#ReimagineCITIES CommunitiesCollaborations - Discipleship.Network - The Reimagine Network
2024-03-29T06:19:01Z
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#ReimagineCOMMUNITIES... Two Parish Stories
https://reimaginenetwork.ning.com/forum/topics/reimaginecommunities-a-parish-story-from-gifford-park-omaha-ne
2024-03-17T21:02:29.000Z
2024-03-17T21:02:29.000Z
Reimagine Curator
https://reimaginenetwork.ning.com/members/PrayerINC
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<h1 class="entry-title entry-title--large p-name"><span style="font-size:14pt;">A Parish Story from Gifford Park | Omaha, NE</span></h1>
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt;">In the heart of Gifford Park, Omaha, Eric Purcell and his faith community have been on a transformative 13-year journey. Drawn by the missional community movement, they settled into a neighborhood in 2011 hoping for connection and growth.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;">Several years into the life of their community, it seemed like most of their efforts fell flat. They had launched a soccer program that contributes meaningfully to the lives of many neighbors, yet they weren’t experiencing the transformative experiences they were hoping for. And then, recognizing a need, Eric and his team birthed a coffee shop, without realizing the ways in which it would become a catalyst for change in their neighborhood.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;">Nearly 6 years later, the space has evolved into more than just a coffee haven—it’s a hub for beautiful connections. Serving the homeless community became second nature, and customers rallied to support this noble cause.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;">Amidst the coffee beans and espresso machines, the coffee shop staff finds more than just a job. One expressed, "You care for people like a non-profit; I’ve never experienced that in a workplace." Another, seeking a safe space, found not just a nourishing menu but an environment so supportive, it nurtured her through mental health crises and helped her relearn the art of authentic relationships.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt;">“In church culture we often try really hard to win people over. When we can stop doing that and focusing on loving people well, we have a lot more capacity to create space for transformation.”</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt;">- Eric Purcell</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt;">Eric has seen a simple exchange between baristas become a form of therapy, emphasizing the importance of providing safe spaces for people to be seen and to grow.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;">Eric is now asking good questions, like, what if we were able to see our neighborhoods as a sacred ecosystem with our humble observation at the center of our actions? Some aspects may need pruning, others careful tending—what is God asking us to nurture at this moment? It’s a delicate dance, acknowledging that not everything needs our touch.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;">As fear motivates many in this time of church decline, Eric ponders whether the church is truly falling apart or if God is birthing something radically different. Perhaps, Eric muses, the new thing won’t look like the conventional church—but it will be marked by warmth, belonging, and safety.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><a href="https://www.myrtleandcypresscoffee.com/" target="_blank">Learn more about Myrtle & Cypress Coffee Shop.</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/myrtleandcypresscoffeehouse" target="_blank">Visit them on Instagram!</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt;">When Ben McBride ventured into the heart of East Oakland, California, moving into a neighborhood that locals dubbed the "Kill Zone," he found himself confronted with the challenge of forging connections in an unfamiliar setting. This led him to embrace a more expansive gospel that not only illuminated his own biases but also compelled him toward a path of generous inclusion, acknowledging the unique ways in which the Good News unfolds in places distinct from his prior experiences.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;">In the early days of residing in Oakland, Ben would often return home to find a man occupying the front steps of his house. Annoyance crept in as he grappled with this uninvited presence on his property, his concern for his family's safety heightening each time they passed by the stranger. The discomfort was palpable.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;">Embarking on a journey of bridging, Ben decided to engage in conversation despite his unease. To his surprise, he discovered that the man had grown up in the very house that now belonged to Ben and his family. This revelation prompted Ben to pause, forcing him to reassess how he had been asserting belonging while unintentionally denying it to someone with deep roots in the neighborhood. Despite being the newcomer, Ben realized he carried a load of preconceived notions.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><a href="http://parishcollective.org/coffee-break">Experience the profound insights of Ben McBride's journey in his book, <em>Troubling the Waters</em>. Join our conversation on February 21, 2024, at 9 am PST. Click here to learn more about our monthly Coffee Breaks.</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;">While Ben's initial move into the neighborhood was fueled by a desire to instigate change through peacemaking and anti-violence efforts, the encounter with his neighbor revealed a different lesson. It became clear that the real change needed to happen within Ben himself – a transformation essential for listening and connecting across the differences that defined their lives.</span></p>
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Linking Your Hope to Your Community
https://reimaginenetwork.ning.com/forum/topics/linking-your-hope-to-your-community
2024-03-12T18:34:12.000Z
2024-03-12T18:34:12.000Z
Reimagine Curator
https://reimaginenetwork.ning.com/members/PrayerINC
<div><p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Linking Your Hope to Your Community</strong></span></p>
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<div><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>PHIL: Jim, Link2Hope is a significant and strategic step both forward and upward. Is the Church ready to #ReimagineCOMPASSION?</strong></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14pt;">JIM: >>> That's a great question. It's the "you can lead a horse to water" dilemma, right? The philosophy behind Link2Hope, as opposed to Meet The Need's legacy platforms, is pull versus push. Our traditional volunteer management, event management, and case management systems <strong>pushed </strong>churches to use our software to engage more in local missions by creating unity and efficiency. Link2Hope <strong>pulls </strong>churches into closer relationships around families who are struggling in their congregations and community. There are early signs but no certainty whether that approach will overcome the definitional barriers (what is "church" and who are its target "customers") that keep churches from serving the community in ways that actually alleviate poverty. </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>PHIL: How can Link2Hope "revolutionize" how a congregation connects with their community?</strong></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14pt;">JIM: The key differentiator with Link2Hope is empowerment of the congregation to connect and serve individuals and families year-round. They don't need to wait until the next church "outreach" event to volunteer for an afternoon at a homeless mission, where they're unlikely to actually meet and interact with anyone who's homeless. Link2Hope inserts members into intentional, caring "circles" around those who are lonely and hopeless. Poverty occurs and endures due to broken relationships, so flourishing hinges on restoring and building personal relationships. </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>PHIL: What is your hope for pastors and ministry leaders who read this exciting report?</strong></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14pt;">JIM: First of all, we hope they'll be patient because there's a lot of excitement around Link2Hope but we won't be launching in more cities or churches for a little while. Second, we hope they'll start internalizing and implementing the principles behind Link2Hope now because occasional "compassion" events only help church members, not the poor. </span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:14pt;">It is e</span><span style="font-size:14pt;">xciting to see Link2Hope come to life. </span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:14pt;"></span><span style="font-size:14pt;">Here are some videos you may enjoy from </span><a style="font-size:14pt;" href="https://www.wdbj7.com/2024/03/07/link2hope-launches-roanoke-connecting-people-need-resources/" target="_blank">the launch of Link2Hope</a><span style="font-size:14pt;">...</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14pt;"><span style="font-size:14pt;">[ </span></span><span style="font-size:14pt;">NOTE>>> Scroll past videos for an exciting description of this new initiative from </span><span style="font-size:14pt;">Meet The Need ]</span> </div>
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Link2Hope launches in Roanoke, connecting people in need toresources </strong></span><br /> <span style="font-size:14pt;"><a href="http://www.wdbj7.com">www.wdbj7.com</a></span></p>
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<li><span style="font-size:14pt;"><a href="https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/916271877">https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/916271877</a></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size:14pt;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE6xXJgIZNc&list=FLv0GHx7hkRhrOqnbjjFVjFw&index=1&t=7s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE6xXJgIZNc&list=FLv0GHx7hkRhrOqnbjjFVjFw&index=1&t=7s</a></span></li>
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><a href="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/meips/ADKq_NZjUa0dLsAY_PDJzR9ZO4fTdczf_zv2NSb4gEahFQASd8KkfX73S2MYQdb7MswCGWQQqZQmcgFjvlXoIgGTamjnhnin7gZ1m1iCsGj5AQQxv_szpMVum2dfm6HwGbpBOk6REup2wo_gMEUdLq7TV-cb84NWipIDEtuCEFDd36GtEj8akEqIpU1CITQhJnAoLqery9CgxafLENnvPiCwAFzMHsIV1rW3OlKifqeMmU9hg10=s0-d-e1-ft#" target="_blank"><img class="align-full" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/meips/ADKq_NZjUa0dLsAY_PDJzR9ZO4fTdczf_zv2NSb4gEahFQASd8KkfX73S2MYQdb7MswCGWQQqZQmcgFjvlXoIgGTamjnhnin7gZ1m1iCsGj5AQQxv_szpMVum2dfm6HwGbpBOk6REup2wo_gMEUdLq7TV-cb84NWipIDEtuCEFDd36GtEj8akEqIpU1CITQhJnAoLqery9CgxafLENnvPiCwAFzMHsIV1rW3OlKifqeMmU9hg10=s0-d-e1-ft#?profile=RESIZE_400x" alt="ADKq_NZjUa0dLsAY_PDJzR9ZO4fTdczf_zv2NSb4gEahFQASd8KkfX73S2MYQdb7MswCGWQQqZQmcgFjvlXoIgGTamjnhnin7gZ1m1iCsGj5AQQxv_szpMVum2dfm6HwGbpBOk6REup2wo_gMEUdLq7TV-cb84NWipIDEtuCEFDd36GtEj8akEqIpU1CITQhJnAoLqery9CgxafLENnvPiCwAFzMHsIV1rW3OlKifqeMmU9hg10=s0-d-e1-ft#?profile=RESIZE_400x" width="255" /></a></span><br /> <span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Link2Hope Video YouTube</strong></span><br /> <span style="font-size:14pt;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com">www.youtube.com</a></span></p>
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<div><span style="font-size:14pt;">It may seem strange that Meet The Need’s blog rarely mentions Meet The Need. It’s not because there’s nothing to discuss. In the dot-com era, our ministry envisioned and later built the first collaborative volunteer management, event management, and shared case management applications for churches and ministries. Each of those types of systems eventually became crowded, thriving industries. Over the past decade, we’ve also been national leaders in innovation around critical causes like hunger relief, homelessness, foster care, and ex-offender recidivism. As impactful as our work has been, Meet The Need was never about developing poverty alleviation software applications. That was always means to an end…</span></div>
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<h3><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Meet The Need’s Mission</strong></span></h3>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;">Since our founding 22 years ago, Meet The Need’s goal has been church revitalization and reform. So that’s what we talk about on this blog. Technology alone cannot change heart and minds. In the early 2000s we often heard pastors say, “if we only had a way to find out the needs in the community and share them with our members”, and “build it and we will come”. Yet we’ve seen churches increasingly use Meet The Need’s platforms to facilitate transactional rather than relational “compassion”, which typically does more harm than good. Families in poverty need dignity, not dependence. It’s demeaning when the “rich” swoop in to save the “poor”, offering “handouts” without seeking to understand, leverage, and augment their capabilities. That arms-length approach makes church members feel good during the holiday season but perpetuates poverty the rest of the year. The strength and duration of relationships determines the effectiveness of interventions.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;">No organizations are better positioned than churches to repair the broken relationships (with God, His creation, others, and ourselves) that keep families trapped in cycles of generational poverty. Only a church can attend to the whole person (mind, body, spirit) and all four key relationships on a long-term basis by welcoming them into the church family. Unfortunately, despite <a href="https://meettheneed.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=772fe0ad5cfe3e59cf422839a&id=427d64f403&e=0fd2b3965f" target="_blank">Jesus’ repeated commands to serve the materially poor</a> and <a href="https://meettheneed.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=772fe0ad5cfe3e59cf422839a&id=a88fe1b8c5&e=0fd2b3965f" target="_blank">His example of leading with compassion</a>, churches are no longer on the front lines of the war on poverty. That <a href="https://meettheneed.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=772fe0ad5cfe3e59cf422839a&id=d2eb88bdf4&e=0fd2b3965f" target="_blank">break from Jesus’ prayer/care/share model</a>, which began in the early 1900s with the failure of the Social Gospel movement and Great Reversal, has contributed to the Church’s steady decline in growth, impact, influence, and perception in recent decades. Churches should be the lighthouse, first responder, and last line of defense for our culture. Without reform, their light will continue to dim. Restoring churches to their rightful place as a beacon of hope in a darkening society requires equipping and mobilizing them to demonstrate the love of Jesus through missional, <a href="https://meettheneed.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=772fe0ad5cfe3e59cf422839a&id=bbfaf882f6&e=0fd2b3965f" target="_blank">transformational</a> relationships with the “<a href="https://meettheneed.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=772fe0ad5cfe3e59cf422839a&id=930170ef67&e=0fd2b3965f" target="_blank">least</a>” and “<a href="https://meettheneed.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=772fe0ad5cfe3e59cf422839a&id=413896aaae&e=0fd2b3965f" target="_blank">lost</a>”.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;">Meet The Need has invested the past 5 ½ years working toward that critical objective. For 15 years we watched event-oriented, transactional compassion fuel a precipitous decline in usage of our platforms following each Christmas. In 2018 we assembled our team to brainstorm a year-round, relational solution to that problem. Fast forward to last week as we celebrated the launch <a href="https://meettheneed.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=772fe0ad5cfe3e59cf422839a&id=290bde55cc&e=0fd2b3965f" target="_blank">the application that emerged from those meetings</a>. Between 2018 and 2024 were countless miracles, partnerships, donations, design sessions, programming, and testing – as well as a beta and pilot with <a href="https://meettheneed.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=772fe0ad5cfe3e59cf422839a&id=22bdd2662e&e=0fd2b3965f" target="_blank">ministry partners in Roanoke, VA</a> who are <a href="https://meettheneed.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=772fe0ad5cfe3e59cf422839a&id=a8d75965b2&e=0fd2b3965f" target="_blank">already seeing the value of Link2Hope</a>.</span></p>
<h3><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Our Unveiling of Link2Hope</strong></span></h3>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;">So we felt compelled to finally talk a little about Meet The Need in today’s blog post. Link2Hope leverages the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to provide a proverbial “hand-up” by building sustainable circles of support around families, empowering them to plot their own course to a brighter future. It offers those feeling isolated hope in our Savior and comfort in the knowledge they’re not alone. It shows those not knowing where to turn more options so they don’t always approach the same individual, ministry or church for help. It suggests resources with roadmaps to change lives, not just get through life.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;">Link2Hope revolutionizes poverty alleviation by digitizing the principles found in <a href="https://meettheneed.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=772fe0ad5cfe3e59cf422839a&id=a5fab39dea&e=0fd2b3965f" target="_blank"><em>When Helping Hurts</em></a>. The Chalmers Center, who authored that book, walked alongside Meet The Need throughout the design and development process, ensuring we held to these non-negotiables:</span></p>
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<li><span style="font-size:14pt;">Dignity – Respect the inherent value and capabilities of those made in God’s image</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size:14pt;">Discipleship – Get beyond material needs to the pursuit of personal growth</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:14pt;">Advocacy – Equip mentors to help families navigate their pathways out of poverty</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:14pt;">Unity – Rally the entire community around love for our neighbors in Jesus’ name</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:14pt;">Engagement – Not make the goal time spent on the app, but live connections</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:14pt;">Personal – Customize to match individual interests, challenges, priorities, and goals</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt;">Each network, city, or group of organizations rallying around a cause will receive its own unique installation of Link2Hope. “Cause groups” can brand and private label Link2Hope to look like their websites. They can modify the user experience and onboarding process to suit their audiences. They can load the database with all the churches and service providers within their circles of influence. They can include any (and only those) articles, collateral, videos, and other resources they want the AI to recommend. Unlike for-profit software vendors, Meet The Need provides all features of Link2Hope in every installation:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Connect</strong></span></p>
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<li><span style="font-size:14pt;">Potential assignment of a representative to guide and advocate for the family</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:14pt;">Dedicated pages viewable by a family’s “inner circle” with updates, needs, and prayers</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:14pt;">Referrals to participating local churches or connection to the family’s current church</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:14pt;">Opportunity for those who feel isolated to speak with a local caring encourager</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:14pt;">Invitations to family and friends to join a circle of support around a loved one</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Grow</strong></span></p>
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<li><span style="font-size:14pt;">Recommended resources to educate and inspire users based on their circumstances</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:14pt;">Rate, share, and favorite resources to inform the AI and improve recommendations</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:14pt;">Tailored suggestions and searches for relevant local or national events or activities</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:14pt;">Addition of resources (if approved by cause group) that users feel would help others</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:14pt;">Read the Bible and receive suggested scripture verses appropriate for each user</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Impact</strong></span></p>
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<li><span style="font-size:14pt;">View recommended service providers and search for those offering assistance needed</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:14pt;">Connect, add, rate, share, and favorite service providers to refine the AI engine</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:14pt;">Post limited number of non-monetary needs to targeted audiences (i.e. circles)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:14pt;">Lead advocates and low-income families down proven paths out of material poverty</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size:14pt;">Refer compassionate churches, ministries, or businesses (subject to admin approval)</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt;">Link2Hope tracks and reports each user’s Connect, Grow, and Impact progress to encourage taking the applicable next step. The platform even enables individuals and organizations to set goals for “circle building”, personal growth, and community impact.</span></p>
<h3><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>What Link2Hope Means for America’s Churches</strong></span></h3>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;">Leading people toward Jesus is the vision of Link2Hope. Surrounding families with loving support systems is its mission. Achieving that vision and executing that mission requires putting churches at the center of Link2Hope’s model. Churches were the center of town for 1900 years, where the destitute and lonely turned for help and hope. Ministries, <a href="https://meettheneed.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=772fe0ad5cfe3e59cf422839a&id=248c31a322&e=0fd2b3965f" target="_blank">government</a>, and businesses can all play an important role but only the church can foster lasting life transformation. Therefore, Link2Hope points struggling families to local churches and activates churchgoers to join (or form) “circles” around those hurting in the congregation or community.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;">During the pandemic, churchgoers appeared unprepared to personify “church” when the buildings’ doors were closed, missing countless opportunities to comfort and care for fearful neighbors losing jobs, health, and hope. Church is not a building or weekend event – it’s Christ-followers who take the Great Commandment and Great Commission seriously all week long among their neighbors, coworkers, family, and friends.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;">Link2Hope empowers each of us to love and serve between Sundays – and not by simply “checking the box” through seasonal “handouts” that humiliate those dependent on charity to make it through the day. Instead, we <a href="https://meettheneed.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=772fe0ad5cfe3e59cf422839a&id=b5ccfc7268&e=0fd2b3965f" target="_blank">#ReimagineCompassion</a> by teaching and equipping the Church for the kind of year-round, relational <a href="https://meettheneed.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=772fe0ad5cfe3e59cf422839a&id=eba76ff377&e=0fd2b3965f" target="_blank">kindness, mercy, and justice</a> commanded in Scripture. In our post-Christian, postmodern culture, it’s more important than ever for believers and churches to <a href="https://meettheneed.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=772fe0ad5cfe3e59cf422839a&id=010a2fd736&e=0fd2b3965f" target="_blank">counteract and clearly contrast</a> with the world’s highly conditional definitions of love and compassion. Now is the time for Link2Hope…</span></p>
