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Life Changing Coversations: Growing a followership culture in the missional church

Meeting Notes

Meeting
March 16th, 2008

• We have a name: Oasis North Valley
• We have a website (in the works)
• We have a probable buyer
• We have a potential worship leader/technician
• We begin a Coaching Program with the candidates - HERE
• Lists
• Who will be the database gatekeeper?
• Contacting our partners.
• Securing a Building.
• Broad Format of the Core Group up to Launch: 5:1 5 regular meetings to 1 preview service.
• Catalyst Groups: 3:1. Prior to the launch of our Sunday service and small group ministry, we will meet as one collective group on Sunday evenings tentatively starting in April. This large group will separate into three smaller groups whose sole purpose is to engage the North Fontana community at least one time every three weeks in specific ways to promote our pre-launch group/future Sunday morning launch. The Catalyst Groups are these:

o Group 1 - Tim, Tommy, Chris (Jake)
o Group 2 - Marc, Eric, Scott (Jake)
o Group 3 - Steve, Debbie, Claudia, Cassie (Jake)

• Flier Production?

• Graphics?

Missiology Syllabus

Timothy Workshop

Course: Missiology

Time of Class:

8:30-8:45 – Prayer
8:45-9:50 - Workshop

Readings and Assignments

Week 1 – The Nature and Necessity of Missiology

Readings:

• Church Planting Manuel – Doing Neighborhood Research 4.1- 4.2 (Keller and Thompson)
• Planting Churches in a Postmodern Age – Redeveloping a Missional Mindset for North America (Stetzer)

Assignments: Using The Church Planting Manuel (4.2), break up into your Catalyst Groups and establish a plan and a time to do some initial group ethnographic research. Put your findings together in a “people profile.” Have this profile to be shared on Week 3.

Week 2 – The Nature and Necessity of Contextualiztion

Readings:

• Radical Reformission – going to seminary at the grocery store (Driscoll)
• The Forgotten Ways – missional incarnational impulse (Hirsh)
• Breaking the Missional Code – Contextualization: Making the Code Part of Your Strategy (Stetzer)

Assignment: People Profile continued.

Week 3 – The Challenge of Missions in North America

Readings:

• The Culturally Savvy Christian – Communicating in a Culture Like Ambassadors
• Planting Churches in a Postmodern Age – Emerging Postmodern Generations (Stetzer)

Assignments: People Profiles done.

Week 4 - Personal Missiology

Readings:

• Church Planting Manuel – Designing Linking Strategies 5.5 & 7.1 (Keller and Thompson)
• Becoming a Contagious Christian – (Chapters 7 & 8) (Hybels)

Discussion: What kind of linking strategies fits the people profile for North Fontana?

Multi-Site 101 Session 4

Here's the PDF of our Small Group Structure

HERE