacig as you pray ad ta? 2. What other Affiities did you otice, ad i what priority order woud you ist the? Coit ad Pa 1. What activities woud you ie to coduct to appea to this Affiity? 2. Who ca hep you carry out your pa (suer issios tea, atioa or regioa speaer o a specia topic, couty aw eforceet or pars board, KBC assistace)? 3. What wi it tae to accopish your goa? Coduct Foow-Up 1. How wi your church visit those who prayed to receive Christ? 2. Who i your church is wiig to serve o a assiiatio tea? 3. How wi you foow-up ad ecourage persoa discipeship? The ext few chapters offer ore iforatio about each step. Reeber, deveopig ad ipeetig Affiity Evageis is a process oe that taes tie, ad oe you caot accopish aoe. Pray that God wi ead you. We o the KBC Evageis ad Church Patig Tea are prayig with you that God wi use your evageistic efforts ad revitaize your church for His gory. We are excited that you are begiig this ourey! Page11
But Jesus said to hi, No oe who puts his had to the pow ad oos bac is fit for the igdo of God. Lue 9:62 Assess Where You Are Do you have a heart to evageize the ost? Does your church wat to egage peope who have ot heard about Jesus? Before we ca hep ore peope i Ketucy ad the word ecouter Jesus, we ust grasp the eed ad the urgecy for evageizatio. Whie soe of the evageistic ethods churches use are outdated or ieffective, each idividua sou havig the opportuity to hear about Jesus Christ is a tieess eed. We ust ot oy grasp the eed ad the urgecy, but we ust aso accept the chaege. Hostig evageistic evets, coductig foow-up discipeship ad ecourageet, ad aitaiig otivatio a require coitet, fiacia ivestet, ad eergy. It is o woder churches fai to evageize. So where is your church right ow? Are they resistat to share their resources for the cause of teig others about Christ, or do they have a desire but ac ideas ad eadership? Where are you? Are you excited eough to otivate others, or do you eed persoa revitaizatio as you begi eadig your church i this process of reachig out to others? Pease be hoest i this assesset. It is ot shaefu to eed persoa rest or reewa; it is ora. It is essetia to be the ost effective church eader you ca be. If it is ot the right tie to begi a ew ephasis persoay or corporatey, tae tie to wor through the foudatioa steps of reewa before or as you iitiate Affiity Evageis. God has proised to wor powerfuy to draw peope to Hisef eve through our trasparecy ad iitatios: [If] y peope who are caed by My ae hube theseves, pray ad see My face, ad tur fro their evi ways, the I wi hear fro heave, forgive their si, ad hea their ad. 2 Chroices 7:14 But He said to e, My grace is sufficiet for you, for power is perfected i weaess. Therefore, I wi ost gady boast a the ore about y weaesses, so that Christ s power ay reside i e. 2 Corithias 12:9 Therefore, cofess your sis to oe aother ad pray for oe aother, so that you ay be heaed. The urget request of a righteous perso is very powerfu i its effect. Jaes 5:16 Love the Lord your God with a your heart, with a your sou, ad with a your id. This is the greatest ad ost iportat coad. The secod is ie it: Love your eighbor as yoursef. A the Law ad the Prophets deped o these two coads. Matthew 22:37-40 Verses ie these reid us how essetia repetace ad heathy sef-care are to carig for your cogregatio ad couity. Taig tie to reew, rest, ad assure that you are persoay growig aso guards agaist areas ad attitudes of si creepig i. If you re ot ettig God s Spirit ae a positive, ife-chagig differece i you, oooers wo t be coviced. Your persoa growth coud be the ey to others coversios to Christ, so do t igore it. We ta ore about persoa growth i Discipe & Be Disciped. So, et s tae a oo at you ad your church. Are you ready to proceed? Reeber, the goa of this process is ot to ipeet Affiity Evageis for the sae of sayig your church has a Page12
evageis progra. You do t eed aother progra to ipeet. Our goa is to see peope ecouter Jesus ad experiece ife trasforatio. The Sef-Assesset Survey (Appedix A) wi assist you i evauatig whether you ad your church are ready to ipeet Affiity Evageis. Are you earig Truth, obeyig God, servig God ad others, sharig Christ, exercisig faith, seeig God, ad buidig reatioships? Eve if you re ot where you wat to be persoay or as a church, reeber that ephasizig others eed to ecouter Jesus ad startig a evageistic ephasis ca hep your church refocus ad begi growig agai. Ofte, evageis causes revitaizatio. My Thoughts 1. Where a I persoay? 2. Where is y church? 3. What is y first ipressio of the Affiity Group with the greatest opportuity to reach i y couity? Page13
Estabish a Strategic Leadership Tea Ad He persoay gave soe to be apostes, soe prophets, soe evageists, soe pastors ad teachers, for the traiig of the saits i the wor of iistry, to buid up the body of Christ. Ephesias 4:11-12 If your church is ready to use Affiity Evageis to reach ureached peope i your couity, for a tea to ead out i ew ways. How do you assebe a effective tea? Pray 1. Pray. 2. Idetify ey peope who woud be a good fit for this tea. 3. Iterview peope you are cosiderig for the tea. 4. Ivite peope to oi your tea. 5. Ipeet teawor ad discipeship pas for your tea ebers. Before Jesus seected His discipes, He prayed a ight. Soeties we barey give a thought to assebig a tea to get soethig doe at church we as the peope we ve aways ased before we eve as God if a tas shoud be doe or who shoud do it. Affiity Evageis is ot about doig every evageistic idea your church faiy coes up with. It is about creatig a heart i your church to give ureached peope a chace to ecouter Jesus. First, ife trasforatio taes pace i your church. The, your church wats to see trasforatio i the ives of peope i your couity ad they becoe wiig to thi wisey ad put the wor ito seeig that happe. Foowig Christ s exape, pray with discipie ad edurace. As God to prepare your church for this process, to pace i church ebers a desire to see peope saved, ad to brig to your attetio church ebers who wi ead i this ew strategy ethusiasticay. Idetify As you cosider who to as to be part of this Strategic Leadership Tea, cosider church ebers persoa giftedess, aturity, ad areas of iterest/passio. Aso eep i id the differet roes ad types of persoaities you wi eed to accopish your evageizatio goas. A coupe of peope o the tea eed orgaizatioa gifts they ca thi about detais ad foow through we o couicatio ad paig. Other peope eed big-picture visioary sis. Soe eed the gifts of hospitaity ad ecourageet to wecoe ewcoers. Other peope ay have specific experiece with the Affiity you wi reach. I preparatio for this ew iitiative, offer spiritua gifts testig ad traiig. Preach ad pray about ebers opeig their eyes to paces of service. As a eader of your cogregatio, oe of your iportat roes is affirig efforts of ebers to serve verbay ad i writte otes. Watch for character quaities, taets, ad iterests i each oe. If you d ie to as soeoe who is aready fufiig severa eadership roes to be part of the tea, braistor ways to reieve soe of their curret duties without addig ore. It s iportat to couicate to the cogregatio the iportace of each eber fidig paces to serve; that way o oe perso gets burt out. Page14
Most iportaty, each perso you ivite shoud have a coitet ad wiigess to persoa discipeship, obediece, ad actio. Ji Puta, i his boo Rea-Life Discipeship: Buidig Churches that Mae Discipes, expais that a discipe is soeoe who recogizes Who Jesus is (head owedge), who is beig chaged by Jesus (heart trasforatio), ad who is activey worig for Jesus (ivig the issio of reachig others with the Gospe). If ot ay i your church are showig sigs of this id of aturity, start by prayig for God to reew or save ebers of your cogregatio. Whe your church ebers see a striig picture of what Jesus has doe to set the free, their exciteet wi aturay bubbe over ito evageis. Iterview Before aig a fia decisio about the tea, tae tie to iterview the peope you ve idetified as possibe cadidates. Share your visio ad see how they respod. As about their iterests, gifts, ad desires for their faiy, the church, ad their couity. Do they share your visio or have their ow excitig ideas for reachig the couity? Do they show a wiigess to support your ad others ideas for hepig peope ecouter Jesus? Do they fee they have tie to dedicate to this tea? Do you see i the a desire to grow persoay? Do their gifts esh we with others you are cosiderig? Ivite As each perso that is a good fit for this ew iitiative to be part of your tea. Show a wiigess to aswer ay of their questios, ad ceary couicate the tie, ocatio, ad expected egth of your first eetig. Ipeet Teawor & Discipeship Pas Whe you eet with your tea iitiay, share your expectatios ad goas for the tea, ad hear tea ebers expectatios ad goas. Set a toe of ethusias ad hoesty. Discuss how tea ebers prefer to couicate (is eai oay?), ad decide how ofte ad whe to eet. Ta about the iportace of persoa spiritua growth ad prayig for spiritua protectio for feow tea ad church ebers. Pray with ad for each tea eber. Pray for your couity ad that God woud ead you through this process ad to hep you see ways to coect with peope ad hep the ecouter Jesus. Pray for bodess to step ito divie oets God creates through this Affiity Evageis process. My Thoughts 1. Who ca I ivite to serve o our church s Strategic Leadership Tea? 2. What are expectatios ad goas for our tea? 3. How do they prefer couicatio to happe? Page15
Discipe & Be Disciped Now without faith it is ipossibe to pease God, for the oe who draws ear to Hi ust beieve that He exists ad rewards those who see Hi. Hebrews 11:6 The Sigificace of Maturity Persoa ad group discipeship or ac thereof pay a ore sigificat roe i the ife of our churches ad couities tha we reaize. Whe our cogregatios fai to ature fro spiritua babyhood to reproducig, accoutabe, sef-feedig discipes, cofict iside the church ofte erupts, ad oooers have reaso to reai septica about the ife-chagig power of Jesus Christ. As eaders, whe we egect the spiritua discipie of tie aoe with God i prayer ad study, or whe we give out of habit, ob descriptio, or obigatio rather tha ethusias, depressio ad deceit easiy creep i. It is essetia for our protectio, oy, ad God s gory to ae roo for persoa spiritua growth i your ow ife ad to ecourage it i the ives of tea ebers. Ecouragig Growth How wi you do that? Fid boos, podcasts, video, or oie resources that eep you itrigued ad excited about God s Word. Share these with tea ebers. Ta about what you re earig i your persoa quiet ties, ad as tea ebers about how God is chaegig the. If possibe, sowy wor through a Bibe study or Bibe-based eadership boo as part of your Strategic Leadership Tea eetigs. Whe your tea eets together, ephasize the power of prayig for your church s Affiity Evageis process. Hep your etire church body grow by offerig sa-group studies ad by offerig Suday Schoo teachers traiig so that they wi be ore effective i their iistries. The Evageis ad Church Patig tea at the KBC is here to parter with ad assist you if you eed assistace i deveopig discipeship at your church. My Thoughts 1. How wi I ad tea ebers participate i persoa discipeship? 2. What heathy boudaries wi we estabish ad proote? 3. What ode of discipeship wi we use i foow-up with ew beievers who ecouter Jesus at our Affiity Evageis evet? Page16
