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Home Missions Training Seminar

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Purpose:

The purpose of the Home Missions Training Seminar Online (HMTS) is to equip current and future Home Missionaries to be effective in starting a church. The lessons will give practical insight on an array of subjects from spiritual warfare issues to the long-term strategy of multiplying themselves and the churches they are starting. The seminar, however, is not limited to just home missionaries. It will be a valuable seminar for anyone who is currently in ministry or for anyone who aspires to be in ministry. The lessons will be relevant to preachers in all phases of ministry and will offer practical, real-life lessons that can be applied in each individuals harvest field. These lessons will bring encouragement and a hands-on knowledge of the scenarios that ministers face while trying to preach the Gospel to the whole world. The presenters are seasoned men of God who have proven field ministries.

When:

The Home Missions Training Seminar will go live on April 1, 2010 and will be available at www.homemissionsdivision.com/hmts

Presenters:

The following presenters will be providing the lessons on HMTS:

  • Rev. David Bernard, General Superintendent UPCI
  • Rev. Carlton L. Coon Sr., General Home Missions Director
  • Rev. Travis Miller, General Home Missions Secretary
  • Rev. Don Hanscom, Director of Multicultural Ministries
  • Pastor Aubrey Jayroe, Forrest City, Arkansas
  • Pastor Albert Foster, Vancouver, Canada
  • Pastor Rex Deckard, Des Moines, Iowa
  • Sister Cindy Miller, Pastors Wife
  • Rev. and Mrs. Rick Maricelli, Covington, Louisiana
  • Pastor Lorin Bradbury, Bethel, Alaska

Who Can Participate:

HMTS is a requirement for all CFC Home Missionaries and recipients. Participation in the core curriculum will be their main focus. There will also be an online blog and questions that accompany each lesson.

Participation is not limited to CFC Missionaries, though. Any licensed UPCI preacher or person who is aspiring to ministry may view the lessons as a resource.

How to sign up:

All CFC missionaries/recipients will need to setup a username and password to log in for the post-lesson activities and blog participation. click here
 
 
Synopsis and Desired Outcome of Each Class
 

How Do I Fit?  - Carlton Coon
Synopsis: Each of us is fearfully and wonderfully made.  Are you called to be a church planter? 
What kind of church planter?  There are several strategies one may follow to establish a church. What has God put in you to prepare you to personally win the lost?  What vital things must exist in any effective church planter?  Think about how you will lead people. What is distinct about your field?  Have you considered the demographics?  What do the demographic numbers mean to your effort? 
Outcome:  Discover that Home Missionaries are not all alike.  Each goes about planting in a different way.  It is ok to be different and to make use of the gifts God gave you. Not only is each Home Missionary different each field of labor is different. The characteristics that define your mission field will also define your strategy. Some traits are non-negotiable and exist in every effective Home Missionary.  Those traits exist in you.  Allowing these abilities to be used to connect you to the lost is vital.
 
  
Why are You Doing This?  - David Bernard
Synopsis: Validating the significance of church planters. Seeing yourself as part of Gods plan.  What is Gods purpose for you?  God is in charge of things.  He drives the train but you are His designee to lay the tracks on which this new church will run. There are concepts every Home Missionary has to grasp and apply in the specific situation. Vision is vital, but connecting Gods vision to specific behavior is also vital.
Outcome:  An affirmation of the value of church planters. Think through Gods vision for the church you are planting. Define existing needs and opportunities to minister in your field of labor.  Describe how you are going to respond to those needs and opportunities in a realistic way. What is your motivation?  
 
 
Becoming an Effective Networker Who Gathers People to Plant a New Church   Rick and Donna Marcelli
Synopsis:  Establishing a network of acquaintances is the primary tool in a church planters tool box. Are you asking God to give you your community or that you be given to your community?  These are two very different things. Moving a relationship from nothing to something, is something one has to work at. Winning people and building relationships with them is intentional. If you are not good at building a rapport with people how hard are you willing to work to learn? Ultimately, church planting is about gathering people from your mission field into a body of called out believers. You will need to gather some people who can share your vision. These people may be like Saul of Tarsus, someone God has a plan for even before their conversion. A Church Planter must be like Ananias sensitive to Gods voice regarding people even before those people are saved.  Being ethical is vital for the long term strategy of planting additional churches across North America. 
Outcome:  Learn to take a new friendship to a higher level.  Find opportunities for opening your life to be seed sown into the life of the unsaved. Use your habits, hobbies and hangouts to connect to people. More important than learning to connect to people is learning how to introduce Jesus to the people in your network. Learn conversation starting questions and some ideas that can take your networking to the next level.  Develop a plan to have people gathering events even before you have your first service.  Learn to follow up on the people gathering events. These events are intended to recruit people who express an interest in what you are doing.  This session will touch on establishing ethical boundaries.
 
 
Developing People Connecting People to God and to Others Lorin Bradbury
Synopsis: There is an Apostolic Continuum.  People are not to remain lost.  God has already provided a plan for redemption and the converted are not to remain spiritual babies. God has provided a strategy for moving people toward spiritual maturity.  This involves linking the newly converted in relationships and equipping settings.  There are several strategies you can employ for moving people to maturity.  The specific strategy you use is not as important as the fact of HAVING such a strategy. 
Objective:  To develop your doable realistic plan of action to connect people to God and each other.  If you are going to raise up mature saints having such a plan is essential.  What are the processes you will establish to move people along the road to spiritual maturity?  These processes must not ignore the need to establish friendships in the church.
 
