Leadership Community

1
Bryan Nowak Research Services Georgia Baptist
Convention
2
What does it mean?
3
(No Transcript)
4
Quote

• You have to become involved to make an impact.
  No one is impressed with the won/loss record of
  the referee.
• (John Holcomb)

5
How important is it that we get involved and
impact other peoples lives?
6
(No Transcript)
7
(No Transcript)
8

• Expanded Kingdom impact
• Strengthens existing relationships
• Provides opportunities for new relationships
• Deepens spiritual connection with God
• Creates high expectations of members
• Personal blessing
• Bible study comes to life

9
Isn't this just one more thing?!
10
But were busy enough
We get the wrong idea about service. We feel like
we are being Jesus to those we are serving.
However, it is actually Jesus whom we are
serving. Jesus is that hungry, imprisoned, sickly
stranger we meet. Hard questions Are you
serving Him or ignoring Him? Are you really busy
doing the most important things loving God and
neighbor?
11
And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do
it all in the name of the Lord Jesus.
Colossians 317
Let your light so shine before men, that they
may see your good works and glorify your Father
in heaven. Matthew 516
12
We need to be like Jesus. Like him, we need to
be out in the community, connecting with people
through acts of amazing lovewhile connecting
them to a God of amazing grace.
Robert Lewis, founding pastor of Fellowship Bible
Church in Little Rock, Arkansas. Robert Lewis
wrote the book The Church of Irresistible
Influence.
13
Quote

• Remember that when you leave this earth, you can
  take nothing with you that you have received
  only what you have given.
• (St. Francis of Assisi)

14
(No Transcript)
15
Consume Devour Spend wastefully Absorb
Use up Serve oneself
Whoever wants to be a leader among you must be
your servant, for even I, the Son of Man, came
here not to be served but to serve others.
Matthew 2026,28
16
(No Transcript)
17
Expectations
18
(No Transcript)
19
(No Transcript)
20

• Relational bridge to someone in their circle of
  influence that needs Christ
• Community bridge by adopting an agency or school
  that their small group can serve
• Global bridge by connecting with a missionary,
  people group, culture or country

21
(No Transcript)
22
(No Transcript)
23
Structure for Success
24
Small Group Organization
Small Group Leader
Care Champion
Grow Champion
Connect Champion
Leads group in meeting each others needs also
making new people feel welcome connected.
Responsible for the spiritual health and growth
of the small group.
Leads group in making a difference in the
community connects them with outreach
opportunities.
25
Small Group Organization
Healthy Small Group
Biblical Truth
Applicable Proof
Synergy (the interaction of two or more agents or
forces so that their combined effect is greater
than the sum of their individual effects).
James 122 Be doers of the word and not hearers
only, deceiving yourselves.
26
Quote

• How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a
  single minute before starting to improve the
  world.
• (Anne Frank)
• Jewish teenage Holocaust victim

27
Getting Started
28
Consider two things

• What can we do?
• Are there limitations based on group size,
  age, resources, income, education,
  transportation, availability, etc.?
• 2. What do we care about?
• Do we care about foster care, rehab
  centers, homelessness, AIDS, military wives,
  education, ministry to Mexico? What common cause
  stirs your heart?

29
Two Strategies For Community Missions Involvement

• Identify the needs of your community and start
  ministries to service them.
• Food bank, learning centers, ESL, clothing closet
• Partner with existing ministries or human-service
  agencies that are already accomplishing a shared
  vision for the community.
• Local mission, homeless shelter, emergency family
  housing, safe house for abused women, etc.

30
Assessing Community Needs

• Ask people about their needs and dreams
• Look at a demographic profile of your community
• Conduct or use existing research on the needs and
  dreams of your community
• Recognize the power of existing relationships
  (professionals in the church)
• Look and listen

31
Rules of Engagement with Partner
Agencies

• Have leadership in place (A point
  person to facilitate the relationship between
  nonprofit and the church)
• Plan for consistency (An
  official partnership would involve at least
  quarterly involvement)

32
Rules of Engagement with Partner
Agencies

• Be honest about resources (Our most
  valuable resource is our people)

• Dream together (Many
  agencies have not thought about the possibilities
  if they had extra hands available to assist them)

33
Give Everyone an Opportunity

• Expose
• Easy entry
• One time
• No commitment
• Experience
• Several times
• Heart is changing
• Some commitment
• Engage
• Continuous engagement
• Recruiting others
• High Commitment

Expose
Experience
Engage
34
Encourage One Another
And let us consider how we may spur one another
on toward love and good deeds. Hebrews 1024
35

• Small things done with great love will change
  the world.
• Steve Sjogren

36
Questions or Observations
37
Recommended Reading

• The Externally Focused Church ...by Rick
  Rusaw and Eric Swanson
• The Church of Irresistible Influence ...by
  Robert Lewis with Rob Wilkins
• Living a Life on Loan Finding Grace at the
  Intersections ...by Rick Rusaw and Eric
  Swanson
• Outflow Outward-Focused Living in a
  Self-Focused World ...by Steve Sjogren and
  Dave Ping

38
Recommended Websites

• Found at http//rs.gabaptist.org

• A Better Community
• American Red Cross
• Ark Almighty
• Change.net
• Charity Guide
• Christian Volunteering
• Communities in Schools
• Do Something
• Family Cares
• Habitat for Humanity
• Idea List

• Love Your City
• My Good Deed
• NAMB Ministry Ideas
• Network for Good
• Points of Light
• Servant Evangelism
• Servenet
• Random Acts of Kindness
• The Volunteer Family
• Volunteer Match
• Others

39
(No Transcript)