Idetify Your Couity s Affiities Accordig to God s grace that was give to e, I have aid a foudatio as a sied aster buider, ad aother buids o it. But each oe ust be carefu how he buids o it. 1 Corithias 3:10 Picture the Peope Hep your Strategic Leadership Tea picture the opportuities to reach peope i your couity by appig affiities. Decide o the boudaries of your couity, ad create a arge physica ap out of butcher paper or poster board. If possibe, post the ap o a arge bueti board for the etire church body to see. Use sips of paper, differet coored arers or pecis, ad tacs to write i ad ar the iportat gatherig paces: your church, aor roads ad adars, arge epoyers, istitutios, shoppig ceters, theaters, areas, ad other hot spots. Aso ap where church ebers ive. The goa of this step is to becoe faiiar with your couity ad to ore fuy reaize where peope are gatherig. Pray aso that this step wi begi buidig uity ad ethusias aog tea ebers. Couity Characteristics Have your tea tae the Couity Assesset (Appedix C). Have your tea describe their ipressios of your couity Is it carig? Coservative? Do peope ephasize educatio? Is there a strog push to aow ew defiitios of acceptabe behaviors? List the words they use. The have the give their reasos for describig the couity this way. Add eeets to your ap that prove your couity has those characteristics. Note ay schoos, eder-care faciities, phiathropic orgaizatios, hospitas, or other couity service agecies you have ot apped. Gather Data Cotiue gatherig data about your couity ad who is doig what to hep. There are is beow to oie resources to hep you fid aswers to questios i this sectio. The Evageis ad Church Patig Tea of the KBC ca aso provide soe deographic data based o your zip code or couity. Cosider ways your church ca parter with orgaizatios aready i pace to hep certai affiities? Are there affiities ot beig addressed? What ca your church do to hep? The foowig websites ay provide hepfu iforatio (ist adapted fro Copassio by Desig, 2007): Noprofits Schoos TV & Radio Pubic Services www.eissadata.co/ooups/p.asp www.eissadata.co/ooups/schoos.asp www.eissadata.co/ooups/fcc.asp www.usa.gov/citize/services.sht (Seect ay search that ay hod services or orgaizatios you are seeig.) Services Cearighouses www.referweb.et Yeow Pages (These iforatio cearighouse providers ay have ists you ca obtai.) www.yeowpages.co Page17
Twety Questios of Reevace Lead your tea to share what they ow eve persoa stories about the gatherig paces i your tow. As questios that hep the tea expore possibe Affiities ad effective strategies for reachig the. Have the tae the Church Survey (Appedix B) ad the Spiritua Maturity Survey (Appedix C, optioa). Deographic 1. How ay ethic groups are i your regio? What percetage of the popuatio are they? 2. What is the estiated percetage of uchurched peope i your regio? 3. What does the arriage deographic oo ie i your regio (i.e., how ay coupes are ivig together? How ay sige os?)? 4. What is the youth cuture i your regio? a. How prevaet is the drug cuture? Driig? b. What is the tee pregacy rate? c. High schoo graduatio rate? 5. What is the edia age of peope i your regio? 6. At what rate are peope ovig ito your regio? Why? 7. At what rate are peope ovig out of your regio? Why? Istitutios & Services 8. Are uiversities preset? 9. Who are the priary epoyers i your regio? How does that ipact church attedace ad the cuture i geera? 10. What is the priary retai outet i your couity? Is there a way for your church to coect to woe through this iterest? 11. Is there a eed aog stay-at-hoe os? Hoe schooers? Socia & Attitudia 12. What is the priary iterest/hobby of the peope i your regio? 13. What is the aor chaege facig the peope of your regio? 14. What causes peope to gather i these popuar paces? What feeigs or satisfactio do they receive fro participatig i what s offered there? How ca your church tap ito that iterest ad eet that eed i a eve better way? 15. What is the ost coo recreatioa activity i your regio? Do peope coe fro outside the regio to participate i it? Woud peope coe fro a wide area to participate i a wedoe activity reated to this recreatio that your church hosted? 16. What is the ost popuar radio statio i your regio? Why? Newspaper? Why? 17. How woud you rate your regio poiticay? What does that say about the spiritua eeds of your couity? 18. How woud you rate the pubic schoos of your regio? Effective? Libera? Coservative? 19. What is the priary socia orgaizatio of your regio? 20. Taig a this iforatio ito accout, what do you thi woud cause ureached peope i your couity to gather i a differet pace? What woud ae the wat to gather at a adar to participate i a evageistic Affiity evet that your church hosted? What woud ae the wat to coe to your church, whe right ow they are uiterested ad perhaps eve afraid to eter your doors? Page18
After aswerig these questios ad hearig stories about fet-eeds aog your couity, ae a ist of possibe Affiities. Though you wo t iitiay reach every group, write every idea dow. Do ot stop the fow of ideas or deete ay group aed. You ever ow what ay happe i your church i the years to coe every group ay be reached! Ad you ever ow whe a tea eber wi share a gier of a idea with aother church eber, who has a passio for that Affiity ad wi pursue it i a effective ad uexpected way. Your goa is to give everyoe i your couity the opportuity to ecouter Jesus i a cear way so, at this poit i the process, ist every Affiity you ca thi of. Prayerwaig If you have t aready, begi ow to prayerwa i your couity. As the Lord to ae you aware of eeds, resources, ad iterests of peope i your couity. As Hi to give you ideas for addressig these affiities. Have groups that prayerwa record their ipressios i a shared oteboo ad add ay hepfu otes to the ap. My Thoughts 1. Where is y church physicay (ocatio)? 2. Where is y couity deveopetay (istitutios ad services)? 3. Where is y couity reatioay (socia gatherig paces, attitude toward church)? 4. Who heps who i y couity? 5. Ca we parter with ay existig istitutios/orgaizatios/iistries to reach a Affiity effectivey? 6. Are ay Affiity groups ureached by couity resources? Page19
Locate the Least of These Oce you were ot a peope, but ow you are God s peope; you had ot received ercy, but ow you have received ercy. 1 Peter 2:10 Cosider the Deographics Now that you ve gathered data about your couity ad those who serve it, ote ay Affiity groups that you did t expect. Is there a arger percetage of youth i your couity tha you expected? Does a iority atioaity that you were t aware of have a sigificat presece? Is your couity doig better or worse ecooicay tha you expected? How wi these discoveries ipact your Affiity Evageis paig? Thi about the deographic ae-up of your cogregatio ad your cogregatio s curret circe of ifuece. How far is your cogregatio s reach ito your couity? What ca your church do to egage differet affiities ad hep the ecouter Jesus? How ust your church s attitudes ad actios chage to reach the? Jesus did t die for ust oe type of perso. Roas 10:13 says, For everyoe who cas o the ae of the Lord wi be saved (ephasis added). Our churches ust becoe paces that go out to ad wecoe i peope fro a was of ife. What ca your church do to becoe a ore wecoig pace? For exape, your faciity or physica eviroet couicates soethig to ureached peope. Do you have safe ad effective processes i pace to iister to chidre? Is your faciity accessibe to peope with physica iitatios? Woud a ew perso uderstad what is happeig ad why i your worship service or is the aguage you use ad attitude of ebers uivitig? If our goa is to hep peope ecouter Jesus, we eed to wor to reove as ay obstaces as possibe. (Chec out sectio four of Deep ad Wide by Ady Staey for soe great iforatio about creatig irresistibe eviroets.) What Uusua Affiities Have t You Cosidered? Schoo bus drivers, fair worers, fast food worers, the edery, costructio worers, urses, ad coutry cub ebers these fos ay ot see to have a ot i coo at first gace. They do, however, have a coo eed to ecouter Jesus, ad they are part of affiities your Strategic Leadership Tea ay ot have cosidered. Every perso ust hear about Jesus; therefore, ay Affiity is up for prayer ad creative thought. Coud your church provide appreciatio bags, Bibes, eas, or evets of iterest to groups eve as sa ad speciaized as these? Shoud you? Jesus said, Whatever you did for oe of the east of these brothers of Mie, you did for Me (Matthew 25:40). The cotext of Jesus essage i this passage idicates that beievers are goig out to itetioay do wors of service ad care for peope i the couity. As you pray ad pa, aow the Lord to ay o your hearts as a church ad as idividuas ways you ca reach out to the east of these. Not every Affiity Evageis proect has to be arge-scae or ogoig. It ca be as sipe as aig a ew fried at a ursig hoe, givig hi the opportuity to ceary hear the essage of Christ s forgiveess. Page20
My Thoughts 1. How does the deographic aeup of y cogregatio copare to that of our couity? 2. What are the eeds of the peope groups that are ot beig egaged by our church? 3. What ca our church start to egage these peope groups effectivey? Page21
Liste to Your Couity If you have uderstadig, hear this; iste to what I say. Job 34:16 This step is crucia to deveopig a effective Affiity Evageis strategy. No aout of idirect research copares to hearig straight fro the heart of your eighbors. What do your couity ebers thi are the greatest eeds ad ost we-ied hobbies? What are their ideas for hepfu services or eoyabe evets your church coud provide? Your best ideas ay coe fro ureached peope! The goas of this sectio are both to begi buidig rapport with couity ebers ad to eicit their hep i braistorig Affiity Evageis proects they d ie to see i their couity. The ed resut of both of these goas is hepig ore peope ecouter Jesus. Reeber, that s our focus, so do t get bogged dow i creatig a egthy survey or gatherig too uch data. Sipy get ito the couity ad iste, taig Christ s ove with you as you go. The Five Most Iportat Questios for Our Couity Mae a ist of severa questios that wi draw out couity ebers. These questios ca be prited i a survey forat or sipy used i casua coversatio. The Couity Survey (Appedix D) ca serve as a exape of questios ad a startig poit. Set a goa for each Strategic Leadership Tea eber to as questios of at east six peope fro various affiities. Choose five of the questios you coe up with to proote aog a church ebers. Ta about the questios i seros ad sa groups. Hep ebers reaize how sigificat the aswers to these questios are they ead your church directy to the evets ad proects that wi be wecoe ad hepfu to your couity. The aswers to these questios are the gateway to hepig peope ecouter Jesus. You ca choose ay questio you fee is iportat ad appicabe to your couity. Here are soe suggestios to get you started: What is your ost favorite pace to go i our couity ad why? What do you fee is the ost popuar hobby i our couity? If oey were o obect, what evet do you thi woud brig peope iterested i this hobby together? What do you fee is the biggest eed i our couity today? If oey were o obect, what do you thi a orgaizatio shoud do to hep this probe? Estabish a Iterview Tea & Set Up Appoitets Soe tea ebers wi get excited about taig with others, whie others wi fee ervous. Ecourage those with reatioa gifts ad stregths to ead out i ore structured iterviews with couity ebers. Decide o ey peope who represet each Affiity i your couity, ad have this subcoittee ae appoitets ad ta with peope fro every seget of society. Hep other tea ebers view this step as taig with frieds ew ad od about what s o their ids, what s iportat to the. Page22