<h3><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>It’s Your Turn…</strong></span></h3>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;">Although Link2Hope has officially launched <a href="https://meettheneed.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=772fe0ad5cfe3e59cf422839a&id=ff83567346&e=0fd2b3965f" target="_blank">in one city</a>, it will not be available for your network, city, or church until 2025. However, you can begin gathering data to populate the platform and start implementing the principles behind Link2Hope today!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;">The post <a href="https://meettheneed.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=772fe0ad5cfe3e59cf422839a&id=df5e40e72b&e=0fd2b3965f" target="_blank">A New Link to Hope for Your Church and City</a> appeared first on <a href="https://meettheneed.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=772fe0ad5cfe3e59cf422839a&id=fd5a7f5693&e=0fd2b3965f" target="_blank">Meet the Need Blog</a>.</span></p>
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A Conference for Christians Who Seek to Alleviate Poverty: The True Charity Summit
https://reimaginenetwork.ning.com/forum/topics/a-conference-for-christians-who-seek-to-alleviate-poverty-the-tru
2024-02-24T02:00:11.000Z
2024-02-24T02:00:11.000Z
Salvatore Anthony Luiso
https://reimaginenetwork.ning.com/members/SalvatoreAnthonyLuiso
<div><div dir="ltr"><p><span style="font-size:12pt;"><strong>A Conference for Christians Who Seek to Alleviate Poverty: The True Charity Summit</strong></span></p></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt;"> Lord willing, the Christian organization <strong>True Charity</strong> will hold their fifth annual <strong>True Charity Summit</strong> this spring in Springfield, Missouri.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt;"> Their website describes this event succinctly as follows:</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt;"><strong>A conference for churches and nonprofits with poverty alleviation programs.</strong></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt;"> It also says the following about it:</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt;"><strong>The True Charity Summit is for anyone involved in poverty alleviation efforts. Most of our attendees come from nonprofits and churches with benevolence or outreach ministries to the poor.</strong></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt;"><strong> </strong></span></div><div style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><strong>Your charity can do more than help a person get by.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><strong>Your charity can help individuals, families, and communities flourish.</strong></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt;"><strong> </strong></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt;"><strong>We'll have three days [April 3–5] packed full of inspiration, education, and connection with like-minded poverty fighters seeking empowering, impactful charity practices.</strong></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt;"><strong> </strong></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt;"><strong>True Charity Summit attendees have the opportunity to explore several tracks of education covering topics such as effective program design, strategy and outcomes, innovative charitable models for churches and nonprofits, fundraising, development, and more. With dozens of sessions planned, there is something for everyone.</strong></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt;"><strong> </strong></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt;"><strong>Don't miss the premier conference for nonprofits and churches with poverty alleviation programs! Registration is now open!</strong></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt;"> I learned of this conference from an e-mail message I received from <strong>Disciple Nations Alliance</strong> (<a href="https://disciplenations.org/">https://disciplenations.org/</a>). Here is an excerpt from that message:</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt;"><strong>Today, we want to make you aware of an upcoming event being held by one of our affiliates, True Charity. They have a great story of how the Lord changed their approach to helping people after they realized that their efforts in serving people were not resulting in long-term changes. You can read more about that on their website.</strong></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt;"><strong> </strong></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt;"><strong>Sometimes people ask, "How are these biblical worldview principles being applied in the United States?" True Charity's work in the U.S. provides great perspective in response to this question. They use a worldview-based approach that is transformative for the people they are serving.</strong></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt;"> A manager at DNA has told me that I may share this discount code, which affords a 10% discount on the price of a ticket: <strong>24SummitDNA</strong>.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt;"> True Charity's website contains much more information about the summit, including how one can get an even bigger discount, how to apply for an attendance scholarship, and opportunities for ridesharing. It also contains a short video about the event.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt;"> So if you would like to learn more about <strong>True Charity</strong> and their <strong>True Charity Summit</strong>, I suggest you go here: <a href="https://www.truecharity.us/2024-summit-home/">https://www.truecharity.us/2024-summit-home/</a></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><span style="font-size:12pt;"> May God richly bless this event, enable His church to extend more effectively His love, mercy, and grace toward the poor, and cause both her and them to flourish, for the sake of Christ and His kingdom, to His praise, honor, and glory, for ever and ever.</span></div><div> </div><div><span style="font-size:12pt;"><strong>The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.</strong></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt;"><strong>The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.</strong><br /> <strong>He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, <em>and</em> lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set <em>them</em> among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth <em>are</em> the LORD’s, and he hath set the world upon them.</strong><br /> <strong>—I Samuel 2:6–8 (AV/KJV)</strong><br /> <br /> Amen.</span></div></div></div></div>
Seek The Welfare of Your City
https://reimaginenetwork.ning.com/forum/topics/seek-the-welfare-of-your-city
2024-01-27T20:44:08.000Z
2024-01-27T20:44:08.000Z
Reimagine Curator
https://reimaginenetwork.ning.com/members/PrayerINC
<div><p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><em><strong>Seek The Welfare of Your City ~ </strong></em></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt;">“Picture this—you’re out going to pick up your lunch and there’s this random guy walking by with a handmade sign. I’m sure like most of us, we’d glance and keep it moving, but I decided to read his sign since I was at a stop light.”</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt;">This is how a woman in Jacksonville, Florida, <a href="https://denisonministries.acemlna.com/lt.php?s=193d951228bd07df0b0526a083379d71&i=4684A4754A5A95674" target="_blank">described</a> a recent experience to a local reporter. Here’s what made it newsworthy: The sign read “HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY!!! I LOVE YOU.” The man also held up another sign that read “YOU are RELEVANT.” As the woman snapped a few pictures, the man holding the signs gave her a sunflower. The reporter shared the story with the reminder that the kind messages came during National Suicide Prevention Month.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt;">We need this reminder as much now as ever.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt;">Billy Miller, an actor who played Marcus Specter on <em>Suits</em> and won three Emmy awards for his role in <em>The Young and the Restless</em>, <a href="https://denisonministries.acemlna.com/lt.php?s=193d951228bd07df0b0526a083379d71&i=4684A4754A5A95675" target="_blank">died</a> by suicide last Friday in Austin, Texas, at the age of forty-three. His mother stated that he “surrendered his life” after “a long hard valiant battle with bipolar depression.”</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt;">The number of deaths by suicide in the US <a href="https://denisonministries.acemlna.com/lt.php?s=193d951228bd07df0b0526a083379d71&i=4684A4754A5A95676" target="_blank">increased</a> last year to the <a href="https://denisonministries.acemlna.com/lt.php?s=193d951228bd07df0b0526a083379d71&i=4684A4754A5A95677" target="_blank">highest rate ever</a>. Globally, a person <a href="https://denisonministries.acemlna.com/lt.php?s=193d951228bd07df0b0526a083379d71&i=4684A4754A5A95678" target="_blank">dies</a> by suicide <a href="https://denisonministries.acemlna.com/lt.php?s=193d951228bd07df0b0526a083379d71&i=4684A4754A5A95679" target="_blank">every forty seconds</a>. Gallup <a href="https://denisonministries.acemlna.com/lt.php?s=193d951228bd07df0b0526a083379d71&i=4684A4754A5A95680" target="_blank">notes</a> that depression rates in the US have reached their highest levels ever reported.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt;">These facts can seem overwhelming. What can you and I do to make a practical difference in our hurting world? One biblical answer is both counterintuitive and countercultural, but it offers hope we can embrace and share with those who need it most today.</span></p>
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<h2><span style="font-size:14pt;">“In its welfare you will find your welfare”</span></h2>
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt;">Peter called his fellow believers “sojourners and exiles” (1 Peter 2:11). The former describes someone who is a foreigner or stranger; the latter refers to temporary residents. Taken together, they remind us that this world is not our home and that we are only here for a short time.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt;">How are we to live in this foreign land?</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt;">The Lord’s letter to his Jewish exiles in Babylon is instructive (Jeremiah 29). It was preserved in Scripture because it has value not just for its original readers twenty-six centuries ago but for all readers across all times and cultures.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt;">It begins: “Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat their produce” (v. 5). This is the opposite of what they might have expected. Rather than finding temporary shelter, they were to construct lasting structures in which to “live” (the Hebrew is literally translated as “sit down and remain”). Creating gardens takes time, but they were not only to plant them but to “eat their produce” in the years to come.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt;">In addition, they were to “take wives and have sons and daughters” to fulfill God’s call that they “multiply there, and do not decrease” (v. 6). Rather than allowing their nation to wither in exile, they were to seek to grow and prosper.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt;">Now comes the most shocking instruction of all: “Seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lᴏʀᴅ on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare” (v. 7). “Seek” means to “run diligently after”; the “welfare” of the city refers to its peace, prosperity, health, and success. The exiles were to do all they could to promote the Babylonian city’s welfare and then to “pray to the Lᴏʀᴅ on its behalf” that he might do what they could not.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt;">The reason was simple: “In its welfare you will find your welfare.”</span></p>
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<h2><span style="font-size:14pt;">Three ways to “seek the welfare” of our city</span></h2>
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt;">One response to the brokenness of our secularized culture is to withdraw into spiritual “huddles” with little concern for those outside our circle. But this ignores our commission to “go therefore and make disciples of all nations” (Matthew 28:19). And it impoverishes us while denying others the good we can offer them in Christ.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt;">What are some biblical ways we can “seek the welfare” of our broken culture?</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt;">One: “<strong>Show kindness and mercy to one another</strong>” (Zechariah 7:9). As the sign-holding man in Jacksonville reminds us, we cannot know the larger impact of a single act of encouragement and affirmation.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt;">Two: “<strong>As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another</strong>” (1 Peter 4:10). John Grove <a href="https://denisonministries.acemlna.com/lt.php?s=193d951228bd07df0b0526a083379d71&i=4684A4754A5A95692" target="_blank">argues</a> persuasively in <em>Public Discourse</em>: “We do not need more self-conscious crusaders for the nation or even for Western Civilization, but instead more priests, teachers, businessmen, artists, writers, and parents who perform their own activities faithfully, serving . . . as ‘leaven for the whole lump.’”</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt;">Three: “<strong>Bring salvation to the ends of the earth</strong>” (Acts 13:47). Paul was “not ashamed of the gospel” because it is “the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes” (Romans 1:16). According to <a href="https://denisonministries.acemlna.com/lt.php?s=193d951228bd07df0b0526a083379d71&i=4684A4754A5A95693" target="_blank">Tim Keller</a>, “The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.”</span></p>
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<h2><span style="font-size:14pt;">How to love well</span></h2>
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt;">Christians have a unique gift for our culture today: we alone can demonstrate the kindness of Christ by offering our best service to hurting souls while sharing the good news of God’s love. But we cannot love well until we embrace the fact that we are well loved.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt;">To that end, let’s close with this intercession from the Anglican <em>Book of Common Prayer</em>: “Help us so to know you that we may truly love you, and so to love you that we may fully serve you, whose service is perfect freedom.”</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt;">Will you join me in offering these words from your heart to your Father today?</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>NOTE</strong>: If you or someone you know is struggling with mental health issues, I encourage you to call or text the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988 or go <a href="https://denisonministries.acemlna.com/lt.php?s=193d951228bd07df0b0526a083379d71&i=4684A4754A5A95694" target="_blank">here</a>. For Denison Forum articles on mental health, please go <a href="https://denisonministries.acemlna.com/lt.php?s=193d951228bd07df0b0526a083379d71&i=4684A4754A5A95695" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></p>
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CityLife: A Mission Lab Case Study
https://reimaginenetwork.ning.com/forum/topics/citylife-a-mission-lab-case-study
2023-10-14T21:34:45.000Z
2023-10-14T21:34:45.000Z
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<div><p><span style="font-size:18pt;"><em><strong>CityLife: A Mission Lab Case Study </strong></em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Purpose of </strong><strong> </strong><strong>Mission</strong><strong>Lab</strong> <strong>615</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:14pt;">ML615 is a ministry of CityLife to provide mission teams from churches, nonprofit organizations, collegiate ministries and business leaders strategic opportunities to learn and practice Kingdom movement principles in Middle TN apartments.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:14pt;">ML615 is hosted by CityLife who provides housing, meals, coaching and CityLife apartment sites for mission teams to discover and experience effective, fruitful ways to make and multiply disciple-makers in and through apartments using a simple, transferrable and sustainable DMM process. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>West End Baptist Church, Gaffney, SC Mission Team Report</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:14pt;">We had ten adults and two teenagers who came to CityLife Mission Center (Faith Baptist Church, Madison). This was our very first mission team to launch ML615 and we could not have had a better, more servant-minded mission team to work with. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:14pt;">This mission trip experience was an answer to pray for both WEBC and CityLife. God had spoken to both for over a year that this trip was going to happen. It was obvious during the morning training and evening debrief times. PTL!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:14pt;">The highlights were as follows....</span></p>
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<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:14pt;">Discovery Bible Study is the engine of making and multiplying disciplemakers. WEBC will be using this simple, inductive Bible study to disciple the lost to conversion and to believers who want to be disciplemakers.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:14pt;">The mission team came with a Kingdom mindset but was cemented with hands on experiences with 33 volunteers from 9 churches, four nonprofits and conversations with apartment management and maintenance technicians. The major understanding of this was God used ordinary people to do impossible things.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:14pt;">The mission team embraced and will put into practice intercessory prayer as their highest priority. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:14pt;">Relationships with apartment management is the key to gain access to residents to have long-term friendships, to discovery persons of peace taught in Luke 10 and to find believers who live in apartments to become leaders in apartment ministry. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:14pt;">We all understand that the God of the Bible is a missionary God. We are to live a life of obedience as we pray for His will to be done. We must practice the biblical principle taught in Experiencing God to find out where God is working and join Him in His plan. Our role in fulfilling the Great Commission is in the context of apartment ministry. This is His Work. Prayer is our work. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:14pt;">All of us realized that we must invest in the right people to apply the principles that Jesus taught his disciples.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:14pt;">The discovery process is one of the most significant things we taught and learned. The mission team caught the teaching that trusting God's Word and the Holy Spirit is enough, powerful and produces the results that glorify the Father.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:14pt;">We heard the mission team several times the words we taught them to "pray and obey!" This is significant to making sure we do not attempt to out-strategize the Holy Spirit.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:14pt;">God taught us that we have to make major, even radical, paradigm shifts in our "churched-up" thinking to experience what God wants for His church and to redeem people to Himself. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:14pt;">We must have biblical core values and distinctives to have a Kingdom mindset to see apartments transformed into flourishing communities of grace and mercy. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:14pt;">We all heard and have conformed to the idea that if we are going to see multiplication take place in disciplemaking we must practice holistic ministry for apartment employees and residents to see God's handiwork.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:14pt;">Partnerships are key to making apartment ministry work effectively for long term, sustainable relationships. Partnerships are also very important to demonstrate Kingdom-minded missional relationships. </span></li>
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Hands On Training Experiences</strong></span></p>
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<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:14pt;">The mission team did a prayerwalk at 1070 Main Apartments and had a few conversations. Gary went to visit the assistant manager who is a believe to let him know that there was a team walking around praying over the property. His response was “thank you very much for praying for us!” </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:14pt;">The mission team split up in two teams at Haynes Garden apartments on Monday to assist the manager with filing work and to work with K-4th graders in the after school program led by Camp Wonderfully Made (nonprofit). This team came back from that experience pumped and wanting to implement this access ministry in their apartment ministry when they get back home as God leads.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:14pt;">We had asked the manager of one our apartments how we could serve them. So the mission team painted steps and platforms that were attached to the residents’ apartments. Several conversations were shared. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:14pt;">We wanted to give the mission team a cross cultural experience. We had the opportunity to be trained in how to share our faith and go visit Muslims that lived in apartments near our mission center in Madison. There are 40,000 Muslim families who live in the Nashville Metro that include 40 families who live near our mission center. We chose 7 families to visit and only a couple of spiritual conversations. One person is definitely a person of peace that another nonprofit ministry will do the follow up. One comment was that this late evening visit to Muslims got all of us out of our comfort zone. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:14pt;">The mission team’s final experience was to return to Haynes Garden apartments to split into three teams to assist the manager once again with filing work orders, work with children in the after school program and to help the maintenance supervisor with cleaning up a porch area that desperately needed cleaning. This gave the team to speak Jesus into the maintenance supervisor. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:14pt;">I believe the team was overwhelmed by 33 volunteers from 9 churches that came around to serve them their meals and to lead worship for them. They were also so blessed by our host church, Faith Baptist Church, who sacrificed a lot for the team to lodge, eat, fellowship and study. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:14pt;">The debriefing times each evening were extremely important and effective for the team to process all that they were learning. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:14pt;">The mission team learned our disciple-making process that includes praying and fasting which is our foundation for everything we hear from the Father so we can serve with purpose. Serving with purpose gives us access to those we serve whether it is an employee or resident. When we serve with purpose we have spiritual conversations to find persons of peace taught in Luke 10. Then, we can start Discovery Groups for those who are lost to “discover” the God of the Bible. The final element of our disciple making process is to embrace multiplication which is the only way to fulfill the Great Commission.</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Training Content</strong></span></p>
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<li><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/u/0/d/1pevFacANlRKFLMSWrBTw08-qSAORWS9JdtE_WSryq_U/edit">7 Realities of Experiencing God </a></strong></span></li>
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<li><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1-YyukbYowlF02yP5D9OrtYTgeVShi0RyQGhvJzsc_x0/edit">About CityLife (mission/vision) </a></li>
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<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:14pt;">Kingdom Building-The Power of Partnerships</span></li>
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<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1eiqYjWcSx3qgyS5hCjfT8MId34gQJQt5NQ9WsKeixA0/edit"><strong>CityLife Core Values </strong></a></span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1zbYISMbzQvTBoUh9zkAAXDNJghYFCkxPh7KL1pSWLQw/edit"><strong>CityLife Distinctives</strong></a><strong> </strong></span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1SismlsshnNX8NKt_1-AOCyK4nHV9RI0O/edit"><strong>DMM Strategy </strong></a><span style="font-weight:400;">- Rod & Gary (Color)</span></span><ul>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:14pt;">Praying & Fasting</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:14pt;">Serving With Purpose</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1sD49x-TzJ25Uu_3BS3Eb9pvAyMxx68wzw_jcGK7O9Zs/edit">Finding Persons of Peace</a> (B&W)</strong></span></li>
