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Journey -- The insiders view of Leadership
Network. To subscribe to this free, monthly email click
here. News, notes, book blurbs and other tools for
your ministry.
The Externally Focused Church by Rick
Rusaw and Eric Swanson -- just released.
This book coauthored by Rick Rusaw of LifeBridge Church
and Leadership Network team member Eric Swanson helps
churches:
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Attract
new believers to reach hurt and skeptical people
through service. |
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Use
the resources your church already has to impact
those in need. |
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Learn
how churches have made community service a part
of their DNA. |
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Help
your members deepen their spiritual commitment
through service. |
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Discover
practical ways to change your community -- starting
now. |
From Group Publishing -- to order click
here.
If your church is interested in the Externally Focused
Leadership Community, please email gary.dungan@leadnet.org.
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| Embrace
Teachers
This Month's Best Practice
August 2004
By Eric Swanson
Leadership Community Director
Externally Focused Churches
Earlier this summer during a major denominational
convention, a proposal was put before the voting
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withdraw all of the students from public schools, citing
their dissatisfaction with the values, direction and
performance of public schools. The proposal was defeated
but nonetheless sent a message to the public schools
of America that many in this denomination were unhappy
with their performance. And probably many teachers would
agree. With budget cuts, standardized testing and little
public encouragement, teaching has never been more difficult
a profession.
Several churches in Omaha, Nebraska are taking a different
approach. Rather than pulling their children out and
running from the schools, these churches are running
towards 46 public schools in Omaha as part of the "Embrace
Teachers" movement. The idea of "Embrace Teachers"
was the result of a discussion among the pastors of
three of Omaha's largest churches (King of Kings Lutheran,
Christ Community Church and Trinity Interdenominational
Church), on how they could make a positive impact on
the city. Begun in the fall of 2003, these churches
and the other churches that joined them, which represent
over 15,000 church members, came together to reach out
to teachers through "random acts of kindness"
to communicate their appreciation and commitment to
the teachers of Omaha. When these parents show up, they
come to register compliments instead of complaints.
A little appreciation can go a long way and sometimes
it is the small acts of kindness that have the biggest
impact. This past year each school was "thanked"
at least three times in practical ways by the churches
of Omaha through gifts or acts of service--to let teachers
know how much the community appreciated them. Some teams
provided large sheet cakes for the teacher's lounges
on the first day of school. Other churches provided
readers for the school reading program, painted halls
and classrooms, redecorated and refurbished teacher's
lounges. The creativity of saying "thank-you"
to those who give so much to the children of the community
did not end there. Teams from churches provided teachers
with supplies for the classrooms they might normally
pay for out of pocket. They prepared homemade bread,
brownies, cookies and soup for teachers during parent-teacher
conferences. They supplied morning snacks for the teachers
and brought balloons for teachers' birthdays. Some teams
picked up trash on the school grounds. Some went so
far as to prepare pots of chili to take home so that
teachers would have a night off from cooking.
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Church Multiplication
& Teaching Churches Briefing |
January 6-7, 2005 - Las Vegas, Nevada
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16
ministry leadership teams representing nationally
known churches in the U.S.
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Two
days on church multiplication movements and
teaching church ministries. |
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Presentations,
workshops, special roundtable session for
church planters, Q&A sessions with teaching
church ministry teams, exhibit area with the
latest available ministry resources. |
Senior pastors and leadership teams presenting at
the Briefing:
Wayne Cordeiro - Senior Pastor - New Hope Christian
Fellowship - Honolulu, HI
Tim Keller - Senior Pastor - Redeemer Presbyterian
Church - New York, NY
Leith Anderson - Senior Pastor - Wooddale Church
- Eden Prairie, MN
Mike Slaughter - Lead Pastor - Ginghamsburg UMC
- Tipp City, OH
Mark Driscoll - Founding and Lead Pastor - Mars
Hill Church - Seattle, WA
Bob Roberts - Senior Pastor - Northwood Church for
the Communities - Keller, TX
Larry Osborne - Senior Pastor - North Coast Church
- Vista, CA
Jeff Jones - Senior Pastor - Fellowship Bible Church
North - Plano, TX
Dave Gibbons - Founding and Lead Pastor - New Song
Church - Irvine, CA
Matt Hannan - Senior Pastor - New Heights Church
- Vancouver, WA
Rich Nathan - Senior Pastor - Vineyard Church of
Columbus - Columbus, OH
Walt Kallestad - Senior Pastor - Community Church
of Joy - Glendale, AZ
Tim Lundy - Directional Leader - Fellowship Bible
Church - Little Rock, AR
Neil Cole - Executive Director - Church Multiplication
Associates - Long Beach, CA
John Reeves - Senior Pastor - Oasis Church - Lexington,
SC
Greg Surratt - Senior Pastor - Seacoast Church -
Mount Pleasant, SC
Click
here for a complete list of Briefing team profiles.
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Interested in discovering leaders and releasing them
into service within your church, community and/or
into the world? You should consider hosting a Halftime
Summit.
For more information click
here.
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Upcoming Church Conferences
Exponential 04
September 21, 2004
North Point Community Church -- Atlanta, Georgia
Featuring Randy Pope, Johnny Hunt, Rick Warren, Andy
Stanley.
Co-sponsored by Generous Giving and Crown Financial
Ministries
Pastors will learn to:
Lead and disciple your people in the area of generosity
and financial faithfulness so that you may experience
a fully-funded, kingdom-focused church.
Teach on generosity and financial faithfulness, helping
your members apply God's principles to their financial
lives and experience true financial freedom.
Develop a congregation that is excited about grace-inspired
giving to the work of the church where members are
spurring one another on to radical generosity.
Establish a culture of generosity in your church where
giving for kingdom advancement is a natural part of
Christian discipleship.
For more information go to www.crown.org/conferences.
NewThing Multi-Site Practicum
September 21, 2004
Hope International University, Fullerton, CA
Registration: $350.00 per church (3-5 staff members)
Includes: Binder, Resources, Continental Breakfast
and Lunch
To register, contact Sharon Carter 714-879-3901x2237
or slcarter@hiu.edu
NewThing Multi-Site Gathering
October 25-26, 2004
Community Christian Church - Naperville, IL
To register, contact Pat Masek at 630.388.5205 or
newthing@communitychristian.org
Registration fee - $179/person (includes dinner, breakfast
& lunch)
Visit: www.newthing.org
For those interested in Mainline Church Planting:
MULTIPLYING CHURCHES: Embracing Church Planting
in the Mainline Tradition
October 4-6, Lakeville, Minnesota.
Learn about best practices and be encouraged and inspired
in the entrepreneurial work of starting new communities
of faith. To register, visit www.multiplyingchurches.net
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