The Timothy Conference

T H E T I M O T H Y C O N F E R E N C E

World Impact Church Planting Evolution

Before 1990 Church Planting Mandate from Board:

World Impact Ministries

W. I. S and W. I. S. P.

Staff Community Church

Urban & Suburban Volunteers

Community Ministers

Admin. Staff

School Teachers

After 1990 Board Mandate:

W. I. S and W. I. S. P.

Urban & Suburban Volunteers

Community Ministers

Admin. Staff

School Teachers

Church Planter

Operation Jericho, 1996:

Solutions

Challenges

Community Ministers

1. Individual effort not integrated into CP. 2. Uncertainty about CP strategy. 3. Ambivalence about our legitimacy. 4. Reliance on outside leadership instead of indigenous leadership. 5. Confusion between CP and our development ministries. 6. Lack of structure to make CP dynamic. 7. Untrained missionaries cannot relate their ministries to CP. 8. Need national CP strategy: numbers training, coordinated process.

School Teachers

1. Training.

W. I. S and W. I. S. P.

a. Biblical basis. b. Strategy and details of a plan. 2. Structured plan for implementation. 3. Oversight and assessment of CP. 4. Personnel evaluations.

Church Plant Team

Church Planters

Urban & Suburban Volunteers

Admin. Staff

World Impact’s Vision: Toward a Biblical Strategy to Impact the Inner City

CHURCH PLANTING

Thrift Stores

Clinics

Prison Ministry

Discipleship (Teaching others to teach others)

Camps

Housing

Businesses

Follow-up (Incorporating Members into the Church)

Food Distribution

Schools

Vocational Training Center

Job Training

Evangelism (Demonstrating God’s Love In Word and Deed)

Ministry to the Entire Family

Live-in Ministry

Ministry to the Whole Person

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