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<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1Wtv7NpLhDJN0E4cSRZrDtEfqn193nu1FGhxO_OYaru4/edit"><strong>Starting Discovery Groups</strong></a><span style="font-weight:400;">/The Power of Discovery presentation (B&W)</span></span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:14pt;">Embracing Multiplication-use a whiteboard</span></li>
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<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:14pt;">Vision Casting of each mission team member to pray about starting a Discovery Group</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:14pt;">Prayer movements precede DMM</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:14pt;">How to start an apartment ministry in one week</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:14pt;">Why partnerships?</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:14pt;">The apartment process</span></li>
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At Work. On Purpose. Collaboration Across Greater Cincinnatti
https://reimaginenetwork.ning.com/forum/topics/at-work-on-purpose-collaboration-across-greater-cincinnatti
2023-10-05T18:18:29.000Z
2023-10-05T18:18:29.000Z
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<p><strong>News and Views</strong><strong> </strong>October 2023</p>
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<p><strong>News and Views</strong><strong> </strong>October 2023</p>
<h2 class="default-heading2">20 YEARS OF CITYWIDE WORKPLACE MINISTRY</h2>
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<p>For 20 years, God has been cultivating a citywide model for workplace ministry through At Work on Purpose.</p>
<p>There are workplace ministries in every city, but it is rare to find a citywide community of working Christians. </p>
<p><a href="https://86hlv.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/hfpBjKSekAFTioxKZ5Br5HUoGHhuWLd669vySy0Uy3iqrgYD4O4MIXzWItNTyzLQyOXwHON-vJ8MsGN3SUFtP-xjVeNRkpBDu-ptXydWqubMbWg6GDumXF9sUw7ImqRe1FS6R2KwFvJvsJmZMxJAZCeBsJj4UNsECDbS0oCPscZMCedxYO0L1EzG9swIwEvInMI-4h6bAIwgadlTUoqd1rB-l6U6TukUOgGPwHo3DIvYvt3zCYpxxWN5FAxDF5gTNfP8ysRZdN8JP3nZjwhBo62T-3Z0yQEpng6ORFJ7AMi1VaYICPk9NXcLI06eBtSaZYMmeVO25mT2U4TEci3Eb1Yr3tdGeOnGQ_-NMbXQYw" target="_blank"><em>Watch</em></a> as Chuck Proudfit shares the “origin story” of At Work on Purpose, and the promising future for citywide workplace ministry worldwide.</p>
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<p>When it comes to discipleship, outputs are activities but outcomes are life change.</p>
<p>For over 10 years, Charlie Self, Jamé Bolds and Johan Mostert have been pioneering a powerful framework for a healthy disciple.</p>
<p>Captured in their book <em>Life in 5D,</em> this discipleship approach develops spiritual formation, healthy relationships, personal wholeness,</p>
<p>vocational clarity and work/economics. Learn more at <a href="https://86hlv.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/BBgB5EqXPLBx1T8z6v7VA95N7lhg8b_rYG253Kh91oTx2ZFlSaPmDGF0fqiXCYLi1ZxajCVq7zpwan_OVNi3Yk6IXbmYCRoA8xYVHdQG_LrU6BRA1GpQv_ybjbSFVc_6eZuB71nqrnacxXWy0wNZe7IXKcQjz33TH7mf61_lhRvMQ078g751ahW3oQYUJn5QD9zoqQHySiErQXzctNz5xuzA1UUQg51c-PR1aQa0lbh9kxr8JwU_NFh7-87gpb5FSsUXEBaVWLrv2_wTrk1vlBI7NuG5KIKnDnQ8DT_h201Q2Q" target="_blank"><em>www.discipleshipdynamics.com</em></a>, and <a href="https://86hlv.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/KUC-QqRTVaZtyFgt7CWmkCgPYcZFzdlrvH2Rl6uppJU0yi24bUJo82AMCQoHi1gwD_e2-MMIUswj2XZ2GxxbmHpLrcV8p-m0ZiOAEZ6I4PViRFDVzp7vFxH96xpPKdgp2EYJx1H6PLEcMoxiAHlnc_PRHUf8Sy8gizBi6wCTRGsQSi6t0jeq2jPQ-DUI9_lPoB86YfjPwEctAfR9aRa9YuMJVzKH-MDZpESN7mFXQVY9HLeJVAdVKHiFzKxWJ6epFVx4qsp-GgwmdzpDqPj-SGfldpfZJNeXMmeigA" target="_blank"><em>watch</em></a> as these “three amigos” share their inspiring discipleship story.</p>
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<p>With co-host Laura Jackson and production director Stacy Doose, At Work on Purpose founder Chuck Proudfit is celebrating ordinary working</p>
<p>Christians making extraordinary contributions to the places and spaces where we work and live. Buckle up for some podcast stories that will</p>
<p>forever change the spiritual significance you see in work.</p>
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<p>As the years have passed, our At Work on Purpose membership has grown increasingly close-knit. I’ve treasured the experience, and recognized that it’s a sign of cultural health for the ministry. I’ve used the word “community” to describe us, but our emerging Gen Z contingent has pushed further. These young professionals call us a “spiritual family”, and view the older generations as spiritual parents. Reflecting on all this, I see three qualities that have forged our connectedness: (1) trusting relationships – we treat each other honorably, so that people feel “safe” to be themselves; (2) shared commitment – we see the workplace as one of the most important places for all of us to serve; and (3) catalytic experiences – we journey together, and we grow together, through the “ups and downs” of life at work. Our contemporary society is more connected than ever through technology, and yet more isolated and lonely than ever. By cultivating “spiritual families on mission at work” we restore one of the most precious qualities that made the Early Church so dynamic.</p>
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<p><strong>Diversified Prototypes</strong><strong> </strong>showcase the range of opportunities available to local churches for work life ministry: <a href="https://86hlv.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/6Y3iw4-KsDTEsL1QbcVmgiv-OV9Fu3-tpJhgyOwwtiXaHMZVaz7onrqbmn4LeWvR8SRjlzcWZZGC5zoHO-PvvNBiDW1uZC1XeaMyGQmioXtObfeQevshkPDoofJ8zfNvUl1LAPuOX63JSb0rixUVJ_tYQ2yqUz-37bBWbOD8cPFvZdEAxsYWzOahslRM1G3IThoPxxO9xZfZnbsSFnzwXjFtTOhCbiBpkN26LIaqCb7FeNVoZsK_UVIjjtoUv85ktwnreD5dRS0kSM-uTNUj2Qy-zbFP8DBly4blW-KdMNW-TtdTReew5dmKuQWnbg8T-NlqZkuQhDsKuK35LxFVNsq5zOUiWw" target="_blank"><em>Explore Work Life Ministry Prototypes</em></a><br /> <br /> <strong>Specialized Support</strong><strong> </strong>for activating and contextualizing work life ministry within unique local church environments. Available through <a href="https://86hlv.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/Zg0wWHAdIAcNPhqmR7lOzHg6n6HUTD4v8Huuz_kFCz3hcX3t1O2Qa2jTQKVl8gkj5_SKrSlOpxWO00hn__TvaD18CJu2TFJIR-TZufRpYB5r--rJdOt6m7wVXsOn-S4GdnvEkmZsgh2pHh6euwN0JHK817qQPzQeRXXvaMt8yPKhdxUx6ZrzAB6JKPGkS61EqJTDdv1hdrWG8ru1G9LLn9xL7OUrpaqdfGVrRtpwd3aHon3v3pqBQBOFvrfhicd-VU6ZuVAsh_3n0qHX5wi9uu8l4M8Si1GA2oJhtBQdDvUXCDPwNj3nsy2ojpODdQMuGEBlV-H5-So" target="_blank"><em>www.biola.edu/talbot/about/resources/cfwe</em></a>. <br /> <strong> </strong><br /> <strong>Learning Communities</strong><strong> </strong>connect local church leaders to best practices and ministry resources. For more information or to get involved, call 800-513-9580, or send an email to <a href="mailto:info@atworkonpurpose.org" target="_blank"><em>info@atworkonpurpose.org</em></a>. <br /> <br /> <strong>Assessment Insights</strong><strong> </strong>guiding local churches to better equip working Christians for faith, work and money are available through theChurch Integration Inventory™. To learn more, or for your local church to take the Church Integration Inventory™, contact Helen Mitchell at <a href="mailto:helen.m.mitchell@biola.edu" target="_blank"><em>helen.m.mitchell@biola.edu.</em></a></p>
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<p><strong>Made to Flourish</strong><strong> </strong>is a national partner with At Work on Purpose, empowering a growing network of pastors and their churches, to integrate faith, work and economic wisdom for the flourishing of their communities. For more information, visit <a href="https://86hlv.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/PEyh0r0P-AslcvCKCpZQ7ovKReh0W8pdVV6exUWwvtZoTAmqWv55YhKRoX7RpEZKqBLyhmsSvMqoKW-HLUVaE-iMpgP8lPJ0qp4FtSNMu5R_gnoFNGMqASO6c6Vs1Dw0dIwZ8j8SWvRyS0uTo34MqbTVKXQeWSdsioztaqJXj_VFZ1i8-T662oT8psxX4u_dujpkeQmOuNdjiFL3SWk68oCQuzZxuH-NxbPer_wahOx2SG67XuD0k8TiNxTX4RP2gOTub9xI1VMfTxLF8e8O0IJ6ywDoC1Ch5q-RQKc" target="_blank"><em>www.madetoflourish.org</em></a>. </p>
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Community Intercession Guide
https://reimaginenetwork.ning.com/forum/topics/community-intercession-guide
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Reimagine Curator
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PODCAST ~ Beyond Catalytic to Sustainable Culture Change
https://reimaginenetwork.ning.com/forum/topics/podcast-beyond-catalytic-to-sustainable-culture-change
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<div><p><span style="font-size:14pt;">PODCAST ~ Beyond Catalytic to Sustainable Culture Change</span></p>
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#ReimagineCHURCH...
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><em><strong>Transforming New England with the love of Jesus,</strong></em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><em><strong>by making disciples who do justice and foster unity to share Jesus.</strong></em></span></p>
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<p>President's Message</p>
<p>Make Disciples</p>
<p>Do Justice</p>
<p>Foster Unity</p>
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<p style="text-align:center;">Vision New England president Charles Galda shares how we've been building, supporting, and equipping networks to make disciples, do justice, and foster unity to share Jesus to transform New England!</p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><em><strong>MAKE DISCIPLES</strong></em></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><em>Teach Them to Obey My Commands (Matt. 28:19)</em></span></p>
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<p>Rev. Dr. J. Anthony Lloyd, Senior Pastor of Greater Framingham Community Church, shares how the spiritual disciplines form us into healthy disciples, and practical tips on building these disciplines into our lives and churches. </p>
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<p>Pastor Justin Kendrick of Vox Church talks about why the spiritual discipline of fellowship is vital to becoming a disciple, and how to nurture authentic community through the lens of his book, “The Sacred Us.” </p>
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<p>Rev. Cindy Cabral of Lively Stones Christian Center addresses the beliefs and actions that have twisted the spiritual discipline of submission, taking us back to God’s true intentions to free us.</p>
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<p>Bishop Andrew Williams of the Anglican Diocese of New England points us to the spiritual discipline of confession, detailing its power to move us from shame and isolation to healing and loving community. </p>
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<p>700+ gathered to worship and dialogue solutions to help Cape Cod THRIVE! Each year we put the problems of our communities in front of the people of God and He calls and convicts someone to do something ... about issues like addiction, disability, mental health, and disciple making. </p>
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<p>So They See Your Good Works and Glorify God (Matt. 5:16)</p>
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<p>Then They Will Know God Sent His Son (John 17:21)</p>
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<p>Vox Church and Impact CT! invite you to worship, pray, learn, and share best practices with fellow CT pastors. The focus will be "Staying Healthy for the Long Haul in New England Ministry," led by Pastor Justin Kendrick of Vox Church and Pastor Rick McKinnis of Wellspring Church.</p>
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Adopt-An-Apartment Initiative ~ #ReimagineCITIES...and you will #ReimagineEVANGELISM...
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;"><strong>What is the “Adopt-An-Apartment Initiative?”</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:12pt;">Each of the 18 apartments we serve have all kinds of needs and challenges so we desire to have individuals or groups adopt an apartment to pray, care and share. We are looking for those who will take on this initiative for a year so we know that every one of our apartments has constant and consistent prayer intercession.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;"><strong> </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;"><strong>Who can adopt an apartment?</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:12pt;">Our hope is that individuals, churches, Bible study groups, mission teams, nonprofits, businesses will adopt an apartment. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;"><strong>Which apartment do I choose?</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-weight:400;">We currently have </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1hINbYJp18pT6PU1ThM27W7IPncm9qAwhTyFjABIHrc0/edit"><strong>18 apartments</strong></a><span style="font-weight:400;"> in Middle TN that need adopting. Please pray over the list asking the Lord which apartment you should adopt. When you decide, please text Gary Jennings at 678-231-1601 and let him know your name and the name of the apartment. Please include why you chose this specific apartment if all possible. We would just love to know how God worked to help you decide.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;"><strong>When should an individual or group pray for their adopted apartment? </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:12pt;">As often as you want. We suggest that you ask the Lord how often He wants you to pray for the apartment you have selected. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;"><strong> </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;"><strong>How do I pray? </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:12pt;">The primary principle of intercession is simply to tell God what He tells us to tell Him as the means of releasing His power. He tells us what to pray in His Word. We can pray the Bible. It is profoundly simple. Intercession is God’s brilliant strategy for including the saints in ruling with Him in power. God has chosen intercession as the primary means in which He releases His power now and forever. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:12pt;">Watch for specific prayer requests via the CityLife Prayer Guide as well as mobile texts sent to you as a result of an immediate need we were made aware of by a resident or employee. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;"><strong>When do I/we start praying?</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:12pt;">You don’t have to wait. Start now by…</span></p>
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<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:12pt;">praying that God would stir His Spirit in the hearts of residents who are believers to get involved with CityLife and their church to reach their apartment with the Gospel.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:12pt;">asking the Father to help us find lost people who are Luke 10 persons of peace</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:12pt;">interceding for the apartment management team even if you don't know their names.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:12pt;">Prayer walking and/or prayer driving the property sometime soon. Ask the Lord to reveal to you what He wants for this apartment complex. Ask the Lord to give your prayerwalk team the opportunity to have spiritual conversations with persons on the property. </span></li>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;"><strong>Other opportunities to pray…</strong></span></p>
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<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:12pt;">create a list of residents, apartment management team, apartment ownership group to pray by name and by building. Yes, we pray for buildings!!!</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:12pt;">consider being the prayer leader for the apartment or praying for a prayer leader to coordinate prayer intercession.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:12pt;">pray for the chaplain that is assigned to your property</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:12pt;">pray for CityLife on Wednesdays at 1:11pm. (Wednesdays are the days of praying and fasting if you would like to join us. We break the fast at Wednesday dinner time.)</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;"><strong>Are there opportunities to care?</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:12pt;">Absolutely! Here are some ideas on taking the next steps to care for your adopted apartment but as always, listen to what the Holy Spirit is saying to you. </span></p>
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<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:12pt;">If you live in Middle TN, purchase a box of donuts and go into the office and let them know that you are praying for them and ask them how you can pray for them. Please mention that you are working with CityLife. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:12pt;">Pray for the apartment management team on their birthday provided in the CityLife apartment profile. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:12pt;">Be willing to serve at a CityLife event when called upon so you can help us build relationships. </span></li>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;"><strong><br /><br /></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;"><strong>How can I let others know about “adopting-an-apartment?” </strong></span></p>
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<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:12pt;">Share with others in your circle of influence that you need their involvement to pray with you. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:12pt;">If you live in Middle TN, get a group of intercessors to prayerwalk the apartment looking for opportunities to have spiritual conversations and discover persons of peace.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:12pt;">If you are not local or you can't prayerwalk, just get together twice a month with a group of intercessors to have a 20 minute prayer meeting for specific names and needs. This can be done in person, by phone or zoom.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:12pt;">Be willing to share what God is doing by filling out a simple and quick monthly report provided by CityLife. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Invite others to sign up for the CityLife Prayer Guide. Send names and emails to </span><a href="mailto:gary.b.jennings1@gmail.com"><span style="font-weight:400;">gary.b.jennings1@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;"> </span></span></li>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;"><strong><br /><br /></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;"><strong>Final Word</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:12pt;">Thank you for prayerfully considering adopting an apartment. God is going to use you and your group of intercessors to change the spiritual landscape of the apartment you have chosen to adopt. I was adopted as a two day old baby to parents who chose to have me. I was forever changed by their unconditional love and sacrifice. There is no telling what God is going to do as you stand in the gap for “your” residents and employees. Let's find out together as we pray and obey! Let me know if you have any questions or concerns but know that you will be the spiritual backbone of your adopted apartment.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:12pt;">For His Glory!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:12pt;">Gary B. Jennings</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:12pt;">Executive Director</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:12pt;">CityLife</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;"><strong>Serving Apartments | Building Communities </strong></span></p></div>
#Rethink Your Community
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<div><p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Reimagine Church as the Church Across Your Community/City</strong></span></p>
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<p><strong>Both History and The Bible Tell Us That a Small Group of Believers Can Change the Course of a City or Even a Nation.</strong></p>
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<p>And That is Exactly What We Are <strong>Setting Out to Do.</strong></p>
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<p><strong>City Campaigns are launching believers into <a href="http://em.networkforgood.com/ls/click?upn=VAGGw4zHikj3d-2F5242H3ZuXg4l2iUoQzh95z-2FOhipc0BOUGcc1CWUEdm8BuC3APTH0GR_HEfkXeN5pYNc-2BILXWKnxt-2BdWkS8SvkUfe2CxdnXUzrpVn9nnpyVZSMT5iSbFR2sFuPoLey9NMGjR0PEcKq5VloVNFxPmhCkYDmO-2FibV501kpmcTbmnFWJWFT88x6CEdVyEQKrAgu0AE7x1qoAexZvNt6BuGpqiDh3crKHBiHZ27NgoMbYEnz33ne8IvN0iMTQnv0LgiM-2FumtmF-2Fn94VeiEjBOfw3UlVf04IidWmdHmLdRskhGjdsSus-2BWqKtk7J1P3pzwJc7kx10FjlpRPHli-2FGWciPGdELgH1hIGfIUWFtpKGFf0A50RI1rEg6lccvUwH3TVt9OagZbY8DQPrinJA-3D-3D" target="_blank">micro-ministries</a> to bring healing, hope, and transformation to cities across America, and it kicks off this Monday, October 24th with Baton Rouge.</strong></p>
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<p>For thirty days, Baton Rouge-based ministries, churches, intercessors, and individuals will be praying for healing, hope, and transformation of the city, kicking off the <a href="http://em.networkforgood.com/ls/click?upn=VAGGw4zHikj3d-2F5242H3ZuXg4l2iUoQzh95z-2FOhipc06hZba2df-2BJIClVaO11lQfw3AME4gk4qal3l57OST-2Fnw-3D-3DrNHo_HEfkXeN5pYNc-2BILXWKnxt-2BdWkS8SvkUfe2CxdnXUzrpVn9nnpyVZSMT5iSbFR2sFuPoLey9NMGjR0PEcKq5VloVNFxPmhCkYDmO-2FibV501kpmcTbmnFWJWFT88x6CEdVyEQKrAgu0AE7x1qoAexZvD4-2BVMmpqKbJgw2Jgq-2FZXaNeFVGu2DfC2LMjNDZdHSNlyx3bGwNXc5NGU-2FUKFdsIGiM2dsEA1YTqldxj33fsNB13aVKygmBxuxEDrqpchFO-2FiRBrD-2BNpqgYQFnhlDLPB0DrdjL9HryBlBvDEqk2BI12d0NaY8Ej4aMzrdJT0BSSsQV6NbFzTwdL1BGd21ukOmw-3D-3D" target="_blank">Renew Baton Rouge</a> campaign. The campaign aims to launch new micro-ministries that allow individual believers to use their skills and gifts to become the hands and feet of change. <em><strong>Though many of our supporters do not live in Baton Rouge, we ask you for prayer around this initiative and to please share this with anyone you might know who could join in the efforts.</strong></em></p>
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<p>Baton Rouge consistently ranks in the <strong>top ten for murders and violent crime per capita and in the top thirty for people living below the poverty line. </strong>The good news is that Baton Rouge has a strong faith community with more than 65% of its residents declaring a Christian faith. The month of calls will cover important topics affecting the city, like children and families, crime, poverty, the education system, state & local leaders, and protection for law enforcement and first responders.</p>
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<p>Michael Phillips, lifelong Baton Rouge resident and CEO of the Jesus Alliance, expanded on the vision for these thirty days. <strong>“Our hope is that as we pray together, believers will be moved by the Holy Spirit to use their skills and gifts to glorify God and restore righteousness in the city of Baton Rouge so others come to believe.”</strong></p>
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<p>Transformation has been seen in other cities, like Memphis, after a period of focused prayer. In a 2021 <a href="http://em.networkforgood.com/ls/click?upn=VAGGw4zHikj3d-2F5242H3ZjiZp0q8CiGiZU-2FSzK8J8GAvmLIV8UorWTi0ljsAO0qHwcsvsdQFKVo4MW1W-2Fi1OCrbWlCrn1iKb-2BFfL9m244e4oZUREfHDGEn1qpJp-2BQTcz9PwINC0T63TNAxuax6Li-2FM5s56V6bOQVxKH3fEUvV42H7-2BsW-2FwyYjGn7Z6TKsc3D1x0YPU3TyBhoXSlnrKBpYA-3D-3D9mtG_HEfkXeN5pYNc-2BILXWKnxt-2BdWkS8SvkUfe2CxdnXUzrpVn9nnpyVZSMT5iSbFR2sFuPoLey9NMGjR0PEcKq5VloVNFxPmhCkYDmO-2FibV501kpmcTbmnFWJWFT88x6CEdVyEQKrAgu0AE7x1qoAexZvO4ewx1hnZGXbDjReFGma8m6gt5UA0RDoXnM4i4XqvLuF4oIiFsVBPd9on-2FmdKU35nHhVWNFwdnyTzmsixv-2BITlIe250S054YVFddJsQk7kgyoHY5VPQedSCqXKIVjTz3jJ1N0TTOE-2FBN4q7HB-2BO-2BeFVYmxD-2BtUIvbx0b2yvBz2o044eGiTTvW3WZ26IDio-2BbA-3D-3D" target="_blank"> article on FOX13Memphis</a>, James Sanders, a retired colonel with the Memphis Police Department confirmed Memphis saw a major reduction in crime the last time pastors came together to pray over the city.</p>
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<p>“Everything went down, and it was due to the churches coming together, not just praying but putting work behind that prayer,” said Sanders. “I was a part of three precincts, and each of those precincts where I worked, when the church mobilized itself, connecting itself with the community and praying and working, crime went down.”</p>
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<p><strong>IN SUMMARY</strong></p>
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<p><strong>WHO:</strong> The Renew Baton Rouge City Campaign is open to the faith community to join as many days as they wish, but especially on days where the focused prayer topic is something they feel passionate about.</p>
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An Interview. Two CEOs Unpack How To #ReimagineMINISTRY...
