Monday, November 30, 2009

Discussing Missions at Central Church of the Nazarene, in Lenexa, KS

As a requirement for a class I'm taking in seminary (Nazarene Theological Seminary) I was asked to write a paper that might guide and educate a local congregation into living into the Missio Dei. I took Central Church of the Nazarene (my local congregation) and wrote the paper.

If you would like to read the paper, please e-mail me or leave a comment with contact info.
The paper has already been posted for grading, but the understanding and living into mission at Central Church of the Nazarene is never done.
If you have read it and would like to add comments to help better form the mission at Central, please leave your comments here.

By the way, here were the requirements for the paper.

"1) An assessment of the historical and current mission focus of the church. This section
should be 3-4, double spaced pages in length.

2) An outline of a sermon or teaching series of four to six sermons/lessons which focus
on the Missio Dei and how that is expressed both locally and globally by the local
church. This series should take the resources from this class into consideration.
Each sermon/lesson should include the sermon/lesson title, a one paragraph
description of the central focus of the sermon/lesson and a brief outline of the
sermon/lesson itself.

3) A plan for systematic mission education through the existing structures in the
congregation or possibly through implementation of new methods. This plan could
include age level projects as well as interaction with global missionaries.

4) A Short Term Mission plan: This may be a local or an international trip. It will need
to include a rationale for the trip which demonstrates how the trip is a part of the
mission of the local church, rationale for the selection of the project itself, selection
of team members (what criteria do you use in deciding who will go?), pre trip
preparation, a day by day devotional guide to be used while on the trip, and a post
trip plan."

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Starting to Minister...

Twitter/txt message question:

"What do U think a struggling Christian needs to know to become a stronger Christian? Besides Bible reading & prayer. This is Forest. This is just a survey."
I asked many of you that Q. The main thrust of my question was to gain an idea of what tools we as ministers can give to people who are now: new Christians/ healing Christians/ disgruntled-yet-back-to-Jesus-Christians.... etc.
I ask this because my dream is to make a video discipleship series based online that would really help Christians GROW.
The first topic on this online video discipleship series will probably be something like: "The First Thing You Need to Know or Should Expect About Being a Christian."
The things learned in this "course" should be invaluable to those who are just starting to walking the Christian walk (for those who are starting this Christian walk again, or for the first time).
Encourage me in this process. Brainstorm with me. Find others like me and connect me to them, if you could, please!
(for instance, my twittering just connected me to http://deidox.com/ . Sweet!)

What do you think?