Proote Ifora Iterviews aog Church Mebers Ecourage church ebers to hep you i this process of discoverig the eeds ad heartbeat of your couity. Ivite the to share their fidigs with tea ebers or record the i the shared oura. Create a Visio Suary As you cocude this step, share your fidigs. Notice what dreas, oys, ad worries get repeated by couity ebers. Aso ote ew directios that arise. Have a tea eber write up a suary of the visioary ideas of peope i your couity. Refer to this suary as you wor to arrow your Affiity Evageis focus to oe or two begiig proects. My Thoughts 1. Who ca we as about iterests ad eeds, ad how? 2. What questios woud be hepfu to as? 3. How ca we ecourage survey/iterview copetio ad use eve this as a for of outreach? Page23
Host a Creative Visio Sessio Where there is o visio, the peope perish. Proverbs 29:18 (KJV) Two of the saddest reasos churches today do ot attept evageistic proects are ethargy ad fear. Churches do t drea ad do outreach because they do t wat to. Perhaps they do t wat to because they ve had egative experieces or uipactfu or hurtfu resuts i the past. It s tie to ay excuses aside ad egage our cuture, our couity, ad our frieds with the ife-chagig ews of Jesus Christ. He sti chages ives! A great way to get your church to cofrot their fears ad get o board with Affiity Evageis is to host a creative visio or braistorig sessio. The goa is to hep your tea reaize three thigs: 1) Your church ca reach your couities; 2) Your church ca ipeet ay creative ad effective pas to hep their couity ecouter Jesus; 3) Your church wi see resuts! A creative visio sessio wi hep your tea ad your etire church body evisio peope i their couity coig to Christ. I additio to overcoig ethargy ad fear, a creative visio sessio ca be a opportuity to expore differet hoos that wi effectivey egage differet Affiities. For exape, Appedix E describes a Wid Gae Dier strategy. The hoo for this evet is gus. The wid gae dier draws o the Affiity of hutig which coects with e across a deographics. Proise of Hope, the evageis iistry of Chuc McAister, has discovered that the uber of ureached e that coe to their evets is reated to the uber of gus they give away at the evet. So, gus are the hoo for the wid gae diers. As you expore the differet Affiities, drea about ideas that ay attract peope to a evet or iistry of your church. As you iterview the couity, as the what woud draw the to a evet. Utiatey, a creative visio sessio is eat to be a fu way to get ideas ad iput fro your church ad couity about what they d ie to do to hep peope ecouter Jesus. The sessio wi aso buid cosesus ad ethusias about hepig peope ecouter Jesus. If you d ie hep eadig your church through a creative visio sessio, cotact the KBC Evageis ad Church Patig Tea. Lead a Sessio Set a date ad tie for the sessio. Creativey proote the sessio as a tie to thi of thigs your church ca do to beefit your couity. (For exape, a coupe wees out, dispay posters that say, It s Coig... or Wated: Your Brai! ) Ivite church ebers ad wiig couity ebers (iistry parters or uchurched couity eaders) to participate i this braistorig sessio. Page24
Before the sessio, draw four arge vertica rectages o a wa-size white board, or post o the wa four ease pad sheets or poster boards. Tite these Hobbies & Iterests, Hua Sufferig Reief, Chid or Hua Deveopet, Deographic Discoveries (ages, ethicities, professios, etc.). You wi ist Affiities here. Provide additioa white boards or posters to record iistry ideas. O aother poster, write Agreeets for Our Sessio. * (Whe you start the sessio, expai the iportace of these agreeets usig the descriptios i paretheses. You do ot have to write the iforatio i parethesis o the poster.) 1. Thi creativey, ot criticay. (Do ot say, We do t have the tie or oey, That wo t wor, or We ve ever doe it that way before. Reeber, our purpose is fidig ew ideas o atter the ivestet to hep peope ecouter Jesus. We are ot here to put dow, copete, or do aythig other tha thi of others eed to hear about Jesus Christ.) 2. We wi ot aayze or edit ideas as we go. (Later, we wi go bac ad decide what to try. Right ow, we are here to get dow as ay dreas ad ideas as we ca to touch as ay groups of peope as we ca.) 3. We wi ot decide o ideas ad pa detais toight. (As we ta, we wo t get bogged dow with detais. This sessio is for dreaig, ot paig. At aother tie, we wi pa. If you are excited ad iterested i hepig with our Affiity Evageis proect, pease et us ow.) 4. Whe soeoe gives a idea, we wi record it ad as, Yes, ad...? (Add ore ideas. Let oe idea sprigboard aother. Be agreeabe. At this poit, it is oay to ist thigs you fee ie you coud ever do. Drea bigger tha you ever have.) 5. If you sta or boc the fow of ideas by aayzig, editig, or asig too ay questios, you have to put a quarter i the Bocig Bucet. (Scatter a few quarters ad pace a sa bucet o the tabe for a huorous decoratio.) 6. We wi ot quaify ideas as good or bad. (Right ow, we wat as ay wid ideas as we ca get who ows which oes wi deveop ito effective pas with a few tweas or the right perso gettig passioate about a proect. Ideas are t good ad bad. They are a eu of optios. I the ed, we ust have to pic oe to start with ad expad upo. Pease do t thi we did t hear you or ie your idea if we do t pic yours. If the Lord tarries, we have ay years to wor ad ay peope to reach. Your idea ay be ext. Keep taig!) 7. We wi group ideas with Affiities at the ed. (Whe we re doe braistorig, we thi ore specificay about what Affiities each outreach idea ay be ore effective with, so as we begi, do t iit your idea to worig with oy oe group of peope. There ay be ways to twea your idea so that it is actuay eve ore effective with aother group.) 8. We vaue you. We vaue ost peope. (Tha you for givig your tie to hep us evisio how we ca hep peope ecouter Jesus. It is because we vaue peope ad wat to ae discipes that we are ivestig i this process. Pray with us ad for us as we cotiue this ourey. We ove that you are part of our church, ad we are proud of God s wor i your ives.) Page25
Start the sessio with prayer. Brig attetio to the Agreeets for Our Sessio. Wor your way through these three questios: 1. What Affiities (groups of peope with coo iterests or eeds) do you see i our couity i each of these four areas? (Quicy ist Affiities i the four boxes you ve posted, eavig space betwee the.) 2. What coud we do to hep these Affiities ecouter Jesus? (Sped ost of your tie here, thiig big about iistry ideas. Write these o ease pad sheets ad post for everyoe to see as they braistor.) 3. What woud be the ost appeaig way, give the bet of this Affiity, to hep the wat to participate i a evet or progra we offered? (Write iistry ideas uder Affiities with which they fit we. Record other isights participats share.) Coduct this dreaig sessio with a positive, hopefu toe. Throughout the eetig, eep castig the reaizatio that your church ca reach peope for Jesus Christ. Record a ideas that surface fro this eetig. *These agreeets are based o iforatio foud i Hatch! Braistorig Secrets of a Thee Par Desiger by C. McNair Wiso. My Thoughts 1. How ca I stregthe or reew y visio to reach the ost? 2. What ideas do peope of a ages i our church ad couity have for stregtheig our couity? 3. What do peope i our couity ove to do ad respod to? Page26
Aayze Itagibe Forces For our batte is ot agaist fesh ad bood, but agaist the ruers, agaist the authorities, agaist the word powers of this daress, agaist the spiritua forces of evi i the heaves. Ephesias 6:12 As your tea has expored eeds ad characteristics of your couity, what have you oticed about uspoe ifueces? Does it see ie your couity is fightig a fierce batte agaist substace abuse or a ifux of iora idoctriatio i the ae of toerace? Does it see ie the fiacia chaeges of faiies are ore tha your church ca eve begi to hep? Sigificat areas of eed do affect faiies thiig ad ways of doig thigs. Oe hopeess situatio ca cause a cyce of poor choices ad despair. Eve oe seeigy haress hobby ca affect a couity if it taes a paret away fro their faiies or eeps peope fro iterest i the Lord ad His Church. We are we aware that our batte is ot agaist fesh ad bood. Our eey, the Liar, is aive ad active, tricig peope ito beievig they are too busy or too bad to go to church, or teig peope is too borig or too irreevat to atter. His ies ad peope s choices ad ucotroabe situatios coide ad create ivisibe but strog barriers to peope ecouterig Jesus. As you proceed through the ext steps o your Affiity Evageis ourey ad cosider the iforatio you ve aready coected, as God for wisdo to uderstad your couity. As for ope eyes to see the pressures, excuses, ad stroghods that eep your couity ebers away fro Jesus. Petitio God with prayer ad fastig for His Spirit to draw peope i your couity to Hisef. Guard your persoa wa, ad pray for the spiritua protectio of your tea ad church ebers. The watch as God uses your church s Affiity Evageis efforts to swig wide the door of opportuity to ecouter Jesus i a rea ad ife-chagig way. My Thoughts 1. What forces are at wor behid the scees i our couity (socia, ecooic, poitica, or reigious)? 2. How have these forces previousy bee a barrier to our church reachig out? 3. How ca our church everage these issues ad address the with a Affiity Evageis evet? Page27
Choose Your Focus Miistry Now the Oe who provides seed for the sower ad bread for food wi provide ad utipy your seed ad icrease the harvest of your righteousess. 2 Corithias 9:10 I deteriig your Affiity Evageis strategy, you ve poured i ideas ad iforatio fro deographic statistics, couity resources, your couity ebers, ad your church s observatios ad creative braistorig. Lie a sifter, God s strog Spirit wi wor with what you ve heard ad see i your couity to guide you to the ost iportat Affiity Evageis priorities. So, what have you discovered? Where do atura coectios occur betwee church ebers passios ad couity iterests or eeds? What issues have bee repeated fro a segets of iforatio-gatherig? What evet or progra ca your church provide to hep peope i ureached affiities ecouter Jesus? With the Strategic Leadership Tea, ist severa affiities i your couity that God has show your tea repeatedy i priority order. Uder each Affiity, ist two or three of your favorite ideas for hepig the ecouter Jesus. Choose oe of these iistries to start your Affiity Evageis iitiative. Cotiue to pray about which idea to pursue ext ad whe to tae that step. Reeber your goa for the Affiity Evageis proect is ot ust to coduct a proect. Your goa is to hep peope ecouter Jesus. Keep this otivatio ad ed goa i id as you pa. My Thoughts 1. What is the oe Affiity that eeps resurfacig as we pray ad ta? 2. What other Affiities did we otice, ad i what priority order woud we ist the? _ Page28