https://reimaginenetwork.ning.com/forum/topics/an-interview-two-ceo-unpack-how-to-reimagineministry
2022-10-12T13:54:44.000Z
2022-10-12T13:54:44.000Z
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<div><p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><em><strong>Phil Miglioratti Interviewed Tony Danhelka and Jay Curtis, Two CEOs Who Reimagined The Same Ministry</strong></em></span></p>
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<p><strong>PHIL >>> <em>Today's culture is changing rapidly</em></strong><em> and many of the changes are radical ("from the root") in how we think about our institutions and guiding ideologies. These changes are impacting education, the workplace, social relationships, and how we function in community.</em></p>
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<p>TONY >>> Yes, Change is inevitable. We are creatures of habit and most of us resist change. Yet change is not new, ‘maybe’ more rapid and radical. My experience over 45 years in Church and Para-Church leadership is wakeup and embrace change. Internet, Wifi, Social Media, Smart Phones, iPads, laptops have accelerated how fast we can learn and communicate.</p>
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<p>JAY >>> There is no question that we are living in a time of unprecedented social change. 30 years ago American culture still generally embraced “traditional (Biblical) values.” Even those who wouldn’t claim to have a Christian faith, still largely supported basic Christian values. Today, that has changed radically, to the point that even the church in many instances has lost a solid commitment to Biblical truth. </p>
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<p>As a ministry committed to the Gospel we have to be aware of the temptation to “drift” from our commitment to the truth of scripture. As a practical matter, in the past few years we have found it necessary to bring more complete definition to our Statement of Faith and beliefs as an organization. We’ve also had to be more intentional to make sure that our Board and staff are in agreement on the issues of faith that are being tested. These are just some of the steps that we are taking to guard our hearts and stay true to God’s calling in our mission.</p>
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<p><strong><em>PHIL >>> Tony, you birthed a grander vision</em></strong><em> for Riverwoods Christian Center when you became CEO. What prompted you to lead with a reconceived vision?</em></p>
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<p>TONY >>> Grander and reconceived visions are in my DNA. We came to start a new ministry in 1976. The former board leadership were good, sacrificial, and God-fearing men that survived the Depression and WWII. I came along as a young early ‘Boomer’ with new paradigms and visions of what transformational ministry could look like. They had an 85 acre almost condemned facility that was built in the 1930’s. The then board believed it to be a Camp and the one staff member back then had camp money in one pocket and his personal money in the other pocket. It took me three months to ‘Change’ the boards vision from ‘Camp’ to a training ‘Center’ that could work beyond the camp. Over the years we birth grander visions to adapt to the times and best practices. We went from a Camp with a heart for the Poor, to a Camp that went home with the Poor, to a ministry that works in Economically Stressed neighborhoods that happens to have a 85 acre training Center with 800 yards of River frontage. Our first years budget was $30,000. With the new vision we raised $90,000 but I spent $110,000. In fact the former Camp owners told me that from 1935 to 1976 there total income, each year added to the next, did not total $110,000. I was a Co-founder with two other men, a dynamic businessman and a Pastoral mentor to me. I was the full-time developer and Executive Director with a CEO mentality from the beginning. There were many times over the first 20 years that I walked into Board meetings not knowing if I would have a job at the end of the meeting. The Good Lord kept prompting me to raise the bar and step out in faith. It took courage and much much patience to keep adapting to change, but God rewarded us greatly over the years.</p>
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<p>JAY >>> One of the things that I celebrate, and I believe is true evidence of the Lord’s leading in our ministry, is that the mission we operate today is really the fulfillment of everything that was envisioned 45 years ago when Tony and others founded the ministry. Programs, activities, and how we go about things may change as time moves forward, but the foundational commitments have stayed the same: 1) sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ; 2) serving people in low-income communities; 3) a commitment to long-term relational ministry. These have remained unchanged.</p>
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<p>It is the practice of our ministry to maintain a 1-year, 5-year and 20-year plan which are annually updated and approved by our Board. The introduction to our current 5-year plan contains a small excerpt which was actually scanned and inserted from a strategic plan document which Tony presented to the Board in 1977. This excerpt was specially inserted to recognize that the primary vision and values of FVCA in 2022 are still the same as they were in 1977. That’s not to say that we don’t do new things. The actual day-to-day ministry may look very different than it did in 1977, but the same values and mission that God established in 1977 still exist today and I believe that is great evidence of God’s leadership in the ministry!</p>
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<p><strong><em>PHIL >>> What did you learn about reimagining ministry?</em></strong><em> Rethinking prevailing perspectives? Reassessing foundational assumptions? Recalibrating how to best serve the ministry's mission?</em></p>
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<p>TONY >>> I came to learn over and over that reimagining ministry is all about relationships. Genuine heartfelt relationships with the people we served and enabled, board members, donors, staff, volunteers, vendors and more than them all, The Lord God Almighty and his son Jesus Christ via his Holy Spirit. I learned and re-learned that it takes face to face time to hear the hearts of those involved in the vision and mission’s future. I learned that I had to resist getting caught up in the day-to-day demands and fires. I learned I had to delegate and ‘selectively neglect’ certain priorities to have time with God and the people of the ministry. It wasn’t easy nor free of critics. I needed to lead by teaching the team how to prepare or recalibrate to climb the next mountain to which I introduce them.</p>
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<p>JAY >>> Honestly, this is really challenging. There are lots of factors that pull ministry in different directions. Board and staff have slightly different visions, needs in our communities are always far greater than our apparent resources, funding sources often have specific ideas of how they want their funding to accomplish their priorities. We also operate in a ministry that is multi-cultural, multi-denominational, and multi-generational. So the challenge is, how do we hear God’s voice? When do we really need to make changes in how we do things versus when do we need to “hold fast” to projects and functions that rarely progress as fast as we want?</p>
<p>I have no easy answers here, but I have a couple of principles that I would suggest:</p>
<p>1) Stay prayerful. Constantly submit the organization, plans, ideas, “what-ifs” to the Lord and keep seeking to see where He is working, what doors is He opening?</p>
<p>2) Hold plans loosely. I am constantly learning that I need to hold plans loosely. I can try so hard to force things, whether it’s raising funds, building a new part of our facility or hiring a new staff member. I am constantly reminded that I need to be diligent and take proactive steps in all of these things, but I can’t control them.</p>
<p>3) Listen to others. I interact with a lot of people, staff, donors, volunteers, community partners, pastors, etc. I try to listen to see what “common themes” am I hearing among these different groups? There will always be far more ideas and opinions than we can possibly respond to. But it really gets my attention when 3 different people tell me the same thing in a short period of time, that’s usually a sign to me that the Lord is speaking through them and I want to hear how He’s leading.</p>
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<p><strong><em>PHIL >>> How did you communicate a reimagined approach to ministry</em></strong><em> with your governing leadership team? </em></p>
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<p>TONY >>> We consistently had 8 to 12 men and women board members. They mostly were people who gave over a $1000 a year to the ministry and volunteered with at least one fund raising project each year prior to be asked to serve on the board. It was our aim that 75% were business owners and CEO’s or people in high corporate positions. Then 25% were specialty people like pastors, doctors, lawyers, and teachers. They were all active Christians. We learned that the business owners and CEO’s were the visionaries and risk-takers that knew how to work with a CEO and not get caught up in the day-to-day operations. The 25% helped with specialty care and they would cautiously check-balance the visionaries with the realities of budgets and Goals. We learned that when we had this balance on the board that the communication to reimagine the future was greatly enhanced and strategic. They would challenge us at times to look for new ways to adapt to the changing times. Reimagining Risk taking is challenging when you have staff members’ salaries and family responsibilities to meet.</p>
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<p>JAY >>> I think that one of my biggest challenges in this area was learning to say “no.” No, we can’t do that; no, we don’t have the resources to do that; no, that’s not what we’re called to do. A few years ago we faced a “mission crisis” in our ministry. It was a really painful experience and one where I made many mistakes. We were trying to move some things forward in our community ministry, but there were very different ideas of what that looked like. It was painful and we lost some good people during that time. As we emerged from that, one of the things that I recognized was that we (and I, as the CEO) were saying “Yes” to too many things. They were all good things, and for the most part even fit within our mission. The problem was that we were spread way too thin and we couldn’t get momentum in anything we were doing. Everyone was disappointed and everyone was frustrated. (Did I mention that it was really painful?)</p>
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<p>One of the ways that God brought us through that time was refocusing on some core programs and eliminating lots of other things that we had been trying to do. Eventually this led to some crucial conversations with our Board to more specifically define what we are called to do <u>and what we are not called to do</u>. It was then helpful to go back to our staff to say, this is what the Board has affirmed as our focus and this is where we will put our attention and resources.</p>
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<p>I think this is also where the 5-year and 20-year plans bring value. It’s sometimes hard to have strategic discussion when the time horizon is too close because we don’t think of positions, functions, and strategies; we get too distracted thinking about specific people, programs, and functions as they are right now. When we push out the time horizon to 5 years and 20 years, we aren’t hindered by our current circumstances, but we have the freedom to think clearly about how this should really work if we aren’t “bound” to today’s constraints. I find that having these plans and discussions are really helpful.</p>
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<p><strong><em>PHIL >>> How did you implement a revised approach</em></strong><em> with your ministry team staff?</em></p>
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<p>TONY >>> Let’s face it staff can make or break a ministry. Each ministry has three basic needs… program, facility, and staff. One of these 3 make up 70% of the success of a ministry. Yes…Staff. When we hired a highly trained experienced staffer for a certain position with a clear position description, they would put their creativity to work within those boundaries. However, change happens over time. New mountains to climb that they were not originally signed up to climb. Position descriptions are re-written and not everyone can change at the same pace. Taking time for Relationship, listening Relationship, affirming Relationship and lots of early communication over time allowed. Changing our ministries approach to how we need to be doing things was always difficult for me. No one likes change. </p>
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<p>JAY >>> I find this to be really challenging. I know that one of my key roles is to constantly reinforce “the vision” with our Board, staff, donors, volunteers, etc. When it comes to our staff, I struggle because I feel like I am being repetitive or telling them things they already know. But I continue to learn and re-learn that communicating mission and vision is every bit as important with our staff as it is with our other stakeholders. I’ve also learned that when we’re making changes, we need to constantly assure our staff that we’re changing our methods (how we do things) not our mission. We’re not changing who we serve or our commitment to the Gospel, but we may definitely need to re-think how programs operate, what staff structures are needed or how we engage volunteers in new ways. These are things that we need to consistently be evaluating and thinking about how we can be more effective and how we can eliminate distractions or functions that consume a disproportionate level of resources.</p>
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<p>And, we need to be prayerful, sensitive, and gracious as we implement changes. This is sometimes hard for me because I often feel the need for changes to take place much faster than they are happening, but that is almost always a mistake!</p>
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<p><strong><em>PHIL >>> What can we learn from your mistakes?</em></strong><em> Resistance you encountered? How you communicated to your supporters?</em></p>
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<p>TONY >>> I made mistakes. The saying, “God did not call us to be successful, but faithful” rang all to true and often for me. We are going to strike out or we are not risking enough. My critics often said I was too patient with staff’s resistance. To be honest, there were 7 staff that one by one over the years were not able to change with us. I agonized and prayed earnestly on how to bring them along into the suggested new ways to minister. After 3 clearly defined in writing and face-to-face communications I eventually encouraged them to move on. It was never easy for me or them. Most of them did find new positions elsewhere and were happier in their new roles. Regarding mistakes made with supporters, there were plenty. </p>
<p>However, I am convinced that most of them were because I did not invest in the relationship. Some of them were very private or too busy for even basic friendships, but most were well-meaning and engaged. They wanted to know that their donations of finances and talent made a difference. That takes relational time.</p>
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<p>JAY >>> I’ve already touched on some of my mistakes. The greatest resistance comes when people don’t understand WHY we’re changing things. When we don’t understand the “why” behind what we do, that’s when people tend to feel anxious, defensive, etc. One of the best things we can do, is keep going back to <u>why</u> we do what we do. We actually have a practice of printing our Master Objective at the top of our important documents like our 1-year goals and objectives, our 5-year and 20-year plans, and our Board agendas. This means that every time we look at one of these documents, we’re reminded that our ultimate goal is for the families that we are called to serve to be growing in a life-transforming relationship with Jesus Christ.</p>
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<li>One of the top ten lessons I learned over 45 years of organizational and cultural changes, was to keep the main thing the main thing. It was my job as the CEO to develop a mission statement that was approved by board and staff. Then to constantly remind the board and staff about that mission statement. Keep it clear and short. Make it a statement everyone can and will memorize. In 1982 (Six years after our founding) we hired a fund-raising consultant to help us with a special building project. He went out and met individually with each board member, staff member and 15 major donors. A few weeks later he came back to a joint board and staff meeting and reported his findings. He met privately face-to-face with 31 people. He discovered that there were over 25 different primary Mission Statements of our organization. He helped us forge a one paragraph mission statement. Half of the board and a few staff resigned not out of criticism or malice, but because they realized that they were not interested in the agreed direction of the ministry. Over time we rebuilt the board and staff with a unified Mission Statement that was more than words on a piece of paper. When times of change and reimagining came we always look at it through the lens of the Mission Statement.</li>
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<li>By-the-way… It is my opinion that FVCA’s greatest change and reimagined experience was in our Succession in ‘2011. As the primary Founder and Developer of Riverwoods/ FVCA I was able to build friendships with other Founders of other minsitries. Many of these dear friends ended poorly by retiring too old or retiring and still influencing the ministry from the background. Succession of the Founder is very delicate. FVCA is primarily donation funded and many of these donors had personal relationships with me. Jay was on our staff in various leadership positions for 20 years. He is 24 years my junior. He was amazingly patient as we appropriately visited each of the many primary donors. Jay is a Founders dream. He is a responsible self-starter leader, Faith risk-taker, dynamic Christian, and yet patient with me. We have prayed together every Thursday morning at 8AM for more that 20 years. When I retired after 35 years I resigned from the staff and board and moved to Tennessee for 10 years to give him space. The Jay, the board and staff did a great job at communicating to our donor base, volunteers, and community friends we serve that Jay is now in charge. Succession worked for us. Thank You Jesus!</li>
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<p>JAY >>> I have found that our supporters are more forgiving and more gracious about change, or redirection when we share the “why.” When we share <u>why</u> we’re doing things differently or restructuring something, when we share the reasons behind it, they are very supportive. They want to know that we’re thinking about what we’re doing and why we’re making the changes and then they are quick to get behind it.</p>
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<p><strong><em>PHIL >>> Please write a prayer</em></strong><em> Christian leaders can make their own as they strive to lead in their place of service by being "transformed by the renewing of their mind." </em></p>
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<p>TONY >>> <em>Father God, you have called me into leadership ministry.</em></p>
<p>I am humbled by such a high calling. Grant me the passion to hear your voice and the courage to obey. Help me to better sense when you are motivating us to re-imagine in a new direction or better way to do our mission. Allow me to develop appropriate and heartfelt relationships with the people we serve, board members, staff, volunteers, and vendors. Teach me to listen with new understanding. May I learn each day how to ‘selectively neglect’ that which is less important and focus on the most meaningful. May the Holy Spirit continually flow from me even when I am not aware of his presences. I worship you in Jesus’ name. Amen</p>
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<p>JAY >>> <em>Lord Jesus you are the Good Sheppard! </em></p>
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<p>You are the one who leads us, heals us, redeems us, and transforms our hearts and minds. Jesus, we confess that in ministry leadership, far too often our hearts and minds get distracted with budgets, fundraising, staff issues, and meeting others expectations. Jesus, bring our hearts and focus back to you. Show us again what it means to trust you and to see you transforming hearts and lives through the work of your Holy Spirit. Jesus, we pray that you will move in greater power and authority to transform lives, and for your Kingdom to break through in all of the places that you have called us to serve today. And Jesus, we trust <u>You</u> with the outcomes. We love you and we praise you- Amen!</p>
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The Quantum Physics of Collaboration
https://reimaginenetwork.ning.com/forum/topics/the-quantum-physics-of-collaboration
2022-09-06T14:49:48.000Z
2022-09-06T14:49:48.000Z
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<div><p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>The Quantum Physics of Collaboration</strong></span></p>
<p>My brain hurts when I attempt to read (and understand) articles about the origin and operation of the universe, but I could not ignore this title:</p>
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<h1 class="dcr-17q5ki2"><span style="font-size:12pt;">The Big Idea: Why Relationships Are the Key to Existence: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;">From subatomic particles to human beings, interaction is what shapes reality</span></h1>
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<p>Science and theology are two different disciplines that are meant to be complimentary, not contradictory.</p>
<p>When they do clash it is because one discipline is threatened and becmes defensive of the other. For example, when science allows a philosophy to obscure objective investigation. True science is not about proving God exists nor declaring God does not exist. But, as I found in the following quote, science can revceal a correlation betwnee the creation and the Creator. </p>
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<p> We understand reality better if we think of it in terms of interactions, not individuals. We, as individuals, exist thanks to the interactions we are involved in. This is why, in classic game theory, the winners in the long run are those who collaborate. Too often we foolishly measure success in terms of a single actor’s fortunes. This is both short-sighted and irrational. It misunderstands the true nature of reality, and is ultimately self-defeating. I believe, for example, that we make this mistake all the time in international politics. Prioritising individual countries, or groups of countries, over the common good, is a catastrophic error. It leads to the devastation of war and prevents us from addressing the true challenges that all of humankind – a node in nature’s network – faces as a whole. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/sep/05/the-big-idea-why-relationships-are-the-key-to-existence" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/sep/05/the-big-idea-why-relationships-are-the-key-to-existence</a></p>
