Pioneer Ministry

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Pioneer Ministry
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Need to identify, select and train pioneer
church planters for lay and ordained
ministries..

Recommendation 11
It is important that they are not pressed into
becoming ministers of existing churches but are
deployed in pioneering contexts
MSC p134
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2006 Guidelines candidates who have the
necessary vision and gifts to be missionary
entrepreneurs, to lead fresh expressions of
church and forms of church for an appropriate
culture.
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• 2008 Guidelines for lay pioneers
• Training in every region (13)
• Development of vocational pathways in every
  Diocese.(14)
• Training as part of the process for authorisation
  (15)
• We recommend that dioceses invest in the
  development of
• sustainable fresh expressions of church through
• supporting, resourcing and training for lay
  pioneer ministry
• and that dioceses should make this a primary call
  upon
• their resources.
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  Recommendation 8 of
  guidelines

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a sexy moniker for anything creative,
alternative and generally involving young
people.
Bishop of Buckingham
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Why do we need pioneers ?
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Sometimes things change and they are never the
same again. This looks like one of those times.
Life moves on. And so should we.
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this majority (66) presents a major challenge
to churches. Most of them are unreceptive and
closed to attending church churchgoing is
simply not on their agenda. Churchgoing in
the UK. A research report from Tearfund. April
2007
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The book is written in the belief that an
important choice is offered to the Church (of
England) to embrace her historic mission to
evangelise and serve the whole people of this
country, or to decline into a club. (sect)

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A missional re-engagement with society
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A re-imagination of what church is (and could
become)
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We cannot solve problems by using the same
kind of thinking we used when we created
them. Albert Einstein
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What is a pioneer ?
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A fresh expression is a church plant or a new
congregation. It is not a new way to reach
people and add them to an existing congregation.
It is not an old outreach with a new name.
(rebrand) Nor is it a half way house, which
people belong to for a while, on their way into
Christian faith, before crossing over to proper
church. This is proper church. Graham Cray.
An Introduction to fresh expressions
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Spectrum of pioneering
Pioneer Starter
Pioneer Sustainer
Sustainer Pioneer
Sustainer Developer
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Four enduring features?

• Dissatisfied
• Not grumbler but wanting change for the better
• Visionary
• Looks beyond what is to what could be
• Hopeful
• Change is possible and this inspires others
• Risk takers
• Acts on convictions and out of comfort zones

Stuart Murray Ch 7 Planting Churches who?
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Danger of one model for pioneering
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What are we asking them to do?
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Building team
Building community
Exploring Jesus together
Listening, praying loving in the Kingdom
Becoming Christ like together through worship
Underpinned by prayer, on going listening and
relationship to the wider church
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• How do you understand
• what a pioneer is and is not?
• 2. How does this inform how
• you are identifying, training
• and deploying pioneers,
• lay and ordained?
• 3. What questions does
• this raise for you?

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The Qualities of a Pioneer ?
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People who are
first
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People who are
on the edge
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People who are
moving out
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People who are
loving change
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People who know
when to stay or go
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People who know
when to bring order or chaos
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Disturb us Lord, when we are too well pleased
with ourselves, when our dreams have come
true because we have dreamed too little, when we
arrived safely because we sailed too close to the
shore.
Sir Francis Drake
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• What are the challenges of
• working with people like that?
• 2. How might this change us?

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