Preserving The Fruit: Follow-Up
September 19 - October 17
Follow-Up Coordinator Tasks
For the pastor and the follow-up coordinator
Pastor, enlist a follow-up
coordinator for your church.
Seek out someone who is involved already in a leadership role in the
small-group ministry of your church and can organize this effort.
The follow-up coordinator should be able to complete the following
tasks:
1. Coordinate church-wide
assimilation of new people. Across Montana 2010
involves four weeks of
strategic and intentional follow-up, called “Preserving the Fruit.”
Assimilation should include newcomers as well as new believers.
2. Let God direct the
follow-up effort.
How is God leading
everyone in the congregation, from children to senior adults, to
help both newcomers and new believers find their place in your
church? The coordinator will spend time seeking specific direction
from the Lord.
3. Enlist helpers to assist
in the follow-up initiative.
Follow-up will need to be
targeted at two distinct groups: (1) newcomers who expressed an
interest in your church but have not yet made a decision to trust
Christ, and (2) new believers who responded to the invitation to
give Him their lives.
For newcomers, the relationship-oriented
small-group ministry of your Sunday School or Bible study classes is
an effective evangelistic tool. Or, small discovery groups
outside the church program
may be an equally effective way to assimilate them.
Likewise, believers in Christ best grow in our
faith as we are in relationship with other believers. Therefore, you
want to connect new believers to an age-appropriate or affinity
group within the church as quickly as possible.
The coordinator may enlist others to help
facilitate these connections. Also, the
follow-up coordinator will participate in the Harvest Sunday
planning.
4. Begin in March to plan
for the August initiative.
March 4-6, 2010 at MPact
Montana in Helena, the MTSBC will offer training for follow-up
coordinators and helpers. Your church’s follow-up coordinator and
helpers are encouraged to attend.
In early April, the coordinator will organize the follow-up helpers. They will use the five months between April and the follow-up (September 19-October 17) to prepare church members for their involvement in follow-up of Across Montana 2010.
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