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<p>#ItSeemsToMe....this scientific explanation explains a spiritual truth. The Creator God is a God of relationship; Father, Son, Spirit. The Creator God made humans in God's image; male and female in a lloving, reciprcating relationship. The Creator God designed human life around relationships: marriage, family, comunity, nations...but alo the Church. </p>
<p>The Church is in relationship to our Cretor and Saviro and sustaining Spirit. The Church is a fellowshp of relaitonships. But the Church is also a unity of congregaitons.</p>
<p>Is it possible Quantum physics can help us more clearly comprehend how essental unity is to the life and mission of the Body of Christ?</p>
<p>"Winners in the long run are those who collaborate."</p>
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Phil Miglioratti @ The Reimagine.Network Interviewed Alan Doswald, Citywide Catalyst for Fresno, California
https://reimaginenetwork.ning.com/forum/topics/phil-miglioratti-the-reimagine-network-interviewed-alan-doswald-c
2022-08-27T19:37:11.000Z
2022-08-27T19:37:11.000Z
Reimagine Curator
https://reimaginenetwork.ning.com/members/PrayerINC
<div><p> <span style="font-size:14pt;"><em><strong>Phil Miglioratti @ The Reimagine.Network Interviewed Alan Doswald, Citywide Catalyst for Fresno, California</strong></em></span></p>
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<p class="p1"><strong>PHIL>>> Alan, you have served in citywide ministry since 1972, mobilizing churches to reach out to people in need across their community. Where did this passion come from?</strong></p>
<p class="p1">ALAN>>> It primarily came from the Bible. When I came to Christ at 18 through Youth for Christ, I read the whole Bible once and the New Testament twice to find out how to live as a Christian. I took lots of notes. I wanted to follow Christ, not just believe in Him. The Holy Spirit has sustained me and led me through the years. I see myself as a dumb sheep following a great shepherd, it’s an adventure. In fact, I wrote a book entitled, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Pray-Next-Thing-Following-Communities/dp/1973862751" target="_blank">"Pray and Do the Next Thing.”</a></p>
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<p class="p1"><strong>PHIL>>> Unpack these statements for us:</strong></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">•</span><em> "We hope to see Christian churches in Fresno/Clovis united in purpose and committed to living out their faith as members of the Body of Christ, by lovingly serving their neighbors in need."</em> </p>
<p class="p1">>>> Is this the calling of the Gospel to some/every Christian? ...Church?</p>
<p class="p1">ALAN>>> Most definitely. When Jesus was asked, what is the most important commandment, he replied love God and love your neighbors as yourself. (Matthew 22 and Mark 13). He said there is no commandment greater than these and that all of the Bible, at that time hung on these two commandments. If Jesus is our Lord, we do what He says. There are many ways to obey these commandments, but we can't ignore Jesus' commands to us and the church.</p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1">•</span> <em>"We mobilize Christian churches and individuals to transform lives and communities in the name of Christ."</em></p>
<p class="p1">>>> Unpack "mobilize?" What is the basis of the unified action? (are you building an organization or a ministry? Is it doctrine or something else that binds you together?)</p>
<p class="p1">ALAN>>> The ministry I founded in 1982 is called Evangelicals for Social Action. The word "evangelical" basically means we believe the Bible, it is our authority for what we believe and what we do. The term "social action" means we actually obey the Bible. The Bible says to be doers of the word, not just hearers. (James) We mobilize Christian churches and individuals to get moving, obey the Bible and make a difference. Our key ESA scripture is James 2:14-17 which reads "What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead." I think that sums it up. </p>
<p class="p1">We are working to help churches and Christians work together to reach our city for Christ through both word and deed. Jesus said that when people see our good deeds, they will praise our Father in heaven (Matthew 5). He also said in Psalms 133, "how good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity." That is God’s desire.</p>
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<p class="p1"><strong><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10794416255,RESIZE_400x{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-left" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10794416255,RESIZE_400x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="317" height="100" alt="10794416255?profile=RESIZE_400x" /></a>PHIL>>> Your citywide strategy has developed several strategic components/models that are transferable to any location or situation. Please explain the purpose that propels:</strong></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">•</span> <strong>Loving Our Neighbors</strong>:<em> “A vision to help the whole Church take the whole Gospel to the whole community.”</em></p>
<p class="p1">>>> Why is this the foundation of your vision for citywide cooperation?</p>
<p class="p1">ALAN>>> Loving our Neighbors, apart from being part of the greatest command, is the only way we could reach our city for Christ. If we had a large evangelistic event, most non-believers would not attend. We know this because we’ve tried this several times. Another way to look at it is this: There are about 500 churches in our city. What if every church was seen as a "water tank" where thirsty people could find living water? Unfortunately most non-believers would not go out of their way to get to the "water tanks." But, what if believers who already have living water within them (John 7:38) would share that water with those around them. There would be plenty to share. Our city has about 600,000 people and about 100,000 of them are believers. If every Christian shared with 5 others, it would cover our city. If we would simply pray, care and share the gospel with our neighbors, it could change their lives, our lives and our city. That’s why loving our neighbors is functional for our vision of reaching our city for Christ.</p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1">•</span> <strong>Prayer Gatherings</strong>:<em> “We help facilitate pastor prayer summits, National Day of Prayer events, and citywide gatherings.”</em></p>
<p class="p1">>>> Why bring pastors together for prayer? Benefits of citywide gatherings?</p>
<p class="p1">ALAN>>> It was 1992 when we held our first Pastor Prayer Summit. 45 pastors went to the mountains for 4 days and prayed together. When I returned to Fresno, one of my cynical friends asked what we did and I told him we prayed. He asked if we started any new ministries or accomplished anything. I told him that 45 pastors became best friends, now you watch what happens. That began a season of great prayer and growth of ministries. It also began a time of growing unity among pastors and ministry leaders that continues today. We found that when we’re all on our knees talking to our boss, the Lord, it doesn’t matter how large your church is or how much money you have. We’re all God’s servants on the same level. I shared with you the beginning of Psalms 133. The ending describes the results of unity where it says, "For there the Lord bestows His blessing, even life forevermore." God has blessed us.</p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1">•</span> <strong>Citybuilders Roundtable</strong>: “<em>A monthly networking meeting of para-church leaders to facilitate collaboration between ministries in our city.”</em> </p>
<p class="p1">>>> How is this different from pastors or citywide prayer gatherings? What is the outcome you seek?</p>
<p class="p1">ALAN>>> Sometimes people focus exclusively on the church and its vital role in our community and diminish the role of parachurch ministries. It’s important that they work together. In the early church, there were also parachurch ministries, often focused on missions. When the church in Antioch sent the Apostle Paul on his mission, believers from different churches joined him creating a parachurch ministry. There is a great article about this called "The Two Structures of God’s Redemptive Mission" by Ralph D. Winter. The main focus of most churches is their flock (congregation) and most parachurch ministries are focused more on the community.</p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1">•</span> <strong>Connections:</strong> “<em>Our team develops and participates in local coalitions and task forces, for the purpose of connecting churches, to make a difference. There are currently 12 of these connections.”</em></p>
<p class="p1">>>> Why are localized and need-focused networks vital?</p>
<p class="p1">ALAN>>> We’ve all heard the phrase, "it’s who you know." This is true of local networks. It’s important to know who does what when you need them. When you need the police or fire department, it’s good to know how to contact them quickly. I Corinthians 12 talks about the importance of the various roles in the Body of Christ - it takes a team. It's good to know who does what, but it's even better to actually know them personally, to have relationship with them. For example calling a church to talk to a pastor I don't know is far different than calling a church and saying, <em>"this is Alan, is Bob there?</em>" This produces much better results. In Fresno, we have great unity and work together well. We are currently developing a new ministry called "Moving Unity Forward" where we gather pastors and Christian leaders together in small, diverse groups to overcome barriers of race, denomination, and age. Our goal is to help them become friends then start another group. Friends help friends.</p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1">•</span><strong> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10794413691,RESIZE_400x{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-left" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10794413691,RESIZE_400x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="310" alt="10794413691?profile=RESIZE_400x" /></a>Executive Director Overview</strong>: <em>“We offer a six hour training on the basics for new ministry Directors.” </em></p>
<p class="p1">>>> What do you present and why is this vital to citywide networking and collaboration?</p>
<p class="p1">ALAN>>> Over 40 years ago, the Lord led me to begin the ministry of ESA. I had no idea what to do, I had never directed a ministry before. Over the years, the Lord brought people that had experience in certain areas, that I could learn from. A few years ago, I realized that I had almost 4 decades of experience as an Executive Director. I began sharing the basics of serving as an Executive Director. It is a 6 hour training and so far I have trained 83 Executive Directors. I became a mentor to those I train. I tell the trainees that what I have to offer them is my experience. I also tell them that I will teach them how I lead a ministry and that it works and its legal. I wish I had this help when I began ESA many years ago.</p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1">•</span> <strong>New Pastor Orientation</strong>:<em> “We meet with new local pastors to introduce them to our city and to what the Lord is doing in our city.”</em></p>
<p class="p1">>>> Does this help build relationships? Unity? Cooperation?</p>
<p class="p1">ALAN>>> When a new pastor comes to town, they can often feel lost. We help them get the lay of the land and connect them with other pastors in the city. We also help them understand the Christian history of our city and what’s happening at the present time. We do our best to plug them into the Body of Christ. We answer their questions, even questions about the best restaurants. Then we make ourselves available for any questions they may have in the future. New pastors are very grateful for the help and it contributes to the unity of pastors and ministry leaders in our city. It's like a welcome to the family!</p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1">•</span> <strong>The Prayer-Care-Share Lifestyle</strong>: <em>“A biblical DNA for discipleship-evangelism</em>.</p>
<p class="p1">>>> Share your passion for P-C-S</p>
<p class="p1">ALAN>>> The Mission America Coalition taught me that the 3 essentials for Biblical evangelism are prayer-care-share. They are the underlying principles for what we do in ESA. Prayer is where we ask our Lord for direction. We are dumb sheep but He is a great shepherd, quite capable of leading us. Will we follow? I wrote a book about this called "Pray and Do the Next Thing." So the first step is to ask God, after all, He is God. The next step is to care for others. How and what others? Jesus said to love them as we love ourselves. How do we love ourselves? Basically by meeting our own needs, which is how we are to love others. Who should we love? Jesus said to love our neighbors, which means "near ones." So, we are to care about the needs of anyone we are near. That's what Jesus did again and again in the Gospels. We shouldn't build bridges and not cross them. Just as someone shared the Gospel with us, we should be ready to share the Gospel with others, as the Lord leads us. If Christians would pray, care and share with others, it would change their lives and the lives of others. </p>
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<p class="p1"><strong>PHIL>>> Since the birth of your citywide movement, social action has been a driving force </strong>... <strong>Why is this still debated, even controversial, in evangelical ministries?</strong></p>
<p class="p1">ALAN>>> There used to be a term called "The Social Gospel" which implied that people are saved by doing good deeds and not by faith alone. We don't hear this much anymore, because most Christians agree with James 2:14-17 that "faith without works is dead." This is the main scripture of ESA. People define "social action" in different ways, but I define it as social justice and social service. There are many scriptures to back up this definition. Social action means you do something with your faith. </p>
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<p class="p1"><strong>PHIL>>> “Pray and Do The Next Thing" is the title of your book. What does it mean and how can it help us #reimagineCHURCH... ministry ... evangelism ...</strong></p>
<p class="p1">ALAN>>> The analogy of sheep and a shepherd is my favorite picture of our relationship with our Lord Jesus Christ, our Great Shepherd. When I began at ESA I knew I was called but I was completely overwhelmed and wanted to quit. I prayed and told God that if He told me what to do I would do it, but if He didn't tell me what to do, I would do nothing. Guess what? God told me what to do and He hasn't stopped. He has led ESA to start 50 ministries. God answers prayer. Fast forward to about 10 years ago when a group from another city visited us and asked for our business plan. I told them we didn't have one. When they asked for our plan, I once again told them we don't have one. Then they asked me how we do what we do. I thought about it and replied, "we pray and do the next thing." When the Lord does call ESA to start a new ministry, we plan it very well. We just don't like to make our plans that leave outthe Lord. After all, He is the Lord (boss) and He is our Good Shepherd. </p>
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<p class="p1"><strong>PHIL>>> Any additional insight you want to share?</strong></p>
<p class="p1">ALAN>>> When I became a Christian through Youth for Christ at 18 years old, I started reading the Bible. I wanted to know how to live as a Christian, so I took lots of notes and studied them. I decided to do my best to follow the Lord and obey His word. One year later, at age 19, I went into ministry with YFC and now I've been in ministry for 52 years. I've found that God is faithful and we can trust Him to lead us as we "Pray and Do the Next Thing." I have found this scripture to be quite true in my life: <em>Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever! Amen. </em>Ephesians 3:20-21 NIV</p>
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<p class="p1"><strong>PHIL>>> Alan, please write a prayer other citywide catalysts who resonate with your vision to embark on a new adventure can pray as they read this...</strong></p>
<p class="p1">ALAN>>> A prayer for leaders:<em> "Lord, please help us trust and obey. Help us put our lives in your capable hands and expect you to lead us. Help us pray and do the next thing. Help us not lean on our own understanding, but allow you to be our Lord (Proverbs 3:5-6). Direct our paths Lord. "</em></p></div>
#Reimagine Prayer-Care-Share Across San Diego
https://reimaginenetwork.ning.com/forum/topics/reimagine-prayer-care-share-across-san-diego
2022-08-09T16:38:06.000Z
2022-08-09T16:38:06.000Z
Reimagine Curator
https://reimaginenetwork.ning.com/members/PrayerINC
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<div>What if we could pray for our neighbors by name to fulfill Jesus' command to love our neighbors?<br /> <br /> All San Diego is inviting churches, ministries, and faith-based organizations to join a <strong>"Praying For Our Neighbors"</strong> Initiative in our region.<br /> <br /> This is a great first step to prepare our neighbors to hear the good news of the gospel.<br /> <br /> I have been receiving "Bless Every Home" reminders for several years. Me or All San Diego team members can help you, your church or ministry get started as soon as August 15!<br />
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<br /> Introducing "Bless Every Home" <a href="https://blesseveryhome.com/" target="_blank">https://blesseveryhome.com/</a><br />
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<h2>"Be a <strong>Light </strong>for Christ</h2>
<h5>For the Lord has commanded us, "I have placed you as a Light for the Gentiles, that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth." - Acts 13:47</h5>
<p>It's free and confidential.</p>
<p>Blesseveryhome.com gives you the tools to become a Light for Christ in your neighborhood. Join an ever-growing community of Christ followers who are devoted to being a Light in their neighborhoods through praying for, caring for, sharing the gospel with, and discipling their neighbors.</p>
<p>We provide all the tools to <strong>get to know your neighbors by name</strong> so that you can begin to build relationships with them.<br /> <br /> Use your dashboard to track your individual progress with each neighbor. You will even receive optional daily reminder emails with a prayer prompt and 5 neighbors to pray for that day."<br /> <br /> Visit the "Bless Every Home" <a href="https://blesseveryhome.com/" target="_blank">https://blesseveryhome.com/</a> website for more information.<br /> </p>
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<div><em>”Jesus replied, “‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.This is the first and greatest commandment. A second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’Matthew 22:37-39 NLT</em></div>
<br /> Join fellow believers in our region in loving our neighbors through prayer.</div>
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#ReimaginePRAYER...Citywide
https://reimaginenetwork.ning.com/forum/topics/reimagineprayer-citywide
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<h1><strong>#ReimaginePRAYER...Citywide</strong></h1>
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<div>Dear Friends,<br /> <br /> Recently I was able to attend “Billion Soul Harvest”, a gathering of international prayer and missions movement leaders in Colorado Springs. It was an incredible honor to be included in a group of leaders from all six continents who are deeply committed to fulfilling Jesus’ words in Matthew 24:14—that the gospel of the Kingdom would be declared to every people group before His Return.<br /> <br /> Here is a brief summary of what I took away from dozens of presentations and one-on-one conversations:</div>
<div><strong>1) Unity is growing among Prayer and Missions Movements</strong><br /> <br /> I think we’ve all experienced situations in the church where people are focused on advancing their organization, not the Kingdom of God.<a href="https://ci6.googleusercontent.com/proxy/Bdq2Srecqd4-ZwL3ZH0P58R6FjIFCVlNUxQ30ayqYnLLlVMsldv1dHT8BZwi2wU4aj_6Omt4X_RvopP85pDobxnA0T9KAho4xBfKw0T2JPai_r1l1rHG6gb4UaL6HjGoT-EzeCj7fpVVzmalk4VqoiwLaw9b3sV8-ccImw=s0-d-e1-ft#" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="https://ci6.googleusercontent.com/proxy/Bdq2Srecqd4-ZwL3ZH0P58R6FjIFCVlNUxQ30ayqYnLLlVMsldv1dHT8BZwi2wU4aj_6Omt4X_RvopP85pDobxnA0T9KAho4xBfKw0T2JPai_r1l1rHG6gb4UaL6HjGoT-EzeCj7fpVVzmalk4VqoiwLaw9b3sV8-ccImw=s0-d-e1-ft#?profile=RESIZE_710x" width="710" alt="Bdq2Srecqd4-ZwL3ZH0P58R6FjIFCVlNUxQ30ayqYnLLlVMsldv1dHT8BZwi2wU4aj_6Omt4X_RvopP85pDobxnA0T9KAho4xBfKw0T2JPai_r1l1rHG6gb4UaL6HjGoT-EzeCj7fpVVzmalk4VqoiwLaw9b3sV8-ccImw=s0-d-e1-ft#?profile=RESIZE_710x" /></a>There may have been a time in the church when this was normal. However, it is becoming more and more rare to run into people who are thinking this way, especially among global prayer and missions movements. In fact, these global networks are partnering together as never before! One Ethiopian leader of a large missions network (GACX) described how people used to join their network thinking “what does my organization get out of it?” Now, he says, groups that join are asking instead “how can we help?” Without a doubt we are seeing unprecedented collaboration around missions in the global body of Christ. <br /> <br /> <strong>2) The task of Bible Translation will be finished in 10 years</strong><br /> <br /> One area where this global collaboration is expressed is Bible Translation. The major networks focused on translating the Bible are now all working together. At the current pace, every language in the world will have at least a New Testament in their language in 10 years. Once again, this has never happened before.<br /> <br /> <strong>3) Every “Ethne” may be reached by 2033</strong><br /> <br /> <a href="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/91SBmHG3nuI9LLqNHFs-Y9I_cMKuKP52VlBjRc1-u4UndYdPy3IS9RJzrPgMAbpJZJKc2OqBhJBwtB2ABRbP6fv5G0D12gJXvBbUPqIs2Ptv-N9I52ii2XbSOxuVIT4EUPDECOcvT5fgXtEkO-YoDoJ0sPGbeQ=s0-d-e1-ft#" target="_blank"><img class="align-left" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/91SBmHG3nuI9LLqNHFs-Y9I_cMKuKP52VlBjRc1-u4UndYdPy3IS9RJzrPgMAbpJZJKc2OqBhJBwtB2ABRbP6fv5G0D12gJXvBbUPqIs2Ptv-N9I52ii2XbSOxuVIT4EUPDECOcvT5fgXtEkO-YoDoJ0sPGbeQ=s0-d-e1-ft#" width="743" height="926" alt="91SBmHG3nuI9LLqNHFs-Y9I_cMKuKP52VlBjRc1-u4UndYdPy3IS9RJzrPgMAbpJZJKc2OqBhJBwtB2ABRbP6fv5G0D12gJXvBbUPqIs2Ptv-N9I52ii2XbSOxuVIT4EUPDECOcvT5fgXtEkO-YoDoJ0sPGbeQ=s0-d-e1-ft#" /></a></div>
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<div>A number of mission leaders put out the dates of 2030 or 2033 as possible moments when we may be able to declare that “every ethnic group” has been reached with the gospel. This would be right around the 2,000 year anniversary of Jesus’ death, resurrection, ascension, and the birth of the Church. That would truly be an amazing 2,000 year anniversary gift to the Lord! The <a href="https://10days.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=80e5465b62cdc8a793fe488ce&id=39b8343932&e=b9211fde74" target="_blank">Joshua Project</a> estimates that 3.33 Billion people are still unreached. However, the gospel is exploding in places where it has never gone before, places like Indonesia, China, Iran, India, and the Middle East and so 20 or even 10 years may be enough time for every ethnic group to hear the good news! <br /> </div>
