REAPSouth Church Planting Training and Fellowship Forum
Dates: August 3-6 (beginning with supper on the 3rd and ending mid-morning on the 6thth)
Location: Campus of Atlanta Christian College, East Point, GA (see map)…just 15 minutes from Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, Atlanta…
Cost: $175.00 (includes housing, meals and conference fees)…send a $100* deposit by the July 15th deadline** made out to REAPSouth.
Please click here to register online.
(*Non-refundable if “no-show” or cancellation is after July 25th. **Registration received after this date will be $200.)
With your deposit send the names and housing arrangements of those to attend. The rooms are dorm rooms with twin beds in each room. You will need to bring bath and bed linens. We have some blankets and pillows. Yes, blankets in August. The AC works really well. You might need to bring a light blanket or jacket for the AC works well in classrooms as well!!
Schedule: For more info on the tracks being offered please write and ask for them.
We are offering:
Basic Church Planting Track.......Advanced Track......StoryCrafting Track... ...Key Leaders Track/Best Practices/Community Development/Human Needs Track.....
Presenters/Facilitators:
Calvin & Devra Morris…IMB, American Peoples Affinity Staff; Basic Track facilitators
Don Barger....IMB, American Peoples Affinity Staff; Basic Track facilitator
Larry & Jane Cranfill....Porter Memorial BC, Lexington, KY, missions minister; Key Leaders’ Track facilitators
Mike & Kathy Weaver…IMB, American Peoples Affinity, Inka/Amazon Cluster,
REAPSouth Strategy Team Strategy Leaders (www.reapsouth.org); Basic Track facilitators
Kristen Seay....REAPSouth Team 2 year volunteer 2007-2009; Oikos/storyer and village cross-cultural specialist; Basic Track facilitator
Dr. David Sills, D.Miss., Ph.D., Professor/Director of Great Commission Ministries/ Southern Seminary (former IMB missionary in Ecuador), teaching the advanced sessions on orality, syncretism, leadership and spiritual warfare.
Jack & Doris Day…retired IMB missionaries, 30+ years in Brazil…area of expertise is bible storying and story-crafting…
Jack and Doris will be assisting those who are asking themselves this question…
"ARE YOU STRUGGLING WITH EFFECTIVENESS IN CRAFTING BIBLE STORIES THAT WILL COMMUNICATE THE GOSPEL TO YOUR PEOPLE GROUP? DURING THESE STORY CRAFTING SESSIONS YOU WILL LEARN FROM AN EXPERIENCED STORY CRAFTER EFFECTIVE METHODS IN CRAFTING BIBLE STORIES TO A SPECIFIC WORLDVIEW."
Yes, we know…you are saying…”all of this in just three days”…you are right…and more!!!
Matt Burns….former IMB/International Service Corps/Dubai….Perspectives Course on the World Christian Movement….promoter…
Developing
a clearer perspective of God's global
mission in the world today
Many of us do not know what to do with our lives. We are somehow bewildered about God’s will. We struggle in making life decisions, unfamiliar with criteria other than our own self-interest. We grope for meaning in the daily hum drum, having no larger context than our own diary. We want to serve in a cause, but we have no agenda, only dozens of disconnected opportunities and priorities. How does a disciple know God’s will? How about getting to know what God has “willed” to do? And has done? Or will do?
“Perspectives on the World Christian Movement” addresses these issues and is a course about God - what He has done, what He is doing, and what still remains to be done. The purpose of the course is not to transform every person doing it into a missionary. We do seek, however, to challenge every Christian to become strategic as well as obedient in participating with the Living God in His mission.”
Matt will spend time with our REAPSouth Key Leaders to challenge them to challenge their churches to consider having the Perspectives course at their church as well as discussing how what they would learn would make them better strategists and mission team leaders.
Fellowship Forum will take place also. This is an opportunity on Wednesday night when the newcomers to “reaching the un-reached” and the veterans get together to share ideas about what’s working and what’s not…where they are serving.