Front Matters

20 • F RONT M ATTERS : P REREQUISITE R EADINGS FOR THE E VANGEL S CHOOL OF U RBAN C HURCH P LANTING

Source: Ripe for Harvest, pp. 11-22

upside down” It is part of TUMI’s Foundations for Ministry Series and available through local TUMI satellites or online at www.tumistore.org . • Focus on Reproduction, Module 12, The Capstone Curriculum . This eight-session study on urban church planting is module 12 of 16 in TUMI’s Capstone Curriculum . The other three modules in the urban mission track of the Capstone Curriculum also provide vital resources for urban church planters (e.g. training on spiritual warfare, evangelism, mission to the poor, theology of the city, mercy ministries, etc.) and are available through local TUMI satellites or online at www.tumistore.org . • Winning the World: Facilitating Urban Church Planting Movements . This eight-session study on Church Plant Movements is part of TUMI’s Foundations for Ministry Series . It provides an important big picture overview of what the Holy Spirit is doing around the world through Church Plant Movements. It encourages church planters and church plant coaches to make a paradigm shift from focusing on single church plants to movements of church plants. This course is available through local TUMI satellites and at both www.tumistore.org and at www.biblicaltraining.org . • Church Matters: Retrieving the Great Tradition . This eight-session study is part of TUMI’s Foundations for Ministry Series . It provides an overview of the history of the Church and its Great Tradition which is essential context for any church planters unfamiliar with the Church’s “Family History.” This course is available through local TUMI satellites and at www.tumistore.org . • Marking Time: Forming Spirituality through the Christian Year . This eight-session study is part of TUMI’s Foundations for Ministry Series . It provides a strategy for discipleship and shared spirituality in the church using the Christian year. For church planters who have never considered their theology of time, this course is absolutely essential. It introduces a simple and reproducible system for discipleship, preaching, and spiritual formation gleaned from the example of the early church – a church primarily made up of the urban poor. This course is available through local TUMI satellites and at www.tumistore.org . • Multiplying Laborers for the Urban Harvest: Shifting the Paradigm for Servant Leadership Education . Each church planter must figure out how to develop new leaders and The Urban Ministry Institute (TUMI) was founded in 1995 to help church planters with this task. Multiplying Laborers is a book that lays out a system for how each local church or network of local churches can provide excellent theological training for leaders in their

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