Facilitators

Lead Church Workshop Facilitators Duties

Ministry Overview

Three of your church’s most spiritually qualified and dependable lay leaders will need to be prayerfully selected and sent with your church’s sponsorship to a regional Texas Hope 2010 – Lay Leadership Retreat. At one of the 30 retreat locations, they will be prepared for their area-wide ministry responsibilities including:

  • Sharing the ministry vision and enlisting Associate Lead Churches from the evangelical Christian community in your region of the state.
  • Recruiting the first 10, 20, or 30 members from your church to be equipped for service as disciple-makers.
  • Making physical preparations for the four quarterly Lay Ministry Workshops on Disciple-Making to be hosted by your church.
  • Overseeing the logistical process for conducting successful area-wide workshops.
  • Learning how to teach the life-to-life disciple-making process at the four scheduled Lay Ministry Workshops on Disciple-Making.
  • Encouraging prayer for the state-wide partnership initiative to equip 100,000 lay disciple-makers across Texas.
  • Helping area pastors and staff members understand how to implement the process of linking new believers and other new members with their church’s equipped disciple-makers.

Notes

  • One of your three selected lay leaders will need to be gifted in administration in order to co-ordinate your workshop’s physical preparations.
  • One of your selected lay leaders will need to be a gifted teacher who has the ability to follow instructions and clearly communicate how to utilize the “Operation Multiplication” training materials and implement the disciple-making process for new member assimilation.
  • One of your selected lay leaders will need to feel comfortable visiting area pastors and presenting the spiritual vision, enlisting the participation of evangelical Associate Lead Churches.

Insight

Each trainee attends two quarterly workshops – the first time they are alone and the second time their three close Christian friends attend with them. The number of lay ministry workshop participants normally climbs to over 350 by the fourth workshop, so the selected teacher should feel comfortable teaching a sizable area-wide team of trainees.

“…go make disciples of all nations…” – Matthew 28:19

Lead Church Overview

Each participating Lead Church Workshop Facilitator will receive a step-by-step Workshop Preparation Guide at the fall Lay Leadership Retreat. This guide will include full instructions on how to:

  • Utilize the inspirational vision casting Lay Ministry Workshop on Disciple-Making DVDs.
  • Lead each workshop’s afternoon practicum teaching how to use the “Operation Multiplication’s” training materials.
  • Enlist area Associate Lead Churches.

The responsibility for conducting the church’s four (Saturday) Lay Ministry Workshops on Disciple-Making will be shared by the three prayerfully selected lay facilitators. These experienced lay leaders will represent the church at one of 30 regional fall BGCT Lay Leadership Retreats designed to prepare the 3 facilitators for their important area-wide ministry. They will each receive special training in workshop enlistment, preparation, and implementation.

Ministry Vision

In response to the valuable lessons learned from Promise Keepers and elongated ministry events like 40 Days of Purpose, the Lead Church Strategy uniquely invests its equipping energy in a highly successful relational process of life-to-life lay ministry. Since disciple-making is a Biblical lifestyle which takes place through Christ-centered relationships, we look forward to encouraging and equipping each new believer during TexasHope 2010. In that pursuit, the Lead Church Strategy employs a series of highly inspirational Lay Ministry Workshops. These uplifting events produce successive waves of area-wide disciple-making.

As you will observe in the accompanying strategy

  • The state-wide plan provides for lay ministry that expands very rapidly.
  • The cost for being a Lead Church is minimal because once the process of training has been successfully launched by the first subsidized workshop, each area’s lay participants care for their own workshop registration. A love offering provides for the cost of lunch and statewide expenses.
  • No promotion is needed, so prayer, friendship, and leadership training are the only components required.

The amazing speed and depth of this disciple-making process is accomplished by combining two complimentary ministry principles: a life-to-life equipping process and a series of highly inspirational lay ministry events. This unique combination is empowered by prayer and produces a life-style of spiritual multiplication and discipling relationships.

Paul said, “Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ.” – 1 Corinthians 11:1

May God bless your church through TexasHope 2010, and may your church’s laity lead the way in spiritual awakening in your county and across Texas!