Coit ad Pa Fiaize pas with couse, ad wage war with soud guidace. Proverbs 20:18 I Joh 12:32, Jesus proised, As for Me, if I a ifted up fro the earth I wi draw a peope to Mysef. Our heartbeat as churches ust be hepig peope ecouter Jesus, procaiig Hi i the pubic square as the Way, the Truth, ad the Life. We ca o oger reai iside our churches ad do busiess as usua. The bibica ode of Jesus, Peter, ad Pau is to go out to reach those who have ever heard. The istructio ad assuptio of Jesus (Matthew 25) is that the Church woud iitiate ecouters with Jesus, proactivey creatig iterest i spiritua atters, ot waitig for ost peope to suddey reaize they are ost. No, we caot do the wor of the Hoy Spirit ad brig covictio, but God has etrusted us with a specia caig ad roe i the hua race. We are the outhpiece of God. We are resposibe to decare Hi. We are the priary ethod God has estabished for others hearig about Hi. Our ost iportat ob is to hep others ecouter Jesus. This ob requires ethusias, coitet, ad, perhaps ost essetiay, a vibrat reaizatio of the wor of Jesus Christ ad the power of His resurrectio i our ow ives. Ad, yes, this ob requires tie, eergy, ad oey. This ob aso ecessitates teawor. No oe perso i a church shoud fee aoe i his efforts. Eve if church ebers are taig oe-o-oe about Jesus with a coworer or fried, there ca be such a ephasis, expectatio, ad ecourageet for evageis i a church that ebers fee prepared to share. So what Affiity Evageis pas does the Lord see to be eadig your church ad Strategic Leadership Tea to tace? Is there a eed for persoa evageis traiig aog ebers? Great, start that but ot without a oetu buider, a evet or proect where ebers ca put their ew owedge ito practice. Is everyoe o the tea excited about addressig oe overarchig Affiity? Create the ost appeaig evet you ca thi of. O the ext page, you fid paig sheets to get you started. After fiig i rough ideas, ivite peope with gifts i each eeded area to oi your tea, buidig effective subcoittees. My Thoughts 1. What activities woud I/we ie to coduct to appea to this Affiity? 1. Who ca hep us carry out our pa (church ebers, suer issios tea, atioa or regioa speaer o a specia topic, couty aw eforceet or pars board, KBC assistace)? 2. What wi it tae to accopish our goa? Page29
Paig Sheets What woud you ie to do? What id of evet or proect wi you iitiate? What ae? Thee? Where ad whe wi you hod your evet? Where ad whe wi you host the evet? Reserve the space as soo as you cofir with ay guest speaers or ecessary orgaizatios. Cofir the uber of peope the veue hods. Who wi you reach? Who is the target audiece? What are their greatest iterests ad eeds? Who wi you ivite to hep you reach the? Cotact Christia speaer bureaus or the KBC Evageis ad Church Patig Tea to hep you fid a Affiity persoaity or a excitig outreach tea with a heart for hepig peope ecouter Jesus ad a si they ove to share. Wi you ivite usica or coedic guests to start the progra? What vouteers fro the church ad couity parters wi hep, ad with what areas? What wi the evet oo ie? How wi you create a professioa ad appeaig settig for your evet? Hire a outside desiger if your church does t have itera resources for decoratig. Page30
What id of advertisig wi you do? What woud ost draw your target Affiity to atted your evet? How ca you buid that draw ito your advertisig? Wi you secure sposors to hep uderwrite the evet? If so, how wi you tha the? Who wi hade advertisig? Who wi desig ad have prited a progra with sposor ifo? Who wi hep with evet ogistics? Who wi hep with soud/tech? Security? Set up i the arge roo ad (if appicabe) sagroup eetig roos? Cea up/custodia durig ad after the evet? Who wi be resposibe for doors? Registratio tabe? Boo tabe? Who wi serve as ushers/greeters? Couseors? Sa group eaders? Ceary couicate to vouteers the schedue of evets for day, ad host a traiig ad prayer tie for everyoe who is ivoved. What id of food ad other hospitaity wi you provide? How wi you wecoe attedees? Naetags, doorprizes, goodie bags, progras, ad other proo gifts are ot ecessary, but woud you ie to provide or have sposors provide ay of these? What hospitaity wi the speaer(s) ad vouteer(s) eed (gree roo, odgig, or host hoes)? How wi you record the decisios that are ade? How wi you foow up iediatey after the evet? Wi you distribute a decisio card? How wi you trac decisios? What wi the card oo ie? Who wi record ad orgaize the decisios? Ca you put together a tea to visit those who ae professios of faith? Woud you ie to tae ay iterature or gifts to faiies? How wi you discipe ad reach out reguary to ew beievers? Wi you start a ew set of iterestig discipeship casses soo after the evet? Page31
Coduct Foow-Up But ecourage each other daiy, whie it is sti caed today, so that oe of you is hardeed by si s deceptio. Hebrews 3:13 Fro the start, we ve ephasized that the goa of Affiity Evageis is aig discipes givig peope the opportuity to ecouter Jesus for the very first tie, the eadig the i the oy of growig i their owedge of Hi. I the years that I (Chuc) have used Affiity Evageis, I ve see churches do foow-up we, visitig i the hoes of those who ae professios of faith ad ivitig the to get ivoved i their worship services. Nothig excites e ore tha seeig hudreds coe to Christ othig, that is, except hearig that the foowig wee, their exteded faiy ebers have aso chose to ae Jesus the Lord of their ives ad hearig that, years after a Affiity Evageis evet, e ad woe cotiue to ive out their coitets to Christ i their couities. Sice we ever host a Affiity Evageis evet oy for the sae of havig a evet, but to ae discipes, your Strategic Leadership Tea ust have pas i pace for these crucia foow-up steps. We wat to do ore tha expose peope to Jesus; we wat to eesh the i Truth. Cosider the foowig areas ad deveop pas to address the. How wi you: Wecoe New Christias ad Visit with Their Faiies Be wiig to visit peope i their hoes. A iportat step i Affiity Evageis is sharig Christ with those i the circe of ifuece of each perso who has coe to Christ. May ties, a etire faiy wi ecouter Jesus ad get ivoved i church. The, cosider how you greet peope whe they eter your church buidig. Coud you provide the with a sa wecoe gift? Be sesitive to the cofort eve of ew peope. They ay be ebarrassed to stad up or to have the whoe church ade aware of their ew eber or visitor status. Churchy aguage ay ae the fee ucofortabe. Get to ow ewcoers. Assess what their eeds are so you ca hep the grow i their ew reatioship with Jesus. Ivove New Christias i Discipeship Opportuities New Christias are ofte very excited to begi earig ore about Jesus. Cosider how you wi ivove ew Christias i discipeship that sets the o a path eadig to aturity i Jesus. Befried New Christias Hep ew Christias fee wecoe. Assig greeters ( peope peope ) who ca be aware of ew peope ad hep the fee cofortabe. Ecourage peope to thi about offerig a pace to sit i worship or to oi the for uch after church. Ivite the to Suday Schoo or a sa group or sipy to your house to get to ow the. Page32
Ivove Growig Christias i Your Next Affiity Evageis Proect New Christias are ofte the ost excited ad positioed i the ost fertie areas for hepig ore ureached peope ecouter Jesus. Ecourage the to egage their ureached frieds as soo as possibe. Do t squash their eergy by aig the sit through a 12-wee study before you ecourage the to egage their ureached frieds. Sed the out ad go with the! There s reay ot a better way to discipe ew beievers tha to hep the practice God s ca as soo as possibe. My Thoughts 1. How wi our church visit those who prayed to receive Christ? 2. Who i our church is wiig to serve o a assiiatio tea? 3. How wi we foow-up ad ecourage persoa discipeship? Page33
Appedix A Resuts fro the Sef-Assesset survey ca be copared to the Church Survey (Appedix B) to assess the copatibiity of the pastor s view of the couity with that of the church. This survey is siiar to the Church Survey to assist i the aiget of views regardig the couity. The survey itsef coects data reated to possibe Affiity groups that exist as we as soe geera deographic iforatio. The survey erey ass for your opiio or estiate. There is o expectatio that you woud do research to fid aswers to questios at this tie. The research wi be doe with your Strategic Leadership Tea ater i the process. The aority of the data coected wi eed to be cosidered ad discussed aog your Strategic Leadership Tea ad possiby KBC Evageis ad Church Patig or other KBC Church Cosutats, to expore fidigs. The hope is that the discussio ad wor of the Hoy Spirit aog your tea wi provide additioa isights that ca ead you forward i your desire to hep ore peope i your couity ecouter Jesus. The Sef-Assesset Survey ca be accessed oie or ca be distributed i a hard copy/paper forat. The oie forat ay be preferred for arger churches as the survey data is coected eectroicay. If you woud ie to utiize the oie versio, pease cotact the Evageis ad Church Patig tea ad we wi gady set that up for you. The hard copy/paper forat wi be best for ost churches as it wi provide ore iediate feedbac ad aow you to ove the process aog without havig to wait for survey resuts. As discussed i the worboo, it wi be effective for the pastor/staff perso eadig this effort to copete the survey ad aayze his/her resuts first. This wi give you a good idea of the process ad prepare you to aswer questios, etc. Next, the eadership tea ad/or church wi tae the survey. As you discuss the resuts of the survey, pease eep i id that this is oy a too that ca ecourage a ore obective exporatio of oesef ad the couity i which you are positioed to iister. Resuts of this survey are ot eat to abe or pigeo hoe ayoe. They are erey eat to provide a easure of Affiities that exist ad provide grouds for discussio ad deveopet of a Affiity-based evageis pa to hep peope ecouter Jesus. Assessig Affiities Give the ature of Affiities, it is difficut to deveop a survey that autoaticay discovers a of the. The purpose of the Affiity sectio i this survey is to hep peope cosider their persoa Affiities ad to provide a eas by which we ca begi discoverig the Affiities that exist withi our churches ad couities.
As the Affiity Evageis strategy is ipeeted across Ketucy, we wi wor to coect data regardig Affiities ad wor with oca churches to use that data to deveop effective evageis strategies ad wor cooperativey for God s greatest gory. We wi iey discover that our churches are each wired with a eaig toward certai Affiities. For exape, a church that is i ier city, Louisvie, Ky., ay ot have ay peope with a Affiity for hutig or fishig. However, that church ay have ay peope with Affiities that dea with busiess or city deveopet. As we ove toward differet parts of Ketucy, Affiities wi be cuture specific. This is oe of the beauties of the Affiity Evageis strategy. It creates a overa structure by which each of Jesus foowers ca be epowered to step i to his or her divie desig ad everage that desig for God s gory. As you cosider the data you have ust coected. It wi be hepfu to coect a the Affiity data i a ist that ca be used by you ad your strategy tea. Add this data to your couity ap. This wi aow you to see where your peope ive as we as what Affiities they represet ad where those Affiities exist. Whe you get to the part of the process where you iterview couity ebers about their Affiities, you ay begi to see coectig poits betwee those withi your church ad those i the couity. To hep the discussio of Affiities aog, we have isted a few questios beow. These are ot exhaustive by ay eas. As you deveop the ist ad discuss, you wi iey coe up with ore questios. Tae tie for this process to wor out. Aow God to wor aog your tea as He opes your eyes to opportuities for iistry. Potetia questios: What Affiities exist? Are we abe to group/cobie Affiities ito ay type of orgaized ist? How ay we everage these Affiities to egage peope ad hep the ecouter Jesus? Which Affiities shoud we focus o? What experts exist i each area Affiity that we coud iterview ad expore ways to egage participats? How ca we better everage Affiities withi our church to hep us iister ore effectivey?
