Tim Satryan

• Tim Satryan
• Works with Church Multiplication Network
• Wilmington First Assembly
• Graduate of Central Bible College
• Former DYD of PennDel
• Developing Strategic Church Ministries
• Overview
• Know yourself
• Assessing your community
• Recognizing your mission
• Discerning your church
• Evaluating your progress
• Knowing Yourself
• Who are you?
• Background
• Experiences
• Giftings
• Personality
• Relational style
• Values
• Calling
• Your Relational Style
• DISC Profile
• 4 Distinct Personality Types
• Determined Doer
• mover, shaker, results-oriented, task, efficient, catalytic, looks for/accepts challenges, questions, take authority, needs the opportunity, will become frustrated
• Inspirational Influencer
• People person, life of party, always leaves good impression, fun to be around, makes first contact with people, motivational, enthusiastic, desire to help, needs recognition, desire freedom from control
• Steady Specialist
• dependable, will stay in one place for long time, patient, specialist in something, very loyal, listener, needs security
• Cautious Competent
• tactician, give special attention to details, prefer controlled environments, perfectionist, critical thinker, need a lot of reassurance, adverse to sudden change
• DI = active, fast paced, assertive, bold
• DC = questioning, skeptical, logic focus, challenging
• IS = accepting, receptive, people focused agreeable
• CS = thoughtful moderate pace, calm, careful
• Assessing Your Community
• Know your community! Talk to people in local businesses, malls, schools, etc.
• Resources:
• Fee:
• Percept - www.perceptgroup.com
• Mission Insite - www.missioninsite.com
• Free:
• ZipSkinny - www.zipskinny.com
• Fact Finder  - www.factfinder2.census.gov
• Quick Facts - www.quickfacts.census.gov
• Recognizing Your Mission
• Who
• …are you trying to reach?
• What
• …needs have you identified? (perceived needs vs. real needs)
• How
• …will you meet the identified needs?
• Write down your vision
• Is it understandable?
• Inspirational?
• Descriptive?
• Envision?
• Communicate your vision
• Embody it!
• Share it!
• Discerning Your Church
• What is your church?
• History
• Membership
• Ministries
• Demographics
• Values
• Beliefs
• We value _____, so we will ______.
• Developing Your Church
• Developing a ministry plan
• Developing a Discipleship Pathway
• Pre-evangelism
• Events/organizations/outreaches to contact people and form relationships, not necessarily lead them to Christ
• Example: Blessing of the Bikes - people with bikes comes and pastors pray over them; Honor Fireman/Policeman in church
• Evangelism
• What specific ministries are you doing to reach out to people for the purpose of evangelism?
• Connecting
• Once people come to church and are saved, must connect them with each other
• "Relationship is everything. Churches will rise and fall based on relationship."
• How many "touch-points" are there when someone walks into church?
• Find common interests and introduce them to others with those same interests
• Growth & Maturity
• Leadership Development
• Multiplication
• How can those leaders multiply themselves in others?
• Evaluating Your Progress
• If you're not growing by 17% per year, then you are declining….(17% of people leave a church in a given year)
• SWOT Analysis
• Strengths
• Weaknesses
• Opportunities
• Threats
• APA Analysis
• What have we achieved?
• What is it that we need to preserve?
• What do we need to avoid?
• SSIK Analysis
• What do we need to start doing?
• What do we need to stop doing?
• What do we need to improve?
• What do we need to keep on doing?
• RWMC Analysis (good for events/outreach evaluation)
• What went right?
• What went wrong?
• What was missing?
• Was there anything confusing about what we did?
• NCD - Eight Quality Characteristics (Based on book called Natural Church Development by Christian A. Schwarz)
• Empowering Leadership
• Gift-oriented Ministry
• Passionate Spirituality
• Functional Structures
• Inspiring Worship Services
• Loving Relationships
• Holistic Small Groups
• Need-oriented Evangelism

