Planting Churches Among the City's Poor - Volume 2

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Identifying, Training, and Releasing Team Leaders and Coaches in World Impact World Impact

Objectives • To better identify Team Leaders (TL) and Multiple Team Leaders (MTL) • To provide resources for preparing/training Team Leaders and Multiple Team Leaders • To provide a process to operationalize the two items above with concrete steps offered to regional VP’s and/or City Directors

Team Leaders (TL)

I. Identifying a Team Leader

A. See the Team Leader Identification Grid

B. See the The Heartbeat of a Church Planter: Discerning an Apostolic/ Pastoral Identity

II. Training a Team Leader

A. Go through Team Leader modules of the John Mark Curriculum , especially noting the description of a team leader in the Curriculum

B. Read Leading and Feeding Urban Church Plant Teams

C. Read Building the Team for Success: Principles of Effective Team Play

D. Read Bryan Cullison’s article, Selecting a Target Area

E. Begin the process of Ordination for Missionary Service (contact World Impact, Los Angeles)

F. Attend World Impact’s School of Urban Church Planting (contact World Impact, Los Angeles)