1. PREPARING A PLAN
1. Evaluate whether a churchplant can succeed
2. Design a process to obtain the blessing and support of the mother
church
3. Develop a plan to identify and recruit potential workers
2.
EVANGELISM
1. Skill: Trainees will
have experimented with processes of finding a person of peace in a
community.
2. Skill: Trainees will have been part of a team in a public preaching
context.
3. Understanding: Trainees will understand the difference between a fast
approach and slow approaches to evangelism and when it is appropriate to
use these.
4. Character: Trainees will have a biblical foundation for withstanding
opposition when evangelising.
3.
THE HOLY SPIRIT & MINISTRY
1.Knowledge: To understand the
relationship of the anointing of the Spirit and ministry among the poor.
2. Character: To have opportunity for
prayer that breaks barriers to the work of the Holy Spirit in each others
lives.
4.
INCARNATIONAL MODELS
1. Values: Trainees
will come to highly value incarnational and identificational approaches
to ministry among the poor, being able to differentiate the positive and
negative elements of ministry from the outside, and ministry from within
poor areas.
2. Understanding: Trainees will be able to identify 5 effective roles in
entrance to a community
3. Understanding: Trainees will be able to identify lifestyle and
physical issues that enable viability of long-term incarnation among the
poor.
4. Understanding: Trainees will be able to identify limits to
incarnational living, differentiating between lack of commitment and
wise discernment of personal limitations.
5.
RESEARCHING COMMUNITIES
Skill: Trainees will
develop a framework of ten elements they need to discern about a
community before entrance and a process for unobtrusively gaining that
information.
6.
REACHING SEMI-LITERATE PEOPLE
1.
Understanding: Trainees will understand the difference
between story-telling and holistic truth processes and Western or
tertiary education linear logical truth processes and be able to frame
their teaching in story-telling modes.
2. Skill: Trainees will develop a story on one topic for the
consultation/ training program and deliver it within a ten minute time
frame
