The Situation in Russia Today

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The Situation in Russia Today

• Population 146,000,000
• Evangelical Churches 5,000
• People per church 29,200

We Need More Churches!
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Establish the Church...
Our Desire...
Igniting a ...
A church that multiplies...
planting
movement
church
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Training Strategy
The need for more churches... led to the plan to
establish training centers everywhere which led
to a need for a comprehensive curriculum for the
centers... with competent instructors to teach it
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The Curriculum
The Omega Course
Developed to train Church planters and leaders
in post-communist EurAsia
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The Goal of the Omega Course

• The Omega Course is designed to
• Train a person to plant a Church
• Train others to participate in an SCP movement
  according to their giftedness

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Like a roadmap, the "Church Planting Cycle" shows
the interrelationship of the key principles and
practices at work in the process, allowing one to
always determine from where theyve come and
where they are headed.
Church Planting Cycle
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Omega Course Values

• Geared to common people - Materials should be
  simple, practical and illustrated.
• Flexible for seminar logistics - To reach many
  people the content must be able to be used in a
  variety of settings - local church seminars,
  Bible schools, correspondence schools etc.

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Omega Course Emphases
Manual 1 Emphasis On SCP Vision, Purpose Of The
Church, Inductive Bible Study, and
Research Manual 2 Emphasis On Evangelism and
Cell Groups Manual 3 Emphasis On Discipleship,
Spiritual Warfare and Teamwork Manual 4
Emphasis On Leadership and Stewardship Manual 5
Emphasis On Multiplication, Mobilizing Others,
and Promoting SCP Movements
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Training Centers
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In each Training Center
1. Motivate leaders
2. Equip teachers
3. Prepare mentors
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Training Centers
Leaders are trained and mobilized in every region
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
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The Center in Omsk, Siberia
One example
Population 2,000,000 Number of Churches 90
Goal 300 Churches in 5 years
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Training Trainers
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day
Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a
lifetime
Train a man to teach fishing and you start a
fishing movement
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Training Trainers
What is the central point of this lesson?
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Training Trainers
Is this a valid point? Do you fully agree with
it?
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Future Directions
Hotspots - Where are the models? Distance
Education - How can training be more accessible?
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Hotspots
Number of churches 1990 2000
Omsk - 20 90
Kryasnayarsk - 15 75
Bryansk - 48 50
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Distance Education
How can training be more accessible?
Internet use was recently reported to be growing
faster in Russia than any place else in Europe.
Driving this growth is the relatively high
educational level of young Russians, rising
consumer purchasing power, falling costs for
connection and hourly access and improving
telecommunications networks in the Russias
far-flung regions (The Russian Journal, March 3,
2001).
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Distance Education
Content
Assignments
Discussion Questions
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Distance Education
Assignments
Action Points
Direct Questions
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The End Goal Gods Glory Throughout Russia
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