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<div><strong>4) “Movements” are Key</strong></div>
<div>In places where the church is growing and even exploding it is happening not through traditional church structures but through rapidly multiplying house church “movements”. These networks are multiplying disciples of Jesus faster than the rate of population growth and often operate under the radar in closed nations. You may want to<a href="https://10days.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=80e5465b62cdc8a793fe488ce&id=49ed8759b5&e=b9211fde74" target="_blank"> </a><a href="https://10days.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=80e5465b62cdc8a793fe488ce&id=275275b7e7&e=b9211fde74" target="_blank">learn more about this global phenomena</a><a href="https://10days.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=80e5465b62cdc8a793fe488ce&id=5431062a55&e=b9211fde74" target="_blank"> </a>that is driving growth in the global church!<br /> </div>
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<div><strong>5) God is answering Prayer</strong><br /> <br /> For years, we have been praying for these very things—for unity in the Body of Christ, for movements <a href="https://ci6.googleusercontent.com/proxy/es-wtmtjim0i7JJpouTR7kqfvTXKGlY9gL5nZVH49cgUTUSGvbsVJ7Q_K6AUTpczqXUlJBhSR4GsPMX4x-ZYX-Ej5DCD1EokuV2Gklj0toS5aA68hozXLGENY39pkFG3RD07y-p3kCuykFXUImeNxcoH2JdLGA=s0-d-e1-ft#" target="_blank"><img class="align-right" src="https://ci6.googleusercontent.com/proxy/es-wtmtjim0i7JJpouTR7kqfvTXKGlY9gL5nZVH49cgUTUSGvbsVJ7Q_K6AUTpczqXUlJBhSR4GsPMX4x-ZYX-Ej5DCD1EokuV2Gklj0toS5aA68hozXLGENY39pkFG3RD07y-p3kCuykFXUImeNxcoH2JdLGA=s0-d-e1-ft#?profile=RESIZE_710x" width="664" alt="es-wtmtjim0i7JJpouTR7kqfvTXKGlY9gL5nZVH49cgUTUSGvbsVJ7Q_K6AUTpczqXUlJBhSR4GsPMX4x-ZYX-Ej5DCD1EokuV2Gklj0toS5aA68hozXLGENY39pkFG3RD07y-p3kCuykFXUImeNxcoH2JdLGA=s0-d-e1-ft#?profile=RESIZE_710x" /></a></div>
<div>among unreached people groups, and for the great commission to be fulfilled in our lifetime. The breakthroughs that I was privileged to hear about have all happened in response to our prayers. It’s impossible to quantify and pin down, but not hard to understand: When we pray, more “God stuff” happens. What’s especially encouraging is that all the global leaders I’ve spent time with understand this! <br /> <br /> It’s a tremendous honor to be part of a growing Global Family that is spreading the good news about Jesus to the very ends of the earth!<br /> <br /> Blessings,<br /> <br /> Jonathan Friz</div>
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Ray Bakke: A Courageous Leader who Dared to Reimagine
https://reimaginenetwork.ning.com/forum/topics/ray-bakke-a-courageous-leader-who-dared-to-reimagine
2022-08-09T15:21:50.000Z
2022-08-09T15:21:50.000Z
Reimagine Curator
https://reimaginenetwork.ning.com/members/PrayerINC
<div><p class="p1"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Ray Bakke: </strong>A Courageous Leader who Dared to Reimagine</span></p>
<p class="p3">May 22, 1938 - February 4, 2022</p>
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<p class="p5">Jesus fully used his imagination to bring life as God intends it to very broken human circumstances. His reimagining of Israel’s religion brought the Torah to life, presenting God as a grace-filled father who was for people and against sin.</p>
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<p class="p5">The conceptual core in Jesus’ reimagined story was the kingdom of God. His teaching is filled with imagery that reveals this kingdom in parables, in confrontations with religious leaders and those in authority, and through his actions. Jesus taught the mighty words of the kingdom and enacted the mighty deeds of the kingdom; a one-two<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>prophetic delivery that confronted people, institutions and systems that made up a twisted status quo. He lifted the oppressed and afflicted the oppressors to the extent that they wanted him killed. He knew his kingdom actions and teaching angered those in power. Yet his concern was for the lost, the left-out, the broken children of God. In this, Jesus reveals the core of his courageous reimagination that expresses God’s expansive vision for life.</p>
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<p class="p5">As followers of Jesus, we hope to be like him. It helps when we find role models in our time who have taken up Jesus’ call; who reflect on our times and our local circumstances theologically, sociologically, politically, and economically; and offer a courageous reimagined message of hope and redemption for neighborhoods, communities, and cities. One of my role models was Ray Bakke.</p>
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<p class="p5">I first learned about Ray Bakke through Reid Carpenter as Reid was starting the Pittsburgh Leadership Foundation. Ray was serving as the Senior Associate for Large Cities for the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization. He embodied the Lausanne mission of the whole church taking the whole gospel to the whole world, while at the same time, reorienting the mission from rural tribal missions toward cities.</p>
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<p class="p5">Ray came to Chicago from rural Saxon, Washington as a student at Moody Bible Institute. He didn’t limit his education to books, but applied his intellect and imagination to understanding Chicago.</p>
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<p class="p5">As an urban pastor in Chicago, Ray developed the concept of exegeting the city. He valued the history of neighborhoods, influence of ethnic groups, the historical and missional roots of churches, the roles of institutions, understanding the local economy, all with a biblical emphasis on ministering among the poor. Ray pointed out that “…the world has come to our cities” when referring to American cities. In doing this, he was teaching all to begin our missional work in each city where we live rather than seeing missions as a far-off enterprise.</p>
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<p class="p5">At the same time, Ray knew the value of global missions. His focus for much of the latter part of his life was on fostering the growth of the church and providing theological education in Asia. He could see the rapid growth of the church in the global south and was concerned that without theological education, heresy could easily develop.</p>
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<p class="p5">For Ray, life in Christ was about both the academy and the local practice of applying a biblical world view. When I studied and traveled with Ray, he asked us to keep a journal to reflect daily on our experiences and a reading log to reflect and apply what we were learning. One of his personal disciplines involved reading a book each day. Being a somewhat slow reader, I’m awed by this practice.</p>
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<p class="p5">In 1998, Ray was offered the opportunity to lead Northwest Graduate School and to offer of urban ministry leaders a practical academic program that would give greater focus to their work and help them attain an affordable Doctor of Ministry degree (DMin). I was a member of the first cohort of students at the turn of the Millennium along with leaders like John Sharpe, Dave Hillis, Ron Harvell, Cal Uomoto, Arloa Sutter, David Gnai, and others.</p>
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<p class="p5">Ray served as my academic Advisor overseeing my studies and my dissertation. In the process, he became my mentor. He was the first reader of each chapter of my subsequent book, <em>The Good City: Transformed Lives Transforming Communities </em>(2010: GoodPlace Publishing, Talmadge, OH). Through the years, Ray taught me so much about having an integrated Christian approach that celebrated Jesus victory over sin on the cross, but was not triumphalistic. He lived the life of a servant leader who found his place among church historians as he celebrated missional leaders of the whole church, East and West, Liturgical and Pentecostal, Catholic and Protestant, in every era and place.</p>
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<p class="p5">Ray developed what he called a “theology of place.” This was the teaching that God values the local context and history of a people. In this sense our lives as Christ followers must be incarnated, fleshed out in the local context where we live our lives providing a faithful presence along with a faithful witness to the person and work of Jesus Christ, led by the Holy Spirit and honoring the Father.</p>
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<p class="p5">Ray Bakke died on February 4, 2022 at the age of 83 after an extended battle with cancer. He will be remembered as an intellectual and a practitioner; a follower of Christ who understood our time, used his gifts well, inspired, educated and encouraged leaders of movements from Reid Carpenter and Dave Hillis of Leadership Foundations to John Perkins and the leaders of the CCDA, to Corrie and Stuart DeBoar of Manila to David Gnai of World Vision in Hong Kong to Eric Swanson of Gloo, countless others in cities around the world, and me too,</p>
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<p class="p5">Glenn Barth of GoodCities.<glenn@goodcities.net></p></div>
Citywide Collaboration: 5 Critical Components
https://reimaginenetwork.ning.com/forum/topics/citywide-collaboration
2022-08-07T14:33:57.000Z
2022-08-07T14:33:57.000Z
Reimagine Curator
https://reimaginenetwork.ning.com/members/PrayerINC
<div><div><span style="font-size:14pt;"><em>My response about a citywide ministry . . .</em></span></div>
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<div>I found difficulties in city after city with getting groups with very different DNA to work together. Different styles. Struggles with submission. One-size-fits-all.</div>
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<div>If I was coaching a citywide movement, I would ask them to examine the different categories of working together.</div>
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<div> *Connecting- building cross-cultural relationships (ethnic, neighborhood, leadership style, ministry approach, etc.). [Relating]</div>
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<div> *Communicating - leaders share information and begin to promote each other’s activities-events-training, etc. [Promoting]</div>
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<div> *Cooperation - everyone retains their DNA but welcomes participation by other groups. [Inviting]</div>
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<div> *Coordination- groups retain their distinctives but mobilize prayer or outreach around the same theme at the same time. [Scheduling]</div>
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<div> *Collaboration- leaders meet with a blank planning sheet and seek a Spirit-led vision through prayer; no one “sells” their program…something new is built. [Unifying]</div>
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<div>In a war, each military division retains its calling but works closely with the other divisions. Each agency infiltrates based on their functionality. The Navy attacks from the water, Air Force from the skies, Army advancing by ground, Marienes and Rangers stealthily taking down strategic sites. They each do their “thing” but with much communication and coordination.</div>
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<div>In the Body of Christ we seem to define unity as other ministries and entities joining our vision or employing our strategy, which makes sense to us but requires them to set aside their vision and submit to our agenda.</div>
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<div>True collaboration is a grand goal but much can be achieved by connecting (talk, relate, honor one another) and communicating (share information, results). Every stage on the collaboration scale is an opportunity for the Body of Christ to serve our Lord together.</div>
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<div>The Reimagine.Network </div></div>
#Reimagine Apartments as Communities
https://reimaginenetwork.ning.com/forum/topics/apartment-communities
2022-06-08T20:46:04.000Z
2022-06-08T20:46:04.000Z
Reimagine Curator
https://reimaginenetwork.ning.com/members/PrayerINC
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>WELCOME!!!</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><span style="font-weight:400;">This is a no frills “newsletter” for now. Let us know what you </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe0R8Eqyi2EutopYhSbB08OnCKiOm2-1MXGQY4mGNc2nMLPQQ/viewform?usp=sf_link"><strong>think</strong></a> <span style="font-weight:400;">and improvements that we should make. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><span style="font-weight:400;">I hope you will read, weep, rejoice and </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1WX_pK7xmSR7zrLB4fWhV7YNyuPXGiaruVuzzD0vHKY8/edit"><strong>PRAY</strong></a> <span style="font-weight:400;">as you read this journal. Our goal with these weekly journals is to inform you and how we can work together to transform apartment communities in Middle Tennessee and beyond for the sake of the Gospel. . </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:14pt;">I have 3 options at the bottom of this journal for you to consider moving on with us. Thank you in advance for your prayers and your willingness to walk with us. See you next Wednesday!</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:14pt;">For His Glory!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:14pt;">Gary B. Jennings, </span><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:14pt;">Executive Director, </span><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:14pt;">CityLife</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>tw</strong><strong>j</strong><strong>></strong> <span style="font-weight:400;">Here is a </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zd0B5B0YKI8MiHr8XwU5weKjvE26_kGHjty-L5YNGg0/edit?usp=sharing"><span style="font-weight:400;">little info</span></a> <span style="font-weight:400;">about</span> <span style="font-weight:400;">City</span><span style="font-weight:400;">Lif</span><span style="font-weight:400;">e</span><span style="font-weight:400;">.</span><span style="font-weight:400;"> </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>tw</strong><strong>j</strong><strong>></strong> <span style="font-weight:400;">If you don’t have a set of core values that guide your ministry, then prayerfully take a look at </span><a href="https://www.finalcommand.com"><span style="font-weight:400;">Final Command Ministries</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;">’ as a guide. I have added one to make it mission specific for CityLife. </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a86peb9O8RTKzErl_nkI35cxWRs-I-FqdM9xOyH0iN8/edit?usp=sharing"><span style="font-weight:400;">These 6 core values</span></a> <span style="font-weight:400;">guide, direct, and hold us accountable in all we do. </span><span style="font-weight:400;">They are the foundation and the representation of who we are and how we serve apartment communities</span><span style="font-weight:400;">.</span><strong> </strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>tw</strong><strong>j</strong><strong>></strong><strong> </strong><span style="font-weight:400;">We have several compassion ministry opportunities and </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/173nGTLDgHwUuGDVRyZYbFB1DL3bW2nrUaJfVStgm-HQ/edit?usp=sharing"><span style="font-weight:400;">events scheduled in June</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;">.</span><span style="font-weight:400;"> Call/text Gary at 678-231-1601 if you would like more information and/or if you want to volunteer.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>tw</strong><strong>j</strong><strong>></strong> <span style="font-weight:400;">Did you know that 50% of the US population live in apartments? </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>tw</strong><strong>j</strong><strong>></strong><strong> </strong><span style="font-weight:400;">B</span><span style="font-weight:400;">y the way….95% of those who live in apartments don’t know Jesus as their Savior. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>tw</strong><strong>j</strong><strong>></strong><strong> </strong><span style="font-weight:400;">Today and every Wednesday is our prayer and fast day. </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZdNrzh8DPzsq2s_HlnEEeqlSbrge_Y3j/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=112699136620334592610&rtpof=true&sd=true"><span style="font-weight:400;">Why?</span></a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>tw</strong><strong>j</strong><strong>></strong><strong> </strong><span style="font-weight:400;">Why pray for apartments? </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g_UqIzTNsFIagzK2DLnZJ3gdoJ7AOntiRULfRs9PMG4/edit?usp=sharing"><span style="font-weight:400;">Why not?</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;"> </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>tw</strong><strong>j</strong><strong>></strong> <span style="font-weight:400;">One prayer request….</span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-BDGZH6L28mkCmZjNdN0lwuiFUUr9A_rN2SkHSj4iY4/edit?usp=sharing"><span style="font-weight:400;">please read</span></a></span></p>
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<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Email </span><a href="mailto:gary.b.jennings1@gmail.com"><span style="font-weight:400;">gary.b.jennings1@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;"> if you would like to….</span></span>
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<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>…join our prayer team.</strong><span style="font-weight:400;"> We send out a</span> <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1WX_pK7xmSR7zrLB4fWhV7YNyuPXGiaruVuzzD0vHKY8/edit"><span style="font-weight:400;">prayer guide</span></a> <span style="font-weight:400;">on the 1st & 15th. You can opt out anytime.</span></span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>…volunteer with CityLife.</strong><span style="font-weight:400;"> You can email Gary and/or let us know more about you by clicking </span><a href="https://forms.gle/pYLDzUC3Zn64L1Jd7"><span style="font-weight:400;">HERE.</span></a></span></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>…financially support CityLife</strong><span style="font-weight:400;">. </span><a href="https://www.finalcommand.com/donations"><span style="font-weight:400;">Donate here</span></a></span></li>
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:14pt;">CityLife is a faith-based, non-profit organization committed to joining God in transforming apartment properties into flourishing and healthy communities by serving with purpose.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:14pt;"> Our ultimate goal is to make and multiply disciplemakers.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Thank you for walking with us!!!</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>For His Glory!!!</strong></span></p>
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NEWSLETTER: City Gospel Movements
https://reimaginenetwork.ning.com/forum/topics/newsletter-city-gospel-movements
2022-05-05T15:47:10.000Z
2022-05-05T15:47:10.000Z
Reimagine Curator
https://reimaginenetwork.ning.com/members/PrayerINC
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<div> Spring always feels like a fresh start.</div>
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<div>This year especially, as the world begins to reopen to travel and connections, it feels like a new awakening. We are excited for new opportunities to meet with you, face-to-face and online, in the coming months!</div>
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<div><strong>What in-person opportunities are you most looking forward to this spring and summer? We want to know about them!</strong></div>
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<div>Read on for some exciting opportunities we've heard about from City Gospel Movements across North America.</div>
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<div><em>Top Left: We cohosted PNW City Advance in Portland on April 25 and 26. Top Right: Portland area pastors gathered before Easter at RISE event. Bottom: Coastal Collective held first social experiment: Harmonize.</em></div>
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<div><strong>PNW City Advance:</strong> Our City Gospel Movements team partnered with City Advance and One Hope Lane County to host another PNW City Advance. This year it was in Portland, Oregon. <strong>We had 15 cities attend with their teams to be inspiried by the collaboration happening amongst churches in our cities.</strong> We had a panel from <a href="https://j0l1y7h.r.us-east-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F%2Fwww.togetherpdx.org%2F/1/0100018089d2a359-86a01aac-36e4-4cd9-ae47-e8e389a783a4-000000/D8KIoqWMsRp00Ffx0lBlGX9Jmx8=269" target="_blank">TogetherPDX</a>, <a href="http://j0l1y7h.r.us-east-1.awstrack.me/L0/http:%2F%2Fonehopenetwork.org%2F/1/0100018089d2a359-86a01aac-36e4-4cd9-ae47-e8e389a783a4-000000/AEHKGTk_4-CHp6tkR9KJMuuK5bI=269" target="_blank">One Hope</a>, and First Responders. We also heard two encouraging messages from John Ortberg and another from Rick McKinley. If you're intersted in a City Advance in your own city, reach out to <a href="https://j0l1y7h.r.us-east-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F%2Fflministries.org%2Fabout%2F/1/0100018089d2a359-86a01aac-36e4-4cd9-ae47-e8e389a783a4-000000/cOx5DpyOaFjdJZlNBegyjvuYL08=269" target="_blank">Tom White</a>!</div>
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<div><strong>RISE Events: </strong>Pastors in the Portland metro-area were invited by TogetherPDX and the Luis Palau Association for a time of encouragement leading up to Easter. Pastors were able to discuss the challenges of sharing the Gospel and encouraged to invite their church and those visiting to take the next step on their faith journey on Easter Sunday. <strong>Six regions in the Portland metro area participated and 200 people gathered from 120 churches.</strong> It was beautiful to see them come together. A standout quote from one pastor was, “Pulpit evangelism is an overflow of 1-1 relational evangelism.”</div>
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<div><strong>Harmonize: </strong>Lizzie, Kaedyn and Elise are part of a cohort of young professionals in the Portland metro-area who care about the flourishing of our city. In 2021, we interviewed 50+ leaders in Portland to learn more about the needs in our community. <strong>One finding that we uncovered was, “Across all industries interviewed, sustained, empathetic dialogue is a missing ingredient to solve our area’s most challenging problems.”</strong> This led us to Harmonize, a social experiment for people who seek Portland's flourishing. We hosted a dinner of 30 Jesus followers who want to learn how to be peace builders. The evening consisted of a peacemaking training with experts from <a href="https://j0l1y7h.r.us-east-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F%2Famplifypeace.com%2F/1/0100018089d2a359-86a01aac-36e4-4cd9-ae47-e8e389a783a4-000000/l-GH61yuT0ENwC3iuJDug-Whbw0=269" target="_blank">Amplify Peace</a> and a time to practice what we learned! We can't wait to share more about this time with you. Stay tuned!</div>
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Boise is Loving Their Community to Christ!
