Seeker to Salvationist

HARVEST INIATIVESEEKER TO SALVATIONIST

Style may attract people to a church, but it won’t keep them in. The church needs something substantial;

Fortunately, we have it.


STYLE & SUBSTANCE Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.”

Matthew 28:18-20

Go = Attract = Seeker Make = Disciple = Salvationist


PURP0SE 1. Heighten Awareness (Creative Focus) 2. Increase Intentionality 3. Identify Seeker Pools 4. Create Resources/Processes 5. Design A Working Prototype 6. Narrow the Ratio Gap (Make Disciples)


Seekers 1 29,993

Seeker to Salvationist (Member)

Ratios


Sr Soldiers, Recruits, Adherents 1097

Ratio 3.6%

29,993


Ratios


10.007

Seekers 3


Ratios


Jr. Soldiers 601 Ratio

6%10.007


Ratios


PROCESS 1. The graphs are just a measurement tool 2. No specific goals or timelines 3. No additional paperwork 4. Our goal to enable, streamline, simplify 5. To explore creatively, discover together 6. To make Kingdom building fun & fulfilling 7. Relax, Rejoice in our calling


Let’s have fun

exploring creatively together


OUR SEEKER POOLS 1. Worship Services 2. ARC, Men’s/Women’s Ministry 3. Sunday School (Decision Sundays) 4. Camp, VBS 5. See following slide for a continuation of list (compressed) submitted via Creative Caucus.

"To get a man soundly saved it is not enough to put on him a pair of new breeches, to give him regular work, or even to give him a University education. These things are all outside a man, and if the inside remains unchanged you have wasted your labor. You must in some way or other graft upon the man's nature a new nature, which has in it the element of the Divine." - William Booth

Food Bank opportunities.Angel tree–VBS invites.1-900-ICARE THQ IT print labelsCamp–labelsRedwood Glen seeker reportDonors–Mail Appeal-prayer requestsParenting Program MontereySports MinistryFamily nightsLOM CCM Lunch feeding program. Pastor’s Minute: quick and loud. (earn right to speak to clients - hang out)Tutoring, mentoringFamily services, regular special events, invitations, reverse visitationFree music lessonsSunday bell ringer event. January, top bell ringer awardsSocial services - prayer cards and the phone numberText evangelismMake corps a Poke stop. Sponsor PokeStop.https://thrivehive.com/how-to-get-new-customers-with-pokemon-go

"No sort of defense is needed for preaching outdoors, but it would take a very strong argument to prove that a man who has never preached beyond the walls of his meetinghouse has done his duty. A defense is required for services within buildings rather than for worship outside of them."

Harborlight, residential programs connected to SAMoore Street -women's shelter, officer chaplainsPrison work - families

“Go straight for souls, and go for the worst. We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take ourplace, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown.”

Food boxes with creative message and invitation inserted.Blessing tree at Christmas (prayer requests and blessing)Hand written response to donor prayer requestsNeed to rethink Street ministry. The open air was once a significant seeker pool.Determine a need and fill it—“Where the people are to be got at.”Park MinistriesConsider demographic needs.

Feel free to add or react in the comments section below, please! Let’s not miss anything.

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BRIDGING THE GAP (Recruitment)

1. Visitation/Followup 2. Transitional programs 3. Timing/Invitation 4. See following slide for a continuation of list (compressed) submitted via Creative Caucus.

"Faith and works should travel side by side, step answering to step, like the legs of men walking. First faith, and then works; and then faith again, and then works again--until they can scarcely distinguish which is the one and which is the other."

Music appealing culturally and relevantly i.e. Brazilian Drum groups (Hollister).Senior clubsVisitation-text, email, cardPassion/GiftingSports LeaguesNewcomers ClassAfter school programs, SS, Special Interest, Homework classes (tutoring)Visitation teamsSatellite ProgramsCARES MinistryBirthday parties monthly at quarters (or think creatively here).Look for opportunities in what you are already doing. Think soul winning intentionally.

“God forbid that I should ever teach any adaptation of the Gospel. But I contend that we may serve it up in any sort of dish that will induce the people to partake of it” - Catherine Booth

Think music opportunities other than brass. Think culturally—not internal SA culture (exclusive), but external culture (inclusive).Upstage: Coffee house, open mic, non threatening.Campfire initiative - Big Splash Party on Sunday (Bar-B-Que)Social media weekly blast

"If I thought I could win one more soul to the Lord by walking on my head and playing the tambourine with my toes, I'd learn how!"

Block party, housing project, onsite SS, high visibilityMessy church in thrift storePut them to work “heart for service” ownership.



CULTURAL/STRUCTURAL BARRIERS

1. Institutional Expectations 2. “Build it and they will come.” 3. See following slide for a continuation of list (compressed) submitted via Creative Caucus.

A barracks is meant to be a place where real soldiers were to be fed and equipped for war, not a place to settle down in or as a comfortable snuggery in which to enjoy ourselves. I hope that if ever they, our soldiers, do settle down God will burn their barracks over their heads! - Catherine Booth

Release people to do their “10.”Statistics recording unmanageable. Simplify and prioritize.Sunday School on Sundays? Statistically?Mandated SS Programs. Word Action: chastised for not usingMandated programs, do not fit every corps situation.Short appointments, terminologySpanish songbooks and Sunday school materialHispanics don’t feel strongly representedDivisional facilitator

“Cast off all bonds of prejudice and custom, and let the love of Christ, which is in you, have free course to run out in all conceivable schemes and methods of labour for the souls of men.”

Broad expectations (Focus)Unrealistic statistical expectationsReluctance to commit to membershipTrouble with term Salvationist. Disciple, member? Seeker to Disciple?Clearly define seekers (Confusion here)Expectations greater then time available (Christmas). Priorities.Length of appointmentsTraining of local leaders. The culture has changed. CSM in name only.Mission versus machine (fatigue/fear)



SLIDESHARE.NET http://www.slideshare.net/joenoland5/seeker-to-salvationist

We’ll use this online resource to keep the creative caucus going omnipresently in Cyberspace, thereby negating the problem Dilbert and cast are experiencing in the following slide. Feel free to share this Slideshare presentation with anyone who might contribute positively to those sections in slides 10-15, 18.

http://www.slideshare.net/joenoland5/seeker-to-salvationist


NEW SEEKER POOLS (Intro to Phase 2)

1. According to Gifting/Passions 2. After School Clubs 3. Revival of Sports Leagues 4. Internet Evangelism 5. Feel free to add/react to this category as well.


BEYOND OUR WILDEST DREAMS!A farmer planted seed. As he scattered the seed, some of it fell on the road, and birds ate it. Some fell in the gravel; it sprouted quickly but didn’t put down roots, so when the sun came up it withered just as quickly. Some fell in the weeds; as it came up, it was strangled by the weeds.

Some fell on good earth, and produced a harvest beyond his wildest dreams.

(Matthew 13:3-8)

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Seeker to Salvationist