Canadian Church of God Ministries

Why do we exist?

Partnership with

Congregations

Visioning Conversation

December 2014

Embracing Discipleship Values

Creating a Discipling culture

Embracing Discipling Values

Disciples are in Missional Initiatives

Creating a discipleship

culture

Creating a discipling culture

We believe Jesus was intentional in making disciples and so must we

Disciples are in Missional Initiatives

We believe we must follow the ways of Jesus not just the words of Jesus if we are to make disciples

We believe a disciple is one who enables others to become disciples, who enables others to become disciples

Disciples are in Missional Initiatives

We believe a disciple is one who is growing in the character and competencies of Christ.

In Jesus Kingdom, we reach our hands in fellowship to every blood washed one.

In Jesus Kingdom, Jesus is the subject, the church is the verb.

In Jesus Kingdom, there is no male or female, slave or free, Church of God heritage or non Church of God heritage people.

In Jesus Kingdom, we resolve our differences according to biblical principles.

In Jesus Kingdom, you find appropriate structures that support the multiplication of fruit.

Canadian Church of God Ministries

In Jesus Kingdom, the church has been granted authority to reclaim what Hell has stolen.

In Jesus Kingdom, his citizen's mutually submit to one another.

Participate in the Kingdom of God to reclaim what Hell has stolen by fostering disciple-making congregations

District mobilizes Disciples for Kingdom Expansion

Multiplying Disciples

What are we talking about?

What can it look like at the District Level?

What can it look like at the local level?

What can it look like for the BOD?

Kingdom muscle mobilizes

Kingdom expansion

What can it look like at the congregational level?

What can it look like at the District Level?

What can this look like on the congregational level?

What are we talking about?

What can it look like at the congregation level?

Make disciples while serving in a youth ministy

Be apart of a missional

community

BOD must continue to be spiritually

strong and organizational competent.

Leadership mentoring between partnership churches for a greater harvest

Steward Resources

Message

Serving on board of a

missional church

A district composed of disciple making congregations who birth disciple making congregations for Kingdom expansion

Congregations embracing a discipling vision

Congregations who are spiritually strong and organizationally competent.

Make disciples while serving in a children's ministry

Developing district coaches

Congregations adopting a definition of a disciple and developing processes to achieve the desired goal

Methods

Support

Vision

Congregations increasing capacity by adding a second service, multi-siting, or church planting possibly to an ethnic community or target audience

Identify congregations who are spiritually strong and organizational competent as a resource for the district

Congregations embracing discipling values

Creating 6 entry level positions where young interns can receive appropriate mentoring for ministry

Creating disciple making systems at the congregational level and at the district level

Congregations entering into a discipleship partnership with other participating congregations in the district

Make disciples while serving the broken in your community

Ministry of the Holy Spirit

Expectation of internships

Congregations verbalizing Jesus' method for making disciples and adapting it to their context

Make disciples while you are serving in a compassion ministry

Submit to being accountable

A district where Kingdom expansion is scalable and sustainable

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Congregations embracing discipling language

What can it look like at the Movement Level?

At a movement level, MC provide a natural place to develop character and competencies to neighboring churches.

Hold congregations accountable to the discipling vision and partnership

At a movement level, MC provide a natural place for leadership development for vocational pastors.

At a movement level, MC provide a natural fertile ground for church planting.

Benefits of being apart of a Movement

Mutual encouragement and resourcing from movement churches

Development of a learning community between movement churches.

Ability to broker better pricing for training and coaching from our partners.

Disciple persons at Tim's

in organic clusters

Guiding principle for Emerge events

Guiding principles for work camps

Congregations embracing a disciplining vision, values, language, and practices.

Leadership teams making discipling the main purpose at the board table

Recruiting ethnic pastors through our partnerships with Bible Colleges and Seminaries

Congregations embracing discipling practices

Guiding principle for Credentials supervision

How is the district

fostering missional Initiatives?

What does it look like on a district level?

Work camps

Missonal

initiatives through

youth camps

and children's

camps

Making disciples shall be a priority of the Leadership Development Director

Credentials screening

candidates against a

discipleship criteria

Emerge

DVM Internships

Making Disciples shall be a priority of work camps

Emerge Students

planting a youth group

in another church

How is the District creating

disciple making systems?

How is the District fostering a discipling culture?

What does this look like on the district level?

How is the District fostering Kingdom expansion?

Annual review of district functions for disciple making systems

How is the district growing Kingdom muscle?

The goal of the Leadership Development initiative shall be to raise up leaders who make disciples who make disciples.

How is the district growing Kingdom muscle?

Hosting conversations with pastors on the subject of disciple making

BOD shall align financial resources for discipling initiatives in the district

Annual review of partnering congregation for disciple making systems

Raising Kingdom awareness at district events

BOD will draft a discipleship partnership by _______for congregations to sign.

Engaging local leaders on an annual basis on the topic of making disciples

District office staff will recruit congregations to sign the discipleship partnership

BOD will allocate dollars to this vision in the following ways.....

All partnerships authored by the District Office shall have as their primary goal making disciples

Adjusting the schedule at district events to give staff time to address the subject of making disciples

Provide coaching and training for partnering congregations who are adding a second service, multi-siting, or church planting to ethnic or targeted groups

BOD will scrutinize the discipling values for their ownership by_____