https://reimaginenetwork.ning.com/forum/topics/boise-is-loving-their-community-to-christ
2022-04-30T19:43:20.000Z
2022-04-30T19:43:20.000Z
Reimagine Curator
https://reimaginenetwork.ning.com/members/PrayerINC
<div><p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Boise is Loving Their Community to Christ!</strong></span></p>
<div><strong>Nearly 60 Churches in Idaho's Treasure Valley Uniting this Weekend to Help Women with Unexpected Pregnancies and Offer Real Hope</strong></div>
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<p>NEWS PROVIDED BY<br /><a href="http://www.stantonhealthcare.org/" target="_blank">Stanton Healthcare</a><br />April 29, 2022<br /><br />BOISE, Idaho, April 29, 2022 /<a href="http://christiannewswire.com/" target="_blank">Christian Newswire</a>/ -- Dozens of churches are partnering with Stanton Healthcare's Annual Spring Baby Bottle Drive campaign to keep their doors open for women facing unexpected pregnancies.<br /><br />Each church member is given an empty baby bottle after the Saturday or Sunday service to take home for 3 weeks. During this time, individuals and families will fill their baby bottles with spare change, cash or checks to support the critical work of Stanton.<br /><br />Virtual baby bottles can also be filled online at <a href="http://www.stantonbabybottledrive.com/" target="_blank">StantonBabyBottleDrive.com</a>.<br /><br />This will be the second year Stanton Healthcare has invited churches in the Treasure Valley to unite on one weekend for their baby bottle drive.<br /><br />Stanton Healthcare, based in Meridian, has life-affirming clinics in Idaho and affiliates across America and internationally.<br /><br />Brandi Swindell, CEO and Founder of Stanton Healthcare, states:</p>
<p>"Stanton Healthcare is honored and blessed to have the churches of the Treasure Valley partner with us to reach women with unexpected pregnancies as we offer them professional and compassionate medical care. The critical services Stanton provides for women at no charge would not be possible without the gracious support of the local faith community.<br /><br />"With the Supreme Court's decision on the fate of <em>Roe v. Wade</em> just around the corner, the churches of the Treasure Valley are providing a beautiful example to the nation of what can be accomplished when we come together in love to make a difference in the lives of those around us. Through our Spring Baby Bottle Drive, we are showing in a practical way what it looks like to love your neighbor."</p>
<p>Linda Thomas, Stanton's Director of Community Outreach, comments:</p>
<p>"Witnessing this kind of unified passion and engagement from churches and individuals all over the Treasure Valley is evidence of Christ's love in our community, and of obedience to Proverbs 24 which exhorts us to 'rescue those being led away to death.'<br /><br />"That same scripture goes on to admonish, 'If you say, 'But we knew nothing about this,' does not he who weighs the heart perceive it?'<br /><br />"What an encouragement to see our community acknowledging the tragic and immoral loss of life through abortion, and joining together to do something loving and tangible by offering women and their children what they deserve—help, hope, dignity, purpose and life."</p>
<p><em>For over 15 years, Stanton Healthcare has provided professional and compassionate medical care and assistance to women in the Treasure Valley. All services are provided at no charge to clients, including lab-grade pregnancy tests, ultrasound exams, options counseling, abortion pill reversal, telehealth consultations, curbside baby supply pick-up, pre- and post-natal education classes, STI testing, housing and legal assistance, certified health coaching, a mobile medical clinic with an outreach to underserved and refugee communities, and after abortion medical exams and support.<br /><br />Stanton Healthcare is fully licensed by the State of Idaho and recognized by the federal government as an accredited 501(c)(3) organization.<br /><br /></em><em>Stanton has seen over 1,400 babies born since 2006 with 170 babies born in 2021 and 187 currently due</em>.<br /><br />For more information or interviews call:<br />Linda Thomas at: 208.803.1646<br /><br />SOURCE Stanton Healthcare<br /><br />CONTACT: Linda Thomas, 208-803-1646<br /><br />Related Links<br /><br /><a href="http://www.stantonhealthcare.org/" target="_blank">www.StantonHealthcare.org</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.stantonbabybottledrive.com/" target="_blank">StantonBabyBottleDrive.com</a></p>
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Worksheet~ Small Church. Big Impact. Your Community.
https://reimaginenetwork.ning.com/forum/topics/worksheet-for-big-small-church-impact-in-your-community
2021-06-01T19:57:16.000Z
2021-06-01T19:57:16.000Z
Reimagine Curator
https://reimaginenetwork.ning.com/members/PrayerINC
<div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Worksheet ~ Small Church. Big Impact. Your Community.</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Phil Miglioratti</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://reimagine.network/">http://Reimagine.Network</a></p>
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<p>I opened an email from a colleague who leads a ministry in Chicago. He was very excited to report their increasing impact.</p>
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<p>Born and having served the Church in Chicago for a lifetime before moving to Florida, I was blessed to see a ministry team responding to the call of God to serve the needs of people who live in that "one great city" (Jonah 4:11).</p>
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<p>Then I began to wonder; what could God do if even a small congregation or ministry in each of the 77 neighborhoods discerned and designed a simple-yet-substantial action-plan. Just one group.</p>
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<p>Small in size. But big in prayer. Focused on a specific need in a particular location. A small but unique group concentrated on a Spirit-led focus to show and tell the love of God in Christ in their community. </p>
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<p>Not small churches reprograming to become mega-churches. Small entities, praying big, loving loud, and sharing their stories of new life in The One of God, our Savior.</p>
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<p>Almost immediately, the Holy Spirit began flooding my mind with ideas. A simple template the smallest of congregations or ministries (or even a small group) could adopt or adapt toward making a simple but sizable impact on life across their community. A series of questions a Design Team could utilize to pursue a for-such-a-time-as-this action plan.</p>
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<p><strong>Think</strong> about. <strong>Pray</strong> into. <strong>Talk </strong>together. </p>
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<li>When you gather together:<ul>
<li>Pray Before: Everyone participates. No hurry,. Listen. Debrief what you heard collectively...</li>
<li>During: Interrupt the horizontal discussion to reengage the leading of the Spirit...</li>
<li>After: Prayers of commitment, seeking empowerment for action...a</li>
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<li>When you pray together A.S.K. <ul>
<li><strong>Ask </strong>the Lord for direction and discernment toward defining and designing a single outward focus that drives every ministry and activity, every program and project.</li>
<li>Include everyone as you <strong>seek </strong>God's will as you search God's Word. </li>
<li>Prepare to <strong>knock </strong>on new doors-of-opportunity and to knock down any roadblocks (programs, traditions, customs, focused-on-members, fear of the neighborhood) that would keep you from fully committing to whatever the Spirit leads you</li>
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<li>When you think together:<ul>
<li><em>"What is the one thing we are equipped to do that will have significant influence and impact on the people we live near, work alongside, play with?"</em></li>
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<p><strong>Base</strong> - <em>Why do we exist? Who are we?</em></p>
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<li>Believe in the purpose and power of your group<ul>
<li>Jesus worked with groups of varying sizes. Perter, James, and John. The twelve. The seventy; sent out two-by-two. One hundred and twenty gathered in prayer in an upper room. Crowds; hundreds in the temple courts, thousands on a hillside.</li>
<li>"<em>Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”</em>" Margaret Mead</li>
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<li>Walk and talk through these questions:<br/> <br/><ul>
<li>Why do we exist?<ul>
<li>For God? For ourselves? For others?</li>
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<li>What is our unique personality as a specific group of people? <ul>
<li>Describe our corporate culture</li>
<li>What is our unique mix of people?<ul>
<li>Jobs-Roles-Functions-Achievements-Contacts-Experiences...</li>
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</li>
<li>What redemptive gift would be a blessing to our neighbors? <br/> <br/><ul>
<li>What passion, skill, talent, Spirit-gifting is embedded in our group.</li>
<li>What do we do best as a congregational community or group and how might God use that to impact our community?</li>
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<li>What need, problem, cry for advocacy, breaks our heart.</li>
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<p><strong>Grace </strong>- <em>What is the one-thing God is calling us to do to reveal "the grace of God that brings salvation to all people?" (Titus 2:11)</em></p>
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<li>Do we believe this?<br/> <br/><ul>
<li>People need to know salvation has come in and through Jesus</li>
<li>Salvation is <em>"the free gift of God"</em>(literally 'grace-gift' - notice the redundancy to make the point) (Romans 6:23)</li>
<li>God's offers a salvation that is not based in merit or achievement ...to everyone.</li>
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</li>
<li>Help your members look into the faces of the people you hope to serve.<br/> <br/><ul>
<li>Are we prepared to pray for, care about, share with anyone God places in our path?</li>
<li>Since "all people have sinned and have missed the shining-greatness of God" (Romans 3:23) a<span>re we prepared to love our neighbor, with every variety of sin?</span><br/> <br/><ul>
<li>Identify the "types" of people/groups that may be difficult to accept</li>
<li>Are we more likely to be more judgmental than loving?</li>
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<p><strong>Case</strong> -<em> What is the new path the Spirit is leading us to step onto?</em></p>
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<li>Do we have a fresh clarity of calling (focus) or are we simply looking to replace one program with another?</li>
<li>Have we done our research?<ul>
<li>Is this a perceived-need on our part or a real-need expressed by the people we are called to serve? </li>
<li>Are other churches or organizations already working in this are? If so, should we partner? Or, should we look for a yet-unmet need?</li>
<li>How do we cast this vision to our congregation/team/group</li>
<li>This city-focused guide may help us<a href="https://discipleshipnetwork.ning.com/forum/topics/to-love-your-city-you-need">>>></a></li>
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<p><strong>Space</strong> - <em>What is our serving capacity?</em></p>
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<li>People</li>
<li>Finances</li>
<li>Resources</li>
<li>Experience</li>
<li>Space for meeting or activity or storage </li>
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<p>P<strong>lace </strong>- <em>What is the scope of our calling?</em></p>
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<li>A realistic understanding of how much area we should encompass</li>
<li>Could less actually be more? Less area covered but more people served more substantially.</li>
<li>Is our calling to a particular community? Street corner? To a certain set of people (unwed mothers, families with a parent incarcerated, homeless, etc.)</li>
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<p><strong>Pac</strong>e - <em>When should we begin?</em></p>
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<li>What needs to take place before we go public?<ul>
<li>Does our specific service/action require permits?</li>
<li>Are there resources we must first purchase?</li>
<li>How do we prepare (teach and reach) our members?</li>
<li>What training is required?</li>
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</li>
<li>Are we planning on scheduling:<ul>
<li>A one-time emphasis? (That’s charity)</li>
<li>A quarterly event? (That’s an activity)</li>
<li>An ongoing service? (That’s a ministry)</li>
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</li>
<li>Start now ... <ul>
<li>Ask the Spirit to take control of this endeavor</li>
<li>Share the vision</li>
<li>Organize the entire congregation/organization to press into the vision with listening prayer</li>
<li>Gather a team of people who know how to seek discernment</li>
<li>Set goals to reach the objective of a welcomed and meaningful presence in your community.</li>
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<p><strong>Erase/Replace</strong> - <em>What must be set aside so that nothing hinders us from fulfilling our new calling?</em></p>
<ul>
<li>This may be the most difficult step in the process.</li>
<li>It is probable some meetings, events, activities, programs must be canceled so that the entire congregation/organization/team to be fully focused-equipped-available to pursue our action-plan</li>
<li>Assess every ministry component of the congregation/organization.<ul>
<li>How do our existing programs serve our new focus?</li>
<li>Which ministries can be refocused to serve our new direction?</li>
<li>If not, how do we tenderly set this activity aside?</li>
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<li>Erasing a program does not signify it was a failure. Subtraction may be essential to multiplication.</li>
<li>Refusing to eliminate a program in order to launch a new focus is a step toward failure.</li>
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<p>Years ago, in a Chicago neighborhood not far from the one referred to earlier, I witnessed a simple action-plan at work. A small congregation, pastored by an untrained but passionate man of God, had begun to offer a meal to homeless men and women in their neighborhood. When I arrived at one of their noontime feedings, they were feeding about as many people as they had in their entire congregation. Small actions of even a few people can have significant results.</p>
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<p>We need dots (•) of all sizes on the map. </p>
<p><em>Mega-sized (thousands). Mezzo-sized (hundreds). Micro-sized (scores, even dozens).</em></p>
<p><em>Personalized to their people. Specialized to their gifting. Customized to their setting. </em></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em>“The people should not think that small beginnings are unimportant."</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Zechariah 4:10 New Century Version</p>
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#ReimagineAMERICA... Our Culture. Our Choices. Our Churches
https://reimaginenetwork.ning.com/forum/topics/reimagineamerica-our-culture-our-choices-our-churches
2021-03-05T17:27:06.000Z
2021-03-05T17:27:06.000Z
Reimagine Curator
https://reimaginenetwork.ning.com/members/PrayerINC
<div><h2>THE DELUSION FUELING AMERICA’S DEMISE</h2>
<div class="blog-post-details"><div class="blog-post-details-item blog-post-details-item-left"><span> </span><a href="http://meettheneed.org/blog/2021/03/the-delusion-fueling-americas-demise/">Mar 03, 21</a></div>
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<h3><span><strong>What the World Says…</strong></span></h3>
<p>Nearly every facet of today’s culture conveys a message diametrically opposed to that biblical assessment of human nature. The absence of sin requires no repentance. The only people seen as bad are those who refuse to believe that everyone else is good. The only sin is telling someone they are sinning. The only accepted standard of behavior is the requirement that no one attempt to impose one. In effect, those social norms are perfectly designed to block the Gospel message: 1) “I don’t need good news if there’s no bad news”, and 2) “Any attempt to present the good news is actually bad news” (i.e. socially unacceptable). In lieu of the Gospel, society has replaced the Lord’s good news with the “better” news that Americans can be liberated from the shackles of amazing grace and free to worship at the altars of self, science, sex and success.</p>
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<li><strong>Social Media</strong><span> </span>– Facebook and Twitter are closely monitored for posts, tweets or likes reflecting non-conformance to established norms of common decency. Personal beliefs and inclinations are set aside to portray to the public an exemplary nature they do not possess. Most conceal the reality that not long ago they either did not care about or disagreed with positions they now feel compelled not only to approve, but to celebrate.</li>
<li><strong>Corporations –<span> </span></strong>Executives are quick to publish letters decrying any “intolerable” stances or behaviors as if they were genuinely appalled. If they were so concerned, why had they never spoken out before it became politically expedient to preserve profitability? And failure by an employee to adopt the company’s profit-driven public opinion has become a CLM (Career-Limiting Move), resulting in firing or demotion.</li>
<li><strong>Politicians<span> </span></strong>– The same individuals running vicious campaigns and apologizing profusely for “ignorant” statements made years before they “awoke” pretend their flawed human nature is now reformed. Feigning offense at someone else’s “insensitivity” to win votes, they speak far more harsh words behind closed doors in accordance with their true selves.</li>
<li><strong>Media</strong><span> </span>– Hollywood touts the goodness of the human spirit, but then strategizes to produce movies and shows that would appeal only to an evil nature. In fact, a series may begin fairly benign but quickly escalates to satisfy growing appetites for sex and violence fed by earlier episodes. Those themes even dominate news outlets, knowing audiences are more interested in death, disasters and corruption than stories of kindness.</li>
<li><strong>Celebrities</strong><span> </span>– Many actors, musicians and athletes publicize their generosity and speak out opportunistically about issues grabbing the headlines, but how often do most work diligently and quietly behind the scenes to mentor, support and serve those they claim to care about so much?</li>
<li><strong>Poor</strong><span> </span>– Government is increasingly competing with Jesus in America for the right to be regarded as “savior”. We cannot<span> </span><span><em><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%206%3A24&version=NIV">serve both God and money</a></em></span><span> </span>any more than we can be dependent on both God and government. Reliance opens the door to abuse of power when funds may be withheld without compliance. Communism isn’t far behind when government defines right and wrong, using welfare to control whoever it deems the oppressed and using regulations to control whoever it labels the oppressor.</li>
<li><strong>Charities<span> </span></strong>– Even private-sector compassion efforts are often tainted by “checking the box” through transactional hand-outs that make donors feel good but actually do more harm than good, perpetuating poverty. We need to<span> </span><span><a href="http://meettheneed.org/blog/2020/11/biblical-and-cultural-imperative-to-reimaginecompassion/">#ReimagineCompassion</a></span><span> </span>through a more dignified approach to helping families plot their own course to a better future.</li>
<li><strong>Churches</strong><span> </span>– Many churches are debating how involved to get in today’s hot-button issues, fearing the consequences of speaking out. Some leaders would rather remain quiet or conform to culture rather than risk potentially futile attempts to transform it. In the interest of not sounding “judgmental”, Christians understandably see themselves in a “glass house” but must still recognize the difference in their natures after being “born again”.</li>
<li><strong>Other Religions –</strong><span> </span>Christianity is the only religion on earth that holds a realistic depiction of human nature, teaching mankind cannot alter our eternal fate through our own goodness (external actions) or inner divinity (internal discovery). Only Christianity says God came down because we were too sinful to aspire to rise up – even one inch.</li>
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<p>Without Jesus, nations always believe the lie that man’s goodness will bring utopia, but entropy is the outcome of the truth that humans are actually sinful. Power doesn’t become justice, but control. Uniformity doesn’t become unity, but division. Sex doesn’t become love, but deviance. Atheism doesn’t become freedom, but depression. Dependence doesn’t become equality, but poverty. Wealth doesn’t become generosity, but greed. Promises don’t become trustworthiness, but betrayal. Education doesn’t become wisdom, but delusion. Advancement doesn’t become progress, but pride. Those are the reasons why letting our guards down by subscribing to a faulty fundamental premise will<span> </span><span><a href="http://meettheneed.org/blog/2021/02/can-americas-demise-be-averted/">soon lead America from the Age of Decadence to the Age of Decline</a></span>.</p>
<p>The uncanny correlation of America’s history with the rise and fall of the world’s superpowers indicates that our end may be closer than we think. Our evolution through ages of<span> </span><span><a href="http://meettheneed.org/blog/2021/02/nearing-the-last-stage-of-american-history/">pioneering, commerce, affluence, intellect and decadence</a></span><span> </span>mirrors the stages experienced by past civilizations before their collapse. The time required to complete that cycle has averaged roughly 250 years, a birthday America will celebrate in the not-too-distant future.</p>
<p>Empires run their natural course according to a consistent progression and timeline because humans are uniform in their thoughts and tendencies across centuries and nationalities.<strong><span> </span> </strong>The faith initially required to achieve the freedoms enjoyed in a democracy dissipates when sinful human nature encounters the<span> </span><span><a href="http://meettheneed.org/blog/2020/12/10-pitfalls-of-progress-and-prosperity/">pitfalls of progress and prosperity</a></span>. In other words, reliance on God during times of uncertainty evolves into self-sufficiency in times of abundance.</p>
