Compassion by Design
When: Monday, April 20, 1-5 pm and Tuesday, April 21, 9-11 am
Leader: David Mills is a two-time church planter who has worked for the last 11 years developing community outreach and service programs that connect to ministry. He is passionate about connecting new churches to their communities in a way that builds credibility and results in transformation--for both the community and the new church. David coordinates Compassionbydesign.org which is helping to shape the future of planting based in community service and transformation.
Description: Dave will talk about resources and relationships that will support new churches as they "plant by serving" and grow healthy new churches in the context of community transformation. This training session will help place you on the ground with the skills you need, access to nonprofit status, turn-key community service tools to help you start strong, grow service, and expand your launch team while you transform your community.
What You Will Learn:
• How the planting by serving approach can give you a larger launch team, more community connections and a missional DNA.
• What it can mean when you start with nonprofit status, lead by listening to your community through needs assessment and cultivate missional discipleship in each member of your launch team.
• How a planting by serving process can open doors to community that transform both believers and community members.
• About dozens of resources that will guide your community outreach for greater impact.
• An intentional and concrete pathway to planting a healthier church by serving.
• How you can start a stronger new church by including needs assessment and intentional pre-launch service.
