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Evangelism Year
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Thinking Thinking ahead ahead
about...about...
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How it came about• Replacing Northern College Worship Days
• What might be most useful to churches?
• A prompt to start planning sooner
• ‘Thinking ahead for Autumn Festivals’ in Kirkham URC
• Materials hidden on the URC website
• ‘Thinking Ahead about Easter’ in three venues across NW Synod in January 2010
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How might our churches
make fresh connections?
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How might our churches make fresh connections?
1. By developing
who we already are
and what we already do
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How might our churches make fresh connections?
2. By using our existing special
events and special efforts...
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How might our churches make fresh connections?
3. By developing people’s existing
gifts and skills
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How might our churches make fresh connections?
4. By redeploying our time and effort
(not by asking everyone to do more –
unless it energises them)
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How might our churches make fresh connections?
5. By reaching further out
to more people and
digging deeper into
the story and meaning
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How might our churches make fresh connections?
6. By starting thinking far sooner to allow planning
ahead
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How might our churches make fresh connections?
7. By thinking outside our
regular organising boxes
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How might our churches make fresh connections?
8. By involving the usual people and
some who’ll be surprised to be
asked
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How might we make that happen?
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How might we make that happen?
1. By organising prompting events
for clusters of churches
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How might we make that happen?
2. By trying to ensure that
churches hear about them and
want to use them
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How might we make that happen?
3. By encouraging churches to ‘bring
a car-load’
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How might we make that happen?
4. By trying to get a good mix of
people from each church to attend
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How might we make that happen?
5. By starting the time together with telling our stories
& sharing our ideas
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How might we make that happen?
6. By offering a chance for shared
re-engagement with the Bible
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How might we make that happen?
7. By encouraging everyone to start working on their
own church’s situation
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How might we make that happen?
8. By sending people back to their churches
to enthuse and involve others while there’s still time to
plan ahead
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What we What we found when found when we tried it we tried it
out...out...
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What we found when we tried it
1. People were stimulated by
hearing each other’s ideas
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What we found when we tried it2. People greatly appreciated the prompt to think
ahead
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What we found when we tried it3. Over 80 people came to our three
Easter prompt events in January
2010 –
despite the weather!
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What we found when we tried it4. We keep hearing
of new things churches tried as a result of the prompt
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What we found when we tried it
5. The event and the meeting with other
churches was central – not just the
materials
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What we found when we tried it6. Rolling this out
for Vision4Life Evangelism Year
would mean running events for clusters
of churches
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What we found when we tried it7. We could share
the idea, our enthusiasm and prompt events -
it would all depend on interested
Synods
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What we’re What we’re asking you to asking you to
consider consider doingdoing
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What we’re asking you...
1. Check what you and other Synod
movers and shakers think about the idea
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What we’re asking you...
2. Check whether running Thinking Ahead events in January and in
May/June would fit into the Synod
programme for 2011
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What we’re asking you...
3. Work out who in the Synod needs to
take enabling decisions
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What we’re asking you...
4. Work with others to identify a group of 4 or 5 to attend a 1-day
start-up event in September ‘10
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What we’re asking you...
5. Let the Synod’s Thinking Ahead
planning group plan –
but keep in touch
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So, So, what do you what do you
reckon?reckon?