Barnabas Funding Teams Church Plant Development I Preparation
Barnabas & Funding Teams
Church Plant Development I. Preparation II. Conception
III. Prenatal Stage: Gathering & Developing Your Core Group
III. Prenatal Development 1. Time – Three Months – Six Months – Nine Months 2. Critical Mass – Team: 2 -3 -10 – Core Group: 40 – Public Launch: 80 -120
Prenatal Development: st 1 Trimester
1 st Trimester Focus • KEY: Shared Vision • Team Building 1. 2. 3. 4. Barnabaus Team Funding Team Prayer Team Startup Team
Team Building Verses 1 After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of him to every town and place where he was about to go. (Luke 10: 1) 2 And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable men who will also be qualified to teach others. (2 Timothy 2: 2)
Shared Vision Skills Tested? A common vision that is shared by the planter and the core group WITH EQUAL PASSION.
Major Transition Solo Team
Critical To Victory Support: 12: 1
Four Support Teams 1. Barnabaus Team 2. Funding Team 3. Prayer Team 4. Startup Team
1. Barnabaus Team Local pastors who are your advocates
Barnabas: Encouragement • Opened doorways ü Acts 9 • Authenticated plants ü Acts 11 • Empowered young leaders ü Acts 13 ü Acts 15
Planter Advocate Team • Every planter needs local pastors that are advocates for his planting vision.
Predictable Planting Pattern • Always started in synagogue ü Acts 14: 1 - custom • Mixed Results ü Heard gladly: Acts 13: 44 ü Talked abusively: Acts 13: 45 • Fertile on fringes ü Acts 13: 48 - Gentiles ü God Fearers
High Priority Ø Pastor Courtesy Visits Ø No Surprises Ø Share Vision Ø Ask Insights Ø Ask His Vision Ø Solicit Counsel Ø Solicit Prayer Ø Seek Advocate Ø Handle church shoppers with integrity
Two Reactions • KMP: Kingdom minded pastors • NIMBY: Not in my backyard ü Threatened, territorial ü Filled with jealousy: Acts 13: 45 • Test your maturity: ü Handle with G&T
v. Interaction • You have made an appointment with a local pastor. After you describe your basic vision, he asked you how your church will be different than all the other churches in town. How will you answer him?
2. FUNDING TEAM People who will financially support your ministry.
Funding Team Question • How will you recruit people to financially invest in your planting vision? • Many of these people will be off site.
Quick Disclaimer This module will not equip you to be an effective fund raiser!
Additional Training
Honest Question • The primary vision caster is the primary resource developer. • Are you ready to raise the necessary financial resources to launch a healthy church plant?
Survivability: 3 rd Major Factor Survivability: 4 Growth: 10 1. Expectations: 400% 1. Expectations Factor 2. Lead. Devlop: 250% 2. Leadership Development 3. Training Factor Evangelism: 5 1. Training Factor 4. Membership Expectations 3. Financial Factor: 178% 5. Financial Factor 2. Financial Factor 6. Promotion Factor 3. Promotion Factor 7. Ministry Factor 4. Ministry Factor 8. Reproduction Factor 5. Reproduction 9. Location Factor 10. Team Factor: EFCA 4. Planter Network: 135%
Another Major Study • Planters are unrealistic about startup costs. • Most planters need to raise 100 -200 K for two years. • Underfunded = Failure • Balance: Too little, too much
Greatest Gift • The greatest gift you can give your wife is to work hard at support building and raise the necessary funding for both healthy church and family.
Typical Planter Shortcuts
Shortcut: Do Later • We will raise the money after we get the church started. • Should raise 2/3 to ¾ before you go to the field.
Short Cut: Internet • I have 1, 000 face book friends. If each person donates just $10, I have my budget.
Short Cut: Credit Card • Don’t put start up costs on personal credit cards.
Short cut: Bi-vocational? • Missionary support vs. Bi-vocational • Global: 90% bivocational • Time commitment math
USA Fund Raising: +/– Not “real” missionary + Short term • Exception: House Church, Urban, Serial Missionary Planter
Start Now • Just as soon as someone makes a commitment to be a part of the church, they can start giving.
Train Early • Early core group training should include stewardship training. • Stewardship is part of discipleship.
Model Generosity Early • Planter: Model • Church: Tithe • EFCA: – District: 1% – National: 1%
Startup Projects • Identify startup projects. – LCD Projector – First Marketing – Baby Shower • People like to give to projects.
Secret: People Raising
It’s Biblical! • Luke 8: 1 -3 (NIV) 1 After this, Jesus traveled about from one town and village to another, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom of God. The Twelve were with him, 2 and also some women who had been cured of evil spirits and diseases: Mary (called Magdalene) from whom seven demons had come out; 3 Joanna the wife of Cuza, the manager of Herod's household; Susanna; and many others. These women were helping to support them out of their own means.
Video: Vision Night • Leaders have to own the vision.
v. Funding Team • How will you mobilize financial resources?
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Key Resources
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