TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................................... 4 GENERAL HOME MISSIONS DIVISION................................................................................... 5 Apostolic Diagnostics: Assessing the Site, Property, and Facilities.......................................... 5 Apostolic Church Diagnostics: Hospitality Assessment............................................................ 7 Appendix 1: Apostolic Church Diagnostics - Hospitality Task Force ................................ 11 Apostolic Diagnostics: Disciple-Making................................................................................. 18 Appendix 1: Altar Counselor Checklist............................................................................... 22 Appendix 2: Altar Counselor Job Description...................................................................... 23 Appendix 3: Disciple-Making - New Convert Information................................................. 24 Appendix 4: Discipleship Classes - Possible Solutions....................................................... 25 Appendix 5: New Convert Invitation to Discipleship Class................................................ 26 Appendix 6: Pastoral Involvement in Discipleship Classes ................................................ 27 Appendix 7: Four Lessons on Stewardship ......................................................................... 28 Appendix 8: You Wouldn’t Want an Ostrich for Your Mama!............................................ 42 Appendix 9: Discipling New Converts - Point of Conversion ............................................ 47 Appendix 10: Discipling New Converts - One Week.......................................................... 47 Appendix 11: Discipling New Converts - First Month........................................................ 48 Appendix 12: Home Missions Division Discipleship Material Order Form ....................... 49 Appendix 13: Friends........................................................................................................... 50 Appendix 14: Discipling New Converts .............................................................................. 50 Apostolic Diagnostics: The Bible ............................................................................................ 51 Apostolic Diagnostics: How Biblical Is Our Church?............................................................. 52 Apostolic Diagnostics: Demographics..................................................................................... 55 Apostolic Diagnostics: Involvement........................................................................................ 58 Appendix 1: Methods to Highlight and Recruit Volunteers ................................................ 58 Apostolic Diagnostics: Youth Ministry .................................................................................... 60 Cross Cultural Evangelism ....................................................................................................... 62 A Vision to Plant Multicultural Daughter Churches................................................................. 66 Planting Daughter Churches within Ethnic Communities .................................................... 68 The World Has Come to Us.................................................................................................. 70 Heaven Will Be Multicultural............................................................................................... 72 Planting Cross Culture Daughter Churches .......................................................................... 73 Multicultural Evangelism – Church Plant Vision................................................................. 75 Daughter Church Resources ..................................................................................................... 89 Why Start a Daughter Church? ............................................................................................. 89 Church Plant Involvement Policy ......................................................................................... 90 Church Plant Leader’s Job Description ................................................................................ 90 Daughter Works of New Life UPC by Rev. David Bernard................................................. 93 District Mother-Daughter Congregation Policy.................................................................... 95 Ministerial Agreement between the Mother Church and the Leader of the Daughter Church Plant ...................................................................................................................................... 97 Pastor’s Resource for Local Impact 2008
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