Sef Survey Affiity/Passio Thepurposeofthissectioistohepusexporepotetiaaffiitiesorpassiosiyourife.Aofushavecertaithigs thatweovetodo.wecadothosethigsforwhatseesieeterityadreayeoythe.thesetypesofactivities arethosethatcauseustoosetracoftie.ucoverigtheseaffiities/passiosasachurchwiaowustogeta cearerpictureofhowgodaybewatigtouseustoicreaseouripactothosearoudus. ResutsfrothissurveycabecoparedtotheChurchSurveytoassessthecopatibiityofthepastor'sviewofthe couitywiththatofthechurch.thissurveyissiiartothechurchsurveytoassistitheaighetofviews regardigthecouity. *1. Ra ad ist 5 activities that you woud cassify as a passio/affiity: (List the activity you are ost passioate about i box 1, the ext i box 2, ad so o.) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. *2. Each of us have abiities/gifts to perfor certai activities with exceece. These activities see to coe atura to us. We eoy earig about the ad ofte exce greaty as we practice these activities. For exape, soe peope are reay good at fixig thigs (Cars, toiets, house repairs, etc.). Others ay be reay good at eepig fiacia records, orgaizig peope or evets, or deveop detaied pas. Others ay be exceet at reatig to peope ad are great isteers. There's as ay exapes as there are peope! Pease ist 5 activities at which you fee you are reay good or gifted? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. *3. List 5 activities or evets you reay eoy doig or attedig: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Sef Survey 4. Cosiderig your resposes to the previous questios about affiities or passios, describe how you coud see those affiities or passios utiized by your church to ipact those aroud you ad/or your church. 5 * 5. Ra the foowig areas of the youth cuture ad the ipact they are aig i your couity: Not a issue Sort of a issue Defiite issue that eeds to be addressed Drug Use: Acoho Use: Tee Pregacy: 6 High Schoo Graduatio Rate:
Sef Survey * 6. List your opiio or perspective o the foowig for your couity: What is your priary hobby or iterest? What is a aor chaege facig peope i your couity? How ay peope i your couity do ot ow Jesus? (Estiate) Who are the priary epoyers? How ifuetia are these epoyers o church ad cuture i geera? What is the priary retai outet/s? How coud your church coect to e/woe through the retai outet? What is the ost coo recreatioa activity? How ay peope participate i the above recreatioa activity? How ay peope coe fro outside your couity to participate the above recreatioa activity? How woud you rate your couity, poiticay? Does the poitica affiiatio of your couity affect it's spiritua state? How? How woud you rate the pubic schoos i your couity/regio? (Effective, Libera, Coservative) How coud your church egage the pubic schoos i your couity to ae a positive ipact? What is the priary socia orgaizatio of your regio/couity? (I.e., Schoo, Church, Civic Orgaizatio, Etc.) 7. Cosiderig a of your resposes above, pease cosider the foowig ad share with us your thoughts: What causes peope i your couity to gather? What woud cause peope to coe to your church?
Sef Survey 8. Pease ist a idea regardig how your church coud ae a positive ipact o the foowig peope: Faiy: Neighbor: Co Worer: ChurchMeber: *9. Woud you be wiig to tae vacatio tie fro wor to participate i a issio experiece that had a positive ipact o your faiy, eighbor, co worer, or church eber? Yes No
Sef Survey Neighborhood Thefoowigwihepusexporethecouityofourchurchadpotetiaopportuitiestoegageiiistry. 10. What's your favorite radio statio? 11. How do you gather ews iforatio? *12. Is there a daiy/weey ewspaper i your couity? Yes No 13. If there is a daiy/weey ewspaper i your couity, is it we read? Yes No 14. Ra the foowig stateets: Howwedoyouowyour Extreeysatisfied Soewhatsatisfied Soewhatdissatisfied Extreeydissatisfied Extreeyofte Soewhatofte Notveryofte Never eighbors? Howsatisfiedareyouwith thestateofyour couity? Howsatisfiedareyouwith theopportuitiesfor chidre/youthto pay/iteract? Howsatisfiedareyouwith thesafetyofyour couity? 15. How ofte do the foowig occur: Paret/faiiesiteract withoeaotheriyour couity Yousociaize/iteractwith youreighbors Chidre/Youthpay togetheroutside
Sef Survey 16. If you coud sap your figers ad chage oe thig about your couity that woud ae it a better pace to ive, what woud you chage? 5 6 17. If you were to as your eighbor what oe thig he or she woud chage to ae the couity a better pace, what woud he/she say? 5 18. What does your faiy ad/or your eighbor do for fu? 6 5 6
Sef Survey Deographic Iforatio (Optioa) This deographic iforatio wi be coected ad utiized by the KBC Evageis ad Church Patig tea to deveop regioa strategies of evageica egageet. Noe of your iforatio wi be shared ad you wi ot be added to a aiig ist. If you provide your address iforatio, we wi be abe to pot the ocatio of peope ad their affiities o a ap ad utiize that data i strategy deveopet. Your specific address wi ot be isted o the ap. 19. What is your geder? Feae Mae 20. What is your age? 12 14 35 39 65 69 15 19 40 44 70 74 20 24 45 49 75 or oder 25 29 50 59 30 34 60 64 21. What is your faiy status? sige (ever arried) separated rearried arried (first tie) divorced widowed Other (pease specify) 22. What is your race? Pease choose oe or ore. Aerica Idia or Aasa Native Asia Bac or Africa Aerica Native Hawaiia or other Pacific Isader Other White 23. About how og have you ived i your eighborhood? Years Moths
Sef Survey 24. How ay chidre, by age, currety ive i your househod? Less tha 1 year od 1 year od 2 years od 3 years od 4 years od 5 years od 6 years od 7 years od 8 years od 9 years od 10 years od 11 years od 12 years od 13 years od 14 years od 15 years od 16 years od 17 years od 18 years od or oder 25. What is your poitica affiiatio? Deocrat Idepedet Repubica Other (pease specify) * 26. For the purpose of appig where our church couity exists, woud you provide your address? Nae: Address: Address 2: City/Tow: State: 6 ZIP:
Appedix B Resuts fro the Church Survey ca be copared to the Sef Survey (Appedix A) to assess the copatibiity of the pastor s view of the couity with that of the church. This survey is siiar to the Sef Survey (Appedix A) to assist i the aiget of views regardig the couity. Try to have as ay church ebers copete the survey as possibe to hep you gai a cear picture of Affiities that exist withi your church. The survey itsef coects data reated to possibe Affiity groups that exist, as we as soe geera deographic iforatio. The survey erey ass for opiio or estiate. There is o expectatio that research woud be doe to fid aswers to questios at this tie. The research wi be doe with your Strategic Leadership Tea ater i the process. The aority of the data coected wi eed to be cosidered ad discussed aog your Strategic Leadership Tea ad possiby KBC Evageis ad Church Patig or other KBC Church Cosutats, to expore fidigs. The hope is that the discussio ad wor of the Hoy Spirit aog your tea wi provide additioa isights that ca ead you forward i your desire to hep ore peope i your couity ecouter Jesus. The Church Survey ca be accessed oie or ca be distributed i a hard copy/paper forat. The oie forat ay be preferred for arger churches as the survey data is coected eectroicay. If you woud ie to utiize the oie versio, pease cotact the Evageis ad Church Patig tea ad we wi gady set that up for you. The hard copy/paper forat wi be best for ost churches as it wi provide ore iediate feedbac ad aow you to ove the process aog without havig to wait for survey resuts. As you discuss the resuts of the survey, pease eep i id that this is oy a too that ca ecourage a ore obective exporatio of oesef ad the couity i which you are positioed to iister. Resuts of this survey are ot eat to abe or pigeo hoe ayoe. They are erey eat to provide a easure of Affiities that exist ad provide grouds for discussio ad deveopet of a Affiity-based evageis pa to hep peope ecouter Jesus. Assessig Affiities Give the ature of Affiities, it is difficut to deveop a survey that autoaticay discovers a of the. The purpose of the Affiity sectio i this survey is to hep peope cosider their persoa Affiities ad to provide a eas by which we ca begi discoverig the Affiities that exist withi our churches ad couities. As the Affiity evageis strategy is ipeeted across Ketucy, we wi wor to coect data regardig Affiities ad wor with oca churches to use that data to deveop effective evageis strategies ad wor cooperativey for God s greatest gory. We wi iey discover that our churches are each wired with a eaig toward certai Affiities. For exape, a church that is i ier city, Louisvie, Ky., ay ot have ay peope with a Affiity for hutig or fishig. However, that church ay have ay peope with Affiities that dea with busiess or city deveopet. As we ove toward differet parts of Ketucy, Affiities wi be cuture specific. This is oe of the beauties of the Affiity Evageis strategy. It creates a overa structure by
which each of Jesus foowers ca be epowered to step i to his or her divie desig ad everage that desig for God s gory. As you cosider the data you have ust coected. It wi be hepfu to coect a the Affiity data i a ist that ca be used by you ad your strategy tea. Add this data to your couity ap. This wi aow you to see where your peope ive as we as what Affiities they represet ad where those Affiities exist. Whe you get to the part of the process where you iterview couity ebers regardig their Affiities, you ay begi to see coectig poits betwee those withi your church ad those i the couity. To hep the discussio of Affiities aog, we have isted a few questios beow. These are ot exhaustive by ay eas. As you deveop the ist ad discuss, you wi iey coe up with ore questios. Tae tie for this process to wor out. Aow God to wor aog your tea as He opes your eyes to opportuities for iistry. Potetia questios: What Affiities exist? Are we abe to group/cobie Affiities ito ay type of orgaized ist? How ay we everage these Affiities to egage peope ad hep the ecouter Jesus? Which Affiities shoud we focus o? What experts exist i each area Affiity that we coud iterview ad expore ways to egage participats? How ca we better everage Affiities withi our church to hep us iister ore effectivey?
