Planting Churches Among the City's Poor - Volume 2

6 • T ABLE OF C ONTENTS

Coaching the Leader and the Team . . . . . . . 71 Identifying, Training, and Releasing Team Leaders and Coaches in World Impact . . . . . . . 73 Equipping the Church Plant Team Member: Developing Workable Training Strategies. . . . . . . . 78 Building the Team for Success: Principles of Effective Team Play . . 79 The Church Plant Team: Forming an Apostolic Band . . . . . 94 The Power and Struggle of Team . . . . . . . . . . 95 Missionary Calling: The Ground of Apostolic Mission . . . . 98 The SIAFU Network – Assembling God’s Warriors: Toward a Strategy to Win the City. . . . . . . . . 114 Summary of the Capstone Curriculum. . . . . . . . 119 Church Planting Charter and Guidance . . . . . . 127 Models of World Impact Associations: Range of Partnership Responses . . . . . . . . . 129 Selecting a Credible Criteria for Independence: Navigating Toward a Healthy Transition . . . . . . . 130 Designating Those Who Provide Leadership to Our Church Plant Teams . . . . . . . 134 Example of Church Plant Charter: Vickery Meadows . . . . 135 Example of Church Plant Charter: Newark Hispanic . . . . 136 Church Plant Charter Sample Form . . . . . . . . 137 Investment, Empowerment, and Assessment: How Leadership as Representation Provides Freedom to Innovate . . . . 138 Empowerment: Both Independence and Interdependence . . 139 Our Declaration of Dependence: Freedom in Christ . . . . 140 Why Is It Both Prudent and Necessary to Develop a Team Charter? . . . . . . . . . . 142 How Do We Authorize Our Church Plant Teams to Operate with Autonomy and Authority? . . . . . . 143 Frequently Asked Questions: Exploring the Ramifications . . 144 Team Leader Identification Grid . . . . . . . . . 148 Overview of Exercise Phases for World Impact’s Evangel School of Urban Church Planting . . 150 That We May Be One: Elements of an Integrated Church Planting Movement among the Urban Poor . . . . 152 Defining Our Convictions, Distinctives, and Applications: Discerning the Elements of Community Identity . . . . . 162