Getting Launched in the Right Direction (How to Launch Effectively)  - Rick and Donna Marcelli
Synopsis:  This aspect of church planting is something we Apostolics do not often consider. Sign evangelism is not generally effective. Should there be a gestation period before the new church has its first public service (i.e. before it is born)?  What are the advantages to moving slowly toward this?  What are the disadvantages or challenges?  If we decide to delay our launch what will we be doing with our time? 
Objective: To encourage you to think about the church as a babe in the womb.  Development is happening, there is life, conception has occurred but it is not yet visible to everyone.  Think about timelines and events leading up to your launch.  If you have already started and it has not gone well do you need to do somewhat of a re-launch. 
 
Continuing to Build Your Team of Key People Rex Deckard
Synopsis:  The foundation you lay will determine the structure you can build.  Strong churches depend on committed people. Initially, you will people who are more curious than committed. Decide now on your criteria for ministry leaders.  Having character and the ability to care for people are essential. Chemistry helps.Competence can often be developed.  Your plan for
developing these leaders needs to be thought about even now. 
Objective:  Beginning to intentionally work toward the ongoing development of people is necessary.  Too often church planters wait till they have people on site and even in position before they consider what sort of people are really needed on their team.  Developing your values for leaders and establishing a plan for ongoing development is our goal. 
 
Tax Issues for Home Missions Churches in the United States Aubrey Jayroe 
Synopsis:  Tax issues can be simple or complex. They become complicated when not taken care of in a timely manner. This session addresses common tax questions to which a Home Missionary (and in some instances every minister) must respond. These issues include 501-C-3 status, Employee Identification Numbers (EIN),  Incorporation, receiving a housing allowance, how to make contributions to a church you pastor, providing appropriate receipts to contributors, reimbursable expenses, Form 1099s, establishing the pastors salary, etc. 
Outcome:  For the Home Missionary to know where to go to find answers for the questions he/she may have about tax matters.  Where to apply for a EIN.  Some options for incorporation. Benefits of having ones own 501-C-3 status or operating under the UPCI umbrella, Setting up allowances and reimbursable expenses. 
 
Tax Issues for Home Missions Churches in Canada Albert Foster
Synopsis:  Requirements for dealing with Revenue Canada are completely different from those in the U.S.A.  In Canada, each church or incorporation is required to provide an annual full financial accounting to the government. 
Outcome:  For the Canadian Home Missionary to know how to register with the government and to keep and provide accurate records to Revenue of Canada. 
 
Cross Cultural Evangelism or Diversity Training - Donald Hanscom
Synopsis:  What are the demographics of your community?  Different strategies are required for reaching the Chinese, Korean or African-American community.  Are you willing to become culturally adept?  Might your church plant be more effective if you reached for specific people groups rather than doing shot gun evangelism that tries to reach for every culture group at the same time?
Objective:  Introduce you to North America as it now is.  Cultural diversity is the current reality.  This presents a great opportunity for Home Missionaries who are willing to see the fields that are white and ready for harvest.
 
Applying What You Have Learned Carlton Coon
Synopsis:  Using what you have learned is more important than the fact you have learned this information.  This will bring the pieces of instruction together and attempt to bring application.
Objective:  A plan for the coming year.  Decide what you will focus on and what you will ignore. 
 
The DNA of Multiplication David Bernard
Synopsis:  Churches planting churches is much more effective than an organization planting a church.  Churches planting churches is more effective than parachuting a lone missionary behind the spiritual enemys front-lines.  As you birth this church be thinking about how many congregations you could pastor at one time.  (Our Foreign Missionaries do this all the time.  It is expected of them.  Why not in North America?)  How will you multiply yourself by raising up another preacher?  Where will your church eventually start a daughter church?
Objective:  Sow the seed of multiplication in you so that multiplication becomes the natural thing. One can have a legacy or an empire.  For the long-term the legacy churches that multiplies herself has much more impact than an empire church. 
Electives:
 
Evangelistic Preaching - Carlton L. Coon, Sr. 
Synopsis:  How does one measure the effectiveness of preaching?  Should you go after the one lost lamb even when the 99 need tending too.  Effective evangelistic preaching that gives God a chance to call people to repentance is one of our most overlooked church growth resources.
Objective:   To convince you to preach like the disciples preach Jesus and preach Him often.  Evangelistic preaching should be the default setting for a Sunday service.
 
Disciple Making Rex Deckard
Synopsis:  Disciples are the work product of the church.  All efforts in this factory should go toward developing disciples.  Disciple-making is an intentional effort and there are things a church planter can do to be more effective.
Objective:  Give basic insight as to the characteristics of a disciple and some ideas on how those traits can best be developed. 
 
Bi-vocational Ministry - Rex Deckard
Synopsis:  All work is holy.  God may use your secular employment to build the church. 
Objective:  Finding balance between the necessities of life, family, employment, church and Sabbath rest.  What strategies can be employed to make the best use of limited time?  At what point should the bi-vocational pastor decide to give all his energy to the church plant?
 
A Spouse In Ministry Cindy Miller
Synopsis:  What unique stresses do a couple in ministry deal with?  Are you ready for the crucible of pressure that comes with starting a church?  Where will you go if your marriage runs into difficulty?
 
Managing Personal Finance Travis Miller
Synopsis:  How well are you doing taking care of the present?  How are you doing as you prepare for the future?  Research says that if one is not doing a good job managing their current income they will do no better if their income doubles.
Objective:  Personal budgets must be developed by a Home Missions family.  These budgets must be maintained on a daily basis.
 
Recommended Resource:
The Stewardship of Life Travis Miller
Synopsis:  Stewardship is not limited to money matters.  Time, talent and ministry gifts and also things we are expected to steward. 
Objective:  Introduce you to some tools to better manage your time and to know your talents and abilities.  Dont spend life trying to be something and somebody you are not.  God wants a unique you, doing what only you can do!

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