Developing a Plan for Team- Building and Entrance

Before you go to war, you must determine if you can win that war.  There is in any war a critical time of build up of resources of people, of supplies, of financial flows.  Some of the elements below are involved.

Identifying & Recruiting A Team

Read the Master Plan of Evangelism by Robert Coleman.

What kind of people do you need on your team to plant the church? How many?

Who do you already know who will come with you? What roles do you not know people for?

Where do you need to go to recruit people and what will you need to do, and from whom do you need to get permission.

Given Jesus approach to recruiting and training his preachers as described by Robert Coleman, how does this influence how you will go about this?

Mother Church

The mother church is the cradle of the team for evangelism, the resourcing base.  Not all in the church will feel called to this project but all can be asked to bless it, to pray for it, to support it. 

Who is the mother church _______________

Who make the decisions to bless ministry projects? Who release the funds? Who get the people to back it?

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Write a step by step process for getting consensus behind your plan by contacting key people and involving them, going to the right committees, motivating the whole church, turning the churches vision around

Now put an order to these and put milestone dates beside the critical ones.  See the model in the  churchplant  gantt chart.

Develop Your Program Proposal

On 5-7 pages prepare your program plan, including the need, the vision statement, the motivation, specific measurable goals with times they should be accomplished, milestones to do that, personnel needed, physical resources needed, costs for each step, those costs integrated into a budget.

Now do a one page summary

Now turn it into a 5 slide power point presentation with minimal words, and some graphics that can be used to communicate with key people.  Add one extra slide at the front specifically to get them motivated with the need, and one at the end defining the commitments that you want form them.

Make a copy on the next page and give to the training coordinator