The Quest Church Planting Intensive

Date:  October 21-23, 2008

Time:  8:30 am to 4:00 pm

Location:  Phoenix, AZ Area
Host:  TBD

Presenters:  Tom Johnston & Mike Perkinson in Partnership

Cost:  Planter $150 per person; additional Team Members $150 each person
Denominational Leaders $150 each person (Attend ‘The Quest’ and see how to use it in your ministry)      

Meals not included

Description: 
The Quest Church Planter Training Intensive is designed to provide late-stage, implementational planning process for establishing a new church community. The training provided is non-model specific, principle-based instruction derived from the ministry process of Jesus. Because of this, Quest can be used in any ethnic environment or socio-cultural setting. Using these principles, the event helps the planter and their team to develop a “pathway” for starting the new church which they envision.

Quest makes the priority of evangelism and discipleship core to the process of starting a new church, with public gatherings viewed as an outcome rather than the primary means of ministry. The goal is organic ministry emergence, working in partnership with the Spirit of God to birth a new church into a city, town or region.

Quest uses a rabbinical/adult learning approach that utilizes a combination of instruction, dialog, large & small group discussion, various types of media and team projects.

Participants:

As the primary focus of the event is to prepare for a new church start, the key people who should participate are:

·        The primary church planter couple

·        The leadership community of the new work

·        Any core community members dedicated to the new plant

·        Church planting coaches are also encouraged to attend with their planters

Pre-work:

Several Key elements need to be completed by participants prior to attending the Quest intensive, all of which are available from ChurchSmart Resources:

·        Beyond Church Planting should be completed in its entirety before the event by the primary planter. It can be done as a group exercise as well. Special attention should be paid to completing the work in the Planning Guide tab.

·        A New Testament Trilogy – Our God, Ourselves and Our Community and The Kingdom Quest – Church Planting in the Post-Christian West should be read by the planting leader prior to the event.

·        The ABC’s of Natural Church Development, a small booklet by Christian Schwarz, should also be read by each participant.

·        Each participant should as also complete a spiritual gift inventory chosen by the planting leader as well as a DiSC profile. (See www.discprofile.com for DiSC or www.uniquelyyou.com for a combination of a spiritual gift assessment and DiSC profile.)

You should allow a minimum of 30-60 days for the pre-work component to be completed, with coaches checking weekly on the progress of the planter and their team during that period.

Order the Pre-work from our Publisher - ChurchSmart Resources:

1. Tri-pack (A New Testament Trilogy, Beyond Church Planting, ABC's of Natural Church Planting) - Click here to order
2. The Kingdom Quest - Click here to order

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