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Church
Planter Assessments and Boot Camp offered by Mission
Spokane
August, 2001
Hi!
Several months ago, plans were made to accelerate
church planting in Spokane. The harvest truly is plentiful:
only 18% of our population attends church! We need more
churches to reach the lost. As part of this effort to
accelerate church planting, we hope to plant several
new churches on Easter, 2002.
Here are the next steps.
On
October 5-6, we will be providing an assessment
for potential church planters. Rod and Teresa Koop,
from Colorado Springs, will train assessors, and then
lead us through the assessment process. We are killing
two birds with one stone: we’ll not only assess
potential church planters, but we’ll train assessors
as well, so we can do our own assessments in the future.
(Assessor training can be useful in a number of settings
besides church planting.)
The assessment consists primarily of a behavioral interview
based on Charles Ridley’s thirteen core characteristics
of a church planter. This is supplemented by some written
assessments.
Our schedule will be as follows:
Friday, October 5
from 7-10 PM Train assessors.
Saturday, October 6
from 9 AM-2PM Assess potential church planters.2-4
PM Debrief with assessors.
Cost will be $25 per person; lunch is included on Saturday.
On November 5-9,
your assessed church planter is invited to participate
in a Church Planters Bootcamp at Camp Crestview near
Portland, Oregon. Bootcamp provides intensive training
that helps church planters think strategically about
their mission. Bootcamps are offered all across the
country by various denominations. This one is sponsored
by Foursquare (I will be one of the presenters), but
the training is not denomination-specific.
The training is based on The Church Planters Toolkit,
by Bob Logan and Bill Ogne, which your church planter
will need to purchase and complete before bootcamp.
The cost for bootcamp is $1200 per couple (it’s
worth every penny---a great investment in a church planting
couple!). If your church planter is married, the couple
must attend the assessment and bootcamp together. It’s
a team thing!
If you have a potential church planter you would like
to have assessed, or a potential assessor you would
like to have trained, please call my office at
327-4422 and ask for Cathy. Give her
the names and what you are signing up for. Also, if
you are interested in sending a church planting couple
to bootcamp, please let Cathy know.
Or, if you have questions, call Cathy or e-mail me
(joe@lifecenter.net).
Warmly,
Pastor Joe Wittwer, Life Center
For the Mission Spokane Church Planting Team
For
further information…
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