Church Affiity Survey Affiity/Passio Thepurposeofthissectioistohepusexporepotetiaaffiitiesorpassiosiyourife.Aofushavecertaithigs Other thatweovetodo.wecadothosethigsforwhatseesieeterityadreayeoythe.thesetypesofactivities arethosethatcauseustoosetracoftie.ucoverigtheseaffiities/passiosasachurchwiaowustogeta cearerpictureofhowgodaybewatigtouseustoicreaseouripactothosearoudus.thasfortaigtie tocopetethissurvey! *1. Ra ad ist 5 activities that you woud cassify as a passio/affiity: (Pease ist the activity you are ost passioate about i box 1, the ext i box 2, ad so o.) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. *2. Each of us have abiities/gifts to perfor certai activities with exceece. These activities see to coe atura to us. We eoy earig about the ad ofte exce greaty as we practice these activities. For exape, soe peope are reay good at fixig thigs (Cars, toiets, house repairs, etc.). Others ay be reay good at eepig fiacia records, orgaizig peope or evets, or deveop detaied pas. Others ay be exceet at reatig to peope ad are great isteers. There's as ay exapes as there are peope! List 5 activities at which you fee you are reay good or gifted? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. *3. List 5 activities or evets you reay eoy doig or attedig: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Church Affiity Survey 4. Cosiderig your resposes to the previous questios about affiities or passios, describe how you coud see those affiities or passios utiized by your church to ipact those aroud you ad/or your church. * 5. Ra the foowig areas of the youth cuture ad the ipact they are aig i your couity: 5 6 Not a issue Sort of a issue Defiite issue that eeds to be addressed Drug Use: Acoho Use: Tee Pregacy: High Schoo Graduatio Rate:
Church Affiity Survey *6. List your opiio or perspective o the foowig for your couity: What is your priary hobby or iterest? What is a aor chaege facig peope i your couity? How ay peope i your couity do ot ow Jesus? (Estiate) Who are the priary epoyers? How ifuetia are these epoyers o church ad cuture i geera? What is the priary retai outet/s? How coud your church coect to e/woe through the retai outet? What is the ost coo recreatioa activity? How ay peope participate i the above recreatioa activity? How ay peope coe fro outside your couity to participate the above recreatioa activity? How woud you rate your couity, poiticay? Does the poitica affiiatio of your couity affect it's spiritua state? How? How woud you rate the pubic schoos i your couity/regio? (Effective, Libera, Coservative) How coud your church egage the pubic schoos i your couity to ae a positive ipact? What is the priary socia orgaizatio of your regio/couity? (I.e., Schoo, Church, Civic Orgaizatio, Etc.)
Church Affiity Survey 7. Cosiderig a of your resposes above, cosider the foowig ad share with us your thoughts: What causes peope i your couity to gather? What woud cause peope to coe to your church?
Church Affiity Survey Neighborhood Thefoowigwihepusexporethecouityofourchurchadpotetiaopportuitiestoegageiiistry. 8. For the foowig stateets, cosider the past oth. Idicate whether you did the foowig tass: Iatteptedtohepaco Yes No worergrowihis/her reatioshipwithjesus. Iatteptedtohepa faiyebergrowi his/herreatioshipwith Jesus. Iatteptedtohepa eighborgrowihis/her reatioshipwithjesus. Iatteptedtohepaco worergrowihis/her reatioshipwithjesus. Iatteptedtosharethe Gospewithsoeoe. Iivitedsoeoetochurch orachurchfuctio. *9. How prepared do you fee regardig sharig the Gospe with the foowig: VeryPrepared SightyPrepared NotPrepared Faiy: Neighbor: Co Worer: ChurchMeber: *10. How prepared do you fee regardig sharig the Gospe with the foowig: VeryPrepared SightyPrepared NotPrepared Faiy: Neighbor: Co Worer: ChurchMeber: *11. Have you bee ivoved i a issios experiece of your church i the past year? Yes No
Church Affiity Survey *12. Woud you be wiig to tae vacatio tie fro wor to participate i a issio experiece that had a positive ipact o your faiy, eighbor, co worer, or church eber? Yes No 13. Pease ra the foowig stateets: Howwedoyouowyour Extreeysatisfied Soewhatsatisfied Soewhatdissatisfied Extreeydissatisfied Extreeyofte Soewhatofte Notveryofte Never couity? Howsatisfiedareyouwith thestateofyour couity? Howsatisfiedareyouwith theopportuitiesfor chidre/youthto pay/iteract? Howsatisfiedareyouwith thesafetyofyour couity? 14. How ofte do the foowig occur: Paret/faiiesiteract withoeaotheriyour couity Yousociaize/iteractwith youreighbors Chidre/Youthpay togetheroutside 15. If you coud sap your figers ad chage oe thig about your couity that woud ae it a better pace to ive, what woud you chage? 5 6 16. If you were to as your eighbor what oe thig he or she woud chage to ae the eighborhood a better pace, what woud he/she say? 5 6 17. What does your faiy ad/or your eighbor do for fu? 5 6
Church Affiity Survey Reatioship with Jesus ThefoowigsectiowiexporeyourreatioshipwithJesus. *18. Do you cosider yoursef a bor agai foower of Jesus? Yes No *19. I becae a bor agai foower of Jesus Christ esstha6othsago 6othsto1yearago 1to2yearsago 2to5yearsago 5to10yearsago Iausure otappicabe oretha10yearsago *20. I woud say the foowig is the sige ost coo feeig I have regardig y reatioship with Jesus. excited eager bored satisfied tired cofused ub frustrated sad guity Other(peasespecify) agry *21. Overa, how woud you rate your reatioship with Jesus? Exceet Verygood Midygood Notgoodata
Church Affiity Survey Deographic Iforatio 22. What is your geder? Feae Mae 23. What is your age? 12 14 15 19 20 24 25 29 30 34 35 39 40 44 45 49 50 59 60 64 65 69 70 74 75oroder 24. What is your faiy status? sige(everarried) arried(firsttie) separated Other(peasespecify) divorced rearried widowed 25. What is your race? Pease choose oe or ore. c AericaIdiaorAasaNative d e f g c Asia d e f g c BacorAfrica Aerica d e f g c NativeHawaiiaorotherPacificIsader d e f g c Other d e f g c White d e f g 26. What's your favorite radio statio? 27. How do you gather ews iforatio? *28. Is there a daiy/weey ewspaper i your couity? Yes No
Church Affiity Survey 29. If there is a daiy/weey ewspaper i your couity, is it we read? Yes No 30. About how og have you ived i your eighborhood? Years Moths 31. How ay chidre, by age, currety ive i your househod? Less tha 1 year od 1 year od 2 years od 3 years od 4 years od 5 years od 6 years od 7 years od 8 years od 9 years od 10 years od 11 years od 12 years od 13 years od 14 years od 15 years od 16 years od 17 years od 18 years od or oder 32. What is your poitica affiiatio? Deocrat Idepedet Repubica Other (pease specify)
Church Affiity Survey * 33. For the purpose of appig where our church couity exists, woud you provide your address? Nae: Address: Address 2: City/Tow: State: 6 ZIP:
Appedix C The Spiritua Maturity Survey is a optioa too. It is eat to hep you assess the spiritua aturity of your church. I soe cases, it is hepfu to have a obective perspective regardig soeoe s spiritua heath rather tha tryig to udge that based o persoa history. This survey coud be used to geerate discussio regardig spiritua growth ad areas o which you ad/or your staff coud focus to hep your church ebers grow i their reatioship with Jesus. The aority of the data coected wi eed to be cosidered ad discussed aog your Strategic Leadership Tea ad possiby KBC Evageis ad Church Patig or other KBC Church Cosutats, to expore fidigs. The hope is that the discussio ad wor of the Hoy Spirit aog your tea wi provide additioa isights that ca ead you forward i your desire to hep ore peope i your couity ecouter Jesus. The Spiritua Maturity Survey ca be accessed oie or ca be distributed i a hard copy/paper forat. The oie forat ay be preferred for arger churches as the survey data is coected eectroicay. If you woud ie to utiize the oie versio, pease cotact the Evageis ad Church Patig tea ad we wi gady set that up for you. The hard copy/paper forat wi be best for ost churches as it wi provide ore iediate feedbac ad aow you to ove the process aog without havig to wait for survey resuts. As you discuss the resuts of the survey, pease eep i id that this is oy a too that ca ecourage a ore obective exporatio of oesef ad the couity i which you are positioed to iister. Resuts of this survey are ot eat to abe or pigeo hoe ayoe. They are erey eat to provide a easure of Affiities that exist ad provide grouds for discussio ad deveopet of a Affiity-based evageis pa to hep peope ecouter Jesus.
Spiritua Maturity Survey Spiritua Maturity The foowig wi hep us assess our curret spiritua aturity. Beow, we as you to te us how whether you agree copetey, agree osty, disagree osty, or disagree copetey with each stateet. Aswer as quicy as possibe ad avoid ots of thiig about the stateet. Usuay, your first, iediate respose is the ost accurate. Aso, aswer accordig to your preset state. We are iterested i deteriig where you are, currety, so we ca best wor together to deterie ext steps as they reate to deveopig each other further. 1. For the foowig stateets, te us how whether you agree copetey, agree osty, disagree osty, or disagree copetey with each stateet. As a resut of the ove ad acceptace of our church, I fee that our church is a good fit for e. Agree Copetey Agree Mosty Disagree Mosty Disagree Copetey I a otivated geeray by the worship services to ae or aitai positive chages i y ife. I a persoay egaged with ad cofidet i our church's visio. I appy what I ear ad a growig i y reatioship with God. I faithfuy aage ad use y God give resources of tie, taets, ad treasure. I have eough hepfu frieds i our church. I ae a cosistet ad sicere effort to activey participate i issio activities. I ae a cosistet ad sicere effort to doate fiaces to issio activities. I ae a cosistet ad sicere effort to share y faith. I participate reguary i reachig, carig, ad earig to ive ie Jesus through y Suday schoo cass or sa group. I uderstad what it tae to iister to studets (age 12 24) today.
