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Janet EarlsCongregational Vitality
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Guiding the Guest Neighbor- to explore their
personal faith journey to becoming a fully
devoted, serving disciple for Jesus, the
church, the community, and the Kingdom.
Guest to Disciple
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My Credentials: (why should I listen?)
� Business Coach
� Graduate and Coach for SLI, Spiritual
Leadership, Inc.
� Graduate of CoachU
� Worked with (8911) churches and
pastors through change
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To make disciples of
Jesus Christ
for the transformation
of the world.
Mission
The mission of the Florida Conference is to connect and equip
congregations in making disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation
of the world.
Therefore, we:
Start and nurture missional communities of faith
Develop effective servant leaders for the church and the world
Provide services that support congregations and extension ministries
Connect congregations and resources for ministries that we do better
together
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How do we set up or improve
our discipleship journey?
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Always Evaluate First
• Starting Point
• Coming/Going
• Trends
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Acknowledge
the Truth
�Sometimes a bitter pill
�Declining in numbers?
�Young families, Youth?
�Next Leaders?
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God Sees Opportunity� God looks to the valley of dry bones to do
redemptive work.
God sees
• an opportunity to change lives, to raise up
• life when we see dry bones
• God shows up at our deepest despair
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What research has been done?
MissionInsite.com
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Vision Filter for
Programs and Ministries
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What is the current condition?
� Next leadership prepared?
� Church connecting to the unchurched in
the neighborhood? To the schools, social
services in the area?
� Survival mode? Not enough younger
people around?
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What does the church LOOK like?
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First Impression: Website
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Parking Lot Experience
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A neighbor visits, then what?
�Coffee mug?
�Visitor bag?
�Muffin? Bread?
�Postcard, letter, phone call?
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What are your steps?
First Then Next
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Realize,
When people visit, they bring7
Their whole self
� Their 2 year old self
� Their 12 year old self
� Their 23 year old self
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Building
Relationships
People will participate if they feel what they
are doing matters, feel a sense of
community, feel that they belong.
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Evaluation team
� Mystery Worshipper Survey
– Both directions
� What is attracting?
� This church offers:
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Evaluate the Guest Experience
� Walk the church campus from parking
lot and the rest of the way.
� Look with eyes of a seeker
� Again, consider having someone come
in and do training.
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Is the church open to the
Least, Lost, Last?
� Is the church open to all kinds of
people?
� What kind of offerings do you have for
newcomer's learning? After the
obligatory membership type meeting,
what is next?
� How do you guide people to their path?
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Some questions:
� Coming in the side door
� What are the various ways a guest might
visit our campus?
� “We are a friendly church,<”
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Other resources
� Leadership events – Real Ideas, WCA
� City or County training or events
� ATD (formerly ASTD)
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– The start of any “program” would have a PLAN
– INCLUSIVE; we have a place for everyone to
serve
– Expectation of anyone in Leadership to have
an area that they “SERVE”
– A seat at the table when DECISIONS impact
the volunteers
Create a Volunteer Culture
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Prayer
• Having a culture of prayer
• Creating a sense of community
where people can pray for others and
have others pray for them
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What were they?
� Evaluate, dashboards, truth, Mystery
Worshiper
� Know the community, speak to local
leaders
� Do the programs and ministries reach
out to the unchurched?
� Training like pros
� Access outside resources
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The One Thing
What is the one thing you will go
back and do differently as a
result of today’s training?
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