Get Their Name: Grow Your Church by Building New Relationships - Softcover

Farr, Bob

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1501825437 ISBN 13: 9781501825439

Verlag: Abingdon Press, 2016

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The Coordinator’s Guide is twofold, helping the pastor (or otherleader) to implement worship/sermons, and a congregational studyexperience. It contains worship helps for each week of the series,including sermon plans and instructions for using the videoillustrations. It also includes instructions for implementing theall-congregation study, along with tips for next steps—ways to follow upafter the month-long experience has ended. Church leaders and members should all read the original Get Their Name book during the month of this church-wide experience.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Bob Farr is director of congregational excellence in the Missouri Conference of The United Methodist Church. Frequent speaker and seminar leader, he is also the author of Get Their Name and Renovate or Die: 10 Ways to Focus Your Church on Mission, both co-authored with Kay Kotan, published by Abingdon Press.

Kay Kotan is a credentialed coach, church consultant, speaker and author. She serves as the Director of the Center for Equipping Vital Congregations for the Susquehanna Conference of The United Methodist Church.

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Get Their Name Coordinator's Guide

Grow Your Church by Building New Relationships

By BOB FARR, KAY KOTAN

Abingdon Press

Copyright © 2016 Abingdon Press
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-5018-2543-9

Contents

Planning, 
Suggested Timelines, 
Promotion, 
Worship Design Team, 
Worship Overview for Design Team, 
Worship Overview for Music Team and Worship Leaders, 
Sermon Outlines, 
Appendix Tips and Helps for Facilitating the Get Their Name Group Study, 
Participant Workbook, 

CHAPTER 1

PLANNING

In order to have a successful sermon series and congregational study, planning ahead is essential. The larger your church is, the more time you will most likely need for planning and promoting. Get Their Name is designed to help create a new culture of being an invitational church. The more planning and congregational participation you have, the greater chance you have of beginning to create a new invitational culture. Make sure you select an optimal season in the life of the church to conduct this congregational study and sermon series to gain the most momentum and participation. You might consider conducting this series as part of Lent or Advent. Or you might consider it as a fall or spring series.

When recruiting your group leaders, there are a few things you might want to consider.

First, be sure to include a variety of people (age, tenure, spiritual maturity, gender, etc.).

Second, make sure your leaders are able to offer a variety of times (daytime during the week, weekday evenings, during Sunday school, maybe Saturday morning, etc.).

Third, offer enough groups so that everyone has the opportunity to participate. Group sizes are best at around six to twelve people.

Fourth, encourage Sunday school classes or other ongoing small groups to participate. They could use the materials during their regular meeting time, or they could include a second meeting time if they want to continue with their current study but add this study, too. If the existing class or group does not choose to use the materials, suggest that the class leaders encourage their members to join another group for the four weeks at a time that does not conflict with their existing group. Consider challenging your congregation to reach a certain number of group participants.

Fifth, be prepared to resource group leaders whose groups choose to continue the small group experience after this study. They may enjoy their time and study so much that they don't want it to end! Be prepared to help them consider next steps in sustaining and equipping.

Small group leaders will need to know their faith story, so part of your training and equipping will be to help these leaders discover or refine their story. Small group participants will want to hear an example of a faith story, so the group leader will need to be prepared to share his or her story in order to encourage their participants to discover their own. Help your leaders work on this as you prepare them to lead.

The suggestions and steps described here are best practices. Some churches will have the resources to implement every step. Others will not. Implement as many of the steps as possible, but if you can't, don't let them intimidate you and keep you from conducting the series. Adapt the steps as needed for your church and its resources. Do the very best that you can. Stretch yourself a bit if needed, but don't overwhelm yourself in the process.

Remember, this study is only the first step. This is the equipping piece of the process — step one. Your church will also need to provide the next two steps in closing the gap on evangelism. Step two is helping the congregation understand the importance of evangelism — the "why." The third step is the action step — the practicing, going, and doing.

Think about what opportunities you might include during this study, immediately after, and in the upcoming year to emphasize the importance of being an invitational church and create opportunities for people to practice and implement the plan. People will be in various stages of their learning and confidence in implementing the steps, so be sure to create opportunities for a variety of levels. If possible, offer a servant evangelism opportunity during the study or right afterwards, since this is the first step in learning and practicing evangelism. If possible, ask some of your groups (new ones, already existing ones, and ministry teams) to begin to share their faith stories. If someone is ready, think about the possibility of having someone share his or her faith story in worship. If you have some people who really "get it," have them apprentice others by taking them out in the community to start conversations and build relationships in the mission field.

CHAPTER 2

SUGGESTED TIMELINES

We have provided a suggested timeline and best practices for your consideration for planning purposes once you have the study and sermon dates on the church calendar. Larger churches may need more ramp-up time for certain tasks. Adapt the list to fit your local context and needs. You will need all resources (Coordinator's Guide, Participant Workbooks, and DVD of video clips) in hand before implementing the steps below.

Three Months Ahead

Gather a prayer team together to pray for this study, the participants, your pastor, and the unchurched in your community; also pray that the sermon series and study will result in reaching new people for Christ.

Gather small group leaders for planning and equipping.

Gather the worship design team & AV together to plan for series.

Gather the music team and worship leaders together to plan for series.

Gather the promotion team for creative planning.

Note: Those involved in leading (e.g., coordinator, pastor, small group facilitators, worship leader, staff, promotion team) need to read the original book Get Their Name: Grow Your Church by Building New Relationships.

Best practice would be for those leading to also work through the individualized questions in the Workbook.

Two Months Ahead

Begin to use the teaser promotion.

Make sure you have a variety of times and days available for small groups.

Meet with adult Sunday school teachers and invite them to join in by using the group study during their class time for four weeks.

One Month Ahead

Begin official promotion and group sign-ups.

Set the vision for everyone to be in a four-week group.

Pastor uses sermon outlines to prepare the message.

Worship design team is in final prep stages.

Music team is practicing music.

Prayer team continues to meet regularly to pray.

Print the steps to relational evangelism cards to be handed out to the congregation in week one.

One Week Ahead

Ensure everyone has had an opportunity to sign up for a group.

Call those who have not yet signed up to invite into a group.

Check in with pastor, music team and worship leaders, and worship design team on final preparations.

During Series

Check in with group facilitators.

Encourage and support group facilitators, pastor, music team and worship leaders, and worship design team on their participation and execution.

Evaluate execution weekly and make changes as needed.

After Series

Gather worship leaders and group facilitators to evaluate: What went well? What didn't? What did we learn? How might we incorporate our learnings in the future?...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Abingdon Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1501825437
• ISBN 13: 9781501825439
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 104
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