Spiritua Maturity Survey Thefoowigstateetswihepusexporewhatouractivefaithegageetoosieiorecocreteters.Forthe foowigstateets,araresposesthatappytoyou. *2. I the past 7 days, I have doe the foowig to aitai y persoa reatioship with God. (Choose as ay as appy.) c didybesttosetachrist ieexapeiyifestye d e f g c experiecedeaigfupersoaprayerties d e f g c gaveyofferigtogodthroughychurch d e f g c hadreguarpersoabibestudy d e f g c iforayhepedothersitheirspirituagrowth d e f g c participatediachurchsagrouporsudayschoocass d e f g c readadstudiedybibeforthepurposeofuderstadigadappicatio d e f g c recogizedadusedyspirituagifts d e f g c refectedoad/oradustedyuseoftie d e f g c said"o"toteptatiocosistety d e f g c taedwithyfaiyaboutspirituathigs d e f g 3. I the past 7 days, I have doe the foowig to spread the Gospe. (Choose as ay as appy.) c giveextraoeyforthecauseofoca/gobaevageis d e f g c haddiscussiosaboutspirituavaueswithaubeiever d e f g c ivestedthetietoaefriedswithubeievers d e f g c ivitedsoeoeotfroourchurchtoaservice/evet d e f g c persoayreviewedresourcestohepereachothers d e f g c persoaysharedybeiefsaboutchristadthegospe d e f g c prayedforpeopewithwhoipatosharethegospe d e f g c sharedevageisticateriawithothers d e f g c taesoeoetoaevageisticchurchservice/evet d e f g c Other(peasespecify) d e f g
Spiritua Maturity Survey * 4. I the past two wees, I have spet tie i our church doig the foowig. (Choose as ay as appy.) activey sought or exteded Christia forgiveess had i depth coversatios heped peope with a practica eed itroduced peope to others who coud support the isteed to soeoe who is struggig ade sacrifices for peope i eed prayed with peope reguary ivited peope to sociaize sociaized with peope with who I have ot spet uch tie watched for peope who eed y ecourageet * 5. I the past oth, I have doe the foowig regardig the visio of our church. (Choose as ay as appy.) activey sought aswers to y questios about our church visio ecouraged our eaders as they ipeet our church visio iitiated coversatios about it with our church eaders ivested y tie, eergy, ad oey to ae it a reaity isteed, read, ad eared the church visio participated i a iistry that cotributes to our visio reguary prayed about our church fufiig its visio shared it with others suggested roes/resposibiities where I ca to hep fufi it supported ad expaied our church visio
Spiritua Maturity Survey * 6. This wee, I have doe the foowig to iprove or stay strog i y respose to God. (Choose as ay as appy.) aticipated the presece of God whe attedig services atteded/participated i church services/evets chose to trust God whe tepted to worry or becoe fearfu had persoa devotios ivested tie i persoa spiritua deveopet ad Bibe study ived out y faith at church, hoe, schoo, ad wor reebered to be thafu thought of others ore tha ysef trusted God with y fiaces ad spet oey accordigy tured to God i the idst of y ost troubig teptatio * 7. I the past quarter, I have doe the foowig to cotribute to our church ad its iistry success. (Choose as ay as appy.) ecouraged soeoe ese to be ivoved i service Other gave fiaciay to support the iistries of our church participated i traiig that heped e serve effectivey paed y schedue aroud y church wor prayed for specific peope with who I serve served i a iistry that was a good fit for e served i a iistry where additioa hep was eeded sought the epoweret of the Hoy Spirit as I served thaed soeoe i y church for servig i a iistry thought of how to iprove y ivoveet
Spiritua Maturity Survey * 8. This oth, I have doe the foowig with peope i our church. (Choose as ay as appy.) befrieded peope of very differet ages, icudig chidre chapioed others' ideas to expad the iistry of our church greeted a peope as if they were faiy ivited a ewcoer to oi e for a ea or a sa group ooed for ad recogized good quaities i others ade chages to adapt to peope aroud e spoe to peope of differet racia or ethic origis taed with peope who have a sigificaty differet icoe taed with peope with a ifestye I cosider obectioabe taed with peope with eta or physica disabiities * 9. I the past year, I have doe the foowig to be o issio for Christ. (Choose as ay as appy.) doated ites for issios/iistries doated vacatio tie to serve o a issios proect ecouraged soeoe to serve i a iistry or o a issio trip give to specia issios offerigs goe o a issio trip (state, atioa, or iteratioa) participated i a issios group/orgaizatio participated i atteptig to start a ew iistry or church prayed for issioaries by ae taught or served as a eader for a issios group study vouteered i a oca iistry to peope outside y church
Spiritua Maturity Survey * 10. I the past quarter, I have doe the foowig to faithfuy aage ad use y Godgive resources. (Choose as ay as appy.) affired our church's support of the Cooperative Progra beefited fro a Bibe study or sero o stewardship chose bibica priorities by sayig "o" to soe thigs expressed gratitude to God for His bessig o y ife give at east a tithe of y icoe to support y church ade pas to support igdo causes through y estate ade progress toward gettig out of debt practiced geerosity by bessig soeoe fiaciay recogized ad used y gifts ad abiities i a iistry recogized y roe as a aager of God's resources * 11. I the past oth, I have supported y growth ad y Suday Schoo cass/sa group i the foowig ways. (Choose as ay as appy.) couicated with oe or ore cass/sa group ebers feowshipped with cass/sa group ebers ad guests heped a SUday Schoo cass/sa group fried i eed ived out the truth eared i Suday Schoo/sa group ot ivoved i Suday Schoo/sa group participated hoesty/opey i cass/sa group sessio prayed for ad ivited guests to cass/sa group read ad prepared for the cass/sa group sessio served i soe way to stregthe the cass ad the church sought to eet God i Bibe study durig y daiy quiet tie supported efforts to start a ew cass/sa group
Spiritua Maturity Survey *12. I the past quarter, I have doe the foowig i our church reated to the studet iistry. (Choose as ay as appy.) c attededao churchevetwhereourstudetsareivoved d e f g c beetothestudetareaofourbuidig d e f g c ecouragedstudetstoattedourevetsadprogras d e f g c iquiredaboutwhattheeedsareiourstudetiistry d e f g c prayedforadecouragedtheadutswhoworwithstudets d e f g c prayedforstudetsbyae d e f g c sharedyfaithstorywithastudet d e f g c spoetostudetsivovediouriistry d e f g c taedpositiveywithotherchurchebersaboutourstudetiistry d e f g c taedtoauchurchedparetofourstudets d e f g
Spiritua Maturity Survey Persoa Practices/Discipies Thefoowigwihepusexporehowyoutedtoactiveyegageyourfaith. *13. The foowig wi hep us expore how you egage spiritua practices/discipies. Ra your respose to each questio. Mutipetiesa Daiy Weey Mothy Sedo Never Iprayforyco worer/s: Iprayforyfaiy: Iprayforyeighbor/s: Iprayforypastor/staff: Iprayforysef: Ipray: IreadtheBibe: Istudyacertaipartor day Idiscusstopicsoffaithwith churchebers: Idiscusstopicsoffaithwith co worers: Idiscusstopicsoffaithwith faiy: Idiscusstopicsoffaithwith ypastor/staff: Idiscusstopicsoffaithwith eighbor/s: IdiscusswhatIa readig/studyig(ithe Bibe)withothers: IhearGodspeatoe throughprayer: Iprayforfeowchurch ebers: passageofthebibe:
Spiritua Maturity Survey *14. My prayer ife is: Exceet Verygood Midygood Notgoodata *15. Why do you pray? IeoygettigtoowGod It'ssoethigI'supposedtodo Notsure *16. Typicay, whe do you pray? Certai,pre deteriedtie/seachday Differettieseachday WheIthiaboutit Ido'tpray *17. Do you tithe/doate to your church o a reguar basis? Yes No *18. What percetage of your fiacia resources do you typicay tithe/doate to your church? 1 3% 4 6% 7 9% 10+% *19. Do you ted to strugge to have eough oey to ive as you woud ie? Yes No
Spiritua Maturity Survey * 20. For the foowig stateets, cosider this past oth. Pease idicate whether you did the foowig tass: Yes No I attepted to hep a coworer grow i his/her reatioship with Jesus. I attepted to hep a faiy eber grow i his/her reatioship with Jesus. I attepted to hep a faiy eber grow i his/her reatioship with Jesus. I attepted to hep a eighbor grow i his/her reatioship with Jesus. I attepted to share the Gospe with soeoe. I ivited soeoe to church or a church fuctio. * 21. How prepared do you fee regardig sharig the Gospe with the foowig: Very Prepared Sighty Prepared Not Prepared Faiy Neighbor Co worer Church Meber * 22. Have you bee ivoved i a issios experiece of your church i the past year? Yes No * 23. Woud you be wiig to tae vacatio tie fro wor to participate i a issio experiece that had a positive ipact o your faiy, eighbor, co worer, or church eber? Yes No
Spiritua Maturity Survey 24. Pease ist a idea regardig how your church coud ae a positive ipact o the foowig peope: Faiy: Neighbor: Co Worer: Church Meber:
Spiritua Maturity Survey Reatioship with Jesus ThefoowigsectiowiexporeyourreatioshipwithJesus. *25. Do you cosider yoursef a bor agai foower of Jesus? Yes No *26. I becae a bor agai foower of Jesus Christ esstha6othsago 6othsto1yearago 1to2yearsago 2to5yearsago 5to10yearsago Iausure otappicabe oretha10yearsago *27. I woud say the foowig is the sige ost coo feeig I have regardig y reatioship with Jesus. excited eager bored satisfied tired cofused ub frustrated sad guity Other(peasespecify) agry *28. Overa, how woud you rate your reatioship with Jesus? Exceet Verygood Midygood Notgoodata
Appedix D The Couity Survey is a exape of a survey that coud be used to survey your couity ad expore potetia Affiities that coud be used to coect with peope. Use the research ad ideas geerated fro previous discussios to deveop specific questios to hep you best uderstad ways to coect with your couity to hep ore peope ecouter Jesus. Assessig Affiities Give the ature of Affiities, it is difficut to deveop a survey that autoaticay discovers a of the. The purpose of the Affiity sectio i this survey is to hep peope cosider their persoa Affiities ad to provide a way to discover the Affiities that exist i our churches ad couities. As the Affiity Evageis strategy is ipeeted across Ketucy, we wi wor to coect data regardig Affiities ad wor with oca churches to everage that data to deveop effective evageis strategies ad wor cooperativey for God s greatest gory. We wi iey discover that our churches are each wired with a eaig toward certai Affiities. For exape, a church that is i ier city, Louisvie, Ky., ay ot have ay peope with a Affiity for hutig or fishig. However, that church ay have ay peope with Affiities that dea with busiess or city deveopet. As we ove toward differet parts of Ketucy, Affiities wi be cuture specific. This is oe of the beauties of the Affiity Evageis strategy. It creates a overa structure by which each of Jesus foowers ca be epowered to step i to his or her divie desig ad everage that desig for God s gory. As you cosider the data you have ust coected. It wi be hepfu to coect a the Affiity data i a ist that ca be used by you ad your strategy tea. Add this data to your couity ap. This wi aow you to see where your peope ive as we as what Affiities they represet ad where those Affiities exist. Whe you get to the part of the process where you iterview couity ebers regardig their Affiities, you ay begi to see coectig poits betwee those withi your church ad those i the couity. To hep the discussio of Affiities aog, we have isted a few questios beow. These are ot exhaustive by ay eas. As you deveop the ist ad discuss, you wi iey coe up with ore questios. Tae tie for this process to wor out. Aow God to wor aog your tea as He opes your eyes to opportuities for iistry. Potetia questios: What Affiities exist? Are we abe to group/cobie Affiities ito ay type of orgaized ist? How ay we everage these Affiities to egage peope ad hep the ecouter Jesus? Which Affiities shoud we focus o? What experts exist i each area Affiity that we coud iterview ad expore ways to egage? How ca we better everage Affiities withi our church to hep us iister ore effectivey?
