What Happens in Three Days of Training?
For those of you who want the technical stuff... read on. (For those who prefer the heart-and-soul plus the humor of our travels, skip this post).
What happens in three days of training? It is impossible to describe all of the dynamics that take place as relationships are built, vision is extracted from the team, principles of church planting movements are taught and discovered through teaching, sharing, and case study exploration, team issues are dealt with, and personal issues often come to the forefront.
But just to provide a glimpse into one part of the outcome, here is a list that the team in Oaxaca came up with that they intend to apply in order to produce greater fruitfulness in church planting:
- Cast more seed: besides the medical clinics and the work program, we (this team) want to extend our efforts to connect with still more people.
- Simplify and clarify our compelling vision to train church planters.
- Help existing groups to begin multiplying. Use the practical training of helping them to tell their stories and develop their list of people to share with.
- Pray and look for Persons of Peace more intentionally and more expectantly.
- Go to pastors and see if there are any who would want to cooperate by having some of their members getting involved in starting new churches.
- Increase our prayer focus.
- Use discovery-based discipleship methods.
- Use oral Bible story-telling.
This has been a fantastic group to work with and we are excited to partner with them and support them in every way that we can.
