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Church
of Spokane Ministry Opportunities
(Revised after February 15, 2000 meeting)
Opportunities for using spiritual gifts or God-given
talents:
Prayer
Ministries:
Prayer:
a. Developing and presenting prayer conferences and
training sessions on Lighthouses, Spiritual Warfare,
Intercession, etc.
b. Planning and promoting annual Pastors Prayer Summit
and semi-annual Pastors Prayer Retreats.
c. Facilitating and attending weekly Pastors prayer
at UGM
d. Encouraging and training in congregation to congregation
prayer (congregations praying for each other)
e. Training and leading prayer walking of all neighborhoods
Lighthouses:
Team responsible for developing, mapping, encouraging
Lighthouses throughout the county. Provide training
in praying, caring and sharing. Also to communicate
testimonials, etc. with present lighthouses so they
are encouraged.
Intercessors:
Teams of people from every area of the county/city who
will bring together others to pray in focused ways for
needs of the city. Connecting to connecting to Dan Grether,
Sandi Fulton, Juanita Oswald, and Intercessors For Spokane
so that we have a constant army of people in the battlefield.
Administration
Ministries:
Vision
Casting:
Team to take the vision received by the Servant Leaders
team to congregations, congregational boards, Bible
studies, prayer groups, etc. Using Power Point presentations
and other methods to cast the vision to as many people
throughout the county as possible.
Leadership:
People with a burden to serve on the Servant Leaders
team or other leadership positions (such as Facilitators
of some of these teams)[lay people are encouraged to
be team Facilitators]. Finding, training and equipping
other leaders.
Fundraising:
A team of people to be responsible to raise funds from
the community, church and individuals. This team would
also be responsible to write grants and report back
to foundations upon the receipt of a grant.
Public
Celebrations:
Team to organize and plan various public celebrations
for worship and sharing what God is doing across the
county.
Connecting
Ministries:
Communications:
Church: This team
communicates to three levels of the Church:
a.) within the Servant Leader Team;
b.) to the envisioned Ministry Teams and congregations;
c.) to the greater Body of Christ.
Team to develop and facilitate email, web page and
other ways of communicating goals, vision, prayer needs,
prayer answers, new initiatives, etc within the Church
of Spokane. This team would also facilitate communication
from each of the various ministry points to all other
appropriate ministry points.
Community:
Team responsible for promotion and advertising
for various public celebrations, evangelistic outreaches,
prayer training conferences, etc. Team would also communicate
with those outside the Church of Spokane - (eventually)
including the media and others. This team would focus
on providing vision, announcements and information to
schools, all levels of government, secular service agencies
and organizations, media outlets and the business community.
Networking:
Recruitment: Team
to bring together various groups to become a part of
the Church of Spokane - reaching to pastors, elders
and people with specific giftings. Team will network
servant ministries (parachurch), congregations and resources.
Team is also responsible to network various groups of
individuals together when there is a need in a specific
area - tragedies, specific needs in a community (cleanup
neighborhoods, evangelism or whatever).
Resourcing: Team
brings together information and resources from the entire
church. This would involve building and updating a church-wide
database (on web page), directories, Harvest software
and having available information important to the entire
Body.
Marketplace:
Team to outreach to the marketplace - businessmen, companies,
trades people, industry and all others who could be
involved in supporting the city reaching effort. Facilitating
prayer groups, prayer breakfasts, fund raisers and other
activities motivated by God through prayer.
Church
Growth Ministries:
Evangelism:
Team to pray for direction regarding how to evangelize
the city as one church, rather than many churches. Training
people with gift of evangelism from many congregations
in ways to most effectively work together to reach the
city.
Discipling:
Team to develop the best ways to follow up new converts.
Training people from all congregations so that there
is a solid follow up with new believers. Also following
up with new believers from evangelistic activities and
tying them into a solid church. This could begin immediately
with follow up from the Good News Store, Able Ministries
van, Power Team, Christmas and Easter presentations,
etc.
Congregation
Planting:
Team to research and advise regarding areas where new
congregations are needed. Training would be provided
for small groups of people who are willing to plant
a new congregation. Working to help find locations (realtors,
etc.), lay or paid pastors, resources to help them know
where to plant, etc.
Social
Ministries:
Benevolence/Compassion:
Team to be the outreach arm of the Church of Spokane
- to needy neighborhoods, single parent families, etc.
Team coordinates social concerns by becoming aware of
areas of need, communicating to the Body and guiding
solutions to the needs.
Social
Systems/Structures:
Team to liaison with schools, government, business,
industry in various ways that will advance the kingdom.
Relaying needs of the community back to the church and
also focusing ministry people in the areas where they
are needed most.
Gangs/Streets:
Team to bring together ministries (para-church, congregational,
etc.) reaching gangs and street kids. Also to work with
the people as they come off the streets. Arranging employment,
house, schooling or other needs.
Prison/Jail
Aftercare:
Team to bring together human and other resources to
care for families of incarcerated citizens both during
incarceration and after release. Also work with the
family to reintegrate back into society.
Economic
Development:
Team who have a passion for working with businesses
to create and maintain jobs for the needy, particularly
within the downtown area as well as other areas of the
county with low income levels.
Family
Structure Ministries:
Children:
Team to coordinate all aspects of ministry to children
from birth to teenage.
Youth:
Team to develop strong outreach programs to the youth
of all ages, and ways to bring the church to them. This
team would also develop youth programs for young people
presently in the church - especially those who only
have one to five youth in their congregation. Youth
are the future of the church and this team would fold
them into ministry in the church.
Family:
Team to train people throughout the church in pre-marital
counseling, post-marital counseling, marriage mentoring,
single parent mentors, widows, orphans and senior care,
etc.
Analytical
Ministries:
Research:
Team to do ongoing research about church attendance,
new believers, numbers of lighthouses, etc to measure
progress and spread word of God's working in the county.
This team will be crucial to provide measurable results
as we proceed toward the goals set out by God.
Spiritual
Mapping:
Team to do research for spiritual mapping - areas of
county that are darkest, least churched, etc.
Valley
Project:
Team participating under the leadership of Ian Robertson,
Willard McCain and Barry Foster to reach the Valley
area for Jesus Christ.
Link
to Ministry Teams for contact information
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