Couity Survey Affiity/Passio Thepurposeofthissectioistohepusexporepotetiaaffiitiesorpassiosiyourife.Aofushavecertaithigs thatweovetodo.wecadothosethigsforwhatseesieeterityadreayeoythe.thesetypesofactivities arethosethatcauseustoosetracoftie.thasfortaigtietocopetethissurvey! *1. Pease ra ad ist 5 activities that you woud cassify as a passio/affiity: (Pease ist the activity you are ost passioate about i box 1, the ext i box 2, ad so o.) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. *2. Each of us have abiities/gifts to perfor certai activities with exceece. These activities see to coe atura to us. We eoy earig about the ad ofte exce greaty as we practice these activities. For exape, soe peope are reay good at fixig thigs (Cars, toiets, house repairs, etc.). Others ay be reay good at eepig fiacia records, orgaizig peope or evets, or deveop detaied pas. Others ay be exceet at reatig to peope ad are great isteers. There's as ay exapes as there are peope! List 5 activities at which you fee you are reay good or gifted? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. *3. List 5 activities or evets you reay eoy doig or attedig: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Couity Survey 4. Cosiderig your resposes to the previous questios about affiities or passios, Woud you be iterested i attedig a evet at a oca church if it egaged your affiities or passios? What type of evet do you thi woud be worth your tie ad that you woud cosider attedig? 5 * 5. Ra the foowig areas of the youth cuture ad the ipact they are aig i your couity: Not a issue Sort of a issue Defiite issue that eeds to be addressed Drug Use: Acoho Use: Tee Pregacy: High Schoo Graduatio Rate: * 6. Aswer the foowig for your couity: What is your favorite radio statio? How do you gather ews iforatio? Newspaper? Oie? What is your priary hobby or iterest? What is a aor chaege facig peope i your couity? Are you epoyed ad if so, woud you share your epoyer with us? How uch does your ob affect your faiy or eisure tie? Where do you ted to shop? What is your favorite recreatioa activity? Do you participate i recreatioa eagues or activities withi your couity? How woud you rate the pubic schoos i your couity/regio? (Effective, Libera, Coservative) What is the priary socia orgaizatio of your regio/couity? 6
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Couity Survey Neighborhood The foowig wi hep us expore the couity of our church ad potetia opportuities to egage i iistry. 7. What's your favorite radio statio? 8. What ewspaper do you typicay read? 9. Ra the foowig stateets: Extreey satisfied Soewhat satisfied Soewhat dissatisfied Extreey dissatisfied How we do you ow your eighbors? How satisfied are you with the state of your eighborhood? How satisfied are you with the opportuities for chidre/youth to pay/iteract? How satisfied are you with the safety of your eighborhood? 10. How ofte do the foowig occur: Extreey ofte Soewhat ofte Not very ofte Never Paret/faiies iteract with oe aother i your eighborhood You sociaize/iteract with your eighbors Chidre/Youth pay together outside 11. If you coud sap your figers ad chage oe thig about your eighborhood that woud ae it a better pace to ive, what woud you chage? 5 6
Couity Survey 12. If you were to as your eighbor what oe thig he or she woud chage to ae the eighborhood a better pace, what woud he/she say? 5 13. What does your faiy ad/or your eighbor do for fu? 6 5 14. If you coud chage oe thig about the church i your couity, what woud you chage? 6 5 15. What type of evet coud a oca church put together that woud get your attetio ad you woud iey atted? 6 5 6
Couity Survey Deographic Iforatio 16. What is your geder? Feae Mae 17. What is your age? 12 14 35 39 65 69 15 19 40 44 70 74 20 24 45 49 75 or oder 25 29 50 59 30 34 60 64 18. What is your faiy status? sige (ever arried) separated rearried arried (first tie) divorced widowed Other (pease specify) 19. What is your race? Pease choose oe or ore. Aerica Idia or Aasa Native Asia Bac or Africa Aerica Native Hawaiia or other Pacific Isader Other White 20. About how og have you ived i your eighborhood? Years Moths
Couity Survey 21. How ay chidre, by age, currety ive i your househod? Less tha 1 year od 1 year od 2 years od 3 years od 4 years od 5 years od 6 years od 7 years od 8 years od 9 years od 10 years od 11 years od 12 years od 13 years od 14 years od 15 years od 16 years od 17 years od 18 years od or oder 22. What is your poitica affiiatio? Deocrat Idepedet Repubica Other (pease specify) 23. For the purpose of appig where our church couity exists, woud you provide your address? (Optioa) Nae: Address: Address 2: City/Tow: State: 6 ZIP:
Appedix E Wid Gae Diers coect e across a deographics, whether bied as a Wid Gae Dier or a Secod Aedet Ray. To coduct a successfu evet, foow the steps beow. (Refer to the Paig Sheets o pages 31-32 for ore detaied paig heps.) 1.) Decide o a date. Chec your church, couity, ad speaer s caedars to avoid coficts. 2.) Cotract with a speaer. Give hi the geera iforatio about your date, such as date, evet descriptio, ae of the site or coittee coordiator, start ad ed tie of the progra, aticipated audiece size, geera iforatio about your couity, directios, odgig, boo tabe, ad other detais. If you eed a speaer or hep owig how to secure oe, cotact our tea. 3.) Secure sigificat door prizes that wi attract e to the evet. We ve foud a direct correatio betwee the uber of gus give away ad the uber of attedees. Other prizes wi aso draw your target group to your evet. Decide which order to give away the prizes. Save the grad prize for the ed, after the speaer presets. 4.) As what eeds the preseter has. A hads-free icrophoe aows the speaer ore freedo as he deostrates techiques ad speas. Ofte, a speaer prefers Power Poit capabiity. 5.) Have a ro of doube-ubered ticets purchased ad ready for the give-aways. As e eter, give oe side of each ticet to each a, puttig the atchig ticet ito the drawig cotaier (a arge ar, baset, etc.). Or you ight have e write their ae o a ticet to draw out. You ay choose to se extra ticets to participats at the door to hep offset the cost of the evet. 6.) Create a Iforatio Card to pace o the tabes. Eve if you ve gotte iforatio fro the e at a registratio tabe, pace aother card o the tabe i frot of the e. It is very iportat this card ot ist ay ies or chec boxes about aig a decisio or becoig a Christia. It is aso iportat to aow the e to stay aroud their tabes ad ot ove to the sactuary, if the evet is hed at a church. Both of these oves ose the attetio of uchurched e. The speaer shoud as the e to pace a X i the top corer of the card if they pray to receive Christ after the presetatio. At first gace, ad throughout the ight, you wat to eep the focus o the sport ad the guests. You do t wat the e shuttig dow or hardeig their hearts before they are cofroted i a cear way with their eed for Jesus Christ. The card ca sipy ist a pace for the ae, cotact iforatio, if they d ie to be updated about other sportse s evets, ad if they have ay feedbac about the eveig; however, it evetuay pays a iportat roe i the e s arig dow their coitet ad havig cear foow-up iforatio. (See sape Iforatio Card o the ext page.)
We caot ephasize eough the iportace of usig these geeric cards at the tabe. Aso, do ot aow the vouteers at your evet to tae up those cards at the tabe before the presetatio. 7.) Mae arrageets for the dier (food ad dris, tabes, bacdrop). If possibe, provide at east oe type of gae, such as e or deer, i additio to chice or other eats. Decide how to set up the food ies. The ies ove faster if the tabes are accessibe fro both sides. Large evets ay eed utipe food ies. 8.) Durig the dier, the ecee ay coe up every 10-15 iutes ad draw door prizes. Hod oe arge door prize uti after the speaer has ade his presetatio. This door prize coud icude aythig fro a gu to a four-wheeer. It is iperative that it be soethig arge eough that woud cope those that do t oray atted church to be preset for the drawig. You ay wat to ae a poicy about evet orgaizers or eve church ebers ot beig eigibe to wi door prizes, to give guests the opportuity to wi. 9.) Whe itroducig the speaer, do ot ae a og itroductio or etio his iistry accopishets. Istead, focus o his credetias for speaig about hutig, fishig, ad other outdoor sports. This evet is about brigig e face to face with their eed for Jesus, so avoid aythig that woud ae a uchurched a fee ervous to be i your church s surroudigs. Mae this as cofortabe as hagig out with his frieds as a oca restaurat. Focus o the sport ad the give- aways. Avoid ay barrier that woud becoe soeoe s excuse for ot isteig to the presetatio. Reeber as you pa the ight s activities, you are ot paig a worship service. This is a evet for uchurched e, ad the evet shoud be paed with the uchurched audiece i id. Avoid the use of gospe usic or aythig that woud be as iterpreted as churchorieted. Presetatios by gae wardes or the gae ad fish coissio woud be appropriate ad we-received. 10.) After the speaer has preseted ad prayed with e who have ecoutered Jesus, the have vouteers coect the iforatio cards ad give away the grad prize. Foowig these guideies, geeray a average of 10% of the uber of attedees pray to receive Christ as Savior. If those ivoved i the evet have wored hard ad brought their uchurched frieds ad faiy ebers, the resuts ca be staggerig. Soe churches have experieced foow-up decisios i worship services after Wid Gae Diers that cotiued for wees. At oe church, with about 500 e i attedace at oe of these evets, fifty e prayed to receive Christ as Savior. Over the ext year, the church baptized over 120 as a direct resut of the evet itsef. We beieve God is goig to do soethig great through this ad other Affiity Evageis evets across Ketucy. We pray that Wid Gae Diers wi brig reviva to ot oy your church, but to your regio ad the etire state of Ketucy.
Recoeded Readig Eotioay Heathy Spirituaity: Ueash a Revoutio i Your Life i Christ by Peter Scazzero Leadig o Epty: Refiig Your Ta ad Reewig Your Passio by Waye Cordeiro ad Bob Buford Doig Church as a Tea: The Mirace of Teawor ad How It Trasfors Churches by Waye Cordeiro There's Hope for Your Church: First Steps to Restorig Heath ad Growth by Gary L. McItosh Rea-Life Discipeship: Buidig Churches that Mae Discipes by Ji Puta Hatch! Braistorig Secrets of a Thee Par Desiger by C. McNair Wiso Deep ad Wide by Ady Staey Couity Miistry by Car S. Dudey Cogregatios i Trasitio by Car S. Dudey ad Nacy T. Aera Buidig Couities fro the Iside Out by Joh P. Kretza ad Joh L. McKight Refocus: Aigig Miistry ad Service with Critica Couity Needs by David Mis