<p>It is that transition from reliance on God’s provision to belief in our adequacy that precipitates the inevitable. Ironically, our sinful human nature both leads to the Age of Decadence and then prompts the ultimate deception that hastens the Age of Decline & Collapse – the fallacy that our human nature is not sinful, but inherently good.</p>
<p>A wealthy and educated society no longer sees a need to subscribe or subject itself to the arcane principles and practices of the previously “unenlightened”. It establishes new, less rigid standards of behavior and celebrates new, more superficial heroes. It defines new virtues like self-determination, welfare distribution and dissent suppression. It then surveys all it has created – selfishness, dependence and coercion – and declares, “<span><em><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+1%3A31&version=NIV">Behold, it was very good</a></em></span>”. Yet denying or reframing sin does not eradicate it. As the Lord warned Cain right before he killed Abel, sin still lies<span> </span><span><em><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+4%3A7&version=NIV">crouching at your door</a></em></span>. Faith, family and freedom quickly deteriorate in nations that<span> </span><span><em><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%205%3A20&version=KJV">call evil good and good evil</a></em></span>, while division, debt and defenselessness against threats mount.</p>
<h3><span><strong>What the Bible Says…</strong></span></h3>
<p>Scripture commands us to dwell on<span> </span><span><em><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Philippians+4%3A8&version=NIV">whatever is pure…whatever is admirable</a></em></span>, leading even some Christians to believe they should assume the best about human nature. However, Paul is speaking of diverting thoughts from<span> </span><span><em><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Philippians+4%3A6&version=NIV">worldly anxieties</a></em></span>,<span> </span><span><em><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=romans+12%3A2&version=NIV">renewing our minds</a></em></span><span> </span>through preoccupation with God’s<span> </span><span><em><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=romans+12%3A2&version=NIV">good, pleasing and perfect will</a></em></span>. <span><em><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+10%3A18&version=NIV">Only God is good</a></em></span><span> </span>and only what He creates is “<span><em><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+1%3A31&version=NIV">very good</a></em></span>”. <span> </span><span><em><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=james+1%3A17&version=NIV">Every good and perfect gift is from above</a></em></span>. It was man who corrupted what<span> </span><span><em><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+50%3A20&version=NIV">God intended for good</a></em></span><span> </span>in the Garden of Eden. Now<span> </span><span><em><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=james+1%3A14&version=NIV">men are dragged away by their own evil desires</a></em></span>, causing the downfall of even the most powerful nations.</p>
<p>Likewise, what modern American society calls good, including human nature, is neither<span> </span><span><em><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Philippians+4%3A8&version=NIV">pure</a></em></span><span> </span>nor<span> </span><span><em><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Philippians+4%3A8&version=NIV">admirable</a></em></span>. <span> </span><span><em><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Colossians%203%3A5&version=NIV">Whatever belongs to our earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed</a></em></span><span> </span>defines the State of the Union as we wallow in the Age of Decadence. We have<span> </span><span><em><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans%201%3A25&version=NIV">exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator</a></em></span>. Our only hope is Jesus, who came to pay a debt He didn’t owe because we owed a debt we couldn’t pay. Yet our Post-Christian culture does not acknowledge that debt or accept His payment. Regardless, one day<span> </span><em><span><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Philippians+2%3A10&version=NIV">at the name of Jesus every knee will bow</a></span>…<span><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Philippians+2%3A11&version=NASB">and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord</a></span></em>.</p>
<p>God’s Word goes further, saying<span> </span><span><em><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+3%3A10&version=NIV">there is no one righteous, not even one</a></em></span>. Even our<span> </span><span><em><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2064%3A6&version=NIV">righteous acts are like filthy rags</a></em></span>. Human nature enables only selfish motives for apparent benevolence. After years in ministry Paul confessed, “<span><em><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+7%3A18-20+&version=NIV">For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do – this I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it</a></em></span>.” We may attempt to<span> </span><span><em><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+23%3A25&version=NIV">clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside</a></em></span><span> </span>we are<span> </span><span><em><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+23%3A25&version=NIV">full of greed and self-indulgence</a></em></span><span> </span>without Jesus. Our<span> </span><span><em><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans%207%3A25&version=NIV">sinful nature is a slave to the law of sin</a></em></span><span> </span>unless we are<span> </span><span><em><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+3%3A3-8&version=NIV">reborn</a></em></span><span> </span>by the power of the Holy Spirit. Through Jesus we can become<span> </span><span><em><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/quicksearch/?quicksearch=new+creature&version=NIV">a new creation</a></em></span><span> </span>and<span> </span><span><em><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans%206%3A19&version=NASB">slaves to righteousness</a></em></span><span> </span>instead of sin,<span> </span><span><em><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans%206%3A19&version=NASB">resulting in sanctification</a></em></span>. My nature is transformed because<span> </span><em><span><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=galations+2%3A20%5C&version=NASB">it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me</a></span>.</em></p>
<h3><span><strong>What Do You Say?…</strong></span></h3>
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A Template for the Church to #ReimagineCOMPASSION...
https://reimaginenetwork.ning.com/forum/topics/a-template-for-the-church-to-reimaginecompassion
2021-05-20T15:48:08.000Z
2021-05-20T15:48:08.000Z
Reimagine Curator
https://reimaginenetwork.ning.com/members/PrayerINC
<div><p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">NEW... from Pastor Andy Stanley</span><br/><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8945974462?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8945974462?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-center" width="592" height="352"/></a></p></div>
#ReimagineCITIES...with justice
https://reimaginenetwork.ning.com/forum/topics/reimaginecities-with-justice
2021-05-07T15:48:09.000Z
2021-05-07T15:48:09.000Z
Reimagine Curator
https://reimaginenetwork.ning.com/members/PrayerINC
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PowerPoint Templates: •Impacting Your Community •Influencing Your City
https://reimaginenetwork.ning.com/forum/topics/powerpoint-templates-for-impacting-your-community-influencing-you
2021-06-06T19:03:16.000Z
2021-06-06T19:03:16.000Z
Reimagine Curator
https://reimaginenetwork.ning.com/members/PrayerINC
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#ReimagineCITIES ~ Links to Thought Leaders
https://reimaginenetwork.ning.com/forum/topics/reimaginecities-links-to-thought-leaders
2019-10-26T21:06:57.000Z
2019-10-26T21:06:57.000Z
Reimagine Curator
https://reimaginenetwork.ning.com/members/PrayerINC
<div><p><strong>•From a cityreaching colleague:</strong></p>
<p><span>Hi Phil ...</span><br/> <br/> <span>Last week I spoke to over 200 Pastors and church leaders and suggested we should be reading some City Reaching books. Afterwords I received a lot of great responses and people wanted to know what books I would recommend. While there are some books that I could recommend, I wondered, with all of your contacts and experiences, what “City-Reaching” books, social media sites, and special articles you would recommend to our citywide network of pastors and leaders?</span><br/> <br/> <em>Thanks Phil,</em></p>
<p><em>Ron </em></p>
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<p><strong>•My response; a short listing of: Authors, Sites, Research, Collaboration, CIty Transformation</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3681652776?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CLICK >>>ReimagineCITIES%20-%20Thought%20Leaders.docx</a></p></div>
#ReimagineCITIES...Impact Communities with The 5 "Cs" Template
https://reimaginenetwork.ning.com/forum/topics/reimaginecities-impact-communities-with-the-5-cs-template
2020-10-05T18:33:18.000Z
2020-10-05T18:33:18.000Z
Reimagine Curator
https://reimaginenetwork.ning.com/members/PrayerINC
<div><p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The 1990s saw a fresh awareness among catalytic leaders of the need to cast vision beyond single-congregation evangelism or community impact.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This Holy Spirit perspective gave rise to a movement that continues to this day; "cityreaching."</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In it's infant stage, cityreaching had a "we will take our cities for God!" mindset. As the movement matured, the "for God" remained but the "taking" was replaced by "serving." Citywide actions-projects-events were often fueled by a prayer-care-share lifestyle mindset that influenced disciple-making models and impacted evangelistic training. City Impact Roundtable and Conference calls brought a diversity of leaders together for prayer and relationships as well as thought leaders and best practices. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Examples of national platforms include: Mission America Coalition, Seek God for the CIty, Movement Day, CIty Gospel Movements, Loving Our Communities for Christ, Christ Together, CIty Advance . . .</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Examples of regional/local platforms include: Serve The CIty (Cedar rapids), Together (Rhode Island), Explore God Chicago, Ready Indy, Milwaukee Believes, Love INC (Fresno), El Paso for Jesus, Love Fox Valley (Illinois; Wisconsin) . . .</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">These initiatives have resulted in a variety of role functions, such as Coordinators, Directors, Coaches, Leader, but seldom has someone devoted their focus and energies toward facilitating.</span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Facilitating communication across the Church</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Facilitating connections to build authentic Kingdom relationships</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Facilitating partnerships that result in equipping, expanding or extending ministry</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A full-time-focus facilitator has the privilege of lifting any and potentially every congregation and organization in the region. In other words, that facilitator's task is to seed and feed but not lead.</span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Appoint or recruit other gifted persons to take the "top" role </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This allows you to serve others, free from the tasks and time of administration</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This allows you to focus on inviting still others into the movement, at their level of interest or their capacity of ministry.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">That keeps you from taking the role of Chief Shepherd of the movement; leave that to the true Cityrecher, our Lord Jesus</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">As this river of many tributaries continues to flow, city movement champions must carry learned insights from the past as they seek Holy Spirit discernment for the future.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I invite you to consider these five "Cs" as a guide toward catalyzing a movement of movements across a community or city.</span></p>
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<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">CONTACT</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">CONNECT</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">COORDINATE</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">COOPERATE</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">COLLABORATE</span></li>
</ol>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">CONTACT</span></p>
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<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Our first objective must be to make a collegial contact with as many potential ministry partners as possible. Pastors. Ministry CEOs. Community activists. Social services. Neighborhood groups. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>How can I/we serve your vision?</em></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 16px;">Help us tell your story</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 16px;">Goal: to understand what God is doing across the city/region:</span><ul>
<li><span style="font-size: 16px;">Micro (congregation, team, group)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 16px;">Mezzo (mezzanine; organizations, ministries, services)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 16px;">Macro (area-wide events and programs)</span></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">CONNECT</span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: 16px;">...so that, we can build a data base for communication that</span><ul>
<li><span style="font-size: 16px;">Introduces leaders to one another</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 16px;">Informs the Church of the vision/purpose of the wide diversity of ministries and congregations across their city/region</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 16px;">Invites participation on a</span><ul>
<li><span style="font-size: 16px;">Micro level (Pastors' Prayer groups)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 16px;">Mezzo level (local or affinity clusters)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Macro level (seasonal events, holiday programs)</span></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">COOPERATE</span></p>
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<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Two or more entities (congregations, organizations, associations) assisting another ministry/agency </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">One entity promoting a concert or conference of another church/ministry</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Several entities provide volunteers for an under-resourced ministry program</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">COORDINATE</span></p>
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<li><span style="font-size: 16px;">Two or more entities participating together in a project or event: Same thing-Same-time. Same place.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 16px;">Church Pantries making bulk purchases or sharing a common facility</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 16px;">Congregations committing to an initiative (for example, Explore God: same curriculum and dates, but no interaction between participating groups </span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">COLLABORATE</span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: 16px;">Two or more entities together developing a plan/program to meet a need</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 16px;">Entities combine under a common-name-banner to remove graffiti in a neighborhood</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 16px;">Entity invites the community (individuals and agencies) to brainstorm solutions to a local problem, design a strategy to minimize that need, then participate in the implementation of that strategy</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">None of this is new to the community impact movement.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">What would be "new" is to insert free-ranging facilitators.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">No role to be consumed by. No risk to other recognized leaders. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">No desire to create a new organization or compete with current initiatives.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">A person fueled by a desire to lift-up the work of the Body of Christ, whether micro (a store front church), mezzo (a single-focus ministry that serves the region), or macro (big in scope and size).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">Could that be you?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">Add this to your prayer-list?</span></p>
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#ReimagineCITIES...as spheres of influence
https://reimaginenetwork.ning.com/forum/topics/reimaginecities-as-spheres-of-influence
2020-09-29T18:48:19.000Z
2020-09-29T18:48:19.000Z
Reimagine Curator
https://reimaginenetwork.ning.com/members/PrayerINC
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<p><br/>Monthly prayer meetings are taking place on the first Sat of each month. I like to invite you in November to pray for 1 or 2 spheres from the below list, please reply if you are interested.</p>
<p><br/>The vision of this group <br/>The prayer focus is on the spheres/mountains of influence in all nations for:<br/>Marriage <br/>Family <br/>Church (Ecclesia) <br/>Immigrant Churches<br/>Houses of Prayers<br/>Government <br/>Military <br/>Business<br/>Law and Justice <br/>Religion <br/>Arts <br/>Education <br/>Charity and Not for Profit Welfare <br/>Health <br/>Science <br/>Media <br/>Entertainment<br/>Sport and Recreation</p>
<p>Jesus Prays for All Believers<br/>20 “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21 that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— 23 I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.<br/>24 “Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.25 “Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. 26 I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.”</p>
<p>What is the role of a prayer strategist for the spheres of influence</p>
<p>As strategists we are called to stand in the gap, research the spheres of influence in all nations with the support of local prophetic and apostolic leaders to destroy the strongholds of the enemy in the spheres of influence. We as prayer strategists, we work in partnership with others to engage in and catalyse prayers, train disciples which informs and flows from the team's vision and strategy through:<br/>• Regularly drawing near to God in prayer, worship and adoration both individually and as a team<br/>• Becoming aware of gaps and hindrances in reaching the vision God has entrusted to them;<br/>• Researching, envisioning and refining strategies for overcoming those gaps;<br/>• Maximizing strategic implementation of the team's strategies particularly related to prayer;<br/>• Periodically refining those strategies with the team in times of prayer together.</p>
<p>1 Chronicles 12:32 speaks of the men of Issachar who understood the times and knew what needed to be done; these people might be representative of 'prayer strategists.' Nehemiah is another example. Nehemiah interceded about the broken down walls of Jerusalem and he gained favour with the king, permission and resources, mobilized teams to do the actual work, and oversaw the completion of the project. Prayer was the way he received a strategy and was integral to the project's success. In the New Testament, Barnabas was an encourager, connector and prophetic intercessor for in the spread of the Early Church. He brought Saul into relationship with the apostles and served alongside Paul in pioneering new work for the gospel. He was an another example of this same function in the Body of Christ.</p>
<p>Our principles are God’s principles on earth as it is in heaven</p>
<p>We are implementing these truths through many leaders who represent their spheres of influence/mountains/domains. The Sermon on the Mount (Matt.5-7) is understood to the manifesto of the Kingdom of God on earth. <a href="http://prayerstrategy.org/">http://prayerstrategy.org/</a></p>
<p>At this time in history we live in the era of God's grace where good and evil can produce order or disorder according to our obedience or disobedience to God. In this reality two doctrines work in parallel: the free will of man and the sovereignty of God. While God calls all people to himself through his truth and kindness, not all will respond. God is not responsible for our sin and he will ultimately have the last say.</p>
<p>We will all be held accountable for the life we have been given (John 3:16-18). The time will certainly come when the Lord Jesus Christ will return to earth to rule and reign as King of kings and Lord of lords over the whole earth from the city of Jerusalem (Micah 4:1- 8).</p>
<p>Our faith in Christ the Son of the Living God, and this is where we stand. Our Mission is to pray and connect people who are passionate about participating in growing the governance of Christ in every sphere/mountain/domain of society and follow God’s command to love one another as He loved us<br/>(John 13:34-35).</p>
<p>There are a few formative Kingdom of God principles that are critical to accomplishing the will and the ways of God on Earth as it is in Heaven: <br/>1. There can be only one head, the Lord Jesus Christ.<br/>2. There can be only one body of many different parts working together. <br/>3. The authority of the head passes to the body and rests on the shoulders of the body to bring forth the Kingdom of God on earth as it is in Heaven (Matt 16:18). <br/>4. The Body of Christ knows the will of the Head by Word and Spirit.<br/>5. The Power of God is manifested in His power when we work in unity to achieve the above principles. His power is released through our faith to accomplish his will: "Later the disciples came to him privately and asked, “Why couldn’t we cast out the demon?” He told them, “It was because of your lack of faith. I promise you, if you have faith inside of you no bigger than the size of a small mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move away from here and go over there,’ and you will see it move! There is nothing you couldn’t do!" For our God is not only the God of individuals, he is also the God of nations (Rev 21:24).</p>
<p>God bless</p>
<p><br/>Lilian</p>
<p>Lilian Schmid<br/>National Coordinator <br/>Prayer Strategy for the Spheres of Influence<br/><a href="http://www.prayerstrategy.org">www.prayerstrategy.org</a></p></div>