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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?