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September 18, 2009
Education for Ministry: Mobilize Your Membership for Ministry
You've never seen offering envelopes like these!
We are launching new collection of offering envelopes called Education for Ministry. The idea is to create a multi-purpose offering envelope that serves as a critical systematic giving tool as well as an educational piece that reinforces core Christian education goals your church is already teaching. We want to partner with you to help you mobilize your membership for ministry to the person in the pew.
More information about this collection will be coming soon. I wanted the Do More Ministry readers to read this first.
1. Cooperative Program "Every Number Has a Story" Series. Available Now!
This series provide a pew strategy to reseed the conversation about the Cooperative Program by quantifying its impact using the Executive Committee's "Every Number Has a Story" Campaign. This is a three year emphasis and clearly communicates the measurable acts of ministry being accomplished through Southern Baptist cooperative missions efforts.
FREE Supplemental Offertory Moments available here.
2. SPLASH Personal Evangelism Series. Available Now!
This series is based on SPLASH by Dr. Ken Hemphill, an innovative evangelism training resource that has sold more than 20k copies over the last year. Dr. Hemphill crafted 52 applications and associated them with 52 key ideas from Scripture or the SPLASH book. This series provides the church the ability to reinforce the concepts and practices surrounding the subject of the how and why we share our faith with others.
(Note: This stand-alone series can be used by the church whether or not the church decides to use the SPLASH study itself.)
3. Personal Money Management Series. Coming Soon!
This series is based on the book "I Was Broke. Now I'm Not." by Joe Sangl which empowers individuals to deal personal debt and develop a biblical view of money. 52 practical suggestions related to personal money management will be associated with 52 Scriptures or key ideas from the book. This book also, like Dr. Hemphill's SPLASH, has a small group study option and has been geared toward churches. This makes it easy for the church to teach good money management habits while at the same time reinforcing the need for Christians to faithfully offer their tithes and offerings to support the ministry of the local church.
4. Read through the Bible Challenge Series. Available Now!
This series provides an offering envelope that outlines a daily reading plan for the church member to follow each week. Each offering envelope will have daily reading suggestions as well as identify a key verse to focus on or memorize. The daily reading will be printed with check boxes. Ideally, the church member will keep this in their Bible as a bookmark, and then will turn in their completed offering envelope during the weekly Worship service. This series will be available in King James Version (KJV) and HCSB (Holman Christian Standard Bible) formats.
The Education for Ministry Collection represents months of feedback from church leaders looking for creative ways to educate and empower Christians for ministry. Further, it is an attempt to partner with the local church to help accomplish existing Christian educational goals. Each of these series represents an opportunity to provide a renewed emphasis on cooperative missions, personal evangelism, biblical money management, and daily Bible reading.
We hope you find this new collection of offering envelopes helpful as you seek to mobilize your membership for ministry!
Posted by bstroup at September 18, 2009 9:13 AM
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