February 12th Interview: Terry Drost

Terry Drost

• Peckville Assembly of God
• Grew up in church, pastor's son, fell away from 15-mid20s, worked as commercial printer.
• Thought he was going to work with music.
• Didn't want to work with teenagers until Jan 1996 when he went on first winter retreat with you, began working in youth min with wife.
• "If you're willing to do what none else wants to God will honor that."
• Church grew because of passion.
• There are 3 sides: 
• Spiritual side
• Practical side
• Attitudinal side
• Qualities of exceptional church staff:
• Hard work
• Passion
• Produce much fruit
• How Terry hires staff:
• Leading at a Higher Level - Blanchard
• 4 types of leaders for hiring:
• LEVEL 1 (look for these people)
• HCV - high commitment to the vision
• HCV - high capacity volunteer
• LEVEL 2
• HCV - high committed to vision
• LCV - low capacity volunteer (trained, transferred)
• LEVEL 3 (these are not committed to lead pastor at all)
• LCV - low commitment to vision
• HCV - high capacity volunteer
• LEVEL 4 (lowest level…)
• LCV - low commitment to vision
• LCV - low capacity volunteer
• After choosing the Level 1, work them in slowly…(purpose is to evaluate them slowly and allow them to gain trust and responsibilities)
• Example:
• $50 a week
• 6 weeks later, $75/week
• 6 weeks later, part-time staff
• 90 days later, full-time staff
• Outreach
• Works with nelson seracy's outreach network..systematic approach to ministry
• Things he's learned from network:
• Assimilation system
• Moving a person from a first time guest to a fully-developed follower of christ
• What does that look like?
• We have to be hospitable in getting people into the church. they have to be:
• Greeted
• Treated
• Directed
• Seated
• They do a survey for first time guests, link to website
• First time guests fill out connection cards…connection teams come in Monday morning to pray over cards and connect with those who came…"treat those cards like treasure because each one represents a life who was prompted by the holy spirit to come to church."
• Attractional = come see
• Missional = go, tell
• His church works at gas stations, gives people a discount on gas, washes their windows…crowds come for the low gas prices
• "Easter egg flyover"…hired a helicopter to drop 14,000 eggs from the sky…drew crowds of 3,000 people…at the end he handed out tickets to their easter outreach "heaven's gates, hell's flames"…500 came, 100 responded to Christ that night
• Capitalize on "big days" of the year for outreach…easter, christmas, 4th of july, 
• July 4th car show, fireworks, carnival, picnics, budget: $10,000
• Christian Motorcycle Association
• Partners with food pantry
• Evangelism is an investment, not an expense.
• "We should do whatever it takes to reach people with God."
• Launching series on easter/christmas are the best times to do so.

Sam Farina, "Professional Coach"

Sam Farina, coach in corporate world

• Southwestern University graduate with a passion for the evangelism of young people in high schools.
• Speaking at high schools was his form of strategic outreach
• Advice: Listen for God's voice when you graduate!
• Today, he coaches pastors/ministers.
• IBM Coaching Network…Jane is a corporate coaching evangelist
• Joined with the AG in coaching in church plants, pastoral, church planting

BASIC COACHING

• A coach helps a person get from where they are to where they desire to go.
• Counseling deals with the past, coaching is about moving forward in our future.
• Mentors lead from their own experiences, a coach leads others to their futures.
• Coaches pull out, mentors pour in.
• Counseling: healing the wounded; Spiritual direction: growing Christ Followers; Coaching: building strengths
• The Brain & Coaching
• Storing: information
• Connection: information
• Retrieving: information
• In coaching, you help people move from the doing to the being.
• Coaching is about people coming to mind-shift

COACHING SKILLS

• A coach helps you focus and create so that you can maintain it.
• Topic, outcomes, mean, success….focus….accountability, plan, timeline, who/when/where.
• Listening is the #1 skill in coaching
• Understand their worldview/definitions so that you can understand their thinking
• Create awareness for the words with a lot of power

COACHING TIPS

• Listen for facts and opinions, then give them back by repeating them to make sure you are understanding correctly
• Listen for the emotions and feelings
• Listen for values and beliefs…people behave because of their values and beliefs.
• Listen to understand
• Listen to give it back so that they understand it better themselves
• Give back observations on body language
• Add the Holy Spirit, you listen and help the person hear the Holy Spirit
• Give the opportunity for the Holy Spirit to give the vision/dream

"Listen and you will excel as a leader."

Community Compassion Organization Interview #1

Church-based Organization: HOPE Ministries

     HOPE Ministries is a compassion ministry of Calvary Temple in Wayne, NJ. I interviewed the leaders of this ministry, Tim and Lorraine Carlucci. They both grew up in Calvary Temple, where they met and eventually married. The couple’s heart for missions and evangelism was apparent at a young age, so they knew that starting a compassion ministry was something that God had been leading them to do. What began with providing needy families with groceries, has evolved over the years into something much greater than they had anticipated.

     HOPE Ministries is now a registered food pantry of the Community Food Bank of New Jersey where they pick up five tons of food per month. Each week they provide food, clothing, and prayer to those in need. They are currently serving 549 families per month, over 1,700 people, not including their weekly Paterson outreaches to the homeless. They provide the homeless with food, clothing, prayer, blankets, but most of all, love.

     HOPE Ministries is all about loving people! This ministry has evolved over the years, now spanning to disaster relief, prayer, and Sunday morning Bible studies. They have become a pillar of hope in the community, providing six other local food banks and churches with the overflow of food and clothing that they receive each month.

     Throughout the year, HOPE Ministries strives to go above and beyond for the cause of Christ. These annual occasions consist of their Thanksgiving turkey giveaways, Christmas present giveaways, back to school backpack giveaways, and their Easter baskets of hope. This year, however, was the start of a new tradition, the “Race for Hope 5K.” This Race was constructed to benefit the food bank in its’ efforts to reach the needy for Thanksgiving. Over $4,000 worth of profits went to HOPE Ministries and was put towards the buying of groceries and turkeys. With this money, they were able to provide Thanksgiving dinners to 210 families in need this year!

     HOPE Ministries would not be as successful as it is without the help of the church and community. Along with their monthly five tons of food from the Community Food Bank, they receive donations of food, clothing, and money from the people of Calvary and local churches on a regular basis. People can also donate their time by volunteering to help each week. The HOPE Ministries team is made up of volunteers who assist with the unloading of the food truck, the sorting of clothes, and the bagging of groceries. There are opportunities to serve during the week, as well as on Sunday afternoons for their weekly distributions. Most volunteers come from Calvary Temple, but members of other churches have also made themselves available. HOPE Ministries’ number one task is to spread hope, so they look for volunteers who are ready to share Christ's love and pray for anyone who needs it!

Race for Hope 5K

January 22nd Interview: Phil Underwood

Jan 22 Interview: Phil Underwood, Pastor/church planter

• Phil has been married to Gill for 35 years. They came to the US from New Zealand 15 years ago, and have 3 daughters.
• Cornerstone Christian Church http://www.cornerstonedelco.org/
• Before becoming a pastor, he worked for a radio station in NZ where he was a journalist and producer. He eventually moved to Christian radio before going to Bible college.
• Phil began pastoring in New Zealand at age 25. He enjoys going to churches that have recently split due to anger/dispute. His first pastoring job was difficult, 24 out of 150 attendants left due to a controversy over music. 
• Enjoys the challenge of an empty church, and was part of a mini-revival in NZ.
• One of his jobs was to prove that moving out of strategy works, despite people's Pentecostal mindset of solely relying on the Holy Spirit, and being lackadaisical about structure.
• Phil strives to win disciples, not converts…they count salvations by the number of people who have been discipled, not just saved. He stresses quality salvations over quantity salvations.
• Strong believer in strategic planning, they do so by asking their churches to set goals.
• A principle that drives him is "you are a priest to your circle of influence." He often preaches this message to his new church congregation to get them involved with his vision of reaching the community by emphasizing their sphere of influence.
• Your job is a ministry, whatever it may be. Wherever you are, you're representing Christ. It's what we do, not what we say that we believe.

3 Approaches to Community Ministry:

• SETTLERS
• Find a community, the need, and they reach them.
• GARDNERS
• Set up a "garden"...come along side a ministry by supplying them with resources.You are a part of this ministry, but not fully dedicated to it.
• SHEPHERDS
• Not driven to specific locations, but to specific needs…(ex: prison ministers go to different prisons, but are always doing prison ministry.)

Some of what a week of ministry looks like for Phil's church…

• Outreach to alcoholics Mon. and Tues. nights.
• Life groups
• Grief share, divorce care, the are of marriage….(all designed programs where you only need to buy material.)
• Pick-up basketball league

Main Points:

• We don't always gravitate around strategies in pentecostal movements.
• "Past performance is the best future predictor." (In regards to church planting.)

January 15th: Rebekah Reese

January 15, 2013

Interview with Rebekah Reese

Notes:

·       2009 VFCC grad, Christian Min. major

·       Holy Hands is a branch of First Fruits Evangelistic Association

·       Holy Hands Director

o   Missions trips in US, northeast (DC up to Maine)

o   Goals of Holy Hands:

§  Train and evangelize US, reach lost through one-on-one convos

§  Train for 3 days in kids ministry, how to start convo on Jesus/apologetics

·       Be normal.

·       Build relationships

·       Start convo, get into a common interest zone

·       Reach values/morals of their life

·       Then talk about God. It takes time.

·       Heart for evangelism

·       Evangelism has to be a lifestyle, not just done at your job or at outreaches.

·       Trained 150 students, about 12 different teams last summer.

·       Work with Global passion missions organization in Cali.

·       Trips are 7 days, $232 not including transportation there

·       Summer trips:

o   Christiana, PA

·       Trip planning:

o   First 2 days are training days

§  Update training materials

§  Innovative/interactive with students

§  Go through classes throughout day

o   Next 2 days: outreaches

§  Mega-sports Camp

·       Interactive/sports VBS

·       Link Bible stories with sports stories that are similar to keep kids interested

§  Free for church to host Megasports Camp

·       Only children pay participation fee

§  Excursions

·       2-4 days teams go to churches and help with outreaches, community service

·       Budget:

o   Raise their personal budgets

o   Make sponsorship packets

o   Yearly budget goal: $1,500 per month

·       Discipleship process after evangelism:

o   Connected with local church

o   Involve local church at place of outreach

o   Direct people to the local church

·       Present options to church to choose:

o   Outreaches, block parties, movie nights, community service

·       Helped with Sandy Disaster Relief

o   Worked with 270/400 damaged homes in Staten Island

·       Holy Hands was started by a student, Jason, while attending VFCC

·       Focus on new church plants when fundraising because they haven’t set their missions budget yet.